Lemon Cream Cheese Pie

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If you love lemon cream cheese pie, then you've come to the right place. This lemonade cream cheese pie is a rich, creamy, no-bake pie with a sweet, tangy, and bright citrus flavor perfect for any season or event.

A slice of cake topped with whipped cream, blueberries, and lemon slices on a plate.

Lemon might be a tropical fruit, but there's never a bad season to serve it up. You'll find citrus flavors in recipes that are made for events and holidays throughout the year, so we always love to make this delicious lemon pie for every occasion we can. It's just too good not to!

This was inspired by our cherry cream cheese pie and no-bake chocolate cream cheese pie. We took the rich, citrus flavor of lemon cheesecake and turned it into a delicious pie that's perfect with other fruit flavors like our blueberry sheet cake and raspberry buttermilk cake at parties.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

Limited Ingredients: It only takes a handful of simple ingredients to make this pie.
Easy: This is a super easy recipe using mostly pre-packaged items, so it comes together quickly and easily.
Rich and Creamy: This pie is rich, creamy, and smooth.
Bright Fruity Flavor: This tasty pie is loaded with bright lemon flavor.

Ingredients

You'll only need a handful of basic ingredients to make this recipe, and you can find them all in your kitchen or at your local grocery store.

9-Inch Prepared Graham Cracker Crust: A ready-made crust is sweet and makes things so much faster.
Cream Cheese and Sour Cream: Cream cheese and sour cream give the pie its tangy flavor.
Whipped Topping: Whipped topping adds sweetness and a light, fluffy texture.
Lemonade Kool Aid: This gives the pie its signature lemon flavor.
Sugar: Sugar adds sweetness to balance the tang of the cream cheese and sour cream.
Optional Toppings: Blueberries raspberries, strawberries, and whipped cream

See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.

Substitutions and Variations

Don't have the correct ingredients on hand? Or want to change something up? Here are some helpful tips for you to change this lemonade cream cheese pie.

Kool-Aid: Use different Kool-Aid flavors to make different pie fillings.
Crust: You can use any pre-made graham cracker crust flavor. You can find them in regular, cinnamon, and chocolate. Oreo crusts, depending on what flavor of pie you choose, think cherry, taste great. You can also make your own 3 ingredient pie crust.
Sour Cream: You can use full-fat Greek yogurt in place of sour cream.
Add Sauce or Syrup: Feel free to add a drizzle of strawberry, chocolate or even caramel sauce for more flavor. Syrups like maple, blueberry, watermelon or one of our easy syrup recipes.

Instructions

This is a no-bake recipe, so it's incredibly quick and easy. You'll be in and out of the kitchen in just a few minutes!

A glass mixing bowl containing cream cheese, sour cream and sugar.

Beat the cream cheese until smooth. Then, add the sour cream and sugar and beat again.

Kool Aid packet added to cream cheese mixture.

Add the Lemonade Kool Aid and beat again until smooth.

Whipped topping added to cream cheese mixture.

Fold the whipped topping in until the filling is uniform.

Transfer the filling to the graham cracker crust and chill for at least 2 hours before topping with fresh fruit and serving.

Hint: FOLD the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Don't mix it. Folding the topping in helps keep the filling lighter and creamier.

If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy this Mini Key Lime Pie Bites Recipe, Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie, Chocolate Mousse Pie, Cream Cheese Brownies, Lemon Cool Whip Cookies or Lemon Cheesecake Bars

Pie topped with whipped cream dollops with a blueberry pressed into each.

Storage

Refrigerator: Store tightly covered with plastic wrap for up to 3 days.

Freezer: Freezing this pie is not recommended. It will change the texture.

Make Ahead: The longer this pie chills, the better it tastes. Feel free to make it the day before you plan to serve it.

What to Serve with Lemonade Pie

A slice of pie topped with whipped cream, blueberries, and lemon slices on a plate.

Tips

This recipe is just about the easiest dessert you'll ever make, so we don't have a lot of tips for you today. Just a couple are all you need to make this the best pie ever.

For best results use full fat cream cheese.
Be sure to fully soften your cream cheese, so the filling gets nice and creamy.
Gently fold your whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture with a spatula to create a fluffy and light pie texture.
For best results, be sure to refrigerate the cheesecake for at least 2 hours, but the longer the better to make slicing easier. Do not freeze the pie to help set it.
Use a clean, sharp knife to slice before serving and wipe your knife clean with a paper towel between each cut for best results

FAQ

Do you have questions about lemon cream cheese pie? Here are some of the most commonly asked questions about this lemonade cream cheese pie recipe.

What is lemonade pie?

Lemonade pie is a no-bake pie with a filling made of cream cheese, whipped topping, sour cream, and a lemonade packet for flavor and sweetness.

Why was my lemon cream cheese pie grainy?

If you don't fully soften the cream cheese, you could end up with tiny bits of raw cream cheese in the filling, creating a grainy texture.

Do I have to use Kool Aid?

No, you don't. An equal amount of any lemon-flavored drink mix should work for the recipe.

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