No-bake strawberry cheesecake bites recipe
These no-bake strawberry cheesecake bites are a delicious summer treat! You make this easy recipe without an oven.
Servings: 16 bites
20 x 20 cm baking pan (8 x 8 inch)
Ingredients
Cheesecake base
- 150 grams of biscuits like graham crackers
- 80 grams of unsalted butter
Strawberry cheesecake filling
- 400 grams of cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- juice of one-half lemon
- 125 grams of whipping cream
- 5 gelatin sheets about 7,5 grams)
- 100 grams of fine granulated sugar
- 250 grams of strawberries washed + leaves removed
Topping
- 125 grams of whipping cream
- 8 strawberries decoration
Instructions
Cheesecake base
- Crush the cookies to fine crumbs, melt the butter and add the crumbs to this. Mix well and pour into the baking pan (lined with baking paper). Press firmly and place in the refrigerator.
Strawberry cheesecake filling
- For the strawberry cheesecake filling, mix cream cheese, vanilla extract and lemon juice until blended in a bowl. Then add 125 ml of whipping cream in a small stream while continuing to mix for two minutes. Set aside.
- Soak the gelatin sheets in a large bowl of cold water.
- Blend 250 grams of strawberries in a blender. Heat the strawberry puree in a saucepan with the sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Let simmer for a few minutes. Turn off the heat, squeeze the gelatin leaves and dissolve them in the strawberry mixture in the saucepan. Make sure this mixture is not too hot.
- Mix the strawberry-gelatin mixture into the cream cheese mixture in a thin stream while continuing to mix, but keep 4 tablespoons of the strawberry mixture aside. When fully mixed, pour it onto the cookie base and smooth it out.
- Spread the four tablespoons of the strawberry mixture over the top of the cheesecake and swirl it in with a wooden skewer. Let the cheesecake set in the refrigerator.
Decorating
- To serve, cut the cheesecake into 16 pieces. Whip the remaining whipped cream ( delicious with some vanilla sugar) and pipe a swirl on each strawberry cheesecake bite. Stick half a strawberry into each swirl of whipped cream and enjoy!
Tips
To smooth the cookie base in the baking pan, it is best to use the rounded side of a spoon or a glass.
How to store
In the fridge, the strawberry cheesecake bites will keep for three to four days.