These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars are an easy cheesecake recipe with flaky cinnamon sugar pastry and a sweet layer of cheesecake in the middle!
Super Simple Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
You all know how much of a cheesecake fan I am! My this classic cheesecake is one of the most popular recipes on my site, because it’s THE BEST! And of course, I make tons of cheesecakes, like Sugar Cookie Cheesecake and even Instant Pot Cheesecake!
BUT when you want a cheesecake recipe that is ULTRA easy, that you can eat with your hands, and perfect for a Potluck-style dinner, these Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars are about to be your new favorite dessert. We’re going to use crescent roll dough, cinnamon sugar and a simple cheesecake filling to make an irresistible treat!
What is a Sopapilla?
If you don’t know what a Sopapilla is, you’re missing out!! Sopapilla is a Spanish dessert. It’s a puffy, fried pastry dough coated in cinnamon sugar and/or drizzled with honey. I grew up in Houston, and at our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant they made the BEST Sopapillas.
For this recipe we’re going to talk all those irresistible sopapilla flavors and turn them into cheesecake bars that are incredibly easy to make!
How to Make Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
- Spread a can of crescent rolls dough in the bottom of a 9×13 pan.
- Mix 2 packages of cream cheese, a cup of sugar and a little vanilla together and spread it over the dough.
- Unroll your other can of crescent rolls and spread it over the top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Pour a stick of melted butter all on top of the top crescent roll sheet
- And sprinkle the top with cinnamon sugar!
- Pop it in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Give it about 30 minutes to chill. This is honestly the hardest part of the recipe.
- Cut into bars and serve!
How delicious does this look?
How to Store
Once your cheesecake bars have cooled completely, place them in an airtight container or cover your baking dish with saran wrap. Store them in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Can I Make These in Advance?
These cheesecake bars are actually a great dessert to make in advance, which is another reason it’s so get to make for a get together with friends or family.
Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 30 bars 1x
- Category: Cheesecake
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Dessert
Description
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars are an easy cheesecake recipe with flaky cinnamon sugar pastry and a sweet layer of cheesecake in the middle!
Ingredients
- 2 cans (8 count) Crescent Rolls
- 2 (8 ounces) packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
Topping
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly coat a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- Unroll 1 can of crescent rolls and lay flat in the bottom of the baking dish. Stretch the rolls to cover the bottom of the pan and pinch any seams closed.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer combine cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and vanilla until combined and smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
- Spread this over top of the crescent roll layer.
- Unroll the remaining can of crescent rolls and lay this on top of the cream cheese mixture and again, pinch any open seams closed as best you can.
- Pour the melted butter evenly on the top.
- Prepare the topping by mixing together the remaining sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on top of the the butter.
- Bake for 30 minutes until top is golden brown.
- Let cool for approximately 20 minutes and then cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
- Cut into bars
Notes
Store airtight in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bar
- Calories: 174
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 109.8 mg
- Fat: 11.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 23.4 mg
I loved that show! It used to scare the living daylights out of me, but still I watched. The creepiest one that I remember was the one where a woman was sure she was someone else in a past life and she went into a trance and they found photographics that she said were her back then. I couldn’t sleep without a lamp on for weeks! 🙂
Umm, I am GLAD I have never seen that one! No sleet for sure 😉
I so loved Unsolved Mysteries (you could watch it in syndication until not too long ago – maybe you still can?) Between that and Murder She Wrote – my childhood television watching was probably a bit off, now that I think of it…
And sopapillas. And cheesecake.
Thank you for this post – made me happy just to look at it 🙂
I’m not from New Jersey and I’ve never heard of these bars before either but they sure do look delicious!
HAHA! Being from Texas it seems crazy that everyone doesn’t know sopapillas!
I often come to your blog and read your posts…and I have to say YOU CRACK ME UP!!!! Love it….my Dad was such a huge fan of Unsolved Mysteries…so since this was before most people had multiple TV’s in their homes…we kids were sort of kinda FORCED to watch it…lol! Love the ingredients you used in this recipe..I will have to try it …soon 🙂
Oh my, this bar looks fabulous! And easy to make too! The grandkids will adore it. Copied it already!
oh my, oh my. this sounds amazing!! i am a cinnamon lover and this cake feels so good in my imagination. thanks for sharing this recipe!
Oh wow! I saw this post and thought, man those look yummy. I didn’t realize that I’ve made them before with a little twist! I’m a Chocolatier with Dove Chocolate Discoveries and we have a Spiced Chai tea. That’s what I used instead of the Cinnamon Sugar mixture when I made them (they were called Chai Breakfast Bars – they’re a great addition to a brunch buffet!). They were wonderful and HUGE hit at all my tasting parties. It was fun seeing where the recipe I found long ago on a Chocolatier group originated! Thanks so much for enlightening me! Oh, and incidentally, I loved Unsolved Mysteries, too…even though it led to some really hard to go to sleep nights. 😉
I HAVE to try these! I love all of these ingredients on their own, I can’t imagine what they would taste like together. I might just have to bring it to Sunday night dinner at my mom’s this week!… I used to watch Unsolved Mysteries also when I was younger, and I think I was traumatized to Robert Stack. I still have nightmares about one episode in particular where a woman was in her bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw a guy standing behind her. I still get a little nervous looking in the mirror in the middle of the night- to this day because of it! (so I usually just bypass it and run like crazy back into my bed.) I used to come home from 3rd grade and watch Matlock, In The Heat of The Night, and Golden Girls. The iCarly my 3rd grade daughter watches after school has nothing on those shows!! 😉
Well, I linked to a creepy pne that Mqatthew McConaughey was in and it was a lady brushing her hair and some guy comes up behind her in the bathroom. Seriously scary stuff.
OMG- That was the one!!!! I love Matt McConaughey, I can’t believe he was in that! That ok though, I forgive him for helping to scare me as a child. Robert Stack though I will never be able to forgive, even if he was funny in “Airplane.” (And as I typed this, my 8 year old, who talks in her sleep, just said something in a really creepy voice that I couldn’t understand while sleeping. At least she has good timing!)
That top cinnamon crust looks amazing, especially considering what lies beneath:) YUM!
I still watch the reruns of “Unsolved Mystery” on cable. My husband doesn’t understand why I watch somethig that spooks me so much?!?
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Unsolved Mysteries. I still try to catch it on Lifetime once in awhile. What get me is that some of the UM’s that Robert Stack covered have been re-done by Dennis Farina and it just kills me that they are still unsolved!! Am always hoping for that”Update” to flash at the end of the segment and when it doesn’t I am highly disappointed.
I’ve made a variation of these bars before but I don’t remember them having a stick of butter melted on top….can’t wait to try! These look incredible.