Delightful Surprise

Sometimes the best things come that way by surprise. Such is the case with these

Banana Cheesecake Bars. They are not really cheesecake at all (since I don't like cheesecake) but for some reason they are called that. Call them what you want, they are delicious. So delicious that I forgot to take a picture and this is literally the last one before it goes on the plate to be eaten! The recipe is from Kraft, but i altered it a bit just out of necessity because of lack of ingredients. If you haven't noticed, that happens to me quite frequently! So this tastes kind of like banana pudding in a cake.

Recipe below.

Banana Pudding Cake ( my own name for it)

1 pkg. white cake mix

4 eggs

3 T. oil

2/3 cup sugar

3 bananas

1 pkg. (8oz) cream cheese

8 oz. sour cream

1/4 cup flour

2 T. lemon juice

1 1/2 cups milk

cool whip for topping if desired

Heat oven to 300 degrees. Set aside 1 cup of cake mix. Mix with fork remaining cake mix with egg, oil and 1/3 cup sugar. (mixture will be crumbly) Press onto bottom and 1 inch up sides of greased 9x13 baking pan.

Slice bananas and lay them out neatly on top of the crust.

Beat cream chese, sour cream and remaining 1/3 cup sugar in mixer till smooth. Add reserved 1 cup cake mix, flour, remaining 3 eggs and lemon juice. Beat 1 min. Blend in milk. (Batter will be thin). Pour into crust on top of bananas.

Bake 45-60 min. or until center is almost set. I increased the baking temp to 350 the last 15 min. to help speed this up. Serve warm or cooled in the fridge. Either way. Dollop with cool whip if desired.