Blueberry Pie Bars

These easy blueberry pie bars are brimming with blueberry flavor baked between two layers of sweet vanilla cake.

Prep Time15

Cook Time30

Total Time45

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Blueberry Pie Bars Recipe

Servings:

Calories: 221kcal

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13 baking dish or line it with parchment paper.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat together the cake mix, eggs, and vegetable oil. Beat with a hand (or stand) mixer until combined. The mixture will be thick and crumbly.
Remove half of the mixture and set it aside. Press the remaining dough into the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Bake for 15 minutes, then remove from the oven.
Spread blueberry pie filling over the top of the baked base. One can of pie filling will cover the pie bars nicely.
Sprinkle the reserved dough in clumps over the top of the blueberry pie filling.
Return the baking dish to the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes longer until the top of the bars is just beginning to brown.
Cool bars completely.
Whisk together powdered sugar and enough cream to make a sugar glaze. Drizzle over the top of the cooled bars.
Cut and serve.

We used 1 can of blueberry filling for these bars. The blueberries are packed and much smaller in the blueberry pie filling than in other fruit fillings, and just one can covers the 9x13 base nicely. This also helped the bars hold together more easily once baked.
Keep in mind that you will get a different shape and depth of corner bars depending on your baking pan. If you use a baking pan with rounded corners (usually glass), your corner pieces will not come out quite so defined, while metal pans tend to have clean-cut corners that will give you better-formed corner bars.
Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to keep a close eye on your bars as the suggested baking time approaches.
Larger fruits, like cherries or peaches, will not spread as far as the blueberry pie filling, and you may need more than 1 can. Use up to 2 cans of pie filling for extra fruit-filled pie bars.