Kittencal's Easy No-bake Cheesecake (chocolate Option)

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 (9 inch) graham cracker crumb crust (or can use chocolate or vanilla flavor, i like the chocolate)
• 1 (8 ounce) package philadelphia cream cheese, softened
• 1 (3 ounce) package philadelphia cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar (must be sifted)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons soft butter
• 1 (12 ounce) container cool whip frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided (return the remaining half of the cool whip to the freezer and use for the next time)
• pie filling (use favorite flavor, i like cherry or blueberry)

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl beat all cream cheese with confectioners sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and soft butter until smooth and fluffy scraping down the sides of bowl a few times during beating.
• 2 using a spatula fold in the half of the container of cool whip until well combined (i start with mixing with a spatula then finish beating on low speed for about 1 minute),.
• 3 transfer to prepared crumb crust.
• 4 refrigerate for 5 or more hours.
• 5 before serving spread the pie filling on top.
• 6 for chocolate cheesecake.
• 7 a chocolate crust and cherry pie filling is recommend.
• 8 omit the lemon juice. melt 1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips in the microwave on high for about 1 minute removing halfway to stir, gradually add the melted chocolate to the cream cheese mixture beating on low speed until blended, then fold in the cool whip.