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My kids love strawberries and breakfast cereal and hubby is a fan of cheese cake. Happy mama decides to make this strawberry cereal cheesecake bars. My daughter also wanted to help in making it. This happened only after a serious brain storming session to decide whether to make cookies or cheesecake or muffins. I choose cereal cheesecake bars as it easy to have individual serving. Rather than serving a big slice. I wanted to use Honey bunches of oats®with real strawberries. Both daughter and son is Post cereal fans so making any treat with it ensures that it will be finished without much problem.
You can grab Honey bunches of oats®with real strawberries from your local Wal-Mart in cereal aisle. Do you know, Honey Bunches of Oats® with Real Strawberries is low in fat and has 9g of whole grains per serving with 9 essential vitamins and minerals? Dried strawberries give perfect tang to the cereal. Have them as your breakfast cereal bowl and also use it to make this delicious Cheesecake bars.
My strawberry cereal cheesecake bars are made with crispy crust with cheesecake filling which is lesser amount that in normal cheesecake. My friend told me it is perfect amount rather than the high in lots of cheesecake. Also skipped adding any strawberry filling or preserve and only used slightly macerated fresh fruit to retain the original taste.
These strawberry cereal cheesecake bars are great recipe for your family dinner or any backyard parties or a get together. Guest will like it as it is not heavy and at the same time tasty. You can double or triple the recipe. I used cereal only for the base if you want you can use fresh fruit with strawberry coils and sprinkle little more extra cereal for double crunch.
Before making the recipe, hubby has only one request if you are making cheesecake bar then it should taste as cheesecake? After tasting the first bite he told this one is really very good. If you like more cheesecake filling for your bar increases it. But I will stick with this.
Strawberry Cereal Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients
- For crust
- 3 cups Cereal
- 7 tablespoon melted butter
- For filling Double the amount if you want more cheesecake filling in your bar
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup half and half you can use sour cream, milk or heavy cream
- For macerated strawberry.
- 5 strawberries hulled and cut it into thin slice
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Instructions
- First pre heat oven to 325 F and line 8 x 8 inch baking pan with parchment paper, this will help you remove from pan easily.
- Pulse the Honey Bunches of Oats® with Real Strawberries in a food process once or twice make sure not make too much powdery. To this add melted butter and mix well. Spread into uniform layer
- Then make cream cheese filling with softened cream cheese, egg, sugar, vanilla extract and half and half and layer them over the cereal layer. Spread it uniformly.
- Bake it in pre heated oven for 30 minutes at 325F center should be slightly wobbly.
- While cheesecake bars are baking make macerated strawberries by adding sugar and strawberries in a bowl and refrigerate until you ready to use.
- Once it is cooled down keep it in refrigerated until you serve.
- When you are ready to serve cut it into 2 -3 inch pieces and place macerated strawberry on the top.
- Enjoy
Notes
- If you want more cheesecake filling then double the amount of filling.
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Suja Manoj says
Looks so good,perfectly made
Ashley - Forking Up says
There's cereal in these... so that means I can eat them for breakfast, right? Okay, I will anyway. Great job!
Catherine says
What a fabulous idea! These cheesecake bars look so good!
Sundari says
Cheese cake bars look super tempting! nice clicks!
Christine says
Such a big fan of strawberry cheesecake bars. Love that you used cereal in the crust! These look SO delicious 🙂
Noel Lizotte says
Oh Happy Momma! Happy Family! Talk about a recipe to please all the eaters in the house. This is genius! Thanks for sharing ... I'll be using this recipe.
Teri says
You have combined three of my favorite things into one delicious treat. Love this crust!! My family is going to love these.
Veena Azmanov says
Such a great idea to use cereal for the crust..! I have used cereal for my caramel bars so this would work a treat with cheesecake too! I love it Swathi. Can't wait to try.
Srivalli Jetti says
That's really a wonderful way to use cereals in the cheesecake!..I have mostly done chocolate cheesecake, must try other flavours too..
Melissa says
What a delicious idea and use for the cereal!!! We always seem to have a box of Honey Bunches of Oats on hand so this is one I will need to try! I think my family would just love them.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
I am with you about using less cheesecake filling. I like more crust and less filling and this is perfect for my taste buds. Honey bunches of oats is one of my favorite cereal and I always have them in hand. I am looking forward to making this.
Lauren @ Delicious Little Bites says
I have entire Pinterest board dedicated to cheesecake because I love it so much! Somehow I never thought to make it into a breakfast like these bars - definitely a recipe to add to my breakfast rotation!
Joanna @ Everyday Made Fresh says
These look so good. I've never thought of using a cereal for the crust, but that's a great idea, and opens up so many possibilities!
Kim says
What a fun recipe! I'm always looking for recipes that can be made for larger groups and this seems like the perfect food!