Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars are the recipe that Maria makes every single time she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and most deeply unexpected high-protein treat that combines the two most individually beloved and most classically satisfying dessert experiences — the most warmly cinnamon-sugared and most gorgeously doughy churro and the most creamy and most beautifully cool vanilla cheesecake filling — in the most brilliant single bar format that requires only ten minutes of preparation, only thirty minutes of baking, and delivers nine and a half grams of protein per bar from the most simple and most accessible combination of cream cheese and Greek yogurt and vanilla protein powder.
She presses four crescent rolls into the bottom of the sprayed eight by eight-inch baking dish, beats the cream cheese and thick Greek yogurt and egg and vanilla and protein powder and sweetener in the stand mixer until the most completely smooth and most silky cheesecake filling forms, spreads it over the crescent roll base, flattens the remaining four crescent rolls into a matching sheet and places over the filling, scatters the most generous cinnamon sugar topping across the entire top surface, and bakes until the most beautifully golden brown and most irresistibly cinnamon-fragrant result emerges from the oven.
Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars are the most easy and deeply extraordinary crescent roll cheesecake bars made with Pillsbury crescent rolls pressed as the base and top with a cream cheese Greek yogurt egg vanilla protein powder and sweetener filling topped with cinnamon sugar and baked at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes for 9.8g protein per bar. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful healthy dessert recipes and easy high-protein favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars recipe is the most completely unique and most genuinely extraordinary high-protein dessert that creates a flavor and texture combination so completely unexpected and so deeply satisfying that every person who tastes these bars for the first time immediately and completely declares them unlike anything they have ever eaten. The contrast between the most warmly cinnamon-sugared and most gently doughy crescent roll exterior and the most silky and most beautifully cool vanilla cheesecake filling is genuinely and completely extraordinary.
These churro protein cheesecake bars also freeze most beautifully, which makes them the most practical and most convenient high-protein treat imaginable for every busy person who wants a genuinely extraordinary macro-friendly dessert ready at any moment throughout the week. They are equally extraordinary straight from the refrigerator after overnight setting and warm from a brief microwave reheat. Our Strawberry Protein Cheesecake makes a beautifully equally high-protein and equally creamy companion for a complete and wonderful healthy protein cheesecake collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
For the Churro Dough:
- 1 tube (8 oz) Crescent Rolls (such as Pillsbury)
- 1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon
- 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar (24g)
For the Protein Cheesecake Filling:
- 8 oz Cream Cheese, fat-free, light, or full-fat
- ¾ cup (170g) Plain Greek Yogurt, nonfat, 2%, or whole
- 1 large Egg
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- ¼ cup (30g) Vanilla Protein Powder
- ¼ cup (48g) Granular Sweetener of choice (such as Swerve or granulated sugar)
How to Make This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray an eight by eight-inch baking dish generously with cooking spray.
Using clean hands, press four of the crescent rolls into the bottom of the sprayed dish, spreading and sealing all seams as completely as possible to form the most uniformly even and most properly sealed bottom churro dough layer, cara mia.
In the bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, combine the cream cheese, thick Greek yogurt, egg, vanilla extract, vanilla protein powder, and granular sweetener. Beat until completely smooth and uniformly creamy throughout with no lumps remaining. Spread the protein cheesecake filling evenly over the bottom crescent roll layer.
Flatten the remaining four crescent rolls between two pieces of parchment paper or using a rolling pin until they form a sheet approximately the same size as the eight by eight-inch baking dish. Gently place this flattened dough sheet over the cheesecake filling as the top churro layer.
In a small bowl, combine the ground cinnamon and granulated sugar. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture generously and evenly across the entire top crescent roll surface.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until the churro protein cheesecake bars begin to turn the most beautifully golden brown along the edges.
Allow to cool completely to room temperature. Then refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours to set before slicing. Overnight refrigeration produces the most beautifully firm and most cleanly sliceable and most deeply flavored result. Cut into nine individual bars.
How to Serve This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Serve cold from the refrigerator for the most completely firm and most beautifully set churro protein cheesecake bar with the most properly defined layers and the most beautifully creamy and silky cheesecake filling at its most dense and most satisfying cold serving consistency.
For the most indulgent serving moment, allow a cold bar to sit at room temperature for five minutes for the most perfectly balanced temperature between the cool creamy filling and the most softly pliable cinnamon sugar crescent roll exterior. Our No-Bake Cheesecake Cups make a beautifully equally creamy and equally elegantly individual companion for a complete and wonderful healthy cheesecake collection.
How to Store This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Freeze beautifully. Cut into nine individual bars, wrap each tightly in plastic wrap or parchment paper, and store in a freezer bag for 2 to 3 months. Pull directly from the freezer when a craving strikes for the most convenient and most completely extraordinary protein-rich frozen churro cheesecake bar treat. Thaw at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes or enjoy slightly frozen.
Tips to Make This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Seal the crescent roll seams on the bottom layer as completely as possible. Open gaps in the seams allow the cheesecake filling to seep beneath the bottom crescent layer during baking rather than staying most beautifully contained between the two dough layers. Using fingertips to press and seal each seam thoroughly before adding the filling prevents this most common issue.
