Mini Egg cheesecake
By: Schwartz UK
March 11, 2026
No-bake cheesecake is the perfect way to use up leftover mini chocolate eggs. Here, the crumb crust is a tasty blend of digestive biscuits, cinnamon, and cocoa powder, with a luscious cream cheese filling studded with chopped mini eggs on top.
Ingredients
- Crust
- 300 digestive biscuits, blitzed to a fine crumb
- 1 cinnamon ground
- 125 unsalted butter, melted
- 25 cocoa powder
- 1/4 sea salt mill adjustable
- Filling
- 900 cream cheese
- 100 icing sugar
- 300 double cream
- 1/4 sea salt mill adjustable
- 1 vanilla extract
- 375g mini eggs, lightly crushed
- decoration
- 225 double cream
- 1 icing sugar
- 8 mini eggs
- 50 milk chocolate, melted
- Equipment
- 23cm springform tin
- Piping bag with star nozzle
Nutrition Information
(per serving)
No-bake cheesecake is the perfect way to use up leftover mini chocolate eggs. Here, the crumb crust is a tasty blend of digestive biscuits, cinnamon, and cocoa powder, with a luscious cream cheese filling studded with chopped mini eggs on top.
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Instructions
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the biscuits, cinnamon, melted butter, salt and cocoa powder until thoroughly mixed. *
- Press the mix into the base of the springform tin, in an even layer and press down well until its nice and compact. Chill in the fridge.
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- While the base chills, make the filling. *
- In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, whip the cream cheese, icing sugar, salt and vanilla until smooth. Add the double cream and whip again until medium peaks form (this should take a few minutes). *
- Remove from the mixer and gently fold in the crushed mini eggs. *
- Remove the tin from the fridge and add the cheesecake mix to the base, flatten the top with a spatula and make sure it looks as neat as possible. Place back in the fridge to set overnight. *
- When ready to serve whip the cream, icing sugar and vanilla and decant into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle. *
- Pipe 8 rosettes or shape of choice around the top edge of the cheesecake. *
- Organically drizzle the milk chocolate over the cheesecake and add a mini egg to each rosette. *
- Serve and enjoy! *
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