Homemade Lemon Cheese Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Unroll crust on a lightly floured surface. Transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond edge of plate; flute edge., In a large bowl, beat eggs for 3 minutes. Gradually add sugar; beat until mixture becomes thick and lemon-colored, 2 minutes. Beat in the lemon juice, butter, cornmeal, flour and salt. , Pour into pastry crust. Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. Refrigerate before serving, 3 hours.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a bowl, beat the cream cheese, eggs, sugar, lemon extract, 1 1/2 teaspoons of lemon zest, and vanilla extract with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Spoon the mixture into the graham cracker crust.
• Bake the pie in the preheated oven until the filling is set and no longer gooey inside, about 35 minutes.
• Remove pie from oven, let stand until it cools to room temperature, and cool in refrigerator until thoroughly chilled, at least 4 hours.
• Spread the lemon curd evenly over the top of the cheesecake filling.
• Spread the whipped topping over the lemon curd.
• Sprinkle the top of the pie with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of lemon zest. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• Lightly roll out crust into a 12-in. circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim dough to 1/2 in. beyond edge of plate, reserving scraps for garnish. Flute edges. Line unpricked pie shell with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes. Remove foil; bake 5 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. , Roll out dough scraps to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out star shapes with 1-1/2-in. cookie cutters. Place on a baking sheet. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack., In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir in water until blended. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until very thick. Remove from the heat; stir in butter, lemon zest and food coloring if desired. Gently stir in 1/2 cup lemon juice. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped topping and remaining lemon juice. Spread into crust; top with lemon filling. Refrigerate for 6 hours or until the top is set. Garnish with stars.

Steps:

• Grate the zest of 2 lemons; squeeze juice from 3 lemons.
• Melt butter with sugar over very low heat in a double boiler; slowly pour in beaten eggs and lemon juice. Stir lemon zest into butter mixture; continue to stir constantly until mixture is thickened. Remove from heat to cool completely.

Steps:

• Bake refrigerated piecrusts in 425° oven for 5- 8 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool crusts completely on wire racks.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and egg at low speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over both cooled crusts.
• Whisk together the ingredients for the lemon chess pie filling. Pour immediately over the cream cheese mixture in crusts.
• Bake at 350° for 35 minutes or until set. If needed, shield crust edges with foil to prevent excess browning. Cool completely on wire racks. Garnish with whipped cream, if desired.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• If using refrigerated pie dough, lightly roll it out to a 12-inch circle, then transfer it to a 9-inch pie plate, trimming the pastry, leaving a 1/2-inch overhang around the edge of the plate. Flute the edges, then line the pastry shell with a double layer of heavy-duty foil.
• Bake for 8 minutes, then remove the foil & bake another 5 minutes, before removing to a wire rack to cool.
• In a large saucepan, whisk together the sugar, cornstarch & salt, then stir in the water until blended.
• Bring to a boil, then cook & stir for 2 minutes or until the mixture is very thick.
• Remove the pan from the heat & stir in the butter, lemon zest & food coloring. Carefully stir in the 1/2 cup of lemon juice, before letting this mixture cool for about 1 hour, bringing it down to room temperature.
• In a large mixing bowl, carefully beat the cream cheese & powdered sugar until smooth, then fold in the whipped topping & the last 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
• Spread this cheese mixture onto the baked crust, then top that with the lemon filling. Refrigerate for 6 hours or until the top is set, before slicing.