No-Bake Cheesecake

No-Bake Cheesecake is a dessert recipe ready in 4 h 30 min. It makes 12 servings, each 670 kcal with 7 g protein. Beginner level, 7 ingredients.

Adapted from a home cook's recipe and measured by Cookpath.

  • 4 h 30 mintotal
  • Beginnerlevel
  • 670kcal a serving
  • 7 gprotein
Jump to the recipe
No-Bake Cheesecake

What is No-Bake Cheesecake

A chilled cheesecake with a buttery biscuit base, a cream cheese and white chocolate filling and a dark chocolate cream topping.

How to make No-Bake Cheesecake

Tips from the cook

  • Blitz the biscuits to fine crumbs and press the base down hard with the back of a spoon, so it holds when sliced.
  • Let the melted white chocolate cool a little before beating it into the cream cheese, so the filling stays smooth.
  • Draw the knife from the middle outwards through the white circles to make the web pattern.
  • Chill the full 4 hours, and overnight is better for clean slices.
Cook it with the app

Step by step with timers, in your shopping list in one tap.

Get Cookpath

Meal prep and storage

Dip the knife in hot water and wipe it between cuts. Keeps 4 days in the fridge.

Prep a few days

See this week’s meal prep plan on the blog, or plan your own week in the app.

No-Bake Cheesecake substitutions

Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.

Plain biscuits1 option
  • Gluten-free digestive-style biscuits 1:1 by weight

    May need a bit more butter.

Butter2 options
  • Vegan/dairy-free butter block 1:1 by weight

    Soft tub margarine fails in pastry and cheesecake base.

  • Olive oil use about 3/4 as much by volume

    Not for creaming or pastry; base goes oily.

From the cook: base needs solid vegan butter block or refined coconut oil, not olive oil.

Cream cheese2 options
  • Dairy-free cream cheese (tofu/oat/coconut based) 1:1 by weight

    Cashew versions carry nuts.

    Still contains soy.

  • Silken tofu blended with lemon and coconut oil 1:1

    Needs chilling.

    Still contains soy.

From the cook: needs firm block-style vegan cream cheese; spread tubs stay soft.

White chocolate2 options
  • Homemade dairy-free white chocolate (cacao butter, sweetener, cashew or almond butter in place of milk powder) 1:1 by weight; page recipe

    Still tree nuts.

    Still contains tree nuts.

  • Vegan white chocolate (cacao butter, plant milk, sweetener) 1:1 by weight; check label

    Plant milks can be almond or soy.

Dark chocolate1 option
  • Dairy-free dark chocolate (70%+) 1:1

    Soy lecithin.

    Still contains soy.

Heavy cream2 options
  • Oat cooking cream (GF-labelled) or soy cream 1:1

    Does not whip.

    Still contains soy.

  • Coconut cream (top layer of can) 1:1

    Coconut flavour.

Cook next

Sweets · 2 h · 11 g proteinSugar Dusted Beignets Sweets · 5 min · 8 g proteinChocolate Mug Cake Sweets · 5 min · 22 g proteinChocolate Nice Cream Sweets · 5 min · 7 g proteinMicrowave Mug Cookie Sweets · 20 min · 3 g proteinAlmond Chocolate Chip Cookies Sweets · 20 min · 7 g proteinBlueberry Almond Muffins