No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake

No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe - The easiest and most delicious strawberry cheesecake bars fit for any celebration. 
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No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe – The easiest and most delicious strawberry cheesecake bars fit for any celebration.  The filling is absolutely sensational and tastes just like strawberry ice cream.  Addictive!

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Perks and Highlights of the Best No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

Cuisine Inspiration: American classic

Primary Cooking Method: No Bake and uses a blender for ease!

Dietary Info: It’s a dairy-rich indulgence with a burst of sweet strawberries

Key Flavor: Think rich, creamy cheesecake meets the tangy, sweet allure of fresh strawberries.

Skill Level Required: Easy-going!

Sweet Highlights:

  • Perk 1: Blender Simplicity: Creating a silky-smooth cheesecake has never been easier—just blend and chill!
  • Perk 2: Cool Kitchen: Keep things chill as this dessert sets up in the fridge, no oven heat in sight.
  • Perk 3: Strawberry Love: Dive into a berry bonanza with a recipe that’s all about the strawberries.
  • Perk 4: Wow Factor: Easy to make, yet impressively delicious—this cheesecake is a dessert winner.
  • Perk 5: Mix it Up: Feel free to get fruity and creative, swapping in different berries to suit your cravings.
Several pieces of no bake strawberry cheesecake on top of a wooden cutting board with pieces of graham crackers, sliced strawberries and a fork and a bottle of milk and a blender in the background

Ingredients

  • Cookie Crust Coolness:
    • Shortbread/Graham Cracker Crumbs: Pick your poison—classic graham vibes or buttery shortbread bliss, it’s the foundation of our no-bake castle.
    • Granulated Sugar: Just a sprinkle to sweeten the crust deal.
    • Melted Butter: This is the glue, folks. It’s what keeps our crumbs from having an identity crisis and turning into dust.
  • Strawberry Cheesecake Filling Fun:
    • Cream Cheese: We’re talking two whole packages, people! Make sure it’s room temp to avoid lumpy disasters.
    • Granulated Sugar: Sweeten the deal, but remember, you’re the captain of the SS Sweetness here; navigate as you wish.
    • Strawberries: Thinly sliced heaven—where the magic happens.
    • Pure Vanilla Extract: A teaspoon of the good stuff to give your cheesecake that rich, aromatic zing.
    • Whipped Cream/Whipped Topping: A cup of fluffy dreams, folding in the cloud-like texture we’re all here for.
A blender filled with the ingredients to make this no bake strawberry cheesecake with graham crackers, strawberries and a glass of milk in the foreground

How to Make No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake

Crafting the Cookie Crust:

  • Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment, letting it hang over the edges for easy cheesecake retrieval later.
  • Whisk your cookie crumbs, sugar, and melted butter together until they’re one big happy family.
  • Press the mixture firmly into the bottom of your pan and let it chill in the fridge for 45-60 minutes to set the stage for your cheesecake.
No bake strawberry cheesecake mixture being poured over a graham cracker crust in a baking pan

Strawberry Cheesecake Filling:

  • Grab your chilled crust and let’s get to the fun part!
  • Use a hand mixer or a powerhouse blender to mix cream cheese, sugar, strawberries, and vanilla until silky smooth.
  • Gently fold in half of your whipped cream, repeat with the rest, and then lovingly spread it over your cookie crust.
  • Freeze your masterpiece for at least 4 hours. Before serving, use a hot knife to cut it into 9 glorious bars.
  • Pro Tip: Shift it to the fridge 30 minutes before serving for that perfect, melt-in-your-mouth experience.
The completed no bake strawberry cheesecake surrounded by sliced strawberries

How to Store

  • Airtight Container: Place the cheesecake bars in a single layer inside an airtight container. If you need to stack them, place parchment paper between layers to prevent sticking.
  • Freezer-Safe Bag: Alternatively, you can wrap each bar individually in plastic wrap and then place them in a freezer-safe bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible before sealing.
  • Label and Date: Don’t forget to label the container or bag with the date and type of cheesecake, so you can keep track of freshness.
Close up of several pieces of no bake strawberry cheesecake on top of a wooden cutting board and topped with whipped cream and flowers

