This recipe has been featured in a post on The Recipe Girl blog (with many more pictures): Cream Cheese Lemon Bars with Kit Kat Crust
Cream Cheese Lemon Bars with Kit Kat Crust
Really great recipe to use leftover Halloween candy. The Kit Kats make a dreamy crust for these lemon bars!
Ingredients
CRUST
- Five 1.5 ounce (or about 14 mini-sized) Kit Kat Candy Bars
FILLING
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar, measure then sift
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1½ teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
TOPPING
- ⅓ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup granulated white sugar
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
Instructions
CRUST
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- In a food processor, finely chop the Kit Kat Bars. Spread evenly in the bottom of an 8x8 inch square pan. Bake for 5 minutes. Set aside.
FILLING
- In a large bowl with electric mixer, blend cream cheese on high. Add powdered sugar and egg and beat until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Add lemon juice, lemon extract and lemon zest, and mix well. Pour filling evenly over Kit Kat crust.
TOPPING
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, lemon extract, and softened butter, and blend with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle topping evenly over lemon bar filling.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, or until topping is lightly browned. Let cool completely; cut into bars.
Notes
- Lemon extract can be found at Whole Foods and other specialty markets. The imitation stuff they sell in the regular grocery stores isn't so great.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving, Calories: 220kcal, Carbohydrates: 31g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 31mg, Sodium: 68mg, Potassium: 60mg, Fiber: 0.2g, Sugar: 26g, Vitamin A: 262IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 33mg, Iron: 0.3mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can this recipe be frozen?
@Patty Fields, I wouldn’t think so… I’ve never frozen a lemon bar before.
So great for using up extra Kit Kats from Valentine’s Day! My kids keep begging me to make more. Enough easy steps that the kids can each take a step to help me make them.
These were amazing! I liked the kit kat crust better because the lemon was strong enough that it balanced it out amazingly well. I’ll double the batch next time though! They went way too quickly. Oh, and I think I undercooked them a bit. But a little gooey never hurts anything!