No Bake Dulce de Leche Cheesecake
This No Bake Dulce de Leche Cheesecake is everything you dream of in a cheesecake - a lusciously smooth and creamy cheesecake infused with dulce de leche and a deliciously buttery graham crust. The best part? No oven is required for this recipe!
Ingredients
For the crust:
- 2 cups graham crumbs
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 2 tablespoons sugar
For the cheesecake layer:
- 24 oz cream cheese softened (3 packages)
- 1 1/4 cup dulce de leche
- 3 cups cool whip (a 1L container)
- 3/4 cup icing sugar (i.e. confectioners sugar or powdered sugar)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Optional toppings:
- 1/2 cup dulce de leche for decorating
- flaky salt for decorating
Instructions
Prepare the crust:
- Line the bottom of a 9 inch spring form pan with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add the graham crumbs, melted butter and sugar and mix together. Press the graham crust mixture evenly onto the bottom of the pan and place in the fridge to chill.
Prepare the cream cheese layer.
- In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), mix the softened cream cheese until fluffy. Add the dulce de leche, cool whip, sugar, and vanilla and mix until smooth.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over the graham crust.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours to set.
Optional toppings:*
- If desired, decorate with dollops of thick dulce de leche around the border of the cheesecake. Sprinkle the border with flaky salt. Alternatively, you can drizzle the dulce de leche over the entire cheesecake or use more dulce de leche to spread a thin layer over top of the cheesecake.
Notes
*Note: Sugared cranberries are best added to decorate your cake just before serving. If you are making your cheesecake a day ahead, you can make the sugared cranberries the day you intend to serve the cheesecake. Alternatively, you can store the sugared cranberries in the fridge overnight, however, because of the condensation from refrigeration, they may start to look wet and the sugar may slide off of them. If this happens, you can toss the cranberries in more sugar.
**The calories are likely less than is shown in the recipe card. The recipe card includes the full amount of sugar from the sugared cranberries, however, most of the sugar syrup the cranberries soak in is discarded. [I like to strain the leftover syrup and refrigerate it. It is great for sweetening teas, coffees, and cocktails.]
Note: Metric ingredient measurements are provided as a courtesy using a third-party calculator and are rounded to the nearest unit. The recipes provided on this site have not been tested with metric measurements and their accuracy cannot be verified.
Nutrition
Calories: 551kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 9gFat: 33gSaturated Fat: 19gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 95mgSodium: 410mgPotassium: 300mgFiber: 1gSugar: 43gVitamin A: 1031IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 216mgIron: 1mg
The nutritional information provided is based on third-party calculations and is an estimate only. Accurate nutritional facts will vary based on the particular brands used, portion sizes, measurement accuracy and more.
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