
Marie Callender's Lemon Cream Cheese PIe
8
Servings
Servings
30m PT30M
Prep Time
Prep Time
1h PT1H
Cook Time
Cook Time
1h 30m
Ready In
Ready In
Recipe: #15992
November 18, 2014
Categories: Comfort Food, Desserts, Dairy, Cheese, Fruit, Lemon, Budget-Friendly, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Kid Pleaser, Brunch, Easter, Entertaining, Ladies Luncheon, Mother's Day, Regional Holiday, Sunday Dinner, Convection Bake, Electric Mixer, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Cream Cheese, Sugar, Pies, Spring, Kosher Dairy more
"Found this on internet. Like to use pecan cookies and 1/4 cup butter 1 1/2 Tablespoon sugar, inplace of graham cracker crust; cream filling as is and 1 1/2 times lemon filling but I love lemon. if put crust in square or rectangle pan can cut in bars to size you like. I make with gluten free cookies"
Original recipe yields 8 servings
Ingredients
- CRUST
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- CREAM CHEESE FILLING
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- LEMON FILLING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (180.1 g)
- Calories 488.4
- Total Fat - 35.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 16.5 g
- Cholesterol - 744.7 mg
- Sodium - 388.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 27.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0 g
- Sugars - 23.2 g
- Protein - 15.5 g
- Calcium - 114.8 mg
- Iron - 2.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg

Step 1
Preheat oven 350 degrees

Step 2
Make the crust combing graham crackers, sugar and melted butter

Step 3
Press mixture into 8 inch pie

Step 4
Prepare cream cheese filling mixing cream cheese, sugar vanilla and egg. with electric mixer. Mix well until smooth

Step 5
Pour cream cheese filling into crust and bake 30-35 minutes or center cooked. A knife inserted in middle should be mostly clean.

Step 6
As pie cools, make lemon filling in small saucepan. by combining 1/2 cup sugar with cornstarch, salt and water.

Step 7
Set mixture over low heat and simmer, stir often

Step 8
Whisk in egg yolks, then add lemon juice and butter.

Step 9
When simmers again remove immediately from heat.

Step 10
Pour lemon filling over cream cheese filling and let cool.

Step 11
When cool chill pie in refrigerator for several hours before serving.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.