No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits

Mary at http://cookingwithmaryandfriends.blogspot.fr sent over these delicious looking No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits

“I would love to bring you some No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits made with homemade strawberry pie filling! I hope you enjoy them”

Love the easy convenience of these little dessert parfaits in jars. I make many different varieties, but today I made some using my Homemade Strawberry Pie Filling. So easy and super-delicious!

No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Parfaits guest posts My name is Roz but lots call me Rosie. Welcome to Rosies Home Kitchen. I moved from the UK to France in 2005, gave up my business and with my husband, Paul, and two sons converted a small cottage in rural Brittany to our home Half Acre Farm. It was here after years of ready meals and take aways in the UK I realised that I could cook. Paul also learned he could grow vegetables and plant fruit trees; we also keep our own poultry for meat and eggs. Shortly after finishing the work on our house we was featured in a magazine called Breton and since then Ive been featured in a few magazines for my food. My two sons now have their own families but live near by and Im now the proud grandmother of two little boys. Both of my daughter in laws are both great cooks. My cooking is home cooking, but often with a French twist, my videos are not there to impress but inspire, So many people say that they cant cook, but we all can, you just got to give it a go.

Ingredients
1 – 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
1 tbls. vanilla
2 tbls. lemon juice
1/2 – 8 oz. container cool whip or 1 cup heavy cream
1 graham cracker crumb crust, evenly divided (see directions below)
1 – 16 oz. jar Strawberry Pie Filling

Graham Cracker Crumb Crust
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tbls. sugar
5 tbls. butter, melted
In a mixing bowl, add all ingredients and mix together with a fork until well combined.

Method
Set out cream cheese to soften. Once softened, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth and combined. Add vanilla, lemon juice and sour cream and beat until well blended. Mix in heavy cream or cool whip until fluffy. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to cool 1-2 hours.

Assemble
In 8 – 8 oz. mason jars, add 2 tbls. of the graham cracker crumb crust then top the crust with 2 large spoonfuls of the cheesecake filling, and lastly top cheesecake filling with 2 spoonfuls of the strawberry pie filling, repeating one more time in order given, until each jar is full and all ingredients are evenly distributed. Cover jars with lids and store in the refrigerator.

Yield: 8 – 8 oz. mason jars

Enjoy,
Mary