Chocolate Butterscotch Cheesecake Recipe

Can you tell I love cheesecake yet? Yes, it’s one of my favorite desserts. I love it for the taste and its versatility for being something that can easily go from simple to decadent.

Right now, I’m stuck on a run of no-bake cheesecakes. This one came popping into my head late at night while I was running through my Christmas cookie list. Yep, I’m already planning and mapping out Christmas baked goods, crafts and presents.

Simple in design all you need for this recipe is some butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, a handful of Whoppers and some gelatin. Don’t let that last mentioned ingredient scare you. Gelatin is very easy to work with.

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Plain gelatin can be found at your local grocer in the Jell-O isle. The pre-dominant brand on the west coast is Knox. Sorry, I’m not sure what it would be elsewhere.

The addition of the melted butterscotch and chocolate sauce makes this recipe a bit looser than my Oreo Cookies and Cream No Bake Cheesecake, so the gelatin will help to set this no-bake cheesecake.

1. Bring 1 inch of water to a simmer in the bottom of a double boiler. Sprinkle water over gelatin and let stand for 5 minutes.

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2. Using a spatula scrape the softened gelatin and place it into the top of the double boiler. Set it over simmering water and heat until the mixture becomes liquid. Remove from heat and set aside.

3. Crush Whoppers in a Ziploc or place Whoppers in a food processor and  pulse for 5 times with 2 second intervals. Set aside.

4. Heat chocolate in the microwave for 10-20 seconds (times vary from microwave to microwavel) or until melted. Whisk to make sure all pieces are melted. Set aside.

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5. Place butterscotch chips and 1 tablespoon of heavy cream in a small bowl and heat in microwave for 10-20 seconds or until melted. Whisk to combine. Set aside.

7. Add cream cheese, sugar, salt, vanilla powder, lemon juice to a bowl and beat with a paddle attachment until smooth (approximately 3-5 mins). If you do not have a stand mixer or a paddle attachment a hand beater will work as well, but will take twice as long to achieve a smooth consistency.

8. Add a ½ cup of cream mixture to the gelatin and fold with a rubber spatula. Return the gelatin mixture to the remaining cream cheese mixture and fold together.

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9. Fold in crushed Whoppers until combined. Gently add butterscotch and chocolate sauce by drizzling sauce into mixture and folding only until mixture shows streaks of butterscrotch and chocolate sauce.  * Do not over mix or your cheesecake will be brown in color, rather than streaked.*Rich, creamy chocolate cheesecake with the most divine brown butter butterscotch chocolate sauce swirled all the way through, with a crust of brown butter, oreos and butterscotch candy.

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This is one of the most decadent, rich cheesecakes I have ever made or eaten. I love cheesecake, it’s probably my favourite dessert and I’d eat it for a living if that was a real job, but even I couldn’t finish a conservatively sized slice (don’t worry, I ate the rest a bit later!). All that means though is that these delicious cheesecake will stretch even further, almost like magic! It’s not the prettiest cheesecake that’s for sure, but it makes up for it ten fold in taste!

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This chocolate butterscotch cheesecake idea came to me when I was trying to think of a dessert to make for my uni friends. We met up last weekend to celebrate birthdays, do wedding crafts (two of them are getting married this summer, one next summer) and just have a general catch up. When we meet up we always make dinner, with everybody contributing in some way and shockingly I’m always tasked with dessert. I was trying to decide what to make when I remembered Dini @ Giramuk’s Kitchen’sBrown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Sauceand I knew I had to make something incorporating that, because it just looks so frickin’ delicious! Turning it into a cheesecake just seemed the logical idea to this cheesecake loving girl! The Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Sauceis literally to die for, it was even better than I imagined (and let me tell you, it was ridiculously tasty in my imagination), whether you make this cheesecake or not you

To try this sauce! And while you’re over there, check out all her other amazing recipes because honestly her blog is one of my favourites – so many yummy looking things, I’ve bookmarked practically everything on there! I didn’t change a thing in the recipe, it’s perfect as is, so head over there to grab it for this cheesecake!

The cheesecake itself is made with cream cheese and mascarpone, I like to put mascarpone in my cheesecakes because I love the silky smooth texture it gives it, so much better than just cream cheese by itself! It then has melted chocolate folded in and of course the delicious sauce swirled throughout. And the crust, oh the crust! It’s hiding there under all that decadence but it really does make the whole dessert. Oreos are always a good choice for a cheesecake crust, but I also crushed up some butterscotch candies and mixed it up with the oreo crumbs – which not only carries the butterscotch flavour right through to the crust but it gives it an amazing crunchy, chewy texture that is out of this world! You gotta try this one! It’s given me a bunch of ideas for other cheesecake crusts too, I can’t wait to try them! Oh, and did I mention the crust is also made with brown butter? Oh yes!

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It’s been a bit of failed week in the kitchen for me, if you follow me on instagram you may have seen the many failed attempts at macarons I have had! I refuse to give up though, even though this is a lot of effort to go through for a cookie I don’t even like that much…. but I won’t be beaten by a silly almond meringue cookie, it’s me against the French! At least I can make awesome cheesecake, take that France!

I’m going to bring this amazing cheesecake along to Fiesta Friday this week, an extra special dessert to make up for my absence last week! So come party with us and grab a slice of cheesecake on your way. Big love to our always wonderful host Angie, our co hosts this week are two people whose blogs I absolutely adore so make sure you check them out too – Ginger and Loretta. Let’s party!