This recipe I cut in half from the original I found. I will post the full size 8x10 recipe and if you want you can cut it in half and put it in a prepared graham cracker pie crust. It was very delicious. I would most definitely make this again! It was the other cheesecake I made for my hubby's birthday the other day. Chris did have a piece and said it was good - but he likes the plain old vanilla cheesecake with a strawberry topping. I served it to the guys as they were combining the field behind our house. Our hired man was still raving about it two days later after he had some, but who doesn't like peaches and cream?! As with the other no bake cheesecake recipe I have, I used the 1/3 reduced fat neufchatel cream cheese and lite whipped topping.
Peaches-n-Cream No-Bake Cheesecake
Ingredients:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup sugar, divided
4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 .3-ounce package peach jello
2 fresh peaches, chopped (extra slices for top if you like)
1 8-ounce tub cool whip, thawed
Instructions:
Mix graham crumbs, butter and 1/4 cup sugar and press into the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Refrigerate until ready to use. In a bowl mix cream cheese and sugar until combined then add peach jello and mix well. Fold in peaches and cool whip with a spoon and pour into crust. You can top the cheesecake with more slices of peaches as shown in my photo above.
This was so easy it was a fright. Basically 5 ingredients and you're done. I skipped out on making a homemade graham cracker crust, but that just adds one tiny extra step if you want to make your own. I just needed something super quick and easy because I didn't have the time to bake the cheesecake and let it sit and refrigerate long enough to take out for my hubby's birthday treat. He said it was good... does prefer the baked kind better, but this will do in a pinch. I used the 1/3 fat reduced cream cheese and light whipped topping to reduce fat. You can use whatever you like if you want the full force of the flavor with the regular cream cheese and whipped topping. I chose to buy seedless strawberry jam for this recipe, but you could top with whatever jam or jelly you like. It makes a really quick topping when you don't want to slice up fruit for the topping (or if you don't have the fruit you want).
No-Bake Cheesecake
Ingredients:
1 graham cracker pie crust
4 tablespoons sugar
1 8-ounce package 1/3 fat reduced cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups cool whip lite
strawberry jam
Instructions:
In a bowl cream together sugar, cream cheese and cool whip. Pour into crust. Refrigerate for 4 hours and add strawberry jam to top shortly before serving.
