No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
Many of us also know it can be a giant pain to bake one from scratch. Enter the luscious, scrumptious, creamy, decadent, and pretty much all around perfect No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake. It takes 10 minutes to prep this dessert icon even considering the time to make your own crust.
Ingredients
For the crust
- 1 1/2 cups crumbs from graham crackers can also use shortbread cookies or ginger snap cookies
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 6 Tbsp. butter melted
For the filling
- 16 oz cream cheese at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1 pound fresh strawberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Mix crumbs, sugar, and melted butter until well blended.
- Starting at the sides, use your fingers to press the mixture into a pie plate.
- Bake in preheated oven for 7 minutes until the crust starts to brown lightly. Set aside to cool for about 1 hour.
- After the shell is cool, put cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice, salt and whipping cream into a stand mixer and beat on high for about 45 seconds. Mixture will be fluffy and should be mostly free of lumps.
- Spread filling into pie shell. Slice strawberries and arrange on the top as desired.
- Note: To make strawberries more heart shaped cut a notch a small triangle into the stem end of each slice.
Nutrition
Calories: 543kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 6gFat: 41gSaturated Fat: 24gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 127mgSodium: 407mgPotassium: 226mgFiber: 2gSugar: 29gVitamin A: 1483IUVitamin C: 36mgCalcium: 100mgIron: 1mg
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