Jello Recipes
Vanilla Cheesecake with Lemon Jello
This is a light and refreshing cheesecake with lemon jello topping. It is easy to make and is one of our no-bake cheesecake recipes. The crust is a mixture of wafer and cracker crumbs with butter and sugar, and the filling combines lemon jello, vanilla, cream cheese, whipped cream and a little sugar.
You can choose any fruits you like for the topping but the red of the cherry, the orange of the peach and the pale green of the grapes looks colorful against the bright yellow lemon jello. Because this is a citrus flavored cheesecake, it is nice in the spring or summer when you want something light and chilled as opposed to rich and heavy. This lemon jello cheesecake recipe combines sweet, sharp, and creamy in the perfect way, so the resulting cheesecake has an amazing flavor, which is totally balanced.
Lemon jello cheesecake makes a nice mid-afternoon snack with a cup of coffee, as well as a great after dinner dessert for the whole family. Lemon jello is always worth having in the cupboard because you can make such tasty desserts with it.
Lemon Jello Cheesecake with a Fruit Topping
Ingredients -
For the Crust:
3 tablespoons white sugar
½ cup graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
For the Filling:
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 package lemon jello
1 cup boiling water
12 oz softened cream cheese
¾ cup whipped cream
⅓ cup sugar
6 seedless green grapes, peeled and halved
1 canned peach half, cut into 6 thin slices
6 maraschino cherries
Preparation:
Combine the sugar, butter, cracker crumbs and wafer crumbs to make the crust.
Press the mixture into the bottom of a 6 inch spring form pan.
Refrigerate the crust. Beat together the vanilla, cream cheese and sugar.
Fold in the whipped cream.
Spoon this mixture over the crust and smooth the top down to make it level.
Refrigerate for 4 hours.
Dissolve the lemon jello in the boiling water and leave it to thicken for an hour.
Arrange the grapes, peach, and cherries on top of the cheesecake and pour the thickened lemon jello over the top.
Refrigerate until the jello layer sets, and then cut the cheesecake into 6 servings.
(Serves 6)
Photo Description:
You can either cut this lemon jello cheesecake into slices or you can make teardrop shapes with a cookie cutter, like in the photo. The lemon jello layer helps to hold everything together so even though this is quite a deep cheesecake, it will not topple over. If you like refreshing citrus flavors, you will enjoy this creamy cheesecake with lemon jello because it looks great and tastes amazing. This is one of our easy jello recipes and if you are a fan of cheesecake, this is a great one to add to your repertoire.
Plate Painting and How to Do It Like a Pro
Cast your mind back to your last visit to a top restaurant. When you ordered dessert, you might have been fascinated to see that the plate was "painted" with something edible. Painting a plate is a great presentation technique to use with your jello recipes, and especially with the one-tone ones likes a lemon jello cheesecake recipe. Lemon jello cheesecake is very tasty but if it has a yellow crust, a yellow filling and a yellow topping, you might want to add visual appeal by painting the plate with fruit sauce or chocolate.
Colorful Fruit Purees
A fruit sauce can be made using frozen or fresh fruit. Let the fruit thaw if it is frozen and then puree it in the blender or mash it. You can put it through a strainer to remove any pulp or seeds, to get it ultra-smooth. Add lemon juice or sugar to alter the flavor. When using sugar, you should cook the puree in a pan so the sugar dissolves. Do not try to cook kiwi puree though - it does not work well.
You can "paint" the plate with the fruit puree before adding a slice of cheesecake with lemon jello. The simplest way to do this is to transfer the sauce to a plastic squeeze bottle. Use two different colors to create a design on the plate - maybe a blueberry puree which is obviously blue, and a red one made with raspberries or strawberries. Mango puree and chocolate ice cream syrup would also be good. If you do not have a squeeze bottle you can use a spoon.
Some Design Ideas
What about making a pool of sauce in one color and then using a toothpick to make polka dots of a contrasting color all around it or on top of it? You can use the toothpick to drag through the dots a few times and make star shapes or any other shapes you fancy. Drag the toothpick through the center of each dot to make heart shapes.
Using a contrasting flavor adds to the overall taste of the dessert too because you are introducing another flavor. A mango puree, for example, would be really mouthwatering with the lemon jello. Dark, milk, or white chocolate syrup would also go nicely.
If you thought that plate painting was something that could only be done in fancy restaurants, think again. All you need is some fruit and a squeeze bottle and you can make restaurant level garnishes and decorations to make your homemade recipe for cheesecake with lemon jello look extra special.
