OHHH these 😍🧀✨ — cream cheese squares are pure dessert nostalgia. Super easy, super dangerous.
🍰 Cream Cheese Squares (Easy Dessert)
🛒 Ingredients
- 2 cans refrigerated crescent roll dough
- 2 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter, melted
Topping
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
👩🍳 Instructions
- Prep
- Heat oven to 350°F (175°C)
- Grease a 9×13 baking dish
- Bottom layer
- Press 1 can of crescent dough into the bottom (pinch seams)
- Cream cheese filling
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth
- Spread evenly over dough
- Top layer
- Lay second crescent dough over filling
- Gently stretch and seal seams
- Butter & sugar
- Pour melted butter evenly on top
- Mix cinnamon + sugar and sprinkle over butter
- Bake
- Bake 30–35 minutes until golden brown
- Cool
- Let cool, then chill for clean slices (worth it)
✨ Flavor Twists
- Lemon: add lemon zest + drizzle glaze
- Pumpkin spice: add pumpkin purée + spice to filling
- Cherry cheesecake vibes: spoon pie filling on top after baking
- Savory-sweet: reduce sugar, add honey + flaky salt
Best served slightly chilled or room temp… and yes, they’re better the next day 😌
Want a fruit version or less sweet tweak?
