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Light, mostly sugar-free no-bake cheesecake pie loaded with fresh strawberries, cherries, dark chocolate, and lime zest. No oven needed.
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Beat the cream cheese until it’s completely smooth — no lumps left behind.
Whisk the pudding mix into the cold milk for a couple minutes until it starts thickening up.
Pour the pudding into the cream cheese and blend until everything is smooth.
Gently fold in the Cool Whip so you keep all that airy lightness.
Spread the filling into the crust and smooth out the top.
Stick it in the fridge overnight (or at least 3–4 hours if you’re impatient).
Lay the sliced strawberries across the top, about a quarter-inch apart so they don’t overlap.
Zest the dark chocolate over roughly two-thirds of the pie.
Zest the lime over the last third, letting it overlap a little into the chocolate.
Pipe or dollop Reddi Whip around the edge — six short squirts does the job.
Park the six whole cherries around the border.
Slice it up and serve cold.
These no-bake “icebox” pies got their name from the actual iceboxes people used before electric refrigerators became common in the 1930s–40s. The style really took off in the 1950s once cream cheese, instant pudding, and Cool Whip were in every grocery store. This version (fat-free cream cheese + sugar-free pudding + real fruit + dark chocolate + lime) is basically the modern lightened-up descendant of those mid-century refrigerator pies — just with better toppings and zero oven required.
| Calories | ~267 |
| Total fat | ~15g |
| Saturated fat | ~10.5g |
| Cholesterol | ~24mg |
| Sodium | ~395mg |
| Total carbs | ~29g |
| Total sugar | ~8.5g |
| Protein | ~4.7g |
| Calories | ~168 |
| Total fat | ~9.7g |
| Saturated fat | ~7.5g |
| Cholesterol | ~18mg |
| Sodium | ~280mg |
| Total carbs | ~15g |
| Total sugar | ~2.75g |
| Protein | ~3.7g |
Numbers reflect the standard store-bought graham crust — this was the only graham option available locally. Using a low-sugar or homemade almond-flour crust will lower these totals significantly.
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