7-Up Lemon Cheesecake with Strawberry Glaze

Cakes

Servings: 10 Source: Recipe By : Patti Anderson From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini Original recipe from Squirrel's RecipeML Archive - http://dsquirrel.tripod.com/recipeml/indexrecipes2.html

Ingredients

2 cups Graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cups Butter
1/2 cups Powdered sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 package Unflavored gelatin
6 tablespoons Sugar
1 1/2 cups 7-up
2 Eggs
1 small Lemon pudding pie filling
3/4 cups Water
1/2 cups Strawberry jelly
Fresh strawberries

Description

Lemon cheesecake with strawberry topping

Directions

CRUST: Combine well the graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter. Press onto bottom and partway up sides of buttered 9" springform pan; chill.
FILLING: Soften unflavored gelatin in 1/4 cup 7-up for 4 minutes. In a saucepan combine pie filling, sugar, beaten eggs and water. Blend well. Add 1-1/4 cup 7-up and bring just to a boil over medium heat stirring constantly; remove from heat. Stir in softened gelatin; cool 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of this warm mixture to softened cream cheese; mash together. Mix together with remaining 7-up mixture and stir until well blended. Turn into chilled crust and chill for at least 8 hours. Remove from pan and add topping.
TOPPING: Brush top of chilled cheesecake with melted jelly. Arrange strawberried upright on cake and spoon any remaining melted jelly over them.