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What’s the great way to inject the distinctive choc-hazelnut flavour of Nutella into a Nutella Cheesecake? Make it NO-BAKE. It’s the secret to preserving the Nutella flavour. Of route, a triple punch of Nutella additionally allows right here: inside the mousse-y cream cheese filling, the ganache topping and a very good melty drizzle of the stuff to complete it off! You can also try my Blueberry Cupcakes on your special occasions

Sounds indulgent? that could be due to the fact it’s far. This cake isn’t always for faint hearts and susceptible arteries. It’s for serious Nutella fans best!

Nutella Cheesecake

I’m a touch fussy approximately my cheesecakes. within the past I’ve publicly declared that baking is the one and only way to acquire a mild-and-nevertheless-wealthy-but-no longer-overly-so cheesecake that ticks all the proper containers.

but there are instances when baking is not the path to the pleasant result. Say, Mango Cheesecake. Baking alters the flavor of mango and it’s just not the identical.

And, it seems, Nutella is the identical. The baked model wasn’t bad. It’s simply that the no-bake version was a lot better, dialling up the Nutella flavour to the max!

Bonus: It’s a whip/pour/refrigerator process, and waiting at the quit of this (short and smooth!) course is that this:

Ingredients in Nutella Cheesecake

Here’s what you need to make Nutella Cheesecake. Shockingly but reassuringly few ingredients!

Nutella – a whole 500g/1lb jar ends up on this Cheesecake. It’s a Nutella cake, humans. glad days!

Cream cheese, block form – Philadelphia logo is my desired, and they aren’t paying me to say that!! I’ve strayed from the emblem before and regretted it.

It need to be the brick type, rather than the cream cheese bought in tubs that’s softer. The latter is formulated to be easily spreadable, which we don’t need. If you could best get the spreadable bathtub stuff, you’ll want to apply a bit more gelatine to set it nicely (see recipe notes – this notice is specifically for united kingdom readers, as I believe brick shape cream cheese may additionally nonetheless no longer to be had there);

Gelatine powder – Gelatine is what units the cheesecake in its fluffy mousse-like shape. It’s widely to be had within the baking phase of grocery shops. The putting energy is (to my knowledge) standardised globally, not like gelatine sheets (don’t get me started on the ones!!)

The brand i use is McKenzie’s, the most common logo here in Australia:

Icing sugar / powdered sugar – Heads up, Australians: It’s best to use soft icing sugar not pure icing sugar, though for this recipe it’s ok if you only have pure. Soft icing sugar is used to make fluffy, creamy frostings like buttercream frosting. Pure icing sugar sets hard and is used for things like Royal Icing. Never confuse or interchange these two types for frostings. But for this Nutella Cheesecake, it is ok since we’re not using it for frosting;

Oreo biscuits – This is for the cheesecake crust. I like using Oreo cookies for the texture and flavour, I find they’re more chocolate-y than most other chocolate biscuits. But any plain chocolate biscuits / cookies will work fine here, such as Arnott’s Chocolate Ripples;

Cream – Cream is used in 3 ways in this recipe:

Filling: Whipped until fluffy then folded through the Nutella Cheesecake Filling. Cream is what makes the filling light and airy, while the gelatine makes it set;

Nutella ganache: Combined with melted Nutella and chocolate to make the ganache layer that covers the cheesecake; and

Whipped and piped: for decorating the cake!

Butter – Just regular unsalted butter, to help the biscuit base hold together; and

Hazelnuts – For sprinkling across the surface. We want the nuts for texture, visual effect and to double down on the hazelnut flavour in Nutella!

How to make Nutella Cheesecake

Part 1: Prepare the Pan (With a Tip!)

Here’s a nifty tip for making cheesecakes: flip the base of a springform pan UPSIDE DOWN. This way, you don’t have the lip of the base to contend with when removing the finished cheesecake = no base-cracking stresses. Though actually, once set cheesecakes are much sturdier than you think!

• Flip the base upside down – Flip the base of a springform pan upside down;
• Butter and line – Smear the base and sides with a bit of softened butter to help the paper stick. Then press a square piece of parchment/baking paper onto the base;
• Clip sides with paper overhang – Don’t trim the paper off. You want the overhang sticking out the sides of the pan to make it easier to remove the cheesecake later. It can be a bit fiddly to get the upside base clipped in, but you’ll figure it out!
• Line sides – Use strips of baking/parchment paper to line the sides of the springform pan.

Part 2: Oreo Biscuit Base

1. Break up cookies roughly by hand, then place in a food processor;
2. Blitz until it becomes sand-like. Pour in the melted butter and blitz again briefly to just combine;
3. Tip this cookie-sand into the lined pan; and
4. Press into pan – Use something with a flat base and straight sides to press the crumbs firmly against the base of the pan. I use a measuring cup!

