I don’t remember a time that my mom’s no-bake cheese cake was not on the table.  She has always made it in a pan like a cake.

 

Ingredients:

• 3 8-oz cream cheese
• 1 package lemon jell-o
• 1 cup hot water
• 3 envelopes of dream whip
• 3 Tbls sugar
• 1 box ready graham crackers

 

Direction:

1. Dissolve jell-o in hot water, chill till almost ready to be set.
2. Follow the instruction on the box for the graham cracker pie crust.  Place that in the pan you are going to use.
3. Mix together dream whip package, cream cheese, with sugar until light and fluffy.
4. After the jell-o is almost set fold it in the cream cheese and dream whip mix.
5. Place the mixture on to the pan with the graham cracker and place in the fridge for two hours for it to set.
6. Once the two hours are up cut into pieces and then enjoy.

 

Now this year we did this recipe a different way.  Instead of putting the cheese cake in one pan we made mini cheese cakes.  We use the mini cupcake liners and filled the bottoms with a ¼ tsp of the graham cracker to the cupcake liners.  After they were all filled I took a top to a plastic bottle and pressed them down.  Then I filled a bag with the cheese cake filling and filled each one.  I sprinkled green sugar on top of each one.  I let them set for 2 hours and they were ready to eat.  I had to keep my kids from going into the fridge to steal one.