Rich And Creamy No Bake Cheesecake Bars!

No Bake Cheesecake Squares are a satisfyingly simple alternative to more traditional cheesecake recipes.

Do you love cheesecake?

Do you avoid making cheesecake because of the time involved and expense of ingredients?

I love cheesecake, making cheesecake, and eating cheesecake, but sometimes I don't feel like going to the trouble of shopping for pounds of cream cheese, preheating the oven and dealing with baking the cheesecake in a water bath.

Call me lazy! And living in Phoenix, sometimes it is just too hot to think about turning the oven on and heating up the kitchen.

This No Bake Cookie Bar Recipe for creamy No Bake Cheesecake Bars is a perfect alternative for those times when you don't have the time or energy to make a more traditional baked cheesecake.

This cheesecake bars recipe is creamy, rich and delicious. It is perfect for an easy dinner party dessert, take along treat, or holiday dinner, and is surprisingly easy to make.

With just one 8-ounce package of cream cheese and 1 cup of sour cream, these no bake cookie bars won't totally bust the bank or the diet!

The secret to their delicious creamy texture is unflavored gelatin—the same thing that makes panna cotta so irresistible.

No Bake Cheesecake Bars Recipe Variation:

For No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake Bars:

• Substitute chocolate wafer crumbs for the sugar cookie crumbs
• Decrease the milk to 1/4 cup
• Decrease the vanilla to 1 teaspoon
• Add 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder to the cream cheese mixture

For No Bake Toffee Cheesecake Bars:

• Substitute 1/2 cup dark brown sugar for the confectioner's sugar and heat with the milk/gelatin mixture in step 6
• Add 3 chopped chocolate covered toffee bars into the cream cheese mixture in step 8
• Sprinkle 1 chooped chocolate covered toffee bar over the cream cheese mixture after spreading into the pan

Recipe Source: These deliciously easy no bake cheesecake bar recipes are from the book, No Bake Cookies, by Camilla V. Saulsbury.