Woolworth Ice Box Cheesecake

Submitted by Katrina Wynn

"Cool lemony cheesecake. Easy make."

 

• Ready In: 1min
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 1 pie
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 (3 ounce) package lemon Jell-O gelatin
• 1 cup boiling water
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 4 tablespoons lemon juice (less if you don’t want to much lemon)
• 1 (14 ounce) can Carnation Evaporated Milk, well chilled
• 1 graham cracker pie crust

directions

1. Dissolve Jell-O in boiling water. Cool until slightly thickened.
2. Beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice with mixer until smooth. Add thickened Jell-O and beat well.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the Carnation milk until fluffy. Add cream cheese/Jell-O mixture and beat well with mixer.
4. Line bottom of 9 x 13-pan with crushed Graham crackers, if not using pre-made crust.
5. Spread filling over and top with more crushed Graham crackers. Chill.

Reviews

[renee.huenemann]

This is a very tasty dessert. I followed the advice of one reviewer and chilled the evaporated milk in the freezer for one hour before beating. It "fluffed up" very nicely. I made my own graham cracker crust with butter. Wanting to be certain it had time to really cool and set up I made this dessert on Friday evening to serve on Saturday evening. We didn't eat all of it so on Sunday evening I served the remainder to close family (who I knew wouldn't complain if it was not at its prime). BUT, other than the crust softening up (but NOT soggy) it still held its shape and looked very nice on the plate. I don't think the jello gave it a strong enough lemon flavor. Next time I'll add some lemon extract (which I didn't have). I was afraid adding lemon juice would make the filling too thin. I guess I could have just added lemon zest. All in all, this is a great dessert and our guests enjoyed knowing the history of the recipe.

 

[c21twk]

My mother made this cheese cake/pie but she kept it in the freeze. Yes we had to let it thaw a little. Super Good