Cadbury’s Chocolate Cheesecake!
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A delicious no-bake Cadbury’s chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate biscuit base, Cadbury’s chocolate cheesecake filling, and even more Cadbury’s on top!
Another cheesecake recipe!
So it’s been a while since I made a cheesecake… that’s a lie. Like straight from the beginning I am lying. I try to make it seem like I don’t do them so often, but I genuinely have a bit of a problem.
I believe I have roughly 65 cheesecakes on my blog at the moment I am writing this, ranging with all different flavours and types… but will I ever stop posting more?! Only if I run of out ideas.
I have done chocolate cheesecake’s in the past, and with all different sorts of brands. I have even used Cadbury’s before! Definitely haven’t done enough to make this post pointless, however. My Cadbury’s caramel cheesecake, Double Decker cheesecake, or even my Crunchie cheesecake all involve some form of Cadbury’s, but none of them are just the basic chocolate cheesecake that so many of you ask for.
Chocolate cheesecake
I have technically done a chocolate cheesecake in the past, with my triple chocolate cheesecake, but even that isn’t just the basic. I know I do tend to go quite over the top with a lot of my recipes, but they’re designed to be for special occasions, or showstoppers… they’re not your every day bakes. However, because I have had oodles and oodles of requests for a basic milk chocolate cheesecake, I thought I would oblige.
The recipe is basically just a basic cheesecake, but swapping out any of my other flavour creations for good ol’ Cadbury’s Dairy Milk. Dairy milk chocolate is SO well known, and I remember being so incredibly excited when I was on a school trip to Costa Rica years ago, and we found Dairy Milk in a local shop… it was heaven when we were abroad in quite a different environment. It’s a classic chocolate flavour that can’t be beaten! Unless of course, you swing Galaxy way… I happily adore both.
Cadburys
I would say that Cadbury’s chocolate does behave differently to other bog standard milk chocolates because it has different ingredients. I personally believe it melts differently, and I wouldn’t use it for a ganache for example? But in a dessert such as this delicious chocolate cheesecake, I don’t really think it matters as much. You can’t call a Cadbury’s cheesecake a Cadbury’s cheesecake if you don’t use the chocolate… the taste would give it away immediately.
Cadbury’s have recently brought out a dark version of their Dairy Milk called Dark Milky, and I utterly adore it. It’s again a different flavour to regular dark chocolate, but so yummy. Either would work well in this recipe, or you could even go half and half. As long as it’s Cadbury’s I don’t mind.
Decoration
I decided to decorate this bad boy in a similar way to basically ALL of my other cheesecakes, with a drizzle of chocolate, some sweetened whipped cream swirls, and whatever the chocolate theme is on top. Making my life simpler, I used the Cadbury’s giant buttons on top, which are so incredibly addictive I’m surprised I managed to keep 12 spare to decorate… but you can use pieces of Cadbury’s if you prefer. Yes, these bits of chocolate do end up being a little hard after staying in the fridge.. but I kinda love fridge cold chocolate.
I hope you all love this recipe as much as I certainly did, enjoy! x
Cadbury's Chocolate Cheesecake!
Ingredients
Biscuit Base
- 300 g digestives
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 150 g unsalted butter (melted)
Cheesecake Filling
- 250 g Cadbury's Dairy Milk
- 500 g full fat cream cheese
- 100 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 300 ml double cream
Decoration
- 150 ml double cream
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 50 g Cadbury's Dairy Milk (melted)
- Cadbury's Dairy Milk Buttons
Instructions
For the Biscuit Base!
- Add your biscuits to a food processor and blitz into a fine crumb. Alternatively, use a large bowl with the end of a rolling pin.
- Add in your cocoa powder, and mix briefly.
- Add in your melted butter, and mix until its combined, and press into the bottom of an 8"/20cm deep springform tin. Store in the fridge whilst you make the filling.
For the Cheesecake Filling!
- Melt your Cadbury's Dairy Milk carefully until smooth. I personally use the microwave on short bursts, but you can use a bain marie as well.
- Leave the chocolate to cool for a minute or two.
- Add your full-fat cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla to a large bowl, and whisk until smooth.
- Add in the melted chocolate and whisk until smooth.
- Add in the double cream, and whisk again until thick and combined well.
- Try not to over whisk the mixture, keep an eye on it and stop the whisk frequently to check.
- Once all whisked, spread over the biscuit base and leave to set for 5-6 hours, or preferably overnight.
For the Decoration!
- Whisk together the double cream and icing sugar until its pipeable.
- Drizzle over the melted Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate, and then pipe your cream on.
- Add on a Cadbury's Dairy Milk Button to each cream swirl and enjoy!
Notes
- This cheesecake will last for three days in the fridge.
- You can freeze the cheesecake for up to three months - set fully in the fridge first, however.
- If your cheesecake mix was thick, and then went thin you have over whisked it.
- You can swap the Cadbury's Dairy Milk for any other chocolate, but obviously this is designed for Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
- I recommend this tin for the cheesecake!
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Hi can this be made with mascarpone or does it have to be philadelphia?
Can be either as long as they are full fat!
Hi there! Would the recipe work if you halve it ?
Yes! I use a 6″ for half x
Hi , could it be ok if I used compound chocolate instead of Cadbury chocolate ?
Easy recipe to follow, works out perfect every time! I’ve made many of your cheesecakes and so far so good.
My family enjoyed this one!
I have made this twice now. Easy recipe to follow. The result is a delicious cheesecake. It was the first ever Cheesecake that I made. Thank you
Absolutely delicious! Quick and easy to make and everyone loved it!
Hi. Delicious flavour. But mine came out absolutely solid, do you know what I did wrong.
If i want to do this in a smaller tin 4.7″ 12cm what would be the grams i need for that siz in the ingredients?
As an estimate you need to use about 0.4x the recipe (so just under half) x
Brilliant! No party or get-together is complete without iy.
Hi,
I’m making this at the moment but my filling doesn’t seem to be getting thick while whisking…it has been the consistency similar to a cake batter the whole time!! Any tips?
That probably means the chocolate melted the mix if it never got thick – its worth trying to chill the mix for a while and whipping instead x
Making this today with the new chocolate orange cadbury buttons! Impatiently waiting for it to set and will report back 🙂
Should i add some gelatin? Just worried it might not set without it
You can if you want, but I don’t personally x
Absolutely love this recipe, along with the milky bar cheesecake recipe.
For the base, I used chocolate hobnobs (to make it as chocolatey as possible!) and it worked out really well. At first, I was unsure as the mixture was a little bit melted and cakey, but it set wonderfully!
Hi I followed your recipe today and made four the first two were perfect but the last two the chocolate looks like it hasn’t melted and there’s lots of chocolate bits in the cake,it is still edible? Please
That basically means the chocolate has seized. It’s definitely still edible – it just means the temperature difference between the chocolate/cream cheese mix was more than usual, so the chocolate went back to a solid. Bring your cream cheese mix to room temperature next time and it should be fine!!
Heya I really want to make this today but I only have 430g of cream cheese, would that be ok?
Yes that should be okay!
Hi Jane, I’ve made this cheesecake 3 times now the first one was perfect but the last 2 times I found the base to still be oily & not set? And found it hard to remove it from the base of the springform cake pan, is there any tips of how to get the cheesecake off carefully? And why the base seems to be more oily?
Hey! Oh how odd! Have you changed the type of biscuit, butter or cocoa powder to a different brand or type? That could be why if the first one worked really well! And if you struggle you can line the tin! x
This was absolutely AMAZING! Will definitely use again. Thank you so so much.