No-Bake Velvet Cheesecake

It’s super simple and delicious.

Conversions

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

  1. Grease a 24 cm spring-form cake tin with some butter.
  2. Melt the unsalted butter and stir into the biscuit crumbs.
  3. Press the cookie mixture into the base and sides of the cake tin and refrigerate for at least an hour.
  4. Whisk together the cream cheese, vanilla, and icing sugar in a mixing bowl.
  5. Whip the double cream in a separate mixing bowl until stiff peaks form.
  6. Fold the cream into the cheese and sugar mixture. Stir in the beetroot juice.
  7. Slowly stir in the spored gelatine while whisking continuously.
  8. 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

  1. Whip sour cream, icing sugar, and vanilla extract until soft peak stage.
  2. 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