Cheesecake: no oven, no gelatin, no eggs!

How can cheesecake set? if we don't bake it and we don't put gelatin in it. hi guys it's time for another exciting recipe and this time we're not turning on our oven we're not taking out the mixer and we're making cheesecake no bake. it's the technique that makes this set the way that it does. pull up a plastic chair because it's time to steal. let's make our crust. we're gonna start with our crust because I want to make sure that we set our crust before we add our filling. if we don't set our crust sometimes our filling can pull crumbs from our crust and if it does that it'll expose a bit of the bottom and it'll make the structure of our cheesecake a little wonky. I've added some butter, some salt, some sugar, and my graham cracker pieces and gave that a big mix. I use melted butter because it helps bind the cookie pieces together and sometimes I pop it in the oven to give it five minutes of bake time to really seal the deal. And I like using foil for this I really make sure that I have an easy time removing this crust. We're not baking it so it's very difficult to take out of things if you're not careful. One thing that I like to do to smooth out my foil is I'll grab a quarter cup and then just throw it in there. And I just smooth it along the edges. It's a neat party trick. This is the foundation of your no-bake cheesecake. If you don't give this step the TLC it deserves, your cheesecake might get a little fudged up. We're gonna set our crust to the side so that it could cool and now we're gonna make our cheesecake base. And don't skip the salt. I know that it sounds weird but add a little salt. Gives it a little flavor. A little something something. And I like to work with really soft cream cheese so I leave it at room temperature. I don't make this recipe with cream cheese that's straight from the fridge. And this part doesn't have to be perfect because we are gonna go back with our immersion blender to smooth out any lumps. And if you don't have an immersion blender, you can use a food processor or you can use a stand mixer. I like using immersion blender because it's going to give you a more compact cream and you want that. You don't want to incorporate too much air because you want the air to be really close together so that the cream cheese and the air interact and bind together and kind of set. You can already see that it's getting really thick. And if you want it to be kind of crazy, you can serve this as is, as like a sweet dip. I would serve it with some graham crackers on the side or some Ritz crackers. That would be really lovely. I would make sure that you take off your attachment before you kind of stick anything in here. I've seen somebody like buzz their finger off before. The cake has set overnight and it is so creamy and luscious. I'm just, my mouth is This is watering, thinking about this cake. And you can already see that the sides are coming cleanly off which is a win. A win is a win! And what I'm trying to do is unstick it without being too aggressive because remember this is no bake. And I'm doing so very gently. So of course you can serve it just like this or you can top it with some jam. I'm gonna take some pictures. I'm using some jam that I found at the grocery store. It's Bon Maman and it's pineapple and passion fruit and I really like using tropical flavors any time of the year because I feel like they're evergreen flavors. A lot of people associate them with winter flavor but tropical flavors are all year round. Summer, spring, winter, and fall. So there we have it guys, we've made the most luscious, perfect, no-bake cheesecake. It has a beautiful passion fruit and pineapple preserve on top and a graham cracker crust that's to die for. Wow, this is so good. You would actually think that I baked this in the oven. It's refreshing, it's citrusy, it's light. This is a banger, y'all. Thanks for watching this video. Like, comment, and subscribe, and leave a comment to let me know, are you a no-bake cheesecake person, or do you prefer baked? Thanks for watching. Bye!