Easy Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake (No Bake)

Chocolate Hazelnut No Bake Cheesecake- an easy-to-make, indulgent chocolate dessert, topped with hazelnuts. Perfect summer dessert.

Whole chocolate hazelnut cheesecake in a white dish with text


Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake is such a Summer dessert so, on a surprisingly, scorching hot Bank Holiday Monday, it seemed just the right dessert to make.

Most of my favourite desserts are rather traditionally British and wintery. (Check out my three fruit crumble recipes for evidence! Apple Crumble, Rhubarb Crumble and Summer Fruits crumble) A big old bowl of something deliciously stodgy slathered in custard isn't really what you want after a summer BBQ though is it?

Cheesecake is much more summery and if you add chocolate to it, so much the better! This recipe for Easy Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake is the no-bake variety of cheesecake, so no need to put the oven on in the hot weather. It has chopped hazelnuts in the base as well as sprinkled on top, so it has a slightly Nutella like taste but without the overpowering levels of sweetness. Instead, the chocolate flavour comes from good quality, dark chocolate and just a touch of sugar.

I will warn you though that the dark chocolate makes the cheesecake very rich. It's not something you will want to cut a large slice of. If dark chocolate is too much for you, you could switch half of it out for milk chocolate.

If nuts aren't your thing, you can leave the hazelnuts out of the base and sprinkle honeycomb or white chocolate shavings over the top instead. I used light cream cheese in an attempt to pull back some calories, and as I mentioned before, I cut back on the amount of sugar that most cheesecake recipes require.

The recipe for this Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake is incredibly easy. You'll need two or three bowls (or a helper to wash one up in between) but there's no fancy skills required. It would be a great dessert to make with children. I'm pretty sure they would be keen to lick the bowl at the very least!

Apart from being easy, it's also very impressive to look at when finished and even better, can be made the day before and kept in the fridge. A no-stress dessert!


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