Sometimes, you want to bake something sweet but you are out of inspiration. A few days later you're sitting on your best friends sofa and you are laughing at her because her husband is giving her grief for buying a 1kg jar of nutella! She loves nutella, but I've never seen her with a 1kg jar before. It is just the two of them. However, she has a fabulous excuse, apart from 'they didn't have any smaller jars at the store' which is what she swears to, oh no, she is heavily pregnant! If ever there was an excuse to have a 1kg jar of nutella in a house of only two adults - this is it!
Well, I went home to my own house of only two adults (where no one is expecting) and opened my pantry door. Oh, yeah, I think.... yep! One half eaten jar of nutella, most likely from baking a recent batch these chocolate cupcakes , is there, just waiting, wishing for its chocolatey, hazelnutty, goodness to be used. What better reason than to bake something for your pregnant best friend than your own half eaten jar of (her favourite) nutella!
Note: It's taken me a week to finish this post (and it's not even properly finished yet) and I'm proud to announce that (one of) my best friend's delivered a healthy baby boy less than 48hours after the nutella cheesecake pots landed on her & her husband's doorstep. Welcome to this amazing world JJ!
Gluten Free (Cheats) Nutella Cheesecake Pots
Makes approx 6-8 pots*, depending on siz
Base:
150g Dry Gluten Free Cookies, such as graham crackers
50-60g butter, cubed
Cheesecake:
390g cream cheese, at room temperature
50g light brown sugar
90g Nutella
40g gluten free chocolate chips
In a food processor whiz the cookies and butter until crumbs are formed. Scoop spoonfuls into base of pots, press down lightly. You want the crumb lightly compressed, but not as much as a regular cheesecake.
Make sure you clean your food processor before making the cheesecake or you'll have crunchy cheesecake!
For the cheesecake whiz together the cream cheese, sugar and nutella until smooth. Stop procesor and check taste, you may add more nutella if you desire. Add the choc chips and whiz on high for a minute or two until the chocolate chips are chopped into fine pieces.
Divide cheesecake between the pots. Cover and refrigerate for 6hours, or until set.
Remove from fridge approx 20minutes before serving so that they aren't fridge cold.
* For the pots I used small glasses, however, plastic cups would be fabulous for children's birthday parties or small ramekins would be good. I simply like seeing the cheesecakes through the container, hence my choice was glass.
Congratulations!! If there's something better than cheesecake in this world, it's a healthy baby :) Well done to all three of you!
ReplyDeleteThese look so tasty! The presentation is beautiful too :) I think this is VERY creative! (Its fun to come across inspiration in random ways - gotta love friends!) :)
ReplyDelete~Aubree Cherie
Hannah - thank you - Mum and Dad are over the moon and I'm so happy to be an aunty to this little bundle of joy!
ReplyDeleteAubree - thank you! sometimes it comes easily and sometimes you need to try a little harder to find it, or in this case there are funny ways to find it.
Waw!! these chocolate cheesecake pots look quite fabulous!!
ReplyDeleteNow, i would like to taste at leadst 2 pots, please,...???
Georgous food! You have a COOL foodblog!
Many greetings from Brussels, Belgium!
Thanks Sophie - not sure if they'd still be edible after they had made their way all the way to Brussels but if you make them then you can eat the lot (or just two)!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, those look so amazingly yummy!
ReplyDeleteYour blog is beautiful! :)
FYI, most graham crackers are not gluten free. (Graham flour is a type of wheat flour.)
ReplyDeleteIndeed Anonymous, 'normal' graham crackers are not gluten free, hence the specification for gluten free crackers and the link to the gluten free graham cracker recipe. Alternatively, subsitute some dry gluten free biscuits, something similar to an Arnott's Milk Arrowroot cookie but gluten free, the grahram cracker reference was for my US readers, as I don't believe they've got my old beloved Milk Arrowroots, let alone gluten free ones! I often use Freedom Foods 'Tea Biscuits' found in Safeway/Woolworths in Austalia. All the best with your baking.
ReplyDeletewow! this sounds delicious! i def want to try this at home. thanks for the recipe.
ReplyDelete-carmen from Houston, TX
lead by Pinterest :)
This looks delicious! Bravo
ReplyDeletegreat idea - I'm a big fan of nutella:)
ReplyDeleteI did not know Nutella even came in 1kg jars. This looks like a simply dreamy recipe for chocolate lovers. Too bad I will have to do math conversion.
ReplyDeleteThere is a place in Toronto that sells a 5kg jar of Nutella for $80.
ReplyDeleteMy my, they look so good and tasty, I can't wait to try. Thank goodness being preggers isn't a pre-requisite!! Best of luck and health to all!!
ReplyDeleteI would love to try this recipe, however we don't do kg in the U.S. ~ do you have a conversion chart.... thnx.....:)
ReplyDeleteI want to try to make this, but I need a conversion chart. You should post the conversions because not everyone uses the metric system.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grams-to-ounces.htm - Grams to ounces calculator - conversions solved!
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the lamest question...but I love these glasses!! Where are they from?
ReplyDeleteHi all!
ReplyDeleteThere seem to be a lot of queries regarding the weights used in this recipe. I live in Australia and grams and kilograms are standard here, so that's what I use for my recipes. If I make a recipe from an American cookbook with pounds I simply take the time to convert it using an online converter. You can also do the same by typing the grams into this converter to give you pounds...
http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grams-to-pounds.htm
Hope this helps!
Elizabeth - the glasses may or may not have been "borrowed" from somewhere many years ago ;)
Happy Baking!
hi, jas,
ReplyDeletei've converted the grams to ounces, and for the sake of american-sized products (like cream cheese, which comes in 8 ounce bricks), i've upped the amounts slightly (14 oz. of cream cheese vs. 16 oz., etc.). i'll post that here, but also, could you tell me how many glasses you used, and how many grams or ounces the glasses hold?
thank you!
celeste
6 oz.cookies
2-3 oz. butter
16 oz. cream cheese
2 oz. light brown sugar
4 oz. nutella (or more)
2 oz. choc. chips
Thank you for this!! My eyes were crossing trying to convert this lol
DeleteAwesome, Celliejoe! I'm laughing because in the US we tend to measure by volume rather than weight, so converting the weights won't even solve the problem for most folks unless they have a kitchen scale. I just moved to Europe and I'm having the opposite problem ;) I'm still mad that when I was little they taught us the metric system in school because we were *supposedly* going to switch to it -- the only thing that ever converted was the 2 liter bottle of Coke.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing at my fellow Americans and the conversion issue. C'mon people, stop perpetuating the 'lazy American' myth! We've all been taught the metric system and there are metric measurements on everything we buy (seriously, it's there and might be an odd number, but it's there)! It just requires a little bit of math. 1lb = 453g (right on my package of butter). 1 stick of butter (1/4 lb) is 113 grams. 50/113 is .44, and 60/113 is .53, so the amount of butter to use is about a 1/2 a stick, or about 1/4 cup (since 1 stick is 1/2 cup).
ReplyDeleteI made these today -- my few notes are (1) I'd suggest putting the nutella in the microwave to soften it up a bit -- mine at room temp was quite thick and hard to incorporate (2) I put chocolate shavings on top, just an esthetic touch (3) I used a bar of dark chocolate rather than chocolate chips (hard to find in Paris). But bottom-line, they were tasty, and the guests at the party I brought them to gobbled them up!
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