All Things Food: Summer Recipes

We got some great recipes from last week’s show. Here’s Nancy’s recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake Bars. Be sure to tune in tomorrow night after the 6 o’clock news for more recipes.

Blueberry Cheesecake Bars (Nancy Sheehan)

Ingredients

¾ cups of graham cracker crumbs    3 eggs, lightly beaten

3 tbsp of melted butter                      1 cup of sour cream

½ tsp of cinnamon                                      1 tsp of vanilla

¼ tsp of nutmeg                                (2) 8 oz. packages of cream cheese

2 cups of blueberries                         ½ cup of sugar

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Directions

1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees
2. Coat pan with coking spray
3. In a small bowl combine; crumbs, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg
4. Press crumb mixture in pan and up sides of pan to ¼ inch
5. Toss blueberries with flour, then set aside
6. Combine eggs, sour cream and vanilla; set this mixture aside
7. In a separate bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth (2-3 min.)
8. Beat sugar into cheese mixture 2 tbs at a time
9. Slowly blend in egg mixture and stir in blueberries

Bake about 1 hour until center is set. Cool 30 minutes on rack

Refrigerate 3 hours, or overnight