No-bake Oreo cheesecake

One for the kids today! But not necessarily exclusively - I had a good few spoons of the mix while we made it.

It’s a great recipe for slightly older kids to make themselves without any help, my daughter is 10 and she could easily follow the instructions. She also loved telling me to stop interfering and let her get on with it. I pretty much need my hands tied behind my back to stop me getting involved where cooking is concerned! I can’t bloody help myself, but I had to learn to step back while she was doing her thing!

After our practise session in the afternoon, my daughter and a couple of her friends made the cheesecake as part of a Zoom cookalong in the evening; they loved cooking together and pudding was a massive hit. And yes Ella-Rose ate two cheesecakes that day!

The ingredients should be available locally, so this is an easy one to throw together without much planning, but if you can’t get crème fraîche you could use whipped double cream instead.

Ingredients

Serves 2

• 5 Oreos

• 100g cream cheese

• 40g / 2 tbsp crème fraîche or whipped double cream

• 1 tbsp icing sugar 

Method

• Put 4 Oreos in a small plastic bag and bash gently with a rolling pin leaving some larger pieces. 

• Mix the cream cheese, crème fraîche and icing sugar in a bowl with a fork.

• Put 1 tbsp of Oreo crumble in to the cream mix and stir well. 

• Put ½ tbsp of Oreo crumble into two small glasses and spoon on the cream mix. 

• Sprinkle a little crumble and half an Oreo on top to finish. 

tip

• Assemble the cheesecakes at the last minute or the base and topping will lose it’s crunch.