Rainbow Vanilla Cheesecake Cookie Bars

Decorate these vanilla cheesecake cookie bars with a pretty rainbow swirl; after a few hours of beauty rest they're ready to impress guests!

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 40 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Calories: 213 Calories

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons sour cream
• cooking spray
• 30 vanilla sandwich cookies (such as Golden Oreos®), crushed
• 2 (12 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 drop red gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1 drop orange gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1 drop yellow gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1 drop green gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1 drop blue gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1 drop violet gel food coloring, or as needed
• 1.5 cups white sugar
• 1.3333333730698 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

Step 2

Press crushed cookies into the bottom of the prepared pan to make the crust.

Step 3

Beat cream cheese and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, sour cream, flour, and vanilla extract; beat until combined. Spoon 1/2 the batter into the prepared crust.

Step 4

Divide remaining batter evenly into 6 bowls. Add red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet food colorings separately to individual bowls until desired colors are achieved. Spoon colored batters onto the plain batter in a random pattern and swirl gently with a knife.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until center jiggles just slightly, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool on the counter for 2 hours. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours; cut into 24 squares.