Ordinarily, I also have biscuit sides for my cheesecakes for no other reason than I love biscuit bases! But for this Nutella Cheesecake, I think it’s nice to be able to see the different cake layers so I only use it for the base.

Part 3: Nutella Cheesecake Filling

It’s a lifeless simple blend-and-pour activity! good enough, adequate, so I’m understating it a chunk … however it honestly is simple, I promise!

1. Bloom gelatine – This simply means mixing gelatine powder with a little water and leaving it so the gelatine granules absorb the water and swell, so that they properly dissolve. The gelatine liquid then sets like firm butter. For most recipes this is then mixed into a hot liquid (like hot chocolate mixture for a Chocolate brownies or hot cranberry juice to make jelly for  which makes it dissolve.For this recipe, we’re doing things a little differently. We add a bit of hot water to the solidified gelatine mixture to return it to liquid form, before mixing into the Nutella Cheesecake filling later on;
2. Nutella filling – Next, we start the filling by beating cream cheese with the Nutella and icing sugar;
3. Beat the mixture and it’s smooth and fluffy. This takes around 1 1/2 minutes on Speed 7 using a handheld beater;
4. Add gelatine – Then pour in the gelatine mixture we prepared in Step 1 and mix well to incorporate;
5. Whip cream – Next, whip the cream in a separate bowl until stiff peaks form. We want it really fluffy because this is what aerates the Nutella Filling so it’s lusciously mousse-like;
6. Fold through – Then fold the cream through the Nutella mixture using a rubber spatula. Be gentle here, we don’t want to knock the air bubbles from the cream! The lighter your touch, the fluffier the filling of the cheesecake will be;
7. Pour filling into prepared biscuit base; and
8. Spread to level the surface. Refrigerate to set for 1 hour before topping with Nutella ganache. The filling will not be fully set, but it will be set enough to pour the topping over.

Part 4: Toppings

1. Nutella ganache – Heat cream, Nutella and chocolate chips in the microwave, and stir until molten and smooth. Let it cool slightly before pouring over the chilled cheesecake. Don’t sprinkle the hazelnuts on yet, wait until the the top is chilled and set, otherwise the hazelnuts will just sink!
2. Chill 3 hours to set – The cheesecake needs to chill for at least 3 hours to fully set all the way through. Once set we can sprinkle the hazelnuts onto the ganache layer.Note: The ganache topping is softer than you might expect. It doesn’t set firmly and you cannot slice through it 100% neatly; it will smear slightly and droop on the edges a bit. This is intentional. Why? Well, firstly I think it should be molten-like so it resembles Nutella. It also tastes better this way. Thirdly, if the ganache is any firmer, it tends to slide off the Nutella filling like the way cheese slides off a badly made pizza. So I stand by the oozy Nutella Ganache – it looks, tastes and eats better!
3. Release the cake! Remove the cheesecake from the springform pan and carefully peel away the paper sides, noting what I mentioned above about the ganache being quite soft;
4. Remove from base – Remember that pain you went through to clip the base in upside down? (You did follow that step, right?) It’s about to pay dividends! Just grab the paper overhang now for grip and slide your cheesecake off the cake pan base. Because there’s no lip, it slides straight off onto your serving platter of choice;Then, just simply pull the paper out from under the cheesecake.If at any point the paper feels stuck to the pan when doing this, it’s just the butter used to grease the pan that has solidified. Run a knife under the cheesecake and it will release easily.

Decorating the Nutella Cheesecake

It’s a pretty cake just as it is, but we are able to bling it up similarly with a few completing thrives! First, whip up a few cream and pipe blobs across the rim.

Then heat up a bit bit of Nutella so it’s pourable and drizzle it across the cream. you may do this either the use of a small bowl and a teaspoon, or a touch ziplock bag – just snip the nook.

No want to get too caught up in perfection in this step. A informal drizzle is the word i take advantage of! in case you want to get technical, I did a drizzles in a criss-pass pattern across the cream. at the same time as you can do it across the Nutella Ganache too, you may’t genuinely see it so there’s not a whole lot of factor!

because it’s no-bake, this Nutella Cheesecake desires to be kept inside the refrigerator in any other case it’s going to melt. it may be stored out in moderate temperatures for quite a while, however on clearly heat days (say 28°C/eighty two°F+) try to minimise the time it’s out of the refrigerator.

also, not like maximum desserts, where i am going on and on about ensuring you serve it at room temperature for the satisfactory eating revel in, this Nutella Cheese is meant to be served chilled. accept as true with me when I tell you I don’t say that very frequently, so revel in the benefit of direct-from-fridge-to-mouth consumption!