No-Bake Blackberry-Key Lime Cheesecake

A delicate, creamy, no-bake key lime cheesecake filling nestled in a toasted graham cracker crust, and crowned with the most luscious blackberry topping.

What was purported to be a common key lime pie, changed into into this…

So that you just may presumably per chance be questioning how my pie changed into into a cheesecake.

Successfully, first it began with the graham cracker crust. Sadly, I made too phenomenal crust and it wouldn’t match into a 9-lumber pie plate, so I as a replacement pressed it into a springform pan. I believed, presumably it may presumably per chance be a deep-dish pie, or something…

Then the filling adopted suit. I used the total customary key lime pie filling substances–lime juice, lime zest, and sweetened condensed milk. So a ways, so lawful. Alternatively, my commerce-things-up inclinations got the greater of me, and I determined to add a field of cream cheese to the combine. I figured the creaminess and tang of the cream cheese would greatest complement the opposite substances and improve the final flavor and texture of the “pie.”

In consequence, the filling was with out a doubt creamy, with out a doubt delicate, but a minute bit firmer than traditional key lime pie. Therefore, my reasoning for calling it a cheesecake as a replacement. I even hesitate to call it a cheesecake since there’s greatest one field of cream cheese within the total recipe. Are there any dependable/unofficial principles that interpret whether or no longer a cheesecake is a cheesecake??

I dunno….I bet you may presumably per chance affirm it’s a “extra healthy” cheesecake because it requires a pair of quarter of the cream cheese that nearly all dilapidated cheesecakes demand. Correct fail to recollect the truth that there’s TWO cans of sweetened condensed milk within the filling ?

Since my fashioned knowing was in overall “ruined,” I determined to assign going by holding the cheesecake in something sweet and fruity. Hmmmm….what form of topping?

“Oooooh, search for!! Blackberries are on sale on the grocery store!”

Blackberry topping it is!

While I’m sure most any berry would pair successfully with lime, I am so in luxuriate in with the key lime/blackberry combo. Blackberries factual agree with that ideal sweetness to tartness ratio, which pairs wonderfully with the citrus of lime. Speaking of, I basically agree with to admit that I did no longer exhaust key limes in this pie. Not greatest are they a minute bit spendier than traditional limes, but you shall be in a position to agree with got to juice a baJillian of them to get a pair of cup. Successfully, presumably no longer a baJillian, but you get what I imply.

When I execute resolve to exhaust key limes, nonetheless, you are going to be ready to bet that I’ll be utilizing them to execute an ACTUAL key lime pie.

While the graham cracker crust tends to assign shut the backseat by blueprint of cheesecakes, I basically agree with one straightforward tip to brighten up that crust a minute bit…CINNAMON. Correct a scoot of it makes a world of a difference in turning that when tasteless crust into something sweet and flavorful. It’s now no longer doomed to turn into that one allotment of the cheesecake that will get left on the plate. You’ll should engulf each morsel of this cheesecake.

The filling is so delicate and creamy. It’s bursting with that refreshingly tart “key” lime flavor, yet no longer too bitter to present you the repeatedly tantalizing pucker face. And the blackberry topping is without effort a keeper. Its dazzling sweetness balances out the tartness of the cheesecake, making it the actual accompaniment to this cheesecake. Lucky for you, the recipe makes extra than adequate to high the cheesecake, which manner you’ll agree with some leftover. Totally different than chugging it straight from the bowl (which I’m sure most of you shall be in a position to execute), you are going to be ready to pour it on high of so many diverse treats–pancakes, crepes, waffles, french toast, ice cream, angel food cake, cinnamon rolls, etc. The alternatives are tantalizing phenomenal never-ending.

And whereas this “accident” didn’t reasonably are dwelling up to my key lime pie expectations, I will’t basically be infected on the consequence…

Click on here for the blackberry sauce recipe.

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