I decided y’all definitely need these banana pudding cheesecake bars recipe. It’s one of my faves. The blondie bottom is flavored with mashed bananas. Then I add a no-bake creamy cheesecake filling flavored with banana pudding and let it firm up. It’s so addictive and so easy that it’s a fave dessert for me to pull out for entertaining.
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How to Make Banana Pudding Cheesecake
For the Blondie Crust:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare a 8×8 baking pan with non-stick method of your choice.
- In a large bowl, whisk together butter and sugar until combined. Next whisk in the egg yolk, flour, salt, banana and vanilla until well combined.
- Add blondie batter to pan and bake for 15-20 minutes until just set.
- Cool to room temperature and prepare topping.
For the Cheesecake Topping:
- Using your hand mixer, whip heavy cream in a medium sized bowl until stiff peaks develop then refrigerate and clean beaters.
- In a separate bowl, beat cream cheese until nice and fluffy with hand mixer.
- Slowly add in the sugar, banana pudding powder, milk, and vanilla extract. Beat until well incorporated.
- Carefully fold pre-made whipped cream into the cream cheese batter.
- Taste and add a little powdered sugar if you prefer it a little sweeter.
- Pour and evenly spread cheesecake topping over blondie crust and freeze for at least 6 hours (overnight is best) or until completely firm.
- Garnish with nilla wafers and serve.
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Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars Recipe
These Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars are irresistible! A banana blondie crust gets topped with creamy banana pudding cheesecake creating one of the most delish cheesecakes ever!
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Servings: 9 bars
Ingredients
For the Blondie Crust:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Pinch salt
- 1/4 cup mashed ripe banana
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
For the Cheesecake Topping:
- 2/3 cup heavy whipped cream
- 16 ounces cream cheese 2 blocks
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3.4 ounce instant banana pudding powder 1 box
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Optional: Powdered Sugar for extra sweetness
- Garnish: Nilla wafers
Instructions
For the Blondie Crust:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare a 8×8 baking pan with non-stick method of your choice.
- In a large bowl, whisk together butter and sugar until combined. Next whisk in the egg yolk, flour, salt, banana and vanilla until well combined.
- Add blondie batter to pan and bake for 15-20 minutes until just set.
- Cool to room temperature and prepare topping.
For the Cheesecake Topping:
- Using your hand mixer, whip heavy cream in a medium sized bowl until stiff peaks develop then refrigerate and clean beaters.
- In a separate bowl, beat cream cheese until nice and fluffy with hand mixer.
- Slowly add in the sugar, banana pudding powder, milk, and vanilla extract. Beat until well incorporated.
- Carefully fold pre-made whipped cream into the cream cheese batter.
- Taste and add a little powdered sugar if you prefer it a little sweeter.
- Pour and evenly spread cheesecake topping over blondie crust and freeze for at least 6 hours (overnight is best) or until completely firm.
- Garnish with nilla wafers and serve.
Notes
To keep those Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars with their no-bake topping on point, put in an airtight container and slide them into the fridge. They’ll stay fresh for up to 5 days. Just remember to give them a little chill time before serving – they’re best enjoyed cool!
Nutrition
Calories: 544kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 20g | Cholesterol: 128mg | Sodium: 248mg | Potassium: 146mg | Sugar: 45g | Vitamin A: 1300IU | Vitamin C: 0.7mg | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 0.6mg
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Recipe Tips
- Go Room Temp: Make sure your ingredients are completely at room temperature, especially your cream cheese. If not, you will have a lumpy filling and not a smooth filling.
- Get Ripe Banana: That sweet flavor makes such a difference in the blondie.
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It might sound lame, but I think I’d go for some good ol’ fashioned Chocolate Chip cookies first. Can’t beat a classic!
Nope not lame at all. Necessary!
Girl, what a way to get back into soul baking. I can just taste the banana in my mouth! Can’t wait to see what you make next 🙂
Hahaha! I can taste the banana again too!
Definitely a perfect food. No need to enter me in the giveaway, but I had to chime in about the beauty of these bars.
Thanks boo!
These are perfection! I love banana pudding and to see it in a cheesecake bar just makes my day! Pinning over and over again!
Thank you so much Jen!
Mines been in the freezer for around 4 hours how firm should it be? It’s still tacky on the top. Also after it gets firm do I store it in the fridge?
Hi Heather, I would give it a bit more time to solidify to make sure it gets very solid. You can store in either the freezer or the fridge if you want it to be looser. I hope it worked out.
These look sooooo gooooood! I’ll be making this sometime this week.
Oh yeah!!
I would definitely go for some cheesecake!
Cheesecake is necessary!
Awh, J!!! These are gorgeous!!!! love!
Thank you boo!
I LOVE COOKIES SO MY FIRST THING I WILL BAKE IS SEVERAL KINDS OF COOKIES.
I adore cookies too!
I hear you about soul baking. Whenever I’ve lost my mojo, I just try to recreate the excitement I feel when I go out and about and see other people’s creations. That usually helps!
Whatever you did sure worked, because these look so amazing! I love cheesecake bars, and the banana through it all is great!
Thank you so much Mir! We all need a little soul baking from time to time right?
do u prepare the pudding or just mix the powder with cream cheese and condensed milk?
Just mix it in.
Am I reading this recipe incorrectly? Where in the recipe dies it say add condensed milk? I wonder if plain old whole milk will do.