Rich No Bake Cheesecake

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup melted butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 (3 ounce) package lemon jell-o gelatin
• 1 cup boiling water
• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pint whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Recipe

• 1 mix all ingredients for crust, and press crumbs into bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan.
• 2 bake at 350° for 5 minutes.
• 3 let cool.
• 4 dissolve jello in boiling water and chill until it thickens (syrupy).
• 5 in large mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until creamy.
• 6 on low speed, beat the jello into cream cheese mixture.
• 7 in separate small bowl, beat the whipping cream and 2 tbs sugar and fold into jello/cream cheese mixture.
• 8 pour in crust and chill until set-about 1 1/2 hours.
• 9 i don't know about using the unflavored gelatin and lemon juice. i would imagine that if you keep the liquid in the same quantities, you should be fine. one packet of gelatin dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water-just make sure its all dissolved. i would start with 1 tbs of lemon juice and taste and go from there. you will also need to add a sweetner of some sort to balance the tartness of the lemon. (added 5-5-04) b