No Bake Orange Creamsicle Cheesecake
The filling is wonderful but the crust needs more butter, perhaps 1/2 cup if you are using all the crumbs of an 11-oz. box of vanilla wafers. My crust just crumbled off so next time I will use more butter in the crust.
Ingredients
- 11 oz Vanilla Wafer Cookies
- 1 1/2 cup Sugar divided
- 4 tbsp melted Butter
- 16 oz Cream Cheese softened
- 16 oz Heavy Cream
- 1 3.3 oz box Orange Gelatin
- 1 cup boiling Water
- Zest from 1 Orange
- 1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- Put vanilla wafers in food processor and pulse until finely chopped.
- Add 3/4 cup sugar and melted butter and pulse to incorporate.
- Grease bottom and sides of 9" spring form pan.
- Press mixture into bottom and slightly up sides of pan.
- Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
- Beat cream cheese and remaining sugar until smooth.
- In a medium bowl, combine gelatin and boiling water. Whisk until dissolved.
- Set aside.
- Zest orange and set aside.
- Whip heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
- Add 1/2 of whipped cream mixture to cooled gelatin and add orange zest. Whisk to blend. Set aside.
- Fold remainder of whipped cream mixture into cream cheese mixture.
- Spread 1/2 cream cheese mixture over crust.
- Pour 2 cups of orange whipped cream mixture over cream cheese mixture.
- Gently spread remaining cream cheese mixture over orange mixture.
- Pour remaining orange whipped cream mixture over cream cheese mixture.
- If desired, take a butter knife and gently glide through cream cheese layers to swirl.
- Refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
Source of No Bake Orange Creamsicle Cheesecake Recipe @ cincyshopper.com
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