RAW BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE BARS

Everyone should try these amazing raw blueberry cheesecake bars. We love it so much, especial now for upcoming summer season, it is the best refreshing dessert. And blueberries are perfect addition, not only for nice colours, but even for the nice flavor of blueberries.

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The base of this raw cheesecake is made from Oreo crumbs, yum, who doesn’t like Oreo right? If you are on gluten free diet, you can find in your local grocery store chocolate cookies gluten free. I have made it once for my daughter’s birthday party, because her friend had to follow certain gluten free diet and it worked out just perfect and no one even realized that it wasn’t real Oreo cookies.

Before you start the recipe, make sure to take out you cream cheese at least 4-5 hours before you will work with it. Cream cheese is very stiff and hard, when kept in refrigerator and if you leave it on the kitchen counter for few hours, then you won’t have any lumps in the mixture. I also use a hand blender to make sure the texture of cream cheese is really smooth.

How to create these beautiful layers of purple ? Very easy, you simply divide the cream cheese mixture in three different bowls and use blended blueberries (aka blueberry sauce) and mix more and less in the blueberry sauce. Best is to use wild blueberries.  Wild blueberries has that rich purple colour. Use fresh blueberries only for the decorating these bars.

TIPS:

The quantity I used for this raw blueberry cheesecake bars was in square pan 8″x 8″. On the bottom of the pan, you should always use parchment paper. It will be easier to take out frozen cheesecake and cut the squares outside the pan. This is a raw cheesecake, so no baking is involved. The Best way, is to freeze the cheesecake overnight in the freezer, the minimum is 6 hours in freezer, to get solid texture of cheesecake bars.  So make sure to prepare this recipe a day before you plan your party.

For the topping I have used maple sugar, to add little crunch. This is an optional topping. You can use fresh or frozen blueberries to add an extra wow look.

For extra smooth texture, make sure your cream cheese is in room temperature. But you can also use hand blender to achieve the smooth texture.

Use wild blueberries for the perfect blue colour. It can be fresh or frozen, doesn’t really make a difference if it’s fresh or frozen.

RAW BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE BARS

RECIPE

Preparation time: 15 minutes ⭐ freezing time: overnight (or minimum 6 hours_ ⭐ servings: 6-8 squares

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 x 250 g cream cheese bars (room temperature)
• 1 1/4 cups sweetened condensed milk
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup frozen wild blueberries (you can use normal or fresh blueberries as well)

• 1 cup Oreo crumbs
• 1/4 cup melted butter

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Line an 8″ x 8″ square baking dish with Parchment paper. Make sure parchment paper has to stick out of the baking pan, cut it larger, it will be easier to take out the frozen piece of cheesecake from the baking dish.
2. Combine Oreo crumbs and melted butter until all crumbs are moist.
3. Lightly press crumb mixture into prepared 8″ x 8″ pan.
4. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Use hand blender for perfect smoothness. Add in condensed milk and sour cream and beat again.
5. Add vanilla extract and beat one more time.
6. Divide your cream cheese mixture in (3) three equal parts, in smaller bowls.
7. With hand blender blend 1 cup of wild blueberries, but use only 3/4 of cup, add it into the first of your prepared cream cheese bowls. This mixture has to be dark purple colour.
8. Mix it well and place this first layer of blueberry cream cheese layer in baking pan.
9. Next, mix the left of 1/4 cup of blended blueberries into your second bowl of cream cheese mixture. This mixture will be lighter, place it onto the first layer in the baking pan.
10. Now the last layer won’t be coloured with blueberries at all, spread the clear cream cheese layer over the second layer of blueberry cream cheese.
11. Now you are done and you need to chill this cheesecake bars in the freezer overnight. Cover it with plastic foil and place in the freezer.
12. You can keep it in the freezer until you are ready to enjoy it. Up to 3 months.
13. Once you decide enjoying your cheesecake bars, take it out of the freezer, let it stand for 10 minutes and then gently pull on parchment paper to take it out from the baking pan.
14. Once out, place it on cutting board and cut with large knife into your desired squares.
15. You can top it with fresh or frozen blueberries, I sprinkled mine with maple flakes as well.

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