Description
Creamy strawberry crunch cheesecake beckons with layers of luscious flavor and irresistible texture. Sweet strawberry compote nestles between velvety cream cheese and crisp graham cracker streusel, promising a delightful dessert that will enchant your senses and leave you craving more.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 2 bricks (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 pound vanilla cream cookies
- 10 strawberry wafer cookies
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
Strawberry Components:
- 1 small box (3.3 ounces) strawberry gelatin
- 1 cup boiling water
Binding and Sweetening Ingredients:
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 small tub whipped topping, thawed
Instructions
- Pulverize vanilla cream cookies and blend with melted butter, creating a compact base layer directly pressed into the pan’s bottom.
- Dissolve strawberry gelatin in scalding water, allowing it to reach room temperature while maintaining liquid consistency.
- Whisk softened cream cheese with granulated sugar until achieving a silky, uniform texture. Gradually incorporate the cooled gelatin mixture, ensuring smooth integration.
- Generate voluminous whipped cream by blending heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar until stiff, peaks stand firmly when beater is lifted.
- Gently fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture, maintaining delicate airy structure while creating uniform consistency.
- Crush strawberry wafer cookies into varied size fragments, delicately folding pieces throughout cheesecake filling for textural complexity.
- Transfer entire mixture over prepared cookie crust, distributing evenly and eliminating potential air pockets.
- Refrigerate approximately 4-5 hours at 40°F, allowing complete solidification and flavor melding.
- Before serving, embellish surface with decorative whipped topping piped in elegant swirls or rosettes.
Notes
- Enhance cookie crust by slightly toasting crushed cookies before mixing with butter for deeper, nuttier flavor profile.
- When dissolving gelatin, ensure water temperature is precisely boiling to help gelatin fully incorporate without clumping.
- Gently fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture to maintain fluffy texture and prevent deflating delicate air bubbles.
- Consider using gluten-free vanilla cookies for celiac-friendly version, maintaining same texture and taste without wheat ingredients.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Refrigerating
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 409
- Sugar: 31 g
- Sodium: 146 mg
- Fat: 29 g
- Saturated Fat: 18 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 5 g
- Cholesterol: 83 mg