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I just had to have a Rocky Road edition to my cheesecake recipes! It has a delicious crunchy biscuit, soft marshmallow and chocolatey flavour, while also adding a creamy element. This Rocky Road Cheesecake recipe is so easy and a perfect no-bake dessert.
This is a fun combination of a classic Rocky Road and a basic No-Bake Cheesecake.
As always, there are a few simple tips and tricks to getting the perfect cheesecake, but it’s honestly so easy to do.
You can even make this a super impressive dessert by piling the cheesecake high with lots of goodies!
Why you’ll love this Rocky Road Cheesecake recipe
⭐️ Foolproof, easy recipe – even for beginners!
⭐️ Really impressive dessert
⭐️ Make ahead of time for convenience
Rocky Road Cheesecake Ingredients
- Chocolate Digestive biscuits – I use chocolate digestives to give an extra chocolatey kick. If you use plain instead, you may need to add a little extra butter as the mixture will be more dry. If you’re not in the UK and can’t get digestives, you could use graham crackers instead
- Butter – I use unsalted butter for this and just melt it quickly in a mug in the microwave
- Double cream – See tips below on the required whipping consistency. This is also called ‘heavy cream’ or ‘whipping cream’ outside of the UK
- Icing sugar – Make sure you sift this. It will give a much smoother texture to the cheesecake
- Cream cheese – I like to use Philadelphia brand cream cheese for this recipe. I drain off any liquid before using. You can use other brands, but I find they are SLIGHTLY more difficult to combine. Be sure to always use full fat cream cheese
- Chocolate – I buy Callebaut in bulk as then it’s the same price as supermarket chocolate. It’s amazing to melt and makes such a difference to the recipe. I use milk chocolate to give a subtle creamy taste but feel free to substitute dark chocolate if you’d prefer
- Marshmallows – I use mini ones for the filling and large ones to decorate, but it’s your choice
- For the topping: Melted dark chocolate, large marshmallows and chocolate bars (your choice)
How to make Rocky Road Cheesecake
1. Crush up the biscuits, mix with the butter, then press the base into a tin and chill.
2. Beat your cheesecake filling together and spread onto the chilled base. Chill to set, then add the topping before serving.
Hint: Whip the cream straight from the fridge and whip enough so it holds its shape (to the texture of ice cream).
Substitutions
- This cheesecake recipe is super easy to make gluten free. Just replace the regular chocolate digestive biscuits with a gluten free biscuit. Make sure your chocolate and marshmallows are also gluten free.
Storing
Chilling the biscuit base while you’re making the cheesecake filling will allow it to set and firm up a bit, making it a bit less crumbly when you add the topping.
You can store the cheesecake in the fridge (without the topping) for a MINIMUM of 3 hours and up to 3 days from preparation. The results will be much better if it’s had time to chill overnight.
Leave it in the tin in the fridge and cover with a dinner plate of cling film (but make sure it doesn’t touch the surface of your beautiful cheesecake!)You can also put the undecorated cheesecake in the freezer in the tin if you want to make it further in advance. Just make sure you defrost it properly in the fridge (again, in the tin) for 24 hours or until completely thawed, then decorate.
Top Tips
➡️ Be careful to let the chocolate cool for just a couple of minutes before you stir it into the cream and cream cheese mixture. If it’s too hot it will make the mixture sloppy, but if it goes too cold the chocolate will clump when it touches the cold mixture.
➡️ When whipping the double cream, be sure to watch it very carefully. It should be just forming soft floppy peaks, but still hold its shape. Too runny and the cheesecake will be sloppy, too stiff and it will be too dense.
➡️ The consistency should be sliceable but not solid. Something like room temperature butter, it will give a little quiver if you wobble it gently.
➡️ An angled palette knife is a really inexpensive piece of kit but it makes SUCH a difference when smoothing things like this out! You can buy them on Amazon here: Angled Palette Knife.
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FAQs
It’s probably because your cream wasn’t whipped quite enough. No problem, pop it into the freezer for a few hours before serving. Situation saved.
The recipe is for a 7″ DEEP tin (not a standard sandwich cake tin, it will overflow!) You can use smaller or larger but your cheesecake will obviously be taller or shorter. I would DEFINITELY recommend this tin though as it is a great size and very easy to use.
Warm a sharp, thin knife under a hot tap and then dry it. Use this to run around the outside of the cake, inside the tin, before removing. Remove the knife and wipe it as you work your way around the cake.
Let me know how you got on and what you thought of these recipes. Please rate the recipe using the ⭐️ below.
Also I’d LOVE to see your cooking creations. If you’d like to share yours with me, you can tag me on Instagram (@tamingtwins).
Rocky Road Cheesecake {No Bake}
Ingredients
- 230 g Digestive chocolate biscuits
- 100 g Butter, Unsalted, melted
- 550 ml Double cream, Whipped
- 100 g Icing sugar, Sifted
- 500 g Cream cheese, Full fat
- 300 g Milk chocolate, Melted and cooled
- 75 g Mini marshmallows
For the topping:
- 100 g Dark chocolate
- Marshmallows and chocolate bars of your choice
Instructions
- Crush the biscuits until they look like lumpy sand. (I do mind in a food processor but you can do this by hand!)
- Mix with the melted butter and press into your 7″ tin.
- Mix the whipped double cream, sifted icing sugar and cream cheese until fully combined. Stir in the melted cooled and chocolate and mini marshmallows.
- Spoon on top of the biscuit base. Smooth the top with the back of a spoon or a palette knife if you have one.
- Chill for at least 3 hours or, even better, overnight.
- Use my knife tip (below) to remove the cheesecake from the tin.
- Pile the additional marshmallows and chocolates on top.
- Melt your dark chocolate and when slightly cooled drizzled on top.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
soo bastered gooooood
loooks so yummy
I made this last year for Boxing Day, I’d never made a cheese cake before, I’m not even a huge fan of it myself and I did replace half the cream cheese with milka Philadelphia (oops)…. but … it was amazing!!! Everyone loved it. This recipe is so good I had to find it to repeat this Christmas! Less people to share due to covid but all the more for me!! Thanks you!
hi lesley massive fan it was cooked to perfection , could not of tasted better
Hi Sarah
It’s lesley again I’m trying to post a picture of my cheeses cake
But I’m hopeless …..
I’d would have loved to share it with you.
If I can make it anyone can it’s my first ever cheesecake. I make it because it’s my daughters favourite 💕
Hi Lesley, so pleased you liked it, you can email it to me at sarah@tamingtwins.com if you’d like! So pleased you liked it!
Hi Sarah
I made you amazing no bake rocky road cheesecake for my daughters 32nd birthday. It’s turn out a right crackers im looking forward to bringing it out later singing happy birthday 🥳 to her. I used slightly more ingredients as I made it in a 10 inch tin I’m really pleased with myself 🥳
Thanks again. 👌
Made this for my wife for Valentine’s Day.
Fantastic result. Easy n simple recipe. What’s not to like. Give it a go.