No-Bake Velvet Cheesecake
It’s super simple and delicious.
intermediate
SERVES 10
PREP TIME 15 mins
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 pack of digestive biscuits, crushed
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 1 ½ cups cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup Huletts Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup double cream, whipped
- 3 Tbsp fresh beetroot juice, strained (grate 2 uncooked beetroots finely and squeeze through a tea towel to strain)
- 15 ml gelatine powder, mixed in 15 ml hot water
Sour Cream Topping
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp Huletts Icing Sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Method
Cake
- Grease a 24 cm spring-form cake tin with some butter.
- Melt the unsalted butter and stir into the biscuit crumbs.
- Press the cookie mixture into the base and sides of the cake tin and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Whisk together the cream cheese, vanilla, and icing sugar in a mixing bowl.
- Whip the double cream in a separate mixing bowl until stiff peaks form.
- Fold the cream into the cheese and sugar mixture. Stir in the beetroot juice.
- Slowly stir in the spored gelatine while whisking continuously.
- Pour the cheesecake mixture over the biscuit base and smooth out using a spatula or the back of a spoon, then refrigerate for at least 3 hours or until set.
Sour Cream Topping
- Whip sour cream, icing sugar, and vanilla extract until soft peak stage.
- Spread evenly over the top of the cheesecake when set.
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Conversion Table
Cups | Tablespoons | Grams | |
---|---|---|---|
Butter | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 57g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 76g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 227g | |
Flour/Sifted | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 30g/27g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 40g/35g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 60g/55g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 120g/110g | |
Granulated Sugar | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 50g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 65g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 100g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 200g | |
Brown Sugar/ Firmly Packed | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 45g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 60g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 90g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 180g | |
Water | 1/4 cup | 4 Tbsp | 57g |
1/3 cup | 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp | 76g | |
1/2 cup | 8 Tbsp | 114g | |
1 cup | 16 Tbsp | 227g |