Lemon Blueberry Bliss Bars
What's a Lemon Blueberry Bliss Bars? A chewy Lemon Blondie is loaded with white chocolate chips and dried blueberries. Then it's topped with a Lemon Cream Cheese Icing and sprinkled with more dried blueberries.
Servings 24 Bars
Calories 288kcal
Ingredients
For the Lemon Blueberry Bliss Bars
- 2 Sticks Unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar ,packed
- 2 Large Eggs
- Juice from half a lemon
- Zest from one lemon
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 2 Cups All purpose flour
- 1 Cup White chocolate chips
- 1 Cup Dried blueberries
For the Lemon Cream Cheese Icing
- 1 ,8 ounce package Cream Cheese ,softened
- 1 1/2 Cups Confectioner Sugar
- Juice from half a lemon
- 1/2 Cup Dried blueberries
- 3 Ounces Melted white chocolate
Instructions
For the Lemon Blueberry Bliss Bars
- Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. Line a 13x9 pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil . (* Leave enough foil or parchment hanging over edge to help you lift blondies out of the pan once they are cooked.)
- In a medium bowl mix together, flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl cream melted butter and brown sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time and mix.
- Mix in Lemon juice, vanilla and lemon zest.
- Add dry ingredients in and mix to incorporate.
- Add dried blueberries and white chocolate chips and mix well.
- Spread mixture in your prepared pan evenly.
- Bake in preheated oven for 18-22 minutes. The top of your bars should be lightly browned.
- Remove from oven and let cool completely before adding cream cheese icing.
For the Lemon Cream Cheese Icing
- In a large bowl mix softened cream cheese with a hand mixer on high speed until creamed. Add confectioner sugar and mix on low speed until incorporated then increase to high speed and mix until smooth.
- Add vanilla and Lemon juice and blend well.
- Lift your cooled blondies out of the pan and place on a large cutting board. Spread icing over top of blondies then cut into triangles.
- Sprinkle dried blueberries over bars and then drizzle with melted white chocolate.
- **To melt chocolate place white chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and heat on high in 10 second increments stirring between each. Will probably be ready after about 3 times in the microwave. Once they begin to melt they should get smooth as you stir them. Careful not to over heat them or they will seize up.
- ** I like to place melted chocolate in a small zip lock baggie. Cut a very small part of the corner of the baggie off to make a small hole to squeeze melted chocolate out of.
- Bars should be stored in the fridge until ready to serve because of the cream cheese icing.
Notes
**Amount of bars you get depend on how large you want to cut them.
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 288kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 161mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 265IU | Calcium: 52mg | Iron: 0.9mg