Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars are a delicious fall dessert made with crescent rolls, cream cheese, fresh apples and buttery cinnamon sugar topping. Save your leftovers, and turn these apple dessert bars into breakfast bars!
Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars
To tell the truth, these simple and quick recipe for Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars was inspired by my favorite pastry-Apple Cream Cheese Danish. But this time I left out the glaze and topped these bars with a lot of melted butter and cinnamon sugar mixture to create a sweet, crispy and buttery crust.
Actually, Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars taste almost like Cheesecake Sopapilla Bars but upgraded with apple pie filling. WOW, my moth waters right now, I wish I saved a few of these yummy bars for later.
In fact, when I think about all my favorite treats, they all start with 2 ingredients: cream cheese and crescent rolls.
No wonder that I tried so many recipes combining these two with different add-ins and make delicious desserts and breakfast: Easy Cream Cheese Danish, Just Ordinary Cheesecake Bars , Sopapilla Blueberry Cheesecake Bars …
Crescent Roll Cheesecake Bars
Moreover I love this type of baked goods because they are very satisfying as a dessert, but you can eat leftovers for breakfast. It’s a win-win situation.
I carried away lately(and to tell the truth, became a bit lazy)therefore many of my latest recipes starts with refrigerated crescent rolls (Southwest Crescent Casserole, Cheesy Chicken Crescent Dinner Rolls, Pumpkin Pie Bombs ) or refrigerated cinnamon rolls ( Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Roll Casserole, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Lasagna and refrigerated pie crusts (Peach Pie Cookies and Crumble Mini Peach Pie ).
But these are all very delicious recipes, and you liked them, too. After all let’s be honest, who doesn’t like simple, quick and easy recipes that makes really delicious food, whether it comes to breakfast, dinner or dessert.
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Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 16 bars 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Bake
Cuisine: American
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Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars are a delicious fall dessert made with crescent rolls, cream cheese, fresh apples and buttery cinnamon sugar topping. Save your leftovers, and turn these apple dessert bars into breakfast bars!
Ingredients
- 1 tube (8oz.) refrigerated crescent rolls
For Cheesecake Layer:
- 8oz. cream cheese-softened at room temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For Apple Filling:
- 2 medium apples (Granny Smith or Golden Delicious) – peeled and chopped in small pieces
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
For topping:
- 3 Tablespoons melted butter
- 7 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F. Grease 8 x 8 inch baking dish with non-stick spray, set aside.
- To make the cheesecake filling beat together cream cheese, ½ cup sugar and vanilla extract until smooth and creamy, set aside.
- To make apple pie filling stir together diced apples, ¼ cup sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cornstarch, until evenly coated, set aside.
- Unroll crescent rolls and cut in two halves. Place 1 half of dough (4 crescents) at the bottom of baking dish. Pinch together the perforation and stretch the dough to make the bottom crust.
- Spread cheesecake filling and smooth the top. Drain any excess of juice from the apple filling and
- scatter diced apples over cheesecake filling.
- On a sheet of baking paper spread remaining dough, seal the perforation and stretch to create the top crust. Invert the crust over apples.
- Pour melted butter and spread on top of the crust. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for about 35 minutes. Tent the top with aluminum foil if it starts to brown too quickly.
- Cool completely before slicing and serving.
- Store leftovers in the fridge.
6 comments
May I make a recommendation? Drizzle some honey on top right after baking, Sopapilas are basically honey, cinnamon sugar, butter and dough. Trust me, people will be stabbing each other to get them! I am going to try out the apples, that’s genius!
HI Julie, thanks for the idea 🙂 Sound great!
I use a can of apple pie filling instead of the chopped apples. Super easy and delicious
This recipe is amazing!! It didn’t last through the night- definitely my new fall go-to dessert 🙂
★★★★★
Thanks Chelsea 🙂
Wondered why my bottom crust didn’t bake? Baked for 35 minutes, let cool, soggy bottom crust, baked again with foil tent for an additional 20 minutes and still gooey. Tasted delicious otherwise. Wondered about baking bottom crust for maybe 10 minutes before putting together.