Description
Allow me to present a brilliantly easy dessert. In fact, it’s so easy to whip up this no bake key lime cheesecake, it’s practically cheating. But hey, your secret is safe with me.
Ingredients
Scale
- One box of Southern Living Key Lime Cheesecake mix
- 2 8 ounce bricks of cream cheese
- 8 ounces of heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/8 cup light corn syrup
- zest of a lime
- Green food coloring
- Ready made Pie Shell. I used the Diamond brand Pecan pie shell, but you can use any graham cracker pie shell you like, including something homemade.
Instructions
- Bring cream cheese to room temperature.
- In a large mixing bowl, fit the stand mixer with the paddle attachment and whip both packages of softened cream cheese until creamy.
- Add the mix, vanilla, and corn syrup to the whipped cream cheese and combine on medium until well mixed.
- In another bowl, whip the whipping cream until stiff peaks form.
- Add a drop or two of green food color to the cream cheese mixture and combine until the color is streak free.
- Add the whipped cream mixture to the cream cheese mixture and paddle on low until folded in and no streaks remain.
- Spread the cream cheese filling into the pie shell of your choosing and smooth the top as desired.
- Refrigerate 4 hours but overnight is best.
Notes
- Electric mixer. I used my stand mixer with the paddle attachment and large bowl to mix my pie filling. I used my hand mixer to whip the whipping cream in a separate bowl. I guess if you are super fit, maybe you can mix this by hand, but I don’t generally have cross fit trainers making my recipes, so I’m standing by the electric mixer.
- Small offset Spatula to smooth the pie into a pretty design.
- The ceramic pie plate dresses up the premade pie shell so I would definitely recommend dropping your pie into the ceramic plate before serving. We might like some short cuts here and there, but for heaven’s sake, we aren’t animals.
- A word on the food coloring: I put in a drop of green food dye because the pie as mixed was basically the color of the cream cheese. That didn’t really say Key Lime to me so I added a little color. It’s totally optional, but I’m of the opinion a drop of food coloring is not the worst thing we can do.