Churro Cheesecake

Churro Cheesecake brings together the great flavors of cheesecake and churros in one easy to make dessert. With a buttery crust, a creamy filling and an irresistible cinnamon sugar topping, this delicious dessert is always a hit. 

Reasons We Love Churro Cheesecake 

• It’s always a great thing when you can combine two desserts into one.
• While this recipe is impressive enough to serve to guests, it’s incredibly easy to make.
• Great cheesecake flavor without all the fuss of more complex cheesecake recipes.
• This is a fantastic dessert for Taco Tuesday or Cinco De Mayo, though we enjoy it all year long!

Churro Cheesecake

In this household we are huge fans of both churros and cheesecake, so this easy Churro Cheesecake recipe was bound to be a hit.

While I’ve made churros in the past, they are not not high on my to do list. After a disastrous attempt that left my entire kitchen covered in hot oil (you can read all about it in my Churro Cupcakes post) churro making isn’t even on the list. That said, we LOVE that buttery, cinnamon sugar combo that churros deliver so well on.

Given that we also adore cheesecake, this was simply a must make recipe. This is fantastic way to bring together two classic desserts into one delicious dish.

How To Make Churro Cheesecake

Let’s go over what you will need, and the steps to take, to make Churro Cheesecake Bars. Reminder, the full printable recipe, with exact measurements and instructions, is found at the bottom of the page. This portion is for discussion, helpful tips and answering common questions about the recipe. 

What You Will Need

One of the best things about this recipe is how easy it is. You only need a handful of common ingredients.

• Refrigerated crescent rolls 
• Cream cheese: Make sure it’s at room temperature, it’s much easier to blend that way. For this recipe I do prefer the full fat cream cheese to the reduced fat varieties.
• Egg: A large egg is best.
• Sugar: Regular, granulated white sugar.
• Cinnamon: Powdered cinnamon. Ceylon cinnamon is my favorite.
• Maple Syrup: Go with pure maple syrup, not the imitation variety. If you don’t have any on hand, use two teaspoons of vanilla extract instead.
• Nutmeg: If you don’t have ground nutmeg on hand, you can leave it out. It gives that little something extra to the flavor, but will still be great without it.

Steps To Take

Making these churro cheesecake bars is quick and easy. You’ll start by preheating your oven and combining your cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg. Some of your cinnamon sugar mixture will then be sprinkled into a baking pan. After that one roll of crescent dough is pressed into the baking pan on top of the cinnamon sugar mixture.

This part is a bit tricky. Keeping the dough rolled, lay the beginning of your dough across the top end of your baking dish and unravel slowly until you get to the bottom. You can fold the end of dough over if it doesn’t quite fit into your dish or cut the ends off if you want it to fit perfectly.

Next, combine the ingredients to make the cheesecake filling. Again, it’s best that your cream cheese is room temperature, it’s much harder to blend if it’s cold.

The cheesecake mixture is spread over the crescent dough, which is then topped with a second can of crescent dough, and finished with a final sprinkle of the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg mixture. Then into the oven your churro cheesecake bars go.

Serving

This dessert can be served warm or cold, whatever your preference! Let it set and cool down a bit before serving or pop it into the fridge and serve it later!

Storing

Because of the cream cheese, this must be kept in the fridge. It will keep for 3-4 days in the fridge. Or you could freeze it for up to 2 months.

More Recipes To Try

If you enjoy this recipe, here are some others I recommend.

Cinnamon Sugary Favorites:

• Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread
• Churro Cupcakes
• Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Bites
• Vanilla Cinnamon Cupcakes
• Snickerdoodles
• Fried Ice Cream

Cheesecake Favorites:

• Creamy Cheesecake
• Mini Strawberry Cheesecakes
• Apple Pie Cheesecake Bars
• Cheesecake Minis
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
• Cheesecake Brownies

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