No Bake Nutella Cheesecake




Kieran's favourite
This is a recipe adapted from Nigella Lawson's Nutella Cheesecake. Kieran only likes his cheesecake with an Oreo crust. He doesn't like the digestive biscuit crust, so I hide the other biscuits in a mixture of oreos and digestive biscuits (and some times marie biscuits)

Ingredients (serves 4-6)

Mixture of digestive biscuits, oreos, marie biscuits making up 125g (more oreos for a darker crust)
32g butter (melted)
200g Nutella
50g chopped nuts (I use whatever nuts I have on hand)
250g (1 pack) Philadelphia cream cheese (at room temperature)
1 tbsp icing sugar (I taste the mixture first before adding this in)

Method

  1. Blitz the biscuits  and nuts in a food processor, add butter (if using mostly digestive & marie biscuits, then add 1 tbsp of Nutella into the mix).
  2. Pour the sandy mixture into a springform tin (or a regular tin lined with aluminum foil, leave extra foil on the sides to lift the cake out easily when serving). Press the mixture down with a back of a spoon. Leave in fridge to chill until ready to add cream cheese mixture.
  3. Beat cream cheese and icing sugar until smooth, then add the remaining Nutella to the mixture. Continue beating until combined.
  4. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the prepared cookie base. 
  5. Scatter some chopped nuts over the top (I skip this for one half usually cos the boys won't eat it once they see the nuts). *optional: can also drizzle some chocolate sauce and top with chocolate chips.
  6. Leave in fridge overnight.
  7. Serve straight from fridge for best results.



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