Red Velvet Cheesecake

Red Velvet Cheesecake!! A no-bake showstopper wherever the bold, striking colour of Red Velvet Cake meets the creamy decadence of cheesecake. The filling is beautifully chocolatey, rich-yet-light, with that signature velvety texture. Make this erstwhile you person radical to impressment – it’s special!

Red Velvet Cheesecake

This is simply a cheesecake that has an Oreo basal and an attention-seeking red velvet coloured cheesecake filling with a gorgeous chocolatey flavour.

It tastes luxurious but it’s not overly affluent due to the fact that there’s lone 3/4 cupful of sweetener and the filling is light-but-luscious, the benignant that cuts neatly into slices but melts into a stream of creamy goodness successful your mouth.

The look is adapted from my classic no-bake cheesecake. A instauration I made connected a whim erstwhile I noticed however my latest recipes were each truthful yellowish and orange. We request colour! I declared dramatically.

Here is colour!

Ingredients successful Red Velvet Cheesecake

Most Red Velvet Cheesecakes usage cocoa pulverization and nutrient colouring which makes the filling a fun, agleam candy-red colour. I wanted a deeper, much blase burgundy code – utilizing melted 70% acheronian cocoa alternatively of cocoa pulverization gave maine that, arsenic good arsenic awesome cocoa flavour!

Also – gelatine is key. That’s wherefore the texture of this cheesecake is truthful terrific – airy but luscious is however I picture it – and it won’t melt into a puddle wrong 10 minutes taking it retired of the fridge, nor does it telephone for 3 blocks of pick food which I find excessively dense for my taste.

1. RED VELVET CREAM CHEESE FILLING

• Cream cheese – I usage Philadelphia, but if you’ve had occurrence with different brands, consciousness escaped to usage them. Note: use blocks, not tubs. Tubs are excessively brushed arsenic they are intended to beryllium spreadable. If utilizing tubs, summation gelatine somewhat (see look notes).

  Softened – Take retired 1 hr up truthful it’s brushed capable to bushed creaseless and fluffy.

• 70% cocoa chocolate – This refers to cocoa that is made with 70% cocoa. It is darker successful colour and richer successful cocoa flavour than regular acheronian cocoa (typically 40–45% cocoa), giving the filling a deeper, scarlet reddish colour and a much aggravated cocoa flavour.

  That said, regular acheronian cocoa (US: semi-sweet) works perfectly, it’s conscionable that the reddish colour is simply a spot brighter, and the cocoa flavour somewhat milder. I tin spot this appealing to immoderate radical more!

• Red nutrient colouring – You’ll request 2 tablespoons of regular liquid colouring to get that bold reddish hue. It sounds similar a lot, but little conscionable doesn’t chopped it – the colour is overmuch little awesome and benignant of defeats the intent of making this. Unless, of course, you are aft a pinkish velvet cake! 🙂

  If utilizing reddish gel, start with a driblet and adhd much arsenic needed – it’s overmuch much concentrated.

• Gelatine – I similar pulverization implicit leaves – easy, cheap, wide available, and accordant successful spot from marque to brand, state to country, whereas leaves tin alteration wildly. Find it successful the baking aisle successful tubs oregon sachets.

• Water – Used to “bloom” the gelatine. Just 2 tablespoons truthful flavour isn’t diluted.

• Whipping cream – Whipped pick helps marque the texture of this cheesecake beautifully airy alternatively than dense. Make definite it’s fridge-cold erstwhile you usage it other it won’t whip properly. And marque definite you get pick labelled arsenic suitable for whipping, not pouring oregon dolloping pick which cannot beryllium whipped. Full abdominous please!

  We besides usage pick to decorate the cheesecake.

• Sugar – Caster sweetener (aka superfine sugar) is champion arsenic it dissolves much easily, particularly successful no-bake recipes. Regular sweetener tin beryllium substituted by hitch immoderate of the substance betwixt your fingers to guarantee determination are nary granules – if determination are, support beating.

• Vanilla – Use extract (real vanilla), not essence (fake). Makes a quality successful no-bake recipes wherever the flavour isn’t cooked.

• Salt – A tiny spot to heighten flavour – won’t sensation salty.

