Coffee and walnut no-bake cheesecake recipe

Make a special occasion extra special with this decadent cheesecake. Photo / Fresh Media

This is a stunning dessert for a celebration meal but it takes little effort.

What’s better than coffee or cheesecake? A coffee and walnut no-bake cheesecake! This one is seriously simple and seriously scrumptious. Make it before time and store in the fridge.

Coffee and walnut no-bake cheesecake

Makes 1 large cheesecake

Ingredients

For the base:

1 cup walnuts

400g digestive biscuits

200g butter, melted

For the filling:

600g cream cheese

500ml cream

160g icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla essence

3 Tbsp instant coffee, dissolved in 50ml of boiling water, then cooled

3 Tbsp dark cocoa

To decorate:

½ cup walnuts, halved

dark chocolate shavings

ground coffee

Method

1. Grease and line a springform cake tin.
2. Place walnuts, digestive biscuits and melted butter in a food processor and process to a crumb.
3. Tip the crumb mixture into the cake tin and pat down firmly. Chill for 1 hour, or until set.
4. For the filling, place the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl and beat until smooth. You can use a stand mixer for this if you have one.
5. Add in the cream, mixing until well combined. Gently mix in the dissolved instant coffee.
6. Pour the filling over the set biscuit base, using a spatula to smooth it out.
7. Chill in the fridge for four hours (or overnight) until set.
8. Leave in the fridge until ready to serve, then remove from the cake tin and decorate with walnuts, ground coffee and dark chocolate shavings.

– fresh.co.nz