homemade no bake cheesecake

cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts, whether it's a baked cheesecake, or refrigerated its all good to me. My problem is that many of the cheesecakes that you buy from the store or order from a restaurants have the label "is made in a factory that processes and handles tree nuts". My mothers solution is to use grandmothers recipe to make our own cheese cake at home. there are two kind of ways you can make cheesecake, baked cheesecake and refrigerated cheese cake. Both are easy, however I prefer making refrigerated so I don't have to use the oven.

Ingredients:

1pkg of 8oz cream cheese

1 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk

1/3cup of lemon juice

1tsp vanilla

crust ingredients:

1 stick of butter

1 package (not box) of graham crackers

 Step One: use a large electric mixing bowl to make the cheesecake part of the cake (the crust will be in a separate bowl) add in 1pkg of cream cheese, 1 14oz of sweetened condensed milk, 1/3 cup of lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
 Tip: let cream cheese set and reach room temperature before you add everything else with it.

Step Two: start to mix ingredients with the mixer until it becomes fluffy and has no further clumps. start out by mixing it slowly them speed it up as it gets thicker
Tip: the longer you mix it the thicker it will get.

Step Three: while cheesecake is mixing you can start the graham cracker crust. its extremely easy to make and only takes gram crackers and butter. use a food processor to mix one package of graham crackers.
tip: break up graham crackers into smaller pieces before putting them into processor to make it easier to mix. don't add in entire package of graham crackers at once.

 Step Four: melt 1 stick of butter in microwave. (in the picture there are two sticks of butter because I made a double batch)
Tip: cover with a paper towel incase it explodes and makes a mess in the microwave. also take out of microwave multiple times to mix before it melts completely. cut up stick up butter to make it melt easier.

Step Five: gradually stir in melted butter evenly into the crushed up graham crackers

 Step Six: pour into squared pan

 Step Seven: spread out evenly and flatten all across the bottom of the pan

 Step Eight: pour cream cheese evenly into pan

Step Nine: smooth out the top of the cheese cake

Step Ten: put plastic wrap on top of cheese cake and set in the fridge to set. leave in the fridge for 24 hours

Step Eleven: after 24 hours in the fried the cheese cake is ready to cut and eat. use any pie fillings or fruit of your choosing to put on top and enjoy!