Icebox Cheesecake 1972
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
-
Crust
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 1 3⁄4 cups vanilla wafers, crushed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
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Filling
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 lemon, juice and zest of, of
- 4 whole eggs, separated
- 2⁄3 cup white sugar
- 4 teaspoons powdered unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1⁄3 cup whipping cream, whipped
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Garnish
- 1 (8 ounce) can drained pineapple rings
- 5 maraschino cherries
directions
- Grease 8 inch spring form pan.
- Melt butter in a small pot over low heat.
- Stir in vanilla crumbs and ginger.
- Press into greased pan.
- If desired you can bake the crust 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.
- just to set this is optional.
- Beat cream cheese, lemon peel, lemon juice, egg yolks, with 1/3 cup of sugar until smooth.
- Combine the gelatin powder and cold water in a sauce pot, simmer until dissolved completely.
- Stir dissolved gelatin into the cream cheese beaten mixture.
- Fold the whipped cream also now into the cheese/gelatin mixture.
- Beat the 4 egg whites with the remaining sugar until soft peaks form.
- Fold stiff whites into the gelatin/cheese/cream mixture.
- Spoon filling into the prepared crust.
- Freeze for 4 hours.
- Garnish with pineapple rings and cherries if desired.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
andypandy
Canada
Grandmother of two boys, great grandmother of one ...worked in hardware and construction for forty years, read all cookbooks, watch all cook shows on tv. like to cook all types of new recipes.