Do you love lemon? Or maybe you are looking for a lighter dessert for Easter or this spring and summer? These Easy Lemon Cake Bars are so simple to make and taste delicious!
Easy Lemon Cake Bars are made with a boxed cake mix, so there are very few ingredients involved.
Easy Lemon Cake Bars
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package lemon cake mix
- 1 small box of Lemon pudding
- 1 egg
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Pour cake mix and pudding into a large bowl.
- Add the egg and oil; mix until well blended.
- Mixture will be slightly dry.
- Reserve one cup for the topping, and pat the rest into an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
- Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese with the sugar and lemon juice until smooth.
- Spread the mixture evenly over the baked crust.
- Add Sprinkles.
- Crumble the reserved cake mix mixture over the top.
- Bake for an additional 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until filling is set and the topping is lightly toasted.
- Cool before cutting into bars.
I have made several different Lemon recipes, lemon is really my favorite!
Enjoy!!
Made these last night for my daughter’s 4th birthday. She had requested Lemon Cake and this recipe looked fun. I also sent her some to school to share with her classmates. We loved them. Really easy to make. Recipe is a keeper! Thank you!
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-Melanie @meandmr.com
LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Lemon!
Thanks for sharing!
Stacey of Embracing Change
Mmmm! Looks yummy. I’ll have to take a gander at those lemon brownies and bread too! Thank you for sharing it at What We Accomplished Wednesdays. Have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Deborah
These look delicious. I have a link party called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop and would love to have you share this and any other posts with everyone. It runs from Tuesday night through midnight Sunday. Here is the link to the party.
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2013/02/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-blog-hop_26.html
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
You continue to be amazing! These bars look so good.
The Lemon Cake Bars look perfect for Easter! I pinned the recipe for the upcoming holiday gathering! 🙂
YUMMMMMY!!!
OH my goodness! Now I”m craving something lemony, lol. I love that these have pudding and cream cheese. They look fun too with those sprinkles.
Yes! I love lemon too…one of these is making an appearance in my kitchen ASAP!
Chrissy, I am loving the fun topping! I like the idea of lemon bars for the spring and easter season!
Looks so cute and delicious!! 🙂
Sooooooo yummy! I want them all!
These look delicious! 😉
Thanks for sharing! These bars look fantastic. So do the lemon brownies! Seems like some baking is in order! Great blog as well. It is always nice to discover someone so close….I am over in Wisconsin. I will let you know how the brownies turn out! 🙂
Oh they delicious Chrissy – and so pretty!!