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This recipe for Old Fashioned Cherry Cheesecake has been in my family for generations!

Since I was old enough to eat table food, this delicious YUMMY Old Fashioned Cherry cheesecake has been my favorite.

It was not something that my mom fixed every month, but it was a special Christmas treat that she would fix for me and my niece. She would always fix us one each because she knew how much we loved this dessert

This post was originally published on January 2010 but has recently been updated.

It's funny because she used to fix just one, and my niece and I would ALWAYS fight over it, so she started making two. You gotta love the woman who always made your favorite dessert.

Since mom passed away a few years ago, I was not for sure how in the world I was going to get my favorite dessert. So I started looking until I FINALLY found the recipe. Now I make it about four times a year.

How to Make an Old Fashioned Cherry Cheesecake

Start by getting your graham cracker crust out and then set it aside.

In a mixing bowl, mix together the cream cheese, lemon juice, and sweetened condensed milk making sure to get it creamy. It will seem lumpy at first but just keep mixing.

Once you get it all mixed up, pour it into the graham cracker crust. No need to let it chill before finishing it. Now, take it and pour your cherry pie filling on the top!

The best part about this is the topping! You can totally turn this into any kind of fruit cheesecake you want. All you have to do is your pie filling from the baking aisle.

Ideas you might find interesting are  —

• No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake
• Blackberry
• Apple
• Strawberry and more

Making this holiday dessert not only brings back fond memories of my mom and me in the kitchen during Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I can pass this dessert down to my own daughter (who loves this just as much as her mom!)

There is something to be said about desserts that are generational in a family. I have a delicious 3-day coconut cake that is my mom's recipe also that I am going to be tackling this year as well.

Family recipes, those old clippings, and cookbooks from the fifties are always my favorite ways to find new recipes for our family, but also for those recipes that my family has lived on for years. 

Now — if I could only locate her fried chicken recipe we would be doing great.

Another favorite recipe of mine is my delicious Sausage Balls. These little appetizers are so full of flavor and will definitely be a generational recipe in our house for years to come.

I love serving this pie in really pretty pie pans. My collection has been growing for a few years. But, I buy extra pans because if I give a pie as a gift, I let them keep the pan. I love doing it like this and buying an extra one.

Looking for other dessert recipes? Check these out

• Ina Garten's Lemon Bars
• Caramel Machiatto 
• Coconut Cream Pie
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Buckeye Candy
• Vanilla Milkshakes Without Ice Cream
• Praline Pecans – The perfect crunchy sweet and salty snack
• Easy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Now that you know my favorite recipe of all time, what is your favorite recipe?

Retro Recipes

• Beef Stroganoff from That Recipe
• Beer Cheese Fondue from Art of Natural Living
• Classic Coq au Vin from A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures
• Classic Swedish Meatballs from Blogghetti
• Neptune Salad from Palatable Pastime
• Old Fashioned Cherry Cheesecake from Jen Around the World
• Shepherd's Pie from Karen's Kitchen Stories

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