The Best Snickers Cheesecake

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This Snickers cheesecake is so creamy it melts in your mouth! It has an Oreo crust and chopped Snickers in the baked cheesecake. On top is salted caramel and more chopped Snickers. This recipe is perfect to use up Halloween candy!

Fork inserted into a slice of snickers cheesecake.

This Snickers cheesecake is one of the creamiest cheesecakes. It melts in your mouth! I made this recipe back in early 2020, but now it is updated into the best Snickers cheesecake ever.

If you are looking for more candy recipes, try Snickers cake, Butterfinger cake, and Twix Cake.

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Why You Will Love This Snickers Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredient Notes for Snickers Cheesecake
Step By Step Recipe Video
Step By Step Instructions
Decorating The Cheesecake
Baking Tips To Prevent Cracking.
FAQ
Storing and Freezing
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Why You Will Love This Snickers Cheesecake Recipe

Creamy cheesecake- The texture on this cheesecake is super creamy!
Oreo crust- The crust is made out of Oreos and melted butter.
Snickers- There is chopped Snickers in the cheesecake batter.
Salted caramel- It is topped with homemade salted caramel sauce.

Snickers cheesecake cut into thirds pulling one pieces out.

Ingredient Notes for Snickers Cheesecake

Room temperature dairy ingredients- Pull these out 2 hours before baking.
Oreos- Use regular Oreos.
Cream cheese- Use full fat cream cheese.
Sour cream- Use full fat sour cream or greek yogurt.
Mini Snickers bars- I use the fun size Snickers bars. I use 1 ½ bags for the filling. Use the extras for the top of the cheesecake.

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Step By Step Instructions

Here are the steps to make and bake the cheesecake.

STEP 1: Mix the Oreo crust- Mix the Oreo crumbs and melted butter together. Pour the crust into