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Enjoy the best way to make a delicious no bake cheesecake filling with a deliciously buttery graham cracker crust.
Get the great taste of a traditional cheesecake dessert recipe but with a lot less step in this easy recipe. Plus when you use a store-bought graham cracker crust it also cuts down on the step to make this perfect dessert.
A classic cheesecake normally takes a lot of Philadelphia cream cheese and is a baked cheesecake in a water bath. Not this great recipe the main difference is you don’t have to do the hardest part of baking the cheesecake!
Ingredients for No Bake Cheesecake:
- Crust: you will need to get a premade store-bought graham cracker pie crust
- Cream cheese: use your favorite brand of cream cheese and leave it out to soften
- Sugar: to get the creamy texture of the cheesecake you will need to use powdered sugar
- Extract: use the pure vanilla extract you have on hand from the grocery store or homemade vanilla extract.
- Whipped topping: use thawed whipped topping
- Optional toppings:
- Fresh blueberries
- Fresh raspberries
- Caramel or chocolate drizzle or both and pecans
How to make No Bake Cheesecake:
Beat the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract together with a hand mixer until silky and is forming stiff peaks.
Stir in the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture.
Spread this inside of the prepared ground cracker pie crust. Chill for 4 hours to give the pie enough time to set up.
Top with your favorite toppings.
How to store the leftovers from this easy no bake cheese recipe:
Fridge: Place foil over top of this no-bake version of cheesecake and store it in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Tips and tricks for making creamy no bake cheesecake:
Crust to use for no bake pie with cream cheese filling:
If you choose to make your own graham cracker crust with graham cracker crumbs and melted butter in a pie plate you are more than welcome to! However, I like to keep it simple with this no bake cheesecake recipe and just get a store bought pie.
Toppings for cheesecake:
- Fresh berries
- Strawberry sauce
- Edible cookie dough bits
- Caramel sauce
- Chocolate sauce
- Chocolate chips
Do I need a spring form pan?
​Nope! When you are making a no-bake cheesecake like this perfect summer dessert recipe you can skip the spring form pan. Those pans are only needed when you are baking the cheesecake.
More dessert recipes:
Easy No Bake Cheesecake
Equipment
- Hand mixer
Ingredients
- 1 premade store bought graham cracker pie crust
- 16 oz cream cheese softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups whipped topping
Optional toppings:
- Fresh blueberries
- Fresh raspberries
- Caramel or chocolate drizzle or both and pecans
Instructions
- Beat the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract together until silky.
- Stir in the whipped topping.
- Spread this inside of the prepared ground cracker pie crust. Chill for 4 hours.
- Top with your favorite toppings.
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