No Bake Cheese Cake with Berries and Cherries

Happy New Year to you.  May your life be filled with love and laughter in 2014.  As the Irish proverb says” laughter is the brightest where food is best.”  So may your kitchen be filled with wonderful aromas and may your table have lip smacking flavorful dishes.  Thank you for reading my blog.  Your loyalty inspires me to be a better cook and better writer every time.

As it is said, life is short eat a good dessert.  Here is a recipe of Cheese cake with berries and cherries to sweeten your mouth.  This is a luscious no bake cheesecake which is very easy to make.  Mostly people use cherries as topping but I tried to be little creative and used strawberries, cranberries and cherries which give it a unique flavor.

Some cooks like to buy a ready made graham cracker crust pie plate but I prefer to make my crust with Marie light biscuits.  I generally bake it for five seven minutes to give it a crusty base but if you want to omit baking all together, you may prepare the pie plate as per the recipe and then put in the freezer for 10 minutes.  

Ingredients:

12 to 14 Marie light biscuits, 1 ½  tbsp olive oil,  1 can of condensed milk,  1 tsp of lemon juice,1 package(8 oz) of cream cheese at room temperature, 12  fresh strawberries,  ½ cup of pickled or fresh pitted cherries, ¼ cup of dry or frozen cranberries, 2 tsp of sugar

Method: 

Break biscuits with your hand and then powder them in a mixer.  Take out the powder in a bowl, add oil and mix well.  Take a pie plate and put this mixture on the pie plate by pressing it with your hand.  Bake it in 180 degree C (300 degree F) for 8 -10 minutes.  Keep it aside for cooling.
Beat cream cheese until fluffy in a large bowl.  Gradually beat in sweetened condensed Pour into crust, chill for 4 hrs or until set.  Top it with cherries and berries.
Take fresh strawberries put these in a pan, put 2 tbsp of water and 1 tsp of sugar and cook for two minutes so that strawberries turn soft but do not change their shape.
Take out 8 strawberries with a spoon and put them on a paper towel so that water drains out. Decorate these on the chilled pie.
Crush other 4 strawberries along with cranberries, and 1 tsp of sugar in the same pan.  Bring it to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 8 minutes so that all the water evaporates.  Cool for 15 minutes and spread over in the middle of the chilled pie.
Decorate with pitted cherries.
Put in the freezer again so that fruits set well.  Take out of the freezer only a few minutes before eating as it melts fast.  Enjoy.