Cheesecake Bars

Oreo Cheesecake (The BEST Recipe and No Bake)

May 25, 2018 By Emma Burton 2 Comments

This Oreo Cheesecake is the best cheesecake. It’s no bake with no gelatin involved. We have an Oreo crust with a cheesecake filling packed full of crushed Oreos. Top with whipped cream, chocolate drizzle, crushed Oreos and mini Oreos to take this Oreo Cheesecake to the NEXT LEVEL!

Cheesecakes are one of my favourite desserts and I think they might be yours too with my Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars being one of the top recipes on my blog! I also love all things Oreos and cookies and cream so when I realised I didn’t have an Oreo Cheesecake recipe on my blog I was shocked at myself!

Okay, okay. So I have my Mini Oreo Cheesecakes…

But Still!

They’re mini baked cheesecakes.

THIS

This is a monster of an Oreo Cheesecake and the best I personally have ever had!

Nutella Cheesecake

April 6, 2018 By Emma Burton Leave a Comment

Nutella Cheesecake is a no bake creamy cheesecake filled with Nutella for the ultimate chocolate and hazelnut treat. Sitting atop an Oreo crust and drizzled with a chocolate ganache.

I have been saving this recipe for the perfect moment and that moment has arrived my friends! To say that I am obsessed with this dessert is an understatement. I tested this recipe last year and fell in love. However the first one didn’t set. Tasted fantastic but looked like a puddle of goop. (I still ate it anyway!).

So I tested it a second time and we had cheesecake setting success! This is a no bake, gelatin free cheesecake. With just a few simple ingredients you can have this beauty of a Nutella Cheesecake for dessert in your kitchen!

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Boysenberry Cheesecake Shortcake (Video)

January 17, 2017 By Emma Burton Leave a Comment

I made this recipe as a little experiment and I have to say it was a delicious and very successful experiment! This Boysenberry Cheesecake Shortcake is a soft and crumbly shortcake base and top with boysenberry jam and a soft and creamy cheesecake center. This was a massive hit with my family.

The idea started when I was dreaming about this Plum and Pear Slice. I nearly gave in and made it but I had an extra container of cream cheese in the fridge and I didn’t have any plum jam. Or pears for that matter. So to avoid a trip to the supermarket I began thinking of other things I could try.

I love shortcake and have never really made one. I’ve made the odd one over the years but they never turned out exactly how I want them. So I began researching on the internet and found a few different recipes and decided to use those as guides and create my own ‘shortcake’.

Chocolate Nougat Gooey Butter Cake

May 25, 2016 By Emma Burton Leave a Comment

This is one of my all time favourite recipes to make. This Chocolate Nougat Gooey Butter Cake is a cake like layer covered in a soft buttery cheesecake, filled with chewy chocolate nougat.

Until a few years ago, I didn’t even realise a gooey butter cake was even a “thing”. I had never seen nor heard of this dessert and I have never seen it made or sold in New Zealand.

After seeing a butter cake being made on a TV show, and doing a bit of research I found that it is definitely an American dessert. One that doesn’t seem to have taken off here in little ole’ New Zealand. (Perhaps I will be the one to start this phenomenon, who knows?!)

It was around four years ago that I discovered this dessert and I am still none the wiser of what it actually is. Is it a cake as the name suggests? Is it a slice? Is it a cheesecake?… American friends, comment below if you know the answer. In the meantime I call it a slice.

Leftover Cookie Cheesecake Bars

April 12, 2016 By Emma Burton Leave a Comment

Leftover Cookie Cheesecake Bars…. I admit, that is an odd name. Though, this is an odd recipe. I don’t blame you if you can’t work out what I’m getting at. Let me explain

One day as I was going through the freezer, I found a bag of cookies that I had made months earlier and totally forgot about. (When you bake as much as me, the freezers get full and things like this tend to happen!) So I got them out and my Mother actually asked me if I could turn them into anything. At this point I thought she was crazy, what the heck would I do with baked biscuits?!

After thinking on it awhile it finally hit me that I could crush them and mix them with butter to make a base for a cheesecake! I had not idea if it would work as these baked cookies are soft not hard like graham crackers or digestives. But, me being me, I put on my experiment hat and gave it a go. I’m so glad I did. These are seriously awesome!

As I know most people won’t have enough leftover cookies to make a base for a whole cheesecake, I turned the recipe into a small batch and into bars. Of course you could double the recipe if you have a lot of leftover biscuits or you could make a fresh batch especially for these. Just make sure you allow them to cool completely and – depending on the type of cookies – let them sit for at least a day so they will crumble and not just squish together. [Read more…] about Leftover Cookie Cheesecake Bars