Icebox Cheesecake 1972

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 3/4 cups vanilla wafers, crushed
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of, of
• 4 whole eggs, separated
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 4 teaspoons powdered unflavored gelatin
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/3 cup whipping cream, whipped
• 1 (8 ounce) can drained pineapple rings
• 5 maraschino cherries

Recipe

• 1 grease 8 inch spring form pan.
• 2 melt butter in a small pot over low heat.
• 3 stir in vanilla crumbs and ginger.
• 4 press into greased pan.
• 5 if desired you can bake the crust 350 degrees f for 12 minutes.
• 6 just to set this is optional.
• 7 beat cream cheese, lemon peel, lemon juice, egg yolks, with 1/3 cup of sugar until smooth.
• 8 combine the gelatin powder and cold water in a sauce pot, simmer until dissolved completely.
• 9 stir dissolved gelatin into the cream cheese beaten mixture.
• 10 fold the whipped cream also now into the cheese/gelatin mixture.
• 11 beat the 4 egg whites with the remaining sugar until soft peaks form.
• 12 fold stiff whites into the gelatin/cheese/cream mixture.
• 13 spoon filling into the prepared crust.
• 14 freeze for 4 hours.
• 15 garnish with pineapple rings and cherries if desired.