This incredible strawberry cream cheese pie features a buttery graham cracker crust, a no-bake cream cheese filling, and a huge mound of juicy fresh strawberries. This pie sets up in the fridge, making it the perfect make-ahead dessert.

Strawberry cream cheese pie in a white pie plate next to a red and white striped napkin.

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What sets this recipe apart
Recipe overview
Behind the recipe testing
No-bake options
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Recipe

Strawberry cream cheese pie in a red pie plate with a slice removed.

What sets this recipe apart

Graham cracker crust: Instead of a regular pie crust this recipe uses a homemade graham cracker crust. Not only is it easier, but it tastes fantastic!

Cream cheese filling: Unlike a typical strawberry pie this recipe has a luscious cream cheese filling between the crust and strawberries.

Real colors, real flavors: Often times the strawberries in a strawberry pie are covered in an artificially colored and artificially flavored glaze or gelatin. This recipes swaps the glaze for strawberry jam, creating a sweet, glossy, flavorful coating for the fresh strawberries.

Recipe overview

Graham cracker crust in a white pie plate next to a red and white striped napkin.

Step 1

Combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. Press into a pie plate and bake.

Cream cheese filling in a graham cracker crust in a white and red pie plate.

Step 2

Combine the filling ingredients and spread into the cooled crust. Place in the fridge to set.

Step 3

Combine strawberries and strawberry jam.

Step 4

Right before serving, spoon the strawberries onto the pie.

Behind the recipe testing

This recipe was originally published in 2017. I recently found that a few changes to the cream cheese filling made this recipe better than ever!

Add whipped cream: Folding freshly whipped cream into the cream cheese filling makes it thick, fluffy, and extra creamy.

Remove sweetened condensed milk: The original recipe called for sweetened condensed milk, which I rarely have on hand. Instead I swap it for powdered sugar which sweetens and thickens the filling.

Original recipe can be found HERE.

Strawberry cream cheese pie topped with fresh strawberries on a white plate.

No-bake options

If you would like to make this a fully no-bake recipe, you can skip baking the pie crust and instead freeze it for one hour before adding the filling.

Note: I find that the slices of pie hold together better if the crust is baked, but baking the crust is not completely necessary.

You can also swap the homemade crust for a store bought graham cracker crust as another no-bake option.