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A No Bake Cherry Cheesecake Dessert is the perfect no bake dessert with simple ingredients: An Oreo crust topped with no bake cheesecake and cherry pie filling on top. It’s perfect for summer, for a potluck, or because you love cherry!
The BEST No Bake Cherry Cheesecake Recipe
This easy Cherry Cheesecake Dessert is no bake and screams summer to me with a creamy cheesecake filling and cherry pie filling on top. It’s the best and easiest cheesecake recipe! No matter what you call it: cherry cheesecake surprise, delight, lush, or dream dessert, it’s easy, foolproof and so, so good.
My classic Oreo crust is the bottom layer – works every time! I love the chocolate and cherry combo – but if you want this recipe with graham crackers, check out my Cherry Delight recipe. This is one of my favorite easy dessert recipes, perfect for special occasions or family gatherings.
Ingredients Needed
- Oreos – to make your chocolate crust – no need to remove the filling. You can use graham cracker crumbs instead if you prefer.
- Butter: be sure and use Challenge Butter to make the crust.
- Cream Cheese – The key to making a no bake cheesecake filling is being sure that your cream cheese is room temperature to avoid lumps in your filling.
- Whipped Topping – This makes it so simple!
- Cherry Pie Filling – use one can of cherry pie filling or make your own.
How to make No Bake Cherry Cheesecake
- Crush cookies to a fine crumb. Stir cookies and melted butter in small bowl with a fork then press into the bottom of an 8×8-inch square baking dish. Chill until filling is ready.
- Use an electric mixer on medium speed to mix powdered sugar into cream cheese until combined. Mix in vanilla and fold in whipped topping.
- Spread cream cheese mixture on top of chilled crust. Top cream cheese layer with cherry pie filling in an even layer.
- Chill until set, at least one hour, before serving.
Expert Tips
- Make sure your cream cheese is room temperature so you don’t have lumps!
- Feel free to use fresh whipped cream instead of cool whip! You would need 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream and 2 tablespoons powdered sugar to make enough for the recipe.
- Use my homemade cherry pie filling if you don’t want to use canned.
- Store loosely covered with plastic wrap in the fridge.
- This would be fantastic with strawberries instead of cherry pie filling.
- If you like sweetened condensed milk cheesecake (the one with lemon juice) I have that recipe too.
FAQs
Because this has whipped topping you can freeze it – without the pie filling on top for best thawing results.
No Bake Cherry Cheesecake Dessert Recipe
Ingredients
Crust:
- 20 Oreo Cookies crushed with filling
- 4 tablespoons (57g) Challenge unsalted butter melted
Filling:
- 8 ounces (225g) Challenge Cream Cheese room temperature
- 1 cup (113g) powdered sugar
- 8 ounces Cool Whip 1 container
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping:
- 1 (20 ounce) can Cherry Pie Filling
Instructions
- Stir cookies and melted butter in small bowl with a fork until all cookies are moistened with butter. Press into the bottom of an 8×8-inch pan. Chill until filling is ready.
- Use a hand mixer to mix powdered sugar into cream cheese until combined. Mix in vanilla and fold in whipped topping.
- Spread filling on top of chilled crust. Top with cherry pie filling.
- Chill until set, at least one hour, before serving.
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Recipe Notes
- Be sure to use softened cream cheese to avoid lumps
- You can use freshly whipped cream – 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream and 2 tablespoons powdered sugar and beat to stiff peaks.
Recipe Nutrition
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This post was originally sponsored by Challenge Dairy; I used their cream cheese in the filling and butter in the crust of these cherry cheesecake bars and we loved every bite! Challenge Butter is the only dairy product company that controls the whole process when it comes to making its butter, from milking the cows to transporting milk, to making butter to packaging. Plus, as you all know, Challenge Butter is a product I’ve used my entire life. It’s from a cooperative of California family-owned dairies and is the 2nd largest butter brand in the country. (You can find it nationally!)
I love Cherry Cheesecake, I’m not a fan of Cool Whip, can Heavy Cream be whipped to Whipped Cream status be substituted?
Yes you can use about 3 cups freshly whipped cream
I made this recipe today and it turned out so good. It was really quick and easy to make. Thank you.
Yes! Loved it. Would you happen to have a No bake Oreo cheesecake? My husband loves Oreos and I would love to surprise him with one. Thanks.
Do you scrape the middle from the Oreos?
Oh yes!
I leave the cream in the Oreo cookies when making a crust. It’s delish!
Love this recipe I’ve made it quite a few times with Oreo crust with graham cracker crust and it doesn’t matter it comes out delicious every time
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