Strawberry Icebox Cheesecake

 
Strawberry Icebox Cheesecake is a light and fluffy nobake dessert with fresh strawberries and a graham cracker crust. Be sure to give my Woolworth Icebox Cheesecake Recipe a try for the classic dessert that has a hint of lemon flavor.
Strawberry Icebox Cheesecake
This recipe is based on my Icebox Cheesecake Recipe direct from Woolworths. The Woolworth department store started out as a fiveanddime store selling things that only cost 5 or 10 cents. Eventually the lunch counter was an added attraction. The difference in this Strawberry flavored Icebox Cheesecake is using strawberry jello mix instead of lemon and a layer of freshly sliced strawberries.

Jello Strawberry Cheesecake Ingredients
There are two parts to this nobake dessertthe graham cracker crust and the light and fluffy strawberryflavored filling.
Graham Crackers You can buy graham cracker crumbs to use for the crust about 2 cups. Or you could crush sheets of graham crackers. You will need about 11 full sheets of graham crackers for 2 cups of crumbs.
Cream Cheese Be sure the cream cheese is at room temperature when creaming with the sugar.
Evaporated Milk Evaporated milk is superconcentrated milk that helps give the dessert filling its creamy texture. It should not be confused with sweetened condensed milk which has added sugar. They should not be used interchangeably in recipes. Be sure to place the can of evaporated milk in the freezer along with the bowl and whisk attachment of a stand mixer.
Strawberries Thinly slice the strawberries before adding them on top of the crust.
Do I Have to Freeze Icebox Cheesecake?
Nope! You dont have to freeze this dessert even with Icebox in the name. In fact an icebox used to refer to a nonmechanical refrigerator before we had electric refrigerators. So you do have to store the cheesecake in the refrigerator covered for up to a week but no need to make room in your freezer. The only freezing needed with this recipe is to chill the bowl and whisk attachment of a stand mixer along with the evaporated milk.
What if My Evaporated Milk Does Not Form Peaks?
If you looked at the recipe below you may notice the first instruction is to chill the bowl of a stand mixer the whisk attachment and the can of evaporated milk.
If you are finding that the evaporated milk is not forming peaks you can place the entire bowl with the contents into the freezer for 1530 minutes and then rewhip. Youll know it is ready to whip again when there are ice crystals on the