Strawberry Nice Swirl Cheesecake Blondie Bars

These strawberry swirl blondes cheesecake bars are a decadent treat and fairly easy to make. With a few basic ingredients and a few minutes of preparation, it will quickly become your new essential dessert for the holidays!
A few months ago, I shared an article about the delicious red velvet cheesecake brownies I made from scratch. Most of the time, I am a baker who mixes boxes when it comes to making desserts. But I have made it my mission to start trying cooking recipes that are not ready to use.
It's usually the ingredient list that makes me want to cook from scratch, so when I come across recipes with basic ingredients that I already have in the pantry, I feel a little less intimidated . And after tasting these amazing bars, it was definitely worth the time to make them from scratch!
These blondie cheesecake and strawberry bars are a decadent treat fairly easy to prepare. With a few basic ingredients and a few minutes of preparation, it will quickly become your new essential dessert for the holidays!

You can find a full printable recipe at the end of the post, but here’s what you’ll need:

Ingredients

• cream cheese
• sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• butter
• brown sugar
• flour
• strawberry jelly

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Grease a 9×9 pan.
2. Using a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar in a small bowl until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Set aside.
3. To make the blondies base, melt the butter in the microwave and pour into a mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Stir in flour and combine all ingredients well.
4. Heat the strawberry jelly in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds and stir.
5. To assemble the bars, spread about 2/3 of the blondies batter in the pan. Place dollops of the cream cheese mixture over the base and then add spoonfuls of the melted jelly. Spread the rest of the batter on top and run a knife back & forth through all of the layers to swirl the mixture.
6. Bake for about 25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before cutting into bars.
7. These strawberry swirl cheesecake blondie bars are a decadent treat that is quite easy to make. With some basic baking ingredients and a few minutes of prep they will quickly become your new go-to dessert to make for parties!
8. These bars are very rich and decadent with all of the flavors swirled throughout, so I decided to cut mine even a little smaller than squares when it was time to serve them. And because they hold together so well, they are perfect as a bite-sized finger food dessert!
9. These strawberry swirl cheesecake blondie bars are a decadent treat that is quite easy to make. With some basic baking ingredients and a few minutes of prep they will quickly become your new go-to dessert to make for parties!

Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake Blondie Bars

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Layer

• 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 c sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

Blondies

• 1/2 c butter, melted
• 1 c brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 c flour

Strawberry Swirl

• 1/4 c strawberry jelly or jam

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x9 baking pan, set aside.
2. Cream Cheese Layer
3. In a bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
4. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla on medium until mixed well. Set aside.
5. Blondies
6. Combine melted butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. Mix well.
7. Stir in flour and mix until all ingredients are combined.
8. Strawberry Swirl
9. Heat the jelly in a microwave safe dish for about 10-15 seconds. Stir.
10. To Make the Bars
11. Spread about 2/3 of the blondie batter into the greased pan.
12. Add dollops of the cream cheese mixture on top of the batter.
13. Spoon the strawberry jelly on top of the mixture and batter.
14. Spread the remaining blondie batter over the top of all the layers.
15. Run a knife back and forth through the layers to create the swirl pattern.
16. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
17. Cool completely before cutting into bars. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.

This recipes adapted from this site