Strawberry Cheesecake Pie
Strawberry Cheesecake Pie
Everything the name implies. Strawberry. Cheesecake. Pie. All of the goodness, wrapped into one. It's a winter dessert, a summer dessert, a hey, this would be great for breakfast, kind of dessert. Easy peasy, and just a tiny bit of baking, my kind of dessert.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Graham cracker crumbs
- 1/3 cup Sugar
- 6 tbsp Butter Melted
- 8 oz Cream cheese softened
- 1 cup Powdered sugar
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- 1 tbsp Vanilla
- 2 pints Fresh strawberries, Stems cut off, and sliced into half
- 2 Strawberry pie glaze Marzetti's or Litehouse
- 1/2 cup Sugar
Instructions
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Spay a pie plate with nonstick spray.
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In a bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs, 1/3 cup sugar and melted butter unitil evenly combined. Place in pie plate and use fingers to mold mixture up into sides of pie plate until evenly distributed.
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Cook pie crust in oven at 350, for 8 minutes and remove to cool.
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In a medium bowl, add trimmed and sliced strawberries, pie gel and 1/2 cup sugar and mix. Trim and slice strawberries and add to gel mixture. Set aside.
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In a large bowl, with a handheld mixer, mix softened cream cheese and powdered sugar.
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In a separate bowl, mix heavy cream and vanilla on high until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture with a spoon, rubber spatula. Pour cheesecake mixture in to pie shell. Pour strawberry mixture over cheesecake mixture.
Chill one hour. Serve.
