Lime Cheesecake Bars {No-Bake}
A simple and delicious no bake lime cheesecake bar with a graham cracker crust! The best part is, it requires absolutely no baking. A tangy twist of heaven!
Equipment
- hand mixer
Ingredients
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs (280g) You can also use about 11-12 graham crackers, simply place in a ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to crumb up the crackers
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar (50g)
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, (85g) If using salted butter, omit using salt in the recipe
- 1 pinch salt
- 8 ounce cream cheese, (225g) room temperature
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1-2 tbsp lime zest
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Line an 8 x 11 inch baking dish with parchment paper. You can also use a 9 x 13 inch if that is what you have, which seems to be a more common size.
- In a medium size bowl, mix together graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, brown sugar and salt. Press evenly into baking dish to form crust.
- In a large bowl, using a handheld mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add lime juice, lime zest, and sweetened condensed milk and mix until smooth.
- In another large bowl, beat heavy whipping cream until you start to see stiff peaks form.
- Fold in whipping cream into the cream cheese mixture and mix until combined.
- Spread onto graham cracker crust.
- Place in fridge and chill for 3-4 hours.
- Slice and serve with whipping cream, lime slice or lime zest.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Lime vs key lime- This could easily be a "key lime cheesecake' by using key limes instead of regular sized limes. My grocery store was out of key limes, so I just used regular limes for this recipe.
- Lime juice vs bottled lime juice- I am all about squeezing fresh limes and using in recipes and cocktails. I would not recommend bottled lime juice whatsoever. It may be possible to use, but I have never used, therefore, not sure how it would alter the taste.
- Juicing limes - I have several handheld juicers to take all the work out of squeezing limes. I would highly recommend getting one, if you don't already have. I mean, it serves many purposes, mainly for making the best homemade margarita's! My favorite handheld juicer is the Barfly Deluxe Juicer
- Zester - I use a microplane zester, works wonders for citrus zest
- Graham crackers vs graham cracker crumbs - I used already made graham cracker crumbs in this recipe. You can also use graham crackers, just place in a food processor and pulse until fine crumbs, or you can place crackers into a zip lock bag and take a rolling pin to it.