Blood Orange Cheesecake (No bake)
This No Bake Blood Orange Cheesecake is a snap to make since no baking is involved and the blood orange flavour makes it especially alluring and refreshing!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 1 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- Butter- 80 gr/ 12 tbsp.
- Rolled Oats- 1 cup
- Graham cracker crumbs/Digestive biscuits (crushed- 2 cups)
- Vanilla bean- 1
- Vanilla essence- 1 tsp.
- Cream cheese (I used a combo of 2 parts cream cheese and 1 part mild goat cheese- 3X8oz packages/ 750 gr)
- Sugar- 3/4 cup
- Blood orange- 1
- Whipping cream/double cream- 1 1/4 cup/ 310ml
- Dark Chocolate (chopped- 100gr)
- Whipping cream/double cream- 1/2 cup/125 ml
- Butter- 1 tbsp.
- Blood oranges (thinly sliced-2)
Instructions
- 1
Grease a 9" springform pan with butter.
- 2
Toast 1 cup of oats in a frying pan over medium heat till golden brown for 5-7 minutes, careful not to burn.
- 3
Add butter and graham cracker crumbs to the pan, stir to combine and turn out in the prepared springform pan.
- 4
Press the mixture into the pan with a spoon and leave it to set in the fridge for 1 hour.
- 5
Combine cream cheese, sugar, orange zest and juice of 1/2 an orange.
- 6
Scrape vanilla seeds out of the vanilla bean with a blade of a knife and add to the cheese filling along with a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Mix until smooth in a food processor or a stand mixer.
- 7
In a separate bowl whip your double cream until soft peaks form.
- 8
Fold half of whipped cream into the cheese mixture. Then gently fold in another half and pour it over the crumb base.
- 9
Chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- 10
To prepare the topping-heat whipping cream in a small saucepan and take it off the heat right before it comes to a boil.
- 11
Pout hot cream over chopped chocolate, let it sit for 1 minute, then whisk the mixture until well blended.
- 12
Then blend in butter.
- 13
Spread chocolate topping over the cheesecake and put it back in the fridge for another hour.
- 14
Before serving run a knife along the edges of your springform to release the cheesecake.
- 15
Top with sliced blood oranges.