Easy Strawberry Cheesecake
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This Easy Strawberry Cheesecake is a deliciously creamy cheesecake recipe and is topped with a sweet homemade strawberry sauce.
Easy Strawberry Cheesecake
This cheesecake recipe is a delicious and simple recipe and is a wonderful base for many different toppings, our favorite is our delicious strawberry sauce I share below. Now, before we get started, cheesecake can be finicky. Sometime it can crack in the center and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m not here to tell you how to make a crack free cheesecake. I know that might seem a bit opposite of what you would expect but I promise…when you top this cheesecake with a spoonful of this sweet strawberry sauce your really won’t mind if your cheesecake has a small crack on the top of it or not. 🙂 I am a no fuss baker and that’s how I like to enjoy my desserts. 🙂 If you are interested in trying to nail that perfect craft free cheesecake you can take a look at this article I found with a few helpful tips.
What can I add to plain cheesecake?
We love to add our strawberry sauce to this cheesecake recipe but you can also add some of the following:
- Homemade Chocolate Sauce
- Homemade or Store Bought Caramel Sauce
- Fresh Fruit
- Lemon Curd
What ingredients do I need to make Cheesecake?
- Homemade Graham Cracker Crust ( you can also use store bought but we prefer the taste of homemade)
- Cream Cheese
- Eggs
- Sour Cream
- vanilla
How to make Cheesecake
- In a bowl, mix together sugar and eggs until creamy.
- In a second bowl, mix together cream cheese and sour cream until creamy. Add vanilla.
- Combine both mixtures until incorporated.
- Add filling to a springform pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Let cheesecake cool on wire rack.
For more delicious strawberry recipes you should try these:
Easy Strawberry Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust :
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs, I prefer to buy graham crackers & pulse them in a food processor
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- dash of cinnamon
Cheesecake Filling :
- 3 8 ounce packages of cream cheese full fat
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 pt. sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
Strawberry Topping :
- 1 lb. strawberries, rinsed, hulled and thickly sliced
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
Instructions
Crust :
- Mix together crust ingredients until well combined and press into a well greased 9 inch springform cheesecake pan
Cheesecake :
- Mix sugar and eggs until creamy.
- Cream the cream cheese and sour cream. Mix until very smooth.
- Add vanilla.
- Combine both mixtures until fully incorporated.
- Add filling to pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Watch carefully.
- Top with fresh strawberry topping on individual slices.
Strawberry Topping :
- In a medium saucepan, combine sliced strawberries, 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tbsp lemon juice.
- Place over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Strawberries will release juice without any mashing required.
- Reduce heat and simmer 20-23 minutes or until sauce is thickened, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Sauce will thicken slightly as it cools.
This is the best cheesecake recipe that I have tried. Thank you for making everything so easy because of your very detailed instructions!
This is so good! Totally impossible to resist! Everyone at my house loved it!
So easy! And so creamy! LOVE this! Really great cheesecake recipe! <3
I love strawberries and cheesecake!! This is soon to be my favorite.
Strawberry cheesecake is my fav!! I always order it for dessert when dining out. Since that’s not happening very often I was glad to find this to try at home.
This looks delicious and cheesecake is actually what my daughter requested as her upcoming birthday cake, so this is perfect! 🙂