I saw a recipe on Pinterest the other day for this no-bake Nutella cheesecake. It sounded like a great pairing. But, I can’t stand cool-whip. It tastes like raw chemicals to me. Yes, I’ve used the stuff before, but I’m trying to cut a lot of junk out of my life. Obviously, that doesn’t mean cutting the junkfood out of my life; I’m making a Nutella cheesecake for goodness sakes That’s not an essential, nutrition-packed recipe, now is it?
Anyway, I have amended the original recipe as follows and it is devine. My kids loved it too.
No-Bake Nutella Cheesecake with Oreo crust
Ingredients:
Crust:
- 12 oreo {or oreo-like} cookies
- 3 Tbsp butter, melted
Filling:
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup Nutella
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 8 oz whipping cream
- 3 Tbsp crème fraîche {optional}
- 4 Tbsp sugar
Garnish: {optiontal}
- 1 Chocolate bar {I love the intense flavor of a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar, but you can use whatever is your favorite.}
- In a food processor, blend the oreos until they turn to a fine powder. In a bowl, combine the oreos and the melted butter until they clump together. Spread the mixture on the bottom of an 8″ or 9″ pie pan. Make sure that you have a thin layer all the way around. {My crust was thin and did not go up the sides of the pan.} Set aside.
- In the same bowl as you made the crust, add the softened cream cheese and Nutella. Mix with a hand mixer until well blended. Add the vanilla and mix again. Set aside.
- {You do not have to clean the beaters from the Nutella mixture.} In another bowl, whip the whipping cream, crème fraîche and the sugar to fairly stiff peaks. Be careful not to make butter though.
- With a rubber spatula, fold the whipped cream mixture into the Nutella mixture until there are no more white streaks. It makes a lovely mocha-colored mixture.
- Add the Nutella cream mixture to the oreo crust. Even out the top and chill about two hours before serving.
- If you’d like to make it fancy, grate a chocolate bar and sprinkle it on top.
New no-bake Nutella cheesecake
Recipe Type: Dessert
Cuisine: Chocolate
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Serves: 8
Scrumptious No-Bake Nutella Cheesecake with Oreo Crust
Ingredients
- 12 oreo {or oreo-like} cookies
- 3 Tbsp butter, melted
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup Nutella
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 8 oz whipping cream
- 3 Tbsp crème fraîche {optional}
- 4 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Chocolate bar {I love the intense flavor of a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar, but you can use whatever is your favorite.}
Instructions
- In a food processor, blend the oreos until they turn to a fine powder. In a bowl, combine the oreos and the melted butter until they clump together. Spread the mixture on the bottom of an 8″ or 9″ pie pan. Make sure that you have a thin layer all the way around. {My crust was thin and did not go up the sides of the pan.} Set aside.
- In the same bowl as you made the crust, add the softened cream cheese and Nutella. Mix with a hand mixer until well blended. Add the vanilla and mix again. Set aside.
- {You do not have to clean the beaters from the Nutella mixture.} In another bowl, whip the whipping cream, crème fraîche and the sugar to fairly stiff peaks. Be careful not to make butter though.
- With a rubber spatula, fold the whipped cream mixture into the Nutella mixture until there are no more white streaks. It makes a lovely mocha-colored mixture.
- Add the Nutella cream mixture to the oreo crust. Even out the top and chill about two hours before serving.
- If you’d like to make it fancy, grate a chocolate bar and sprinkle it on top.
