If you’ve been around here for a little while now, you know I have a bit of a sweet tooth, and that sweet tooth is especially crazy about cheesecake. Some of my favorites so far are this No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake, No Bake Oreo Cheesecake recipe and this No Bake Lemon Cheesecake. This Turtle Cheesecake has pretty much all of my other favorite things:
cream cheese salted caramel chocolate
I’ll be honest and say I can give or take the nuts, but I love the crunch they add to that gooey caramel layer in this Turtle Cheesecake! I originally shared this cheesecake recipe in December of 2015 so it was in desperate need of an update, but I actually didn’t change that much. I tried putting the caramel layer on top of the cheesecake, but that was a disaster. I switched up the caramel to make this recipe even more foolproof and added a thicker cheesecake layer, but in reality, what I discovered was that this Turtle Cheesecake recipe was pretty amazing to begin with. Here are some tips to make sure you see success!
Tips for making No Bake Turtle Cheesecake:
I played with this recipe a lot, and though I like to give wiggle room for creativity, when I wiggled this recipe too much, it ended in disaster. A really, really delicious disaster, but it really was a mess. I retested this recipe 3 times just to end up not changing much at all. The crust: the crust can be baked or not baked. I find that the chocolate baking crumbs become more bitter during baking, so I prefer it unbaked. If you want, you can bake it for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F and it will be firmer and hold up slightly better. Cream cheese: use full fat cream cheese, as it has less water content and will hold up better than low fat cream cheese. Cream: heavy whipping cream is 30-36% fat. Any other cream will not work, it will not whip and you will have cheesecake soup 😉 Caramels: you want the individually wrapped chewy caramel candies for this recipe. Please check out the recipe video to see which ones! Whip it good: please do not try to make this without an electric mixer. You need the power and speed to whip it to stiff peaks!
Variations on this Turtle Cheesecake:
Nut free: you can easily leave out the pecans for a nut free version, just check all of your package ingredients before using. You can use gluten free chocolate sandwich cookies for the crust to make this cheesecake gluten free. Not big on chocolate? You can skip the ganache and opt instead for a caramel and chocolate drizzle to finish.
More Cheesecake recipes you’ll love!
No Bake Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake Lemon Cheesecake Bars Easy Cheesecake Recipe Easy Key Lime Cheesecake
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