No-Bake Cheesecake With Strawberries
Enjoy the flavors of summer without having to fire up your oven. Our No-Bake Cheesecake With Strawberries is the perfect recipe to use seasonal berries and keep you cool all summer!
Prep: About 10 minutes | Chill: About 4 hours | Total: A little over 4 hours
Yield: 1 cheesecake
Ingredients
For the crust:
- 12 graham crackers
- 1-2 tsp powdered sugar
- 5-8 Tbsp unsalted butter
For the filling:
- 1 cup cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream, chilled
- 1 1/2 cup mascarpone cheese, chilled
- 2 Tbsp fresh lemon/lime juice
For the topping:
- About 20 strawberries (halved) and 15 whole (top parts removed); depending on the size.
You will need a Brookline Baker to make this recipe or an equivalent sized dish.
Directions
- Lightly butter and line your Brookline Baker with round parchment paper, set aside.
- In the bowl of a food processor, coarsely break up graham crackers then pulse into fine crumbs, add sugar and melted butter and pulse again.
- Press crumbs into the bottom of the Brookline Baker, transfer to fridge.
- In a big mixing bowl beat heavy whipping cream (3-5 minutes on high speed). Reduce speed to medium/low and beat in mascarpone until well combined and smooth, set aside.
- In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese with sugar (using electric mixer on medium-high speed).
- Using spatula fold cream cheese into whipped mascarpone mixture and lemon juice until well combined.
- Transfer cheesecake filling over the chilled crust and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Arrange halved strawberries in rings over the top and whole strawberries in the middle. Enjoy!
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