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Church-Supper Cream Cheese Bars

From Rose's kitchen

Grandma Rose's cream cheese bars. A yellow cake mix crust pressed flat, with a soft cream cheese and powdered sugar filling poured over the top.

40 min total 10 min prep 30 min in the oven One 9x13 pan
Potluck Sunday Supper

as written in Rose's hand

Rose used to bring a pan of these to church suppers whenever it was her week. The crust is a yellow cake mix pressed flat with a beaten egg and a stick of melted margarine, and the filling is a soft cream cheese layer poured right over the top before the whole thing goes in the oven for about half an hour.

The filling sets while it bakes and stays tender once it cools. Let the pan cool through before you cut into it, or the bars will pull apart on you. Covered in the icebox, they keep for three or four days without losing anything.

Ingredients

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Makes One 9x13 pan at full size

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Crust

Filling

How to make it

  1. Heat the oven to 325°F.
  2. Mix the cake mix, one beaten egg, and the melted margarine together. Press into an ungreased cake pan for the crust.
  3. In another bowl, mix the softened cream cheese, two beaten eggs, vanilla, and powdered sugar until smooth.
  4. Pour the filling over the crust and spread even.
  5. Bake at 325°F for 30 minutes, until the top is set and just barely golden at the edges.
  6. Let cool in the pan before cutting into bars.

You'll also find in the tin box

This one lives in the cookies & bars drawer of the recipe box, right next to Old-Fashioned Cocoa Brownies. If a cousin's coming over on short notice and you need a whole meal from Rose's kitchen, the recipe box is where to start.

Rose kept this recipe with the ones the family expected at potluck and sunday supper time, so it'll show up in those seasonal collections whenever you're planning ahead.

Cooking by what's already on your shelf? Every ingredient across every card sits in the ingredient index, so you can start from the pantry and work backward to the recipe.

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Handwritten by Rose. Typed by the family. ← Back to cookies & bars