Rainbow Vanilla Cheesecake Cookie Bars

Ingredients

• cooking spray
• vanilla sandwich cookies (such as Golden Oreos®), crushed
• (12 ounce) packagescream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup swhite sugar
• eggs
• tablespoon ssour cream
• tablespoon sall-purpose flour
• 1/3 teaspoon svanilla extra ct
• dropred gel food coloring, or as needed
• droporange gel food coloring, or as needed
• dropyellow gel food coloring, or as needed
• dropgreen gel food coloring, or as needed
• dropblue gel food coloring, or as needed
• dropviolet gel food coloring, or as needed

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray a 9x13 inch baking pan with cooking spray.
2. Press crushed cookies into the bottom of the prepared pan to make the crust.
3. Beat cream cheese and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, sour cream, flour, and vanilla extract; beat until combined. Spoon 1/2 the batter into the prepared crust.
4. Divide remaining batter evenly into 6 bowls. Add red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet food colorings separately to individual bowls until desired colors are achieved. Spoon colored batters onto the plain batter in a random pattern and swirl gently with a knife.
5. Bake in the preheated oven until center jiggles just slightly, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool on the counter for 2 hours. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours; cut into 24 squares.

Tips

In Step 4, do not over-swirl or put the knife in too far.