2. The cheesecake crust

I chose Oreo cookies for the crust due to the fact that I similar the look of the acheronian cocoa basal against the red. Also due to the fact that they spell connected merchantability regularly astatine my section market store!!

No request to scrape retired the pick filling, that gets blitzed up arsenic good which, on with the melted butter, is what holds the basal together.

How to marque Red Velvet Cheesecake

No-bake cheesecakes are simpler to marque than baked ones. But there’s 1 important happening to beryllium mindful of: making definite the melted cocoa and gelatine are afloat liquid but not hot. Goal: lukewarm similar a bubble bath, but not arsenic blistery arsenic your greeting coffee. If they commencement mounting oregon getting gummy, they won’t blend smoothly and you’ll extremity up with tiny lumps successful your different silky creaseless filling.

Baking pro? You’ll astir apt find these steps much elaborate than you need, they’re designed to springiness first-timers the assurance to nail this! Feel escaped to leap consecutive to the recipe. 🙂

1. INVERTED BASE (PRO TIP!)

We usage a springform cookware for cheesecakes truthful they tin beryllium removed without flipping – nary cheesecake would past being turned upside down! For casual removal, crook the springform basal upside down – nary articulator means the cheesecake slides disconnected smoothly without cracking the crust.

1. Flip the basal of a 20cm/8″ springform cookware upside down. 

2. Butter and line – Spray the basal with lipid oregon grease precise lightly with butter, conscionable capable to clasp a square(ish) portion of baking insubstantial (parchment paper) successful spot truthful it’s not sliding astir erstwhile you clip the sides in.

3. Clip the sides in truthful the excess insubstantial is sticking out. The overhang makes it casual to descent the cheesecake onto a serving platter – nary structural stress!

4. Line sides – Grease past enactment the sides arsenic well.

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2. oreo biscuit base

In this recipe, I opted not to enactment the walls truthful you tin spot the reddish filling which is the prima of the show!

1. Break up cookies roughly by hand, past spot successful a nutrient processor;

2. Blitz until it becomes sand-like. Pour successful the melted food and blitz again concisely to conscionable combine;

3. Tip this cookie-sand into the lined pan; and

4. Press into pan – Use thing with a level basal and consecutive sides to property the crumbs firmly against the basal of the pan. I usage a measuring cup!

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3. BLOOM THE GELATINE

Gelatine is elemental to usage if you conscionable travel the steps I’ve provided. There’s a crushed for each direction!

1. Bloom gelatine – Sprinkle implicit h2o successful a tiny vessel (don’t dump successful 1 spot), stir, and fto beryllium 5 minutes to signifier a rubbery block.

2. Rubbery! This is what it looks similar erstwhile set. If it doesn’t set, it’s nary bully – regenerate it.

3. Melt gently – Microwave for conscionable 15 seconds to crook it backmost into liquid, disturbance until smooth.

4. Cool slightly – Let it beryllium 5 minutes portion you marque the filling. It should beryllium lukewarm liquid but not blistery erstwhile added. If it sets again (even astir the edges), re-melt gently.

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4. MAKE THE FILLING

I similar a handheld beater for the filling – it’s easier to determination astir the vessel and needs little scraping. If utilizing a basal mixer, usage the whisk for cream, past power to the paddle for pick food to debar over-aerating (which tin origin bubbles).

1. Whip cream – Put the pick successful a vessel and whip it connected precocious for 2 minutes oregon until stiff peaks form. We’re not looking for silky brushed whipped cream, we privation afloat connected stiff whipped cream, arsenic this makes our cheesecake beauteous airy and fluffy.

2. Beat pick food – Put the pick food and sweetener successful a abstracted vessel and utilizing the aforesaid whisk (no request to cleanable it), bushed for 2 infinitesimal connected precocious conscionable until it’s creaseless and rather fluffy. Then adhd the melted cooled gelatine and vanilla, and bushed until combined (~15 seconds).

3. Make it RED! Add the melted cocoa and reddish nutrient colouring and bushed until thoroughly combined, astir 1 minute.

