Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Peanut Butter Cheesecake

A creamy peanut butter filling on a cookie base, topped with brittle — indulgence that doesn't hold back.

Total
150 min
Serves
4

A no-bake peanut butter cheesecake for the deeply indulgent: a peanut-cookie base under a rich filling of ricotta, peanut butter and cream set with gelatin, crowned with peanut brittle. Sweet, salty, nutty and creamy, it's a dessert that doesn't hold back. The brittle on top adds the crucial crunch.

Ingredients

  • 50g Butter
  • 175g Peanut Cookies
  • 5 Gelatine Leafs
  • 500g Ricotta
  • 175g Peanut Butter
  • 175g Golden Syrup
  • 150ml Milk
  • 275ml Double Cream
  • 2 tblsp Light Brown Soft Sugar
  • Crushed Peanut Brittle

Instructions

  1. Oil and line a 20cm round loose- bottomed cake tin with cling film, making it as smooth as possible. Melt the butter in a pan. Crush the biscuits by bashing them in a bag with a rolling pin, then stir them into the butter until very well coated. Press the mixture firmly into the base of the tin and chill.
  2. Soak the gelatine in water while you make the filling. Tip the ricotta into a bowl, then beat in the peanut butter and syrup. Ricotta has a slightly grainy texture so blitz until smooth with a stick blender for a smoother texture if you prefer.
  3. Take the soaked gelatine from the water and squeeze dry. Put it into a pan with the milk and heat very gently until the gelatine dissolves. Beat into the peanut mixture, then tip onto the biscuit base. Chill until set.
  4. To freeze, leave in the tin and as soon as it is solid, cover the surface with cling film, then wrap the tin with cling film and foil.
  5. To defrost, thaw in the fridge overnight.
  6. To serve, carefully remove from the tin. Whisk the cream with the sugar until it holds its shape, then spread on top of the cheesecake and scatter with the peanut brittle.

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories
650
Protein
12 g
Fat
45 g
Carbs
45 g

Adapted from bbcgoodfood.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.

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