These Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars are irresistible!! A banana blondie crust gets topped with creamy banana pudding cheesecake creating one of the most delicious cheesecake recipes ever!! If you love Banana Pudding flavor like this, definitely try my Banana Pudding Cake, Banana Pudding Pie, Classic Banana Pudding, Banana Pudding Cheesecake, or these Banana Pudding Milkshakes.
Perfect Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars with Blondie Crusts!!
My schedule has been a bit wonky. I barely feel like I know what day it is or what deadlines and due dates I should be remembering.
What Are Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars?
I could have given you one of any cheesecake recipes but I decided to hook you up with this. The blondie bottom is flavored with mashed bananas. I seriously could have made a batch of these perfectly chewy and full flavored blondies and ate them warm out of the oven because they are that good but I didn’t stop there.
Instead I added a simple banana pudding no bake cheesecake filling to the top. The banana flavor in this bar recipe is double packed perfection.
Both the crust and the topping blend together so flawlessly that I am wondering if they were always meant to be together. This is seriously one of my favorite no bake cheesecake recipes ever. This is no regular banana cheesecake, this is beyond that.
How to Make Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars: Start with Blondies
To make these cheesecake bars, you begin with the blondie crust. This crust has a delicious banana flavor and sturdy texture that is both crisp and chewy. It holds up well to the topping that is thick and silky.
To make the banana blondie, you will just need a bowl. No need for a mixer since its a one bowl technique. Literally you can whisk everything together until it is smooth.
I add a lot of banana to this mixture to really let that banana really shine through. It will bake up perfectly in about 15-20 minutes.
How to Make No Bake Banana Pudding Cheesecake Filling
The filling for these bars is silky and incredibly smooth. That texture comes from a mixture of both heavy cream that’s whipped and cream cheese that is at room temperature. After adding sugar, it is really wonderful on its own however by adding banana pudding powder and milk, the flavor is incredible!
To really lighten everything, the whipped cream is folded into the mixture creating the perfect texture. Once it has frozen, it is perfect for cutting into wonderful even bars.
Tip for Cutting: Make sure you use a sharp knife that has be run under some hot water. It will make perfectly even slices.
So stop whatever you are doing and head into the kitchen because this banana pudding cheesecake blondies recipe is a must make. These bars are absolutely fantastic.
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Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars with Banana Blondie Crust
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 8x8 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
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I made these last night and they remind me so much of eating the banana pudding pops when I was growing up in the 80’s. Yummy! Sent my husband off to work with dessert for breakfast. That’s why he loves me! Thanks for this lovely recipe!
These bars are amazing, best way I can describe is a combination of brownies, banana bread and cheesecake. It’s a unique recipe, makes me want to buy the cookbook to see what else you’ve come up with. Thanks so much for sharing it
I’m not sure what happened but my blondie crust was a butter mush. I doubled the recipe so that may have bene it. I changed the crust to a graham cracker crust. Was delicious but would love to try it again with the blondie crust…sounds sooo good! Always love Jocelyn’s recipes!!
Made these for Christmas and OMG the blonde crust was everything
Made this a day ahead of Thanksgiving and it never made it to the table! I’m currently making it again b/c my sister called me at 4 a.m. requesting it! Thank you it was perfect!
I have not tried this recipe yet but I am definitely making this for one of my Christmas dishes. I appreciate you sharing your recipe. You keep doing what your great at regardless of the negative comments..
In all fairness, why don’t you publish any negative comments
You did not publish the other 2 comments. Both were somewhat negative. By only publishing this comment makes seem like you never get anything negative
Ma’am I have hundreds and hundreds of messages that I have received this week alone. I am slowly working through them since I am the only person that goes through them. I’m not a large corporation but a blog that just happens to have millions of page views so I appreciate your patience. I absolutely love what I do and love to share my recipes with the world. Regarding reviews, I try to put up everything. I even posted the one star you added here that will drag down my score. I haven’t received any negative reviews for this recipe so just because you had a negative experience does not mean that others have which is your assumption. Once I work through all of the messages, I will be posting yours. I hope that makes you feel better about things here.
I left a previous comment that I thought the bars tasted a little gummy. I had left over bars and put them in the frig instead of back in the freezer. My husband and I thought they tasted better coming from the frig instead of freezer. The consistency was creamier. Next time if I make these I will not freeze them.
Is it actual whipped cream or heavy whipping cream
Heavy whipping cream. You will whip it in the actual recipe.
Is the whipped cream measurement before or after whipping?
This is the measurement before whipping. The instructions call for you to whip.