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Blood Orange Cheesecake

Blood Orange Cheesecake (No bake)

Julia Frey of Vikalinka
This No Bake Blood Orange Cheesecake is a snap to make since no baking is involved and the blood orange flavour makes it especially alluring and refreshing!
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 minute
Setting Time 2 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • Butter- 80 gr/ 12 tbsp.
  • Rolled Oats- 1 cup
  • Graham cracker crumbs/Digestive biscuits crushed- 2 cups
  • Vanilla bean- 1
  • Vanilla essence- 1 tsp.
  • Cream cheese I used a combo of 2 parts cream cheese and 1 part mild goat cheese- 3X8oz packages/ 750 gr
  • Sugar- ¾ cup
  • Blood orange- 1
  • Whipping cream/double cream- 1 ¼ cup/ 310ml

For the topping

  • Dark Chocolate chopped- 100gr
  • Whipping cream/double cream- ½ cup/125 ml
  • Butter- 1 tbsp.
  • Blood oranges thinly sliced-2

Instructions
 

  • Grease a 9" springform pan with butter.
  • Toast 1 cup of oats in a frying pan over medium heat till golden brown for 5-7 minutes, careful not to burn.
  • Add butter and graham cracker crumbs to the pan, stir to combine and turn out in the prepared springform pan.
  • Press the mixture into the pan with a spoon and leave it to set in the fridge for 1 hour.
  • Combine cream cheese, sugar, orange zest and juice of ½ an orange.
  • Scrape vanilla seeds out of the vanilla bean with a blade of a knife and add to the cheese filling along with a teaspoon of vanilla essence. Mix until smooth in a food processor or a stand mixer.
  • In a separate bowl whip your double cream until soft peaks form.
  • Fold half of whipped cream into the cheese mixture. Then gently fold in another half and pour it over the crumb base.
  • Chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
  • To prepare the topping-heat whipping cream in a small saucepan and take it off the heat right before it comes to a boil.
  • Pout hot cream over chopped chocolate, let it sit for 1 minute, then whisk the mixture until well blended.
  • Then blend in butter.
  • Spread chocolate topping over the cheesecake and put it back in the fridge for another hour.
  • Before serving run a knife along the edges of your springform to release the cheesecake.
  • Top with sliced blood oranges.
Keyword blood orange cheesecake
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