Easy Cranberry Cheesecake Bars

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 (10 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350°f.
• 2 combine cake mix, butter, 1 egg and pecans. mix until smooth. it will look like cookie dough.
• 3 line a 12x8 glass dish with dough.
• 4 bake for 7 minutes or until crust is set, but not browned.
• 5 cream the cream cheese with the powdered sugar, vanilla and 1 egg.
• 6 in separate mixing bowl combine cranberry sauce with nutmeg.
• 7 pour cream cheese mixture over top of crust, making sure to spread evenly.
• 8 spoon cranberry sauce into three horizontal lines. run a butter knife through cranberry sauce into cream cheese mixture to create swirls.
• 9 bake for 35 minutes or until cream cheese mixture is set.
• 10 cool completely and cut into bars.