Cheesecake Factory Restaurant

It amazes me how often I hear that people are still intimidated by the thought of baking a cheesecake from scratch. Perhaps, the baking shows we watch on TV give the impression that baking cheesecake takes great skill or culinary training, but that is just not so. You'd be surprised how many settle for buying cheesecake or making the simpler No Bake cheesecake recipes just to avoid what they think is an arduous job otherwise.

I may surprise you to know that baking a cheesecake that looks as yummy as it tastes requires less skill than you may think. I'm going to show you just how to make a cheesecake by showing you how easy it can be. If you can follow my directions and you can read a recipe, then you have all the skill you need to make a sinfully scrumptious cheesecake as good as the best of them!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup chopped peanuts
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup melted butter
12 ounces of pre-softened scream cheese
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk (no substitutes)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1-3/4 cup whipped topping (like cool whip)

Click to get the full directions to make this yummy No Bake cheesecake recipe.