Lemon Cream Cheese Bars are simple to make with crescent roll dough but taste as good as a made-from-scratch pastry.

Only 6 ingredients needed for this easy bar recipe.

Lemon Flavor

A combination of lemon zest and fresh lemon juice gives lots of bright, fresh lemon flavor to these creamy bars. They are both sweet and tart.

Recommended Equipment

Zester- this OXO Zester is very easy to use.Electric Mixer- a hand-held mixer is perfect for mixing the filling together.9×13-inch Baking PanParchment Paper

Tips For Juicing LemonsAn easy way to juice lemons is to microwave them for 20 to 30 seconds (whole). It really gets the juices flowing.

3 Easy Parts

These easy dessert bars consist of a crescent dough crust, a creamy cream cheese/lemon filling, and a top layer of crescent dough which gets brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with sugar and lemon zest for a buttery, crispy finish.
Bottom layer of crescent dough after being baked.

Cream cheese filling spread over crust.

Bars after being removed from oven.

Crescent Dough

I love using crescent roll dough in recipes and I almost always have a tube of crescent dough in my refrigerator. Crescent dough also works great for these easy Cream Cheese Crescent Danishes, Crescent Roll Coffee Cake, and Sausage and Crescent Roll Casserole. You can use either the crescent sheets (so handy) or the regular crescent roll dough.

Lemon Cream Cheese Bars Storage

Because of the cream ...