What's your favourite, failsafe cheesecake recipe?

[Ponymagic]

Care to share please? Seeking a change from Nigella's New York (oris it London?) recipe?

Thanks!

[JapanNextYear]

Cheers both!

[Florene]

I have made the chocolate cheesecake I posted above with low fat Philadelphia and it turned out just the same as with full fat.

[Mummyoftwo91]

I tried this the other Day the texture wasn't right maybe if added whipped some cream in with it it would be thicker

[JapanNextYear]

Can you make cheesecake with low fat cream cheese, I bought 3 tubs by mistake thinking they were full fat...

[Mummyoftwo91]

Home made Oreo or Nutella!

[Ponymagic]

Thanks IonaMumsnet!

[IonaMumsnet]

Hi folks. We're going to move this over to Food so the cheesecakes are not lost forever.

[Oswin]

This Oreo cheesecake is going down a storm in my house. I make a really tall one so you could halve the recipe for smaller.

3 packs of Oreos
500g of Philly
Large double cream
Tsp vanilla
Tablespoon of golden syrup
Butter for base

Crush a pack of Oreos. Mix with butter for base.

In a bowl whisk Philly, vanilla and golden syrup.
In the separate bowl whisk the cream.
Combine the cream with the cheese mix.
Crush one and a half packs of Oreo till there's fine crumbs but still chunky bits.
Add to the mixture.
Pour on top of base.
Crush remaining Oreos to very fine mixture and sprinkle on top.
Leave in the fridge for at least four hours.

[Ponymagic]

Thanks all for all the fabulous recipes which I do plan to work my way through! For now, I have started with Banff's Chocolate Orange cheesecake and can vouch that the mixture tastes absolutely delicious .... the bowl was scraped clean! We shall sample the desert proper tomorrow!

If no-one minds, I am going to ask MN to move this thread to food and recipes so as it doesn't disappear.

[shoofly]

Batsupmynightie it's the best cheesecake ever - enjoy -& v easy

[banff82]

shouldnt sadly I don't any more but I spent over 2 wonderful years living and practising (veterinarian) in Canada. I came back to the UK 3 years ago and I still miss it! Especially this time of year for the skiing. Beautiful country, amazing people and I just adore it

That recipe is awesome; it's totally failsafe and you can substitute other stuff for the chocolate orange - Toblerone is great, Nutella works but is a little bit sickly. I think I got the basic quantities from the BBC Food website then tweaked the chocolate additions myself. I sometimes use chocolate digestives for the base too instead of plain ones.

OP - local Tesco/Sainsbo's here got tons of chocolate oranges still in stock; they're a Christmas staple!

[shouldnthavesaid]

Banff82 by your name you live close to me - did you get that recipe from a Facebook group by any chance? , it's been doing the rounds up here and sounds amazing

[BatsUpMyNightie]

Aperol cheesecake? Delicious website you say? I am so making that tomorrow!

[simplydivine05]

Chocolate and hazelnut made with ferrero rocher and Nutella. Never ever lets me down and everyone loves it. Very quick to make and sets within 4 hours.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/no-bake-chocolate-hazelnut-cheesecake

[NotnowNigel]

This is mine, tis lovely:

Biscuit base (biccys crushed add melted butter)

500g (or x 2 tubs) philadelphia
2 eggs
100g sugar (or bit less if you want)
vanilla essence few drops

Mix cheese and sugar then mix in eggs and vanilla. Pour onto biccy base. Gas mark 4 for about 25 mins until starting to set around edges. Fully sets as it goes cold. Never fails and is always very popluar.

[Ponymagic]

Oh.my.goodness that sounds amazing banff. I came back to say that you lot have given me far too many options so I covered all bases and ordered rather a lot of Philly, marscapone and cream from Tesco but having seen that recipe, I'm wondering whether there's any hope of buying choc oranges locally?!

I shall decide tomorrow but meantime thanks all for the suggestions! I can make a different cheesecake every weekend for the next month or two!

[banff82]

Chocolate orange cheesecake

About 20 crushed digestive biscuits
100g melted butter

Mix together and press into springform cake tin, put in fridge while you do the rest.

180g full fat Philadelphia
180ml double cream
1.5 chocolate oranges
100g icing sugar

Whisk the Philadelphia and icing sugar. Melt the chocolate oranges. Whip the cream in another bowl and fold in the melted chocolate. Add to the Philadelphia bowl and whisk together. Pour over base and put in fridge until set. Use the rest of the chocolate orange to decorate. I usually grate some chocolate over the top as well.

It never fails and tastes amazing.

[LadyStark]

I love Nigella's Nutella cheesecake. I add raspberries to break up the sweetness.

[Florene]

What you need:
175g digestive biscuits
80g butter melted
300g cream cheese
200g mascarpone
300g milk or white chocolate, melted
100g dark chocolate, melted

What to do:
Crush the biscuits and mix with the melted butter. Press the biscuit mixture into the base of 20cm springform tin. Mix the cream cheese with the mascarpone. Fold the milk chocolate into the cream cheese mix and then stir in the dark chocolate so that it looks streaky. Spoon into the tin, level the top and chill for two hours or overnight.

[ShadowsCollideIsSurroundedByAd]

My Mums no bake cheesecake - can be whatever flavour (of jelly) you fancy.

Almost a pack of digestives crushed, with melted butter drizzled in until it looks like it will hold together as a base (no exact quantities for this part, we've always just eyeballed it), patted down into the bottom of the cheesecake tin.

250 ml cream
300g cottage cheese
2 packs of whatever flavour jelly you like (strawberry is delicious, lemon and lime works well too) not made with the full amount of water though, just enough boiling to dissolve it and cold to cool it down.
Blend the jelly, cottage cheese and cream and pour on to base.

Shove in fridge until set.

Takes only minutes, always goes down a storm, and is lovely and light. I'm not a fan of desserts in general and even I love it.

Although reading that back it's not really a recipe so much as 'how MammyShadows bungs together a cheesecake'

[LustyBusty]

Oh, also works well (tho a bit sickly) with cadburys Philly no lemons.

[LustyBusty]

How about Nigella's easy lemon cheesecake? Also good because it's 1 of everything - 1 tub cream, 1 tub cheese, 1 can condensed milk. I also use ginger snaps in the base, rather than plain digestives. Hmmmm. May have to make this again!!

[antimatter]

oh sorry - I posted link to baked cheesecake

[antimatter]

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/exotic/american/baked-vanilla-cheesecake-with-caramel-sauce.html

no need to make caramel sauce

helps to have handheld mixer

my dd made it for Christmas and she isn't expoerienced baker and it came out very well

we left it to cool down and left in the fridge overnight before taking it out of the tin over 24 hours later, it kept fine for another 48 hours in the fridge (due to huge amount of other puddings in the house not because it wasn't nice!)

we used springform tin