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No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe (Bars)

No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe – The easiest and most delicious strawberry cheesecake bars fit for any celebration. 
4.38 from 86 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 15 minutes
Course: Dessert
Servings: 16 bars

Ingredients

For the Cookie Crust:

  • 2 cups shortbread or graham cracker crumbs
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • ½ cup butter melted

For the Strawberry Cheesecake Filling:

  • 2 packages cream cheese, room temperature (16 ounces total)
  • 3/4-1 cup granulated sugar this depends on your preference of sweetness and sweetness of your berries
  • 1 ¼ cup strawberries thinly sliced
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup fully whipped cream or whipped topping

Instructions

For the Cookie Crust:

  • Line an 8 inch square baking pan with parchment paper leaving some outside of the pan.
  • Next in a medium sized bowl, whisk cookie crumbs, granulated sugar and melted butter together until combined.
  • Press cookie mixture into the bottom of the pan. Refrigerate for 45-60 minutes.

For the Strawberry Cheesecake Filling:

  • While cookie crust chills, add cream cheese, sugar, strawberries and vanilla to the bowl of a stand mixer (or for more of an ice cream texture, add to a heavy duty blender).
  • Mix until smooth.
  • Add half of whipped cream to cheesecake filling and gently fold in using a spatula. Repeat with remaining whipped cream.
  • Remove baking pan with crust from refrigerator and pour filling into baking pan and smooth with a spatula.
  • Freeze cheesecake for at least 5 hours then use a hot knife cut into 3 rows horizontally and vertically creating 9 bars. Keep frozen and put in refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving.

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Notes

How to Store
  • Airtight Container: Place the cheesecake bars in a single layer inside an airtight container. If you need to stack them, place parchment paper between layers to prevent sticking.
  • Freezer-Safe Bag: Alternatively, you can wrap each bar individually in plastic wrap and then place them in a freezer-safe bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible before sealing.
  • Label and Date: Don’t forget to label the container or bag with the date and type of cheesecake, so you can keep track of freshness.

Nutrition

Calories: 248kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 211mg | Potassium: 80mg | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 585IU | Vitamin C: 6.6mg | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 0.6mg
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Comments

  1. Hello Jocelyn,
    I can’t wait to make this recipe! How do you blend the mixture if you don’t have a Vitamix? I’m a learning/practicing cook and not always sure how to improvise when you don’t have a utensil or item for the recipe. Your suggestions are welcome!

    1. You can use a stand mixer or a hand mixer to also make it.

  2. Thank you so much for this lovely recipe! One note for other cooks: This is *very, very* sweet. I took the added sugar out of the crust (graham crackers are already sweet!) and put 1/3 less than the recipe called for in the filling, yet it is still overpoweringly sweet to me and my family. To suit your taste, try putting in just 1/3 of the required sugar, mix, taste, and then add more if you’d like more. The emphatic sweetness ruined the recipe for my family, but we all think it will be wonderful with the sugar dropped dramatically.

    1. Hi Laura, thanks so much for chiming in on this recipe. So sorry you found this to be too sweet. Normally with two cream cheese packages, you must have more than 1/3 cup of sugar to sweeten it. However I love that you have adjusted the recipe to fit the needs of your family. Because of your reply, I added a note regarding the sweetness and changed it from 1 cup to 1/2-1 cup depending on sweetness. This will also change depending on how sweet your berries are as well since that also varies.

    2. Thank you so much for replying, and for adding that note about the sugar! You are just lovely. Everyone has a different preference for sweetness, so this will work wonderfully. And we did indeed have good sweet berries, which surely added to the sweetness of the final cake. The rest of the recipe was splendid; the cake was buttery, refreshing, and so pleasing. I absolutely adore your recipes, and you! Thank you!

    1. Do you whip 1 cup of cream and use it all, or do you whip the cream then measure 1 cup of the whipped cream and add.

    2. I also had this question. So it’s 1 cup of fully whipped cream, not 1 cup of cream then whipped right? Sorry kind of confusing.

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