Gram's Easy Cherry Cheesecake
 
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Cuisine: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • For the Crust:
  • 1 cup of fine graham cracker crumbs (about 1 sleeve of whole graham crackers)
  • 3 Tbsp. Sugar
  • ¼ cup Unsalted Butter, melted
  • For the Cheese Cake:
  • 1 8-ounce pkg. of Philadelphia Cream Cheese, room temperature
  • ½ cup Sugar
  • 2 cups Cool Whip, 1 - 16 oz. container
  • 1 tsp clear vanilla extract
  • 1 pint jar cherry pie filling (Or 1 regular can of pie filling)
Instructions
  1. For the Crust:
  2. If using whole graham crackers, place one sleeve in a large baggie. (I usually double bag them to prevent the baggie from breaking.) Pound crackers with a rolling pin or other object, under they are finely ground.
  3. Melt the butter. In a medium bowl, combine the butter with the graham cracker crumbs and sugar. Mix until butter and sugar are evenly distributed.
  4. Press the mixture into pie plate and bake in 375°F oven for 5 minutes.
  5. OR I if you aren't the crust-making type, buy a ready made Graham Cracker Crust. ;)
  6. For the Cheese Cake:
  7. Beat the softened cream cheese with the sugar until smooth.
  8. Add the cool whip and vanilla and mix well.
  9. Fold the cool whip mixture into the crust and top with ¾ cup cherry pie filling.
  10. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
  11. *Note: You can also use canned pie filling for this. Wilderness brand was what Gram used to use.
Recipe by My Adventures In The Country at https://www.myadventuresinthecountry.com/2013/03/09/grams-easy-cherry-cheesecake/