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no bake berry cheesecake

No Bake Berry Cheesecake

Course Dessert
Keyword 4th of July, holidays, no bake, sweets
Servings 16

Ingredients

  • 8-9 ounces graham crackers
  • ½ cup pecans
  • ½ cup oil or butter melted
  • 16 ounces cream cheese two 8 ounce packages
  • 2 cups Greek yogurt
  • ⅔ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 5 cups berries

Instructions

  1. Pulse graham crackers and pecans in a food processor until finely ground.

  2. With the motor running, add the butter or oill, then pulse to combine. Press into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.

  3. Wash out the food processor or use your mixer to combine the cream cheese, yogurt, sugar, and lemon until smooth.

  4. Dollop the cream mixture onto the crumb crust and smooth it out into a smooth layer.

  5. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

  6. When ready to serve, wash and cut the bigger berries and then top the cheesecake with the berries.

  7. This can be cut into 16 squares, but cut how you would like.

Recipe Notes

  • Don't forget to check your graham crackers to avoid bioengineered ingredients. 
  • Speaking of graham crackers, if you are not from the US you might not be familiar or can't get them. I would suggest using Digestive Biscuits as a substitute.
  • If you don't want to use pecans, you can substitute for walnuts or omit them. Just add the equivalent of cracker to the base.
  • In this recipe it says oil or butter, and I use coconut oil... to me it adds another flavor profile to the berries, but butter is delicious too! Use what you like and it might vary depending on what topping you add to your cheesecake. 
  • This recipe has added sugar, however, you could play with the recipe some. Try honey or maple syrup... and if you do, PLEASE comment and tell me how it went. I would avoid gritty sugars because they won't blend smoothly as well.
  • My family loves the mix of the sweetness of the sugar with the tanginess of the Greek yogurt and the acidity of the lemon, so I add more lemon than some might like. I include zest too, but you can start with a tablespoon and add more if you want. Personally, I use the juice of a whole lemon and add some of the zest.
  • This is a berry cheesecake but the base recipe is calling for other flavors. You could do a key lime cheesecake, a caramel apple cheesecake, add chocolate chips... really the sky is the limit. You could flavor the base with vanilla, lemon, raspberry, or other extract to the cream cheese and yogurt mixture. You could even use chocolate graham crackers! Make this yours... and then come share your recipe with me!
  • As I said, I do this for the 4th of July, so I usually use strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries for the topping, but I just throw them on. If you wanted to make it more holiday themed, beyond color, you could put the blueberries into a corner for the blue portion of the US flag and add the red berries as stripes. I haven't done this because I think everyone wants all the berries, but I do this for my 7-layer dip that I make for 4th of July. I use olives as the "blue" portion because not everyone loves olives. 
  • If you want to make a smaller portion, cut everything in half and use a 9 inch pie dish.