Effortless Easter no-bake cheesecake recipe

But I thought, hey it’s Easter, why not put on the apron and return to the kitchen and create an extraordinarily budget-friendly cheesecake for me and my family to enjoy.

And as we say goodbye to the cold weather and hello to a sunny Easter weekend, what better way to celebrate than to make a delicious dessert.

I baked a Nutella and white chocolate cheesecake and followed a similar recipe to Nigella Lawsons Nutella cheesecake – but added a little chaotic energy overflowing with chocolate toppings.

I am pleasantly surprised with how well the cheesecake turned out - apart from forgetting to sieve the icing sugar and disregarding the greatest Easter topping known to mankind (mini eggs) – other than that, I’m pretty pleased with myself.

Cheesecakes are an effortless dessert, and a fantastic way to bake on a low budget – depending on how many toppings your heart desires, you could easily make an entire cheesecake for less than a tenner.

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My Lidl receipt for the entire list of ingredients totalled at £15 – but almost half of this was made up from the dozens of toppings I chose.

The preparation time took around 25 minutes – not long at all for creating a masterpiece.

I had so much fun making the cheesecake, and without turning on the oven once, it’s a great and simple way to make a tasty cake.

Here is how I made my Easter themed Nutella and white chocolate cheesecake.

Servings: 6 – 8 slices

Ingredients –

300 grams of Digestive biscuits

Five tablespoons of unsalted butter

Half a cup of caster sugar

Two large tablespoons of Nutella

180g of white chocolate

400 grams of cream cheese

Easter toppings –

Chocolate Easter bunny

2 x Malteser bunnies

Pack of tiny eggs

Smarties

Pack of cream eggs

Pack of Daim eggs

180g white chocolate bar

1 x Reece’s peanut butter egg

Baby chick cake toppers

Method –

Step 1: Crush up the digestive biscuits until crumbled

Step 2: Add the unsalted butter to the biscuits and mix until the butter has dissolved

Step 3: Put the biscuit base into a cake tin and pat down to form a neat circle

Step 4: Melt the white chocolate

Step 5: Whisk together the cream cheese, caster sugar (sieved) and white chocolate in a bowl

Step 6: Add the two tablespoons of Nutella to the creamy filling

Step 7: Pour the filling on top of the biscuit base and smooth out any edges

Step 8: Leave in fridge for 3+ hours

Step 9: Add your selections of toppings and decorations

Step 10: Enjoy!

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