Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake Bars
Chocolate cake-mix crust layered with a creamy vegan cheesecake filling and a chocolate-chip crumble topping, baked and chilled into bars.
Ingredients
| 1 package (15.25 oz.) | chocolate cake mix | |
| 4 oz. | 115 g | cold vegan cream cheese |
| 6 Tbsp. | 90 ml | cold vegan margarine |
| 20 oz. | 565 g | vegan cream cheese, softened |
| ⅔ cup | 160 ml | sugar |
| 1 tsp. | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| — | egg replacement equal to 2 eggs | |
| 1 cup | 240 ml | vegan chocolate chips |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix, cream cheese, and margarine with a pastry cutter or large fork until crumbly. Remove 1½ cups of cake mixture; stir in chocolate chips and set aside for topping. Press remaining cake mixture into a lightly greased 9" × 13" baking dish and bake 12 minutes. Cool.
- Beat softened cream cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, and egg replacement on low speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Spread evenly over baked cake layer.
- Lightly press reserved chocolate chip–cake mixture over cream cheese layer. Bake 40–45 minutes.
- Cool completely, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 4–6 hours. Cut into rectangles.