Last Updated on September 9, 2026 by Carrie Korem, FNTP
I noticed at the market this week the summer produce is slowly starting to dwindle. I sighed a little when it hit me: cherry season is really, truly over. Happily, several bags of cherries wait safely in my freezer for use later this fall. I’ve also loaded up on bruised peaches and plums. I peeled, cut, and froze them for smoothies and cobblers when the temperatures begin to dip. Strawberries were still abundantly available this week though, so I bought several pints. I love the small, thimble-size berries. They’re packed with sweetness and taste like they’re sprinkled with sugar.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Icebox Pie
Ingredients
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- 11 whole wheat graham crackers, (click here for a gluten free graham crackers recipe, or grain free graham crackers recipe)
- 3 tablespoons coconut sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 3 cups fresh strawberries
- 1/2 cup honey
- 4 teaspoons arrowroot
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup honey, divided
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 20-24 strawberries, tops cut off and halved
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F and adjust rack to middle position. Butter a 9-inch pie plate. Place graham crackers and whole cane sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until finely ground. Pour in melted butter and process until crumbs are uniformly moist. Pour mixture into pie plate and press on bottom and up sides of plate. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.
- 2. Pour strawberries, honey, and arrowroot in clean bowl of food processor. Pulse until blended. Pour mixture into a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Cook until mixture begins to thicken, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice. Cool completely.
- 3. Place cream cheese and 1/4 cup honey in the bowl of a standing mixer with whisk attached. Whisk on medium speed until creamy. Pour cream cheese mixture into a large mixing bowl. Pour heavy cream into the now clean bowl of the standing mixer. With whisk attachment, whisk on medium speed while slowly adding remaining 1 /4 cup honey. Whisk until soft peaks form. Pour whipped cream into bowl with cream cheese mixture and fold until smooth. Pour mixture into cooled pie crust.
- 4. Add the halved strawberries to the cold strawberry sauce. Pour on top of the pie and serve.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: Serves 8
I've never made icebox cake, but this looks like an amazing place to start!
Gorgeous pie! I love the berries
Though I'm sad cherry season is so short lived, we still have plenty of great stuff here in So Cal. I love your desserts!!
This looks gorgeous! I just love cheesecake, and I love it even more topped with strawberries.
"Freakin' Awesome Cheesecake Pie" I love it! This pie and your photos are beautiful. I need to start working with arrowroot, it is actually on my market list today. xo
That looks absolutely heavenly!
How beautiful and it sounds so delicious! Do you have your grandmother's recipe for lemon icebox pie? I do hope you share that in a future post!
YUM!!! Your strawberries definitely look packed with flavor and are bright red!! Love it!! This looks soooo good!! Would you mind checking out my blog? 😀 http://ajscookingsecrets.blogspot.com/
This pie looks so amazing! Great name. 🙂 My family used to make lemon icebox growing up too. This pie obviously takes it to a new level….yum.
oh yum, this looks amazing! such a pretty dessert 🙂
I made this today and it is delicious! A few tweaks: no graham crackers or ingredients to make my own, so I made a traditional crust with whole white wheat flour, half butter/half organic palm oil shortening and a healthy dose of cinnamon; I zested a medium orange and steeped the zest in the cream for 5 or 10 minutes before whipping it to soft peaks; I used slightly less honey than suggested. This was my first time to make a crust with wheat flour and while it was flaky and very tasty–loved the cinnamon–I’ve no doubt that a graham cracker crust is even better. This recipe is definitely a keeper. It’s the first I’ve made from your site and it made me quite, quite glad that I ordered your cookbook yesterday! ~K
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I like the addition of the zest. Yum!
This was just the recipe I was looking for! Not a lot of ingredients, no baking of the filling required, and such a perfect light dessert for the season! I made this this morning and it is chilling now in the fridge. I had a lot of goat cheese I needed to use so I used that. I snuck a taste or two while preparing–delicious! Thank you!
I love your addition of goat cheese! I need to give that a try!