#2843 - Cream Cheese Streussel Bars

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups Domino's powdered sugar
1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 cup cold butter
1 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese (softened)
1 - 14oz. can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated)
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts

In a bowl add flour, powdered sugar and cocoa--stir to mix. Cut the cold butter into pieces and add to the flour mixture--mix with a pastry blender to make crumbs. Reserve 2 cups of the crumb mixture. Press the remaining crumb mixture into a greased 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. In a mixer add cream cheese--beat. Add condensed milk--beat until smooth. Add egg and vanilla--beat. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the warm crust. Add the chopped nuts to the reserved 2 cups of crumbs--stir to mix. Sprinkle the crumb nut mixture all over the top of the cream cheese mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool completely. Cut into bars or squares.