Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars – 365 Days of Baking

It’s the very best time of 12 months to revel in a fab, no-bake dessert with those fruity Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars! With candy strawberries and contemporary lemon juice, all of the flavors of your favourite beverage will also be present in those creamy dessert bars! A clean strawberry cream is layered over no-bake lemon cheesecake filling, all on a crunchy Nilla wafer crust. One chunk and your style buds can be making a song!

This Dream Bar recipe, like lots of my others, is very best for summer season events or dessert after a unique tournament. Whilst it takes slightly of time to organize those strawberry lemonade bars, I promise that the outcome is easily well worth the effort! 

 Recipe Notes

• Use the quantities of water on this recipe required to combine the strawberry gelatin. DO NOT use the quantities indexed within the field directions. We wish a extra solid gelatin and no more of it.
• If the strawberry cream aggregate is left within the fridge for multiple hour, the gelatin will harden and shape. This isn’t a topic until you wish to have an absolutely creamy layer for the highest with NO strawberry or pink gelatin specks. 
• Pictures on this publish depict a halved recipe made in an 8 x8-inch baking pan, so the cheesecake and strawberry cream layers can be thinner when made in a 9 X 13-inch pan. 
• Know that when you divide this recipe in part to make in an 8 X 8 or 9 X 9-inch pan that there could also be some leftover Strawberry Cream Layer. However that’s adequate! It’s scrumptious eaten on it’s personal with slightly of whipped cream.

Elements for Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars

Right here’s what you wish to have to make those creamy strawberry lemon bars:

Nilla Wafer Crust

• Nilla Wafer Cookie Crumbs (about 90 cookies price)
• Salted or Unsalted butter – both is ok

Strawberry Cream Layer

• Strawberry JELL-O: you wish to have 7 oz. so one huge bundle or two smaller programs will paintings.
• Boiling water
• Chilly water
• Cream cheese (room temperature)
• Cool Whip

Cheesecake Layer

• Cream cheese (sure, you wish to have this for each layers!)
• Powdered sugar
• Recent lemon juice
• Recent lemon zest
• Cool Whip

Further Elements

Overview the recipe card beneath for the precise quantities wanted for every component!

Find out how to Make Strawberry Lemonade Dessert Bars

Let’s make those Strawberry Dream Bars one layer at a time. We’ll get started with the buttery shortbread-style crust!

Nilla Wafer Crust

1. Get ready a 9 X 13-inch baking pan via spraying it with cooking spray.
2. In a medium bowl, soften butter in a microwave for roughly 30 seconds. Stir and soften for every other 5-10 seconds, if essential.
3. In a meals processor, pulse the Nilla Wafers till they're wonderful crumbs. Upload the cookie crumbs to the melted butter and blend with a rubber spatula till all are neatly included. In the event you don’t have a meals processor, you have to use a blender, or do it via hand with a pastry blender.
4. Pour the crumb aggregate into the ready pan and unfold, urgent all the way down to create an excellent crust. Position the pan into the freezer whilst making ready the remainder of the recipe for at least half-hour.

Strawberry Gelatin

1. In a big bowl, combine the strawberry gelatin with 1 1/2 cups boiling water. Stir till dissolved. Upload the 1 1/2 cups chilly water and stir. Position into fridge till totally cooled, however no longer set – about 10 mins.

Strawberry Cream Layer

1. In a blending bowl, beat 16 oz. of the cream cheese till clean.
2. The use of a ladle, slowly upload within the chilled gelatin combine whilst blending the whole thing in combination. This might take 8-10 mins relying on how slowly you upload it and the way neatly included you wish to have it. The extra slowly you pour within the gelatin, the smoother the mix can be with none lumps of cream cheese. As soon as it's totally clean, position the bowl into the fridge to cool and thicken for one hour.

Lemon Cheesecake Layer

1. Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat every other 12 oz. of cream cheese, the confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest in combination till clean and creamy. With a rubber spatula, fold in 1 1/2 cups of the Cool Whip to the lemon aggregate.
2. Position dollops of the cream cheese aggregate onto the frozen crust and with an offset spatula, unfold to shape an excellent layer.
3. Scatter the diced strawberries flippantly excessive of the cheesecake layer.

Meeting

1. After the Strawberry Cream aggregate has been refrigerated for an hour, fold in 4 cups of the Cool Whip with a rubber spatula till flippantly allotted and clean.
2. Gently pour the strawberry cream over the strawberries and cheesecake layer and unfold flippantly with an offset spatula.
3. Position into the fridge for at least 6 hours, nevertheless it’s best possible if refrigerated in a single day.

