No-Bake Cheesecake Flag Cake

Name: No-Bake Cheesecake Flag Cake
Prep time: 3 h 30 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: 13
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 Tbsps butter, melted; 237 milliliters cream cheese at room temperature; 355 milliliters finely crushed graham cracker crumbs; 296 milliliters cold heavy whipping cream; 2 teaspoons lemon juice; 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest; 237 milliliters mascarpone cheese at room temperature; 2 Tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 79 milliliters white sugar

No-Bake Cheesecake Flag Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 13 servings. One serving contains 327 calories, 4g of protein, and 29g of fat. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 3 hours and 30 minutes. If you have heavy whipping cream, cocoa powder, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Combine graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, cocoa powder, and melted butter in a bowl until mixture is thoroughly combined and crumbly.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs

Cocoa Powder

Butter

Sugar

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Bowl

Transfer crust mixture to a 9x11-inch baking dish. Press crust into bottom of dish until smooth and even. Cover dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.

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Crust

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Baking Pan

Mix cream cheese and mascarpone cheese in a bowl until thoroughly combined. Stir in lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla extract into mixture.

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Mascarpone

Vanilla Extract

Cream Cheese

Lemon Juice

Lemon Zest

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Whisk 1/3 cup sugar into whipping cream in a separate metal or glass bowl until the cream is fluffy and forms soft peaks.

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Cream

Sugar

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Whisk

Bowl

Add whipped cream to the cream cheese mixture and gently whisk until filling is soft, fluffy, and well combined.

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Whipped Cream

Cream Cheese

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Whisk

Spoon filling on top of the graham cracker crust, spreading and smoothing the top. Tap the pan gently on a work surface several times to settle the crust and filling. Cover pan tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled and set, at least 3 hours.

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Graham Cracker Pie Crust

Crust

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Frying Pan

Starting at the bottom long edge of the cake, arrange strawberry halves in a horizontal line with the pointed bottoms of the strawberry halves pointing to the right. Start a second stripe of strawberry halves at the top right of the cake, arranging strawberries with the bottoms pointing right in a line stretching about 2/3 of the length of the cake.

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Strawberries

Continue to make strawberry stripes, starting about 3/4 inch up from the bottom stripe and laying down 3 more stripes stretching the full length of the cake. Make 1 more line of strawberries beneath the short stripe to leave a square space for the blue field of stars.

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Strawberries

Lay a line of blueberries with the blossom ends pointing up in the upper left square space. Continue to lay down blueberries in lines, berries touching the previous line, until the square is filled with blueberries.

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Blueberries