Creamy Strawberry And Banana Cheesecake

Two days ago, while I was using StumbleUpon to find new interesting food blogs and articles, I stumbled across Drew Kime’s creamy cheesecake recipe. There are plenty of cheesecake recipes out there, so what’s so cool about this recipe, you ask? It’s the fact that it’s a no-bake recipe, so it’s lighter (if you care about that sort of thing) and definitely easier to make. It basically uses a “mix it, freeze it, eat it” approach.

You can find all the ingredients and directions on the site, so I won’t go into details here. I’ll just say that mine turned out great and it was really delicious, but I made two small mistakes:

• I added a bit too much whipped cream, so I had to keep the cheesecake in the freezer for a bit longer than 2h: I ended up keeping it over night.
• I initially used the right amount of cheese and the mix was really soft. In my effort to compensate for the surplus of whipped cream I added more cheese, changing that smooth texture a bit.
  

I’ll just post some more pictures that would hopefully make you really hungry for cheesecake! I’m having a slice right now, cause I couldn’t resist after looking at the photos again.

First, I used a regular cake baking pan, so after I was able to remove the cheesecake, I went creative and topped it with strawberries and bananas, like so:

Photo moment!

Then I cut myself a slice (first one was more difficult to cut) and went outside to shoot some pictures, as the lighting was perfect! I think they turened out pretty nice. Of course, the neighbors from the appartment building across the street (who have a pretty good view of my back yard) probably said: “Here’s that crazy guy again, taking picture of food!”. Oh well…