Vanilla Cream Bars
These VANILLA CREAM BARS are like a perfect blend of cake and pudding. Tastes like heaven in a dessert bar!
Vanilla Bars
One of my favourite desserts to make is anything ‘bars’. They are great for a treat at home or for taking to special occasions like school functions and as a thank you for a dinner invite.
You can cut them as small or big as you like, and usually they are a no-fail recipe to make.
Better yet? A bar recipe which calls for some of my favourite ingredients which I usually always have on hand.
I really do have a love for recipes that call for baking essentials, without that extra trip to the store. Just like this recipe for Vanilla Bars.
Everything in this recipe is always in my pantry or added to the list when I use it up. Meaning, it’s a great one to make last minute!
Most of the work in this Vanilla Cream Bars recipe is the baking of the crust and waiting for the pudding layer to chill onto the base.
Other than that, it’s simply mixing up the ingredients. Which, thanks to my KitchenAid Mixer, is no work at all.
Here’s the very best part: the sprinkles make the recipe. Meaning, you can get occasion sprinkles suited to holidays if you like. Little shamrocks for St. Patricks Day to tiny Snowmen for Christmas – it’s a recipe for all seasons!
You can even choose a solid colour to match the theme of a party or fancy it up with silver balls for a more formal occasion.
Really, it’s one of those recipe that will come in handy all year long!
If you love Easy Blueberry Desserts, try our Blueberry Pie Bars Recipe.
More Dessert Recipes:
- Strawberry Cheesecake Bars Recipe
- Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting
- Slow Cooker Apple Crisp with Vanilla Sauce
Vanilla Cream Bars
Ingredients
- • 2 cups all-purpose flour
- • 1/3 cup white sugar
- • 1 cup butter (softened)
- • 1 80z. package cream cheese (softened)
- • 1 cup icing sugar
- • 1 package vanilla pudding mix (4 serving size)
- • 3/4 cup cold milk
- • Coloured sprinkles for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300ºF.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour and sugar. Add in the butter and beat with an electric mixer on medium until crumbly.
- Add the dough mixture to a 13×9 inch ungreased pan and press down to make the shortbread base.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until edges of the shortbread are golden. Let cool for at least 30 minutes.
- Add the cream cheese and icing sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined.
- Add milk and pudding mix and continue to beat until smooth.
- Spoon the pudding mixture on the shortbread base and spread with a spoon evenly to cover.
- Sprinkle coloured sprinkles on top.
- Put in the fridge to set for a minimum one hour. I find it’s easier to cut if you leave it set overnight.
WOW–this looks awesome–and you make it easy to follow the directions–we will have to try this out!!! thanks for sharing
They look fantastic. I have been getting together ideas for summer treats for my kids. I will be adding this to the list.
True. All common ingredients that are always in the house! Perfect reason to be on lookout for specialty sprinkles. I tend to have to bring some form of “casual” dessert quite often, last minute and to serve multiple tastes. I usually go to the premade section, but this looks too simple that I might have to get rid of that habit.
Oh yum! Those look amazing!
I’ll bet they just melt in your mouth. They look wonderful!
Yummy! What a delicious recipe!
Your photos are fantastic. I would love to eat one of the bars now! Thank you so much for sharing.
Those look so good!!! Plus easy to make too!
They certainly LOOK yummy and I like that I can tailor them to the holiday, what a great idea!
My kids would love, love, love these. We actually have an end of year party coming up and these would be perfect. Thanks so much for sharing
These look so good! I have been craving sweets all day so I would love to make some of these right now…
Oh, those would disappear quickly in my house. Thanks for the recipe.
I would have never guessed there was pudding in the bars! Genius!
Those look both fluffy and creamy! Yum! Although, not sure how good I am at being patient for allowing the layers to cook properly lol
We did a lemon lime bar similar to this a while back. I love bars w pudding
Although we call those shots not sprinkles