   Colour cheque – Whatever the colour the filling is astatine this stage, it volition beryllium somewhat paler successful the finished cheesecake aft the pick is added. Feel escaped to adhd much reddish colouring if you like, but don’t adhd much cocoa due to the fact that it volition measurement the filling down excessively overmuch and marque it denser (I recovered 150g/5oz was the limit).

4. Fold successful whipped pick – Using a rubber spatula, fold done astir 1/4 of the pick into the pick food filling. This lightens up the pick food substance a spot earlier adding the remainder of the cream, truthful little aerial is knocked retired of the cream. Once the archetypal pick is mostly mixed through, mildly premix done the remaining cream. Don’t disturbance vigorously arsenic you volition sound aerial retired of the whipped pick which volition marque the cheesecake filling denser than we are aiming for! 

5. Pour the substance into the prepared crust and creaseless the surface

6. Refrigerate for 6 hours to fto it set. This cheesecake sets faster than my classical cheesecake due to the fact that it has cocoa successful it which helps with the setting.

5. removing from cookware and decorating

This is the infinitesimal you get to consciousness smug for flipping the barroom cookware basal – clever you! 🙂

1. Slide insubstantial disconnected base – Unclip past region the sides of the springform pan. Grip the insubstantial overhang and descent the cheesecake disconnected the basal onto a serving platter.

   ⚠️ If the paper’s stuck, it’s apt owed to excessively overmuch acold food acting similar glue. Warm the basal somewhat (e.g. with a lukewarm damp beverage towel) oregon descent a agelong weapon oregon spatula underneath to loosen it.

2. Slide the insubstantial retired from nether the cheesecake. I usage my manus to clasp the cheesecake arsenic I’m pulling the insubstantial retired from underneath it.

3. Decorate with whipped pick and cocoa shavings! I heap the whipped pick successful the centre leaving a 2.5cm/1″ borderline truthful you tin spot the reddish filling from above.

4. Ready to serve! Well, the Red Velvet Cheesecake is ready. So the existent question is – are you acceptable for the inevitable gasps of appreciation erstwhile you bring this out??

It won’t melt into a mess!

This is beauteous served fridge acold oregon adjacent if it’s person to country somesthesia aft sitting retired connected the array for a while. As agelong arsenic it’s not an insanely blistery day, this Red Velvet Cheesecake volition support the fluffy-yet-creamy texture alternatively than melting into a mess, acknowledgment to the gelatine.

It volition support for 5 days successful the fridge though the biscuit basal gets progressively softer. It’s crispiest successful the archetypal 24 hours, past connected time 2 it is simply a spot softer and continues to soften.

The filling, however, maintains its cleanable fluffy-yet-creamy texture the full time. And if you stabilise the cream, it volition enactment fluffy for days alternatively than weeping! See the Stabilised Whipped Cream station for however I marque it – take the method that works for you: pick stabiliser powder, gelatine oregon mascarpone.

Hope you enjoy! – Nagi x

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Watch however to marque it

Life of Dozer

Just a random enactment of caller Dozer photos connected my iPhone!

1. Foot warmer – who needs slippers?

2. His favourite place – nether the table. Wherever we are, it’s the archetypal spot helium goes! Sometimes I pat distant connected the machine connected the level adjacent to him, particularly erstwhile he’s been going done his unsmooth patches implicit the past year.

3. The things we bash with AI – Our imaginativeness for a Dozer patting machine!! 😂

4. Failed cooky consumer – Well actually, helium ins’t allowed to person crunchy crumbly cookies anymore (due to the hazard of accidentally inhaling into lungs), but that doesn’t halt him hovering astir my baking efforts – successes and fails!

5. Just connected a locomotion

6. Refusing to spell to work – This is what helium does erstwhile helium doesn’t privation to get into the car. I wonderment erstwhile helium volition fig retired a much effectual mode to beryllium a brat – it’s not precisely an effort for maine to measurement into the plot furniture and pb him out. 😂

7. No eating successful peace – Leftover Zucchini Tots that I posted earlier this week. Sadly excessively overmuch ail for Mr Dozer, but it didn’t halt the wishful thinking!

Actually, that’s a beauteous bully practice of 48 hours successful Life of Dozer!

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