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Why You’ll Love My Recipe

This fluffy, easy, and delicious dessert is just the splash of colour we all need as the days get shorter and darker! Make some to brighten the scene at your next holiday party

If you’re looking for an equally simple but more portable treat for the holiday season, try Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies or Saltine Toffee Squares. Or,

A smiling woman in a festive sweater holds a plate with a slice of green dessert; she stands in a kitchen decorated with colorful Christmas ornaments and a tray of the same dessert.

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: This recipe is very easy to make.
Total Time: The prep time for this dessert is about 30 minutes, but it needs to chill to set so make sure to get it into the fridge several hours before you plan to eat it.
Variations: Why not try making the crust for this dessert with chocolate cookie crumbs instead of graham crumbs, since chocolate and lime tend to go beautifully together? Add some shredded coconut to crust and on top as a garnish, to get a bit more tropical flavour happening.
Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a 9×13 baking pan, some parchment paper, a small glass bowl or glass measuring cup, a spoon, a medium bowl, and a large bowl and hand mixer or stand mixer.

A slice of green, creamy dessert with colorful mini marshmallows and a crumbly graham cracker crust sits on a pink plate, with a fork taking a bite. Crumbs are sprinkled on top.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Graham Crust: This simple crust is made up of graham cracker crumbs (buy a bagful of the crumbs or crush up whole crackers, whichever is easiest for you), melted butter (recipe calls for salted but unsalted butter or margarine will work as well), and sugar.

Marshmallows: The colourful mini marshmallows are the most fun to use, since they add so much vibrancy, but you can use white ones.

Cheesecake Filling: Low fat or full fat versions of cream cheese and whipped topping should all work for this. Plant based alternatives would likely work too. Try whatever you would normally use for any type of cheesecake.

A top-down view of ingredients for a dessert: graham cracker crumbs, whipped topping, pastel mini marshmallows, melted butter, cream cheese, sugar, lime Jell-O mix, and green food coloring on a white surface.

How To Make Fruity Marshmallow Lime Chiffon Cheesecake Dessert

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

Dissolve lime Jell-O in one cup of boiling water. Set aside.
Line 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
Mix crust ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside 3 Tablespoons of the mixture and press the rest into the bottom of the prepared pan.
In a large bowl, whip cream cheese and sugar together until creamy. Add cooled Jell-O, slowly, and beat until combined.
Mix in the food coloring (if desired) and whipped topping, and then add coloured marshmallows and mix until they’re distributed evenly.
Spoon the mixture into the pan, on top of the crust. Spread evenly. Sprinkle the last bit of crust mixture over the top.
Cover pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate until set and then cut into 20 squares.

A glass baking dish holds green dessert bars topped with yellow crumbs. Two bars are cut out, revealing a crumbly base. Beside the dish are a vintage ceramic snowman and a pink Christmas tree with colorful ornaments.

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Fruity Marshmallow Lime Chiffon Cheesecake Dessert

Vibrant Green: The lime Jell-O will provide a good amount of green colour to this recipe, but if you’d like even more green you’ll need some food colouring. Liquid or gel will both work, though gel gives you the ability to be more precise and add less additional liquid to the dessert. Gel food colouring also gives you deeper, richer colour for a smaller amount. Either way, have fun and try not to get it all over your fingers.

Marshmallow Madness: These days, if you look in the right place, you will probably be able to find a bag of Lucky Charm marshmallows or a generic version of the same thing. They aren’t always easy to find, but they sure would add a whole other element of fun to this dessert! You could also look for flavoured marshmallows and cut them into small pieces to mix into this. Strawberry would be especially fun and work well with the lime Jell-O.

Cheesecake: If you’d rather not fuss with bricks of cream cheese, you could always try a No Bake Cheesecake mix (Jell-O makes one and there are other options if you look online) or a premixed cheesecake filling if you’re able to track one down.

A festive kitchen scene with a vintage snowman cookie jar, a colorful glass ornament Christmas tree, and a dish of green holiday dessert with a graham cracker crust, served on pastel plates with spoons.

Storage Instructions

You can keep this dessert covered in the fridge for up to 4 days, but after that the moisture in the dessert with start seeping up to the top or down to the bottom (aka, weeping). That will eventually create a soggy mess, so try to get it eaten ASAP.

More Delicious Dessert Recipes

If you’d like more marshmallows in your life, try making a classic Original Ambrosia Salad (Nana’s 5 Cup Salad) or some delicious Marshmallow Pineapple Pie.

If you’d like something more on the warm and gooey side of the dessert spectrum, make The Best Chewy, Fudgy Brownies Recipe or a batch of Death By Chocolate Slow Cooker Lava Cake!

There we go, folks. A bright, light, and cheery dessert that’s sure to make you smile. Try this recipe and let me know what you think.

Happy (No) Baking!

Karlynn