Cheesecake Cookie Bars

Ingredients:

Cookie dough:

• 1 regular size jar peanut butter
• 1 cup Splenda or Stevia
• 1/2 cup Splenda Blend Brown Sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

• 2 (8-oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup Splenda or Stevia
• 3/4 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix cookie dough ingredients together except for chocolate chips. After well mixed, stir in chocolate chips. Spoon 1/2 dough into greased 9 inch baking dish. Set other aside.

In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract until well mixed. Pour over cookie dough in pan. Next take a portion of the cookie dough and press it flat between your hands. Put on top of mixture and continue until most of the the cream cheese mixture is covered and you are out of dough.

Bake 45 to 50 minutes, or until golden and center is slightly firm. I often spray cooking spray on top of cookie dough to help it brown.

Remove from oven, let cool, then refrigerate. Cut into slices when well chilled.

By Krista White from Muncie, IN