Best Lemon Poppy Seed Cheesecake Bars Recipes

POPPY SEED-LEMON BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
• Combine butter and confectioners' sugar in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add flour, salt, and cardamom; mix until just combined. Stir in poppy seeds until evenly distributed. Press dough evenly into the prepared baking dish with floured hands.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven until edges are just starting to brown, about 18 minutes.
• While the crust is baking, combine sugar, eggs, lemon juice, and lemon zest in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Add flour and stir until just combined.
• As soon as the crust comes out of the oven, pour the filling into it and return to the oven.
• Bake until filling is puffy and lightly browned around the edges, about 30 minutes. Place on a wire rack and cool completely before cutting into 16 squares. Dust lightly with confectioners sugar.

LEMON POPPY SEED CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs and butter. Press onto the bottom and 1 in. up the sides of a greased 9-in. springform pan. Set aside., In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla until smooth. Add the eggs, cream, lemon juice, zest and poppy seeds. Beat on low speed just until combined. Pour into prepared crust., Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan. Refrigerate leftovers.

LEMON POPPY-SEED CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• Combine flour with confectioners' sugar, poppy seeds and a pinch of salt; work in softened butter with your fingers until clumps form.
• Press into a foil-lined 9-inch square baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees F until lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Cool.
• For the filling, puree yogurt with cream cheese, sugar, heavy cream and lemon zest and juice in a food processor until thick and fluffy; spread over the cooled crust. Refrigerate overnight to set.

LEMON POPPY-SEED SHORTBREAD BARS

Steps:

• In a bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar and beat the mixture until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the zest and the vanilla, add the poppy seeds, the flour, and the salt, and beat the mixture until it is just combined. Press the mixture evenly into a buttered 8-inch-square baking pan and bake it in the middle of a preheated 300°F. oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until it is pale golden. Let the shortbread cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, cut it into 24 bars, and let the bars cool completely in the pan. Sprinkle the bars with the additional confectioners' sugar.

LEMON POPPYSEED CHEESECAKE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix all crust ingredients together in a small bowl until they begin to stick together.
• Divide the mixture evenly between 18 cupcake liners, pressing down to make sure it is smooth and solidly packed.
• Bake for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Mix cream cheese and sugar until integrated.
• Mix in eggs, one at a time, mix in sour cream.
• Add zest, ginger, and poppy seeds.
• Spoon mixture over pre-baked crusts, bake for 30 minutes.
• Remove cheesecakes from oven and allow to come to room temperature.
• Place in the refrigerator to chill.
• Whip heavy whipping cream and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Mix in ginger.
• Spread or pipe frosting onto the chilled cheesecakes, you can decorate with colored sugar and a gingersnap cookie.

LEMON-POPPY SEED BARS

Steps:

• Make crust:
• 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F
• 2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed. Add the salt, sugar, and vanilla, and continue to beat until light but not fluffy. Lower the speed and add the flour. Mix until just combined.
• 3. Spread the dough into the bottom of an 8 by 8-inch pan, patting with your fingers and smoothing the top with an offset metal or rubber spatula if necessary.
• 4. Bake until light golden brown around the edges, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack. Do not turn off the oven.
• Make poppy seed layer:
• Place the poppy seeds, sugar and 1/4 cup cold water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Let boil for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is thick and glossy. Add the butter and stir until incorporated. Remove from the heat immediately and spread the poppy seed mixture evenly over the baked cookie crust. Set aside.
• Make lemon filling:
• 1. Place 3/4 cup cold water and the cornstarch into a medium nonreactive saucepan and whisk to dissolve the cornstarch.
• 2. Add the sugar and egg yolks and whisk to combine. Over medium heat, stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil and let boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• 3. Add the lemon juice, lemon zest, and butter. Whisk until smooth. Pour the lemon filling evenly over the poppy seed layer.
• Make topping:
• 1. Using a handheld mixer or in a the bowl of an electric mixer, whip the eggwhites on medium-high speed. When the whites peak softly, slowly add the sugar. Continue whipping until firm (but not stiff) peaks are formed.
• 2. Fold in the cornstarch, and then the poppy seeds. Cover the lemon filling completely and dab the top to make attractive swirled points. Bake until the meringue browns, about 18 minutes. Cool and refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours. Cut into 8 large bars.

CHEESECAKE-POPPY SEED MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease bottoms only of muffin cups.
• Squeeze Glaze packet (from muffin mix) about 10 seconds (do not microwave). Cut off tip of 1 corner of packet with scissors. In small bowl, stir together cream cheese and about half of the glaze. Reserve remaining glaze for topping.
• In medium bowl, stir Muffin Mix, milk, oil and eggs just until blended (batter may be lumpy). Place 1 tablespoonful of batter in each muffin cup. Top batter in each cup with about 1 teaspoon cream cheese mixture. Divide remaining batter among muffin cups (each about two-thirds full).
• Bake 17 to 22 minutes or until golden brown and tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Cool 5 minutes longer. Drizzle remaining Glaze over muffins; serve warm. Refrigerate any remaining muffins.