Find out how to serve Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars

When cutting, run a big knife beneath scorching water, dry it off, after which slice in the course of the bars, repeating with every lower. This will likely help in making blank cuts.

Serve with dollops of extra Cool Whip or my Stabilized Whipped Cream, contemporary strawberries, and lemon zest.

Find out how to retailer Dream Bars

Stay those bars tightly coated in an hermetic container within the refrigerator for every other 2 days. Serve leftovers immediately from the refrigerator!

Extra Dream Bars to Check out

In the event you love simple recipes like those no-bake muffins, you’ll love the remainder of my Dream Bar recipes.
 There’s a taste for everybody!

You'll additionally make a selection to head with a fruit-flavored one.

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Created via: Lynne Feifer

Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars

Prep Time 30 mins mins

Experience your favourite summer season drink in those creamy no bake Strawberry Lemonade Dream Bars with candy strawberries and contemporary lemon juice! A strawberry cream layer on lemon cheesecake, and Nilla wafer crust can have your style buds making a song!

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Directions

Nilla Wafer Crust

• Get ready a 9 X 13-inch baking pan via spraying it frivolously with cooking spray.

• In a medium bowl, soften the ten tablespoons of butter in a microwave for roughly 30 seconds. Stir and soften for every other 5-10 seconds, if essential.

• In a meals processor, pulse the Nilla Wafers till they're wonderful crumbs. Upload the cookie crumbs to the melted butter and blend with a rubber spatula till all is easily included.

• Pour into the ready baking dish and unfold, urgent all the way down to create an excellent crust. Position pan into the freezer whilst making ready the remainder of the recipe for at least half-hour.

Strawberry Gelatin

• Into a big bowl, combine the strawberry gelatin with 1 1/2 cups boiling water. Stir till dissolved. Upload the 1 1/2 cups chilly water and stir. Position into fridge till totally cooled, however no longer set – about 10 mins.

Strawberry Cream Layer

• In a blending bowl, beat 16 oz. of the cream cheese till clean.

• The use of a ladle, slowly upload within the chilled gelatin combine whilst blending the whole thing in combination. This might take 8-10 mins relying on how slowly you upload it and the way neatly included you wish to have it. The extra slowly you pour within the gelatin, the smoother the mix can be with none lumps of cream cheese. As soon as totally clean, position into fridge to cool and thicken for one hour. *See Notice.

Lemon Cheesecake Layer

• In every other huge blending bowl, beat every other 12 oz. of cream cheese, the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest in combination till clean and creamy. With a rubber spatula, fold in 1 1/2 cups of the Cool Whip.

• Position dollops of cheesecake aggregate onto the frozen crust and with an offset spatula, unfold to shape an excellent layer.

Strawberry Cream Layer – persisted

• After the Strawberry Cream aggregate has been refrigerated for an hour, fold in 4 cups of the Cool Whip with a rubber spatula, combining till flippantly allotted and clean.

• Gently pour the strawberry cream over the strawberries and cheesecake layer and unfold flippantly with an offset spatula.

• Position into the fridge for at least 6 hours, however best possible if refrigerated in a single day.

• When cutting, run a big knife beneath scorching water, dry off, after which slice in the course of the bars, repeating with every lower. This will likely help in making blank cuts.

• Serve with dollops of extra Cool Whip or my Stabilized Whipped Cream, contemporary strawberries, and lemon zest.

Notes

• Use the quantities of water on this recipe required to combine the strawberry gelatin. DO NOT use the quantities indexed within the field directions. We wish a extra solid gelatin and no more of it.
• If strawberry cream aggregate is left within the fridge for multiple hour, the gelatin will harden and shape. This isn’t a topic until you wish to have an absolutely creamy layer for the highest with NO raspberry or pink gelatin specks. 
• Pictures in publish depict part of the recipe, so the cheesecake and strawberry cream layers could also be thinner when made in a 9 X 13-inch pan. 
• Know that when you divide this recipe in part to make in an 8 X 8 or 9 X 9-inch pan that there could also be probably the most Strawberry Cream Layer that received’t have compatibility. However that’s adequate! It’s scrumptious eaten on it’s personal with slightly of whipped cream.

Vitamin

Serving: 1serving | Energy: 456kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 6g | Fats: 27g | Saturated Fats: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 2g | Monounsaturated Fats: 7g | Trans Fats: 0.3g | Ldl cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 302mg | Potassium: 170mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Nutrition A: 874IU | Nutrition C: 16mg | Calcium: 103mg | Iron: 0.2mg

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