No-bake Piña Colada Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a cake that is usually loved for its delicate flavor and texture. Here, we want to offer you a new variant of the classic recipe, which the whole family will surely appreciate. We explain how to make a no-bake piña colada cheesecake.
One of the things we love most about this recipe, in addition to its incredible flavor, is that it can be prepared easily and without having to turn on the oven, which is much appreciated on these hot summer days. Good fun!
No-bake piña colada cheesecake
The recipe we’re about to share with you isn’t exactly light, but it’s delicious. Of course, you can adapt the right ingredients to make a cake for celiacs or even for those on a diet. At the end of the article we will give you some ideas on this.
Our proposal today provides for a slight addition of alcohol, obtained by the presence of a spoonful of rum in the preparation. If you want a dessert suitable for children, you can omit it: it will absolutely not affect the recipe.
Ingredients
For the base (cake pan with a diameter of 15 cm):
- 2 packs of dry biscuits (Marie or similar)
- 1/2 cup of melted butter (125 ml)
For the filling:
- 250 grams of spreadable cheese
- 200 ml of condensed milk
- 150 ml of coconut yogurt
- 200 ml of whipping cream
- 200 grams of diced pineapple
- 14 grams of neutral gelatin
- 1 tablespoon of white rum (of your choice)
Note: if you don’t like coconut yogurt, you can opt for plain yogurt.
For the decoration:
- Pineapple slices (of your choice)
Preparation of cheesecake without cooking
- Grease a 6-inch springform pan with butter. You can also cover it with parchment paper if you prefer.
- At this point, chop the dry biscuits and mix them with the melted butter. With this mix, prepare the base for your no-bake cheesecake, to be placed on the bottom of the pan.
- Once this is done, beat the spreadable cheese in a bowl, until it has softened completely and you have obtained a soft and foamy consistency.
- Add the yogurt and condensed milk. Continue to mix vigorously.
- At this point, add the yogurt, cheese, condensed milk, diced pineapple and rum. Set aside.
- Whip the cream with whips until you get a cream without lumps. It must have a good consistency before adding it to the rest of the ingredients.
- Add it to the preparation set aside and mix with “enveloping” movements, from bottom to top.
- Add the previously diluted gelatin as indicated on the package. Remember to always carry out wrapping movements to avoid disassembling the cream.
- At this point, pour the mixture onto the dry biscuit base.
- Refrigerate for at least two hours.
- Finally, decorate with the pineapple slices and serve.
Cheesecake without cooking suitable for celiacs
The above recipe can be modified so that even people with celiac disease can enjoy the unmistakable flavor of the piña colada. To do this, choose dry biscuits suitable for celiacs and soak them in water. Here is the recipe for your cake.
For the filling you will need:
- 500 g of gluten-free spreadable cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of sugar (200 g)
- 2 tablespoons of skim milk (30 g)
- 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch (7 g)
- Sliced or diced pineapple (100 g)
- 1 tablespoon of rum
Preparation
- Mix all the ingredients of the filling until you get a soft and homogeneous cream.
- Then arrange on the biscuit base.
- Finally, refrigerate for at least two hours and serve.
Variants of the recipe
- You can use a thin sponge cake – similar to that of the ricotta roll – as a base for your cheesecake if you prefer a more spongy cake.
- Do you have problems whipping cream? We reveal our secret: put the cream in the fridge for 10 minutes before whipping it, in order to obtain a better consistency. If you still can’t whip it, add one or two tablespoons of sugar to prevent lumps from forming.
- To lower the calorie intake of the recipe you could replace the dry biscuits with lower calorie biscuits and dissolve them in water. You can replace the spreadable cheese with a similar or low-calorie fresh cheese. Avoid adding condensed milk (too loaded with sugar) and replace it with yogurt.
What do you think of our no-bake piña colada cheesecake? IS simply delicious and, even if it takes some time, it is easy to prepare. What are you waiting for to try it?