Allow the bars to cool completely to room temperature before refrigerating rather than placing them warm directly into the refrigerator. The most beautifully set and most cleanly sliceable result comes from the gradual cooling followed by refrigerator setting rather than rapid temperature shock.
Helpful Notes for This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Any type of vanilla protein powder works in this recipe. A snickerdoodle-flavored or cinnamon-flavored protein powder would be particularly beautiful and most completely complementary to the churro cinnamon character of these bars. Choose a protein powder brand whose flavor is genuinely enjoyed on its own for the most extraordinary finished cheesecake filling flavor.
The macros are calculated using fat-free cream cheese and 2% Greek yogurt. Using full-fat cream cheese and whole milk Greek yogurt produces a most deeply creamy and most richly satisfying filling at slightly higher calories and fat per bar. Both versions are completely extraordinary.
Variation of This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Maria made a version adding a tablespoon of dulce de leche swirled through the cheesecake filling before adding the top crescent layer for the most completely extraordinary and most beautifully caramel-swirled churro protein cheesecake bar. Teresa tried sprinkling crushed cinnamon graham crackers over the cinnamon sugar topping before baking for the most completely beautiful and most crunch-textured churro cheesecake bar variation.
For a pumpkin spice churro version, add half a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the cinnamon sugar topping mixture and a tablespoon of pumpkin purée to the cheesecake filling for the most completely extraordinary fall-flavored churro protein cheesecake bar. Our Churro Cheesecake Bars make a beautifully equally cinnamon-sugared and equally crowd-pleasing companion for a complete and wonderful cinnamon dessert collection.
FAQs About This Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Why must the bars refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours before slicing?
The cheesecake filling requires the full 2 to 3 hour refrigeration period to set from a soft and flowing consistency to a beautifully firm and most cleanly sliceable layer. Slicing before the filling has set produces bars that collapse and smear rather than maintaining the most beautifully defined and most properly layered cross-section. Overnight refrigeration produces the most completely firm and most cleanly sliceable result of all.
Do these bars freeze well?
Yes. These churro protein cheesecake bars freeze most extraordinarily well, which makes them one of the most convenient and most practical high-protein freezer treats imaginable. The crescent roll exterior and the cream cheese filling both freeze and thaw beautifully without any loss of the most beautifully firm texture or the most deeply satisfying flavor. They are equally delicious thawed at room temperature or enjoyed slightly frozen.
Can I use regular sugar instead of a sweetener substitute?
Yes. Regular granulated sugar can substitute for the Swerve or other granular sweetener in the cheesecake filling in the same quantity. Regular sugar will increase the overall calorie and carbohydrate count slightly but produces an equally beautifully sweet and most deeply satisfying cheesecake filling. The cinnamon sugar topping already uses regular granulated sugar for the most proper caramelization on the top crescent layer.
Conclusion
These Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars are the most completely extraordinary and most deeply unique high-protein dessert bar that makes every sweet craving and every protein-goal moment feel genuinely and completely satisfied through the most warmly cinnamon-sugared crescent roll exterior and the most silky vanilla protein cheesecake filling in every single cold and completely irresistible churro protein cheesecake bar bite with 9.8 grams of protein per bar. We hope they bring the same deeply joyful churro-meets-cheesecake joy and the same completely delighted gathering to your kitchen that they have always brought to ours. Make them, share them, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa
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Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars The Most Easy Crescent Roll Cinnamon Sugar High Protein Bar You Will Bake
- Total Time: 2 hours 40 minutes including chilling
- Yield: 9 bars 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary Churro Protein Cheesecake Bars made by preheating oven to 350°F spraying 8×8-inch dish pressing 4 crescent rolls into bottom sealing seams beating 8 oz cream cheese 3/4 cup Greek yogurt 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder and 1/4 cup sweetener until completely smooth spreading over crescent base flattening remaining 4 crescent rolls into matching sheet placing over filling sprinkling with combined 1 tbsp cinnamon and 2 tbsp sugar baking 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown cooling completely refrigerating 2 to 3 hours or overnight and slicing into 9 bars. 9.8 grams protein per bar. A completely extraordinary churro protein cheesecake bar recipe.
Ingredients
1 tube 8 oz Crescent Rolls such as Pillsbury
1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon
2 tbsp Granulated Sugar 24g
8 oz Cream Cheese fat-free light or full-fat
3/4 cup 170g Plain Greek Yogurt nonfat 2% or whole
1 large Egg
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1/4 cup 30g Vanilla Protein Powder
1/4 cup 48g Granular Sweetener Swerve or granulated sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 8×8-inch dish with cooking spray.
2. Press 4 crescent rolls into bottom of dish. Seal seams as completely as possible.
3. Beat cream cheese, Greek yogurt, egg, vanilla, protein powder, and sweetener until completely smooth.
4. Spread filling evenly over crescent roll base.
5. Flatten remaining 4 crescent rolls between parchment until same size as dish.
6. Gently place flattened dough over filling.
7. Combine cinnamon and sugar in small bowl. Sprinkle generously over entire top.
8. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown at edges.
9. Cool completely to room temperature.
10. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours to set. Overnight is most recommended.
11. Slice into 9 individual bars.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert, High Protein, Bars
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bar
- Calories: 162
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 285mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 17g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 10g
- Cholesterol: 38mg
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