Cheesecake without gelatin
- Easy
- 40 min
- Kcal 618
A no bake strawberry cheesecake without gelatin works because of what replaces the gelatin sheets: cream cheese, heavy cream, and strawberry yogurt together build enough body to hold a clean, sliceable filling. The butter-and-biscuit base stays classic; the filling is where the real work happens, and neither component requires you to turn on the oven. The strawberry yogurt goes into the filling itself, not just on top, so the flavor runs through every bite rather than sitting only at the surface.
Fresh strawberries finish the top as decoration, keeping things bright without adding a cooked component. Because the only variable is the yogurt, swapping in a different fruit flavor gives you a genuinely different dessert each time — which makes this just as useful on a warm weeknight as it is for something worth celebrating at the end of a good meal.
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To prepare the strawberry cheesecake without gelatin, start with the base: first melt the butter and let it cool slightly. Meanwhile, put the cookies in a food processor 1 and blend until they become very fine crumbs. Transfer the crushed cookies to a bowl and add the warm melted butter 2, then mix well to combine 3.
Pour the mixture into an 8-inch springform pan lined with parchment paper 4 and press it firmly to adhere to the base 5. Refrigerate to set for at least 30 minutes 6.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling: in a bowl combine the cream cheese with the powdered sugar 7, the heavy cream 8 and the strawberry yogurt 9.
Use electric beaters 10 and work everything until you obtain a stable, homogeneous consistency 11. After the crust has chilled, take it out of the refrigerator and pour the filling into it 12.
Level the surface 13 and let it firm up again in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Before serving, prepare the decoration: cut some strawberries in half 14 and others into slices 15.
Take the cheesecake out of the refrigerator and decorate the surface with the strawberries, arranging first an outer ring 16 and then an inner ring 17. Your strawberry cheesecake without gelatin is ready to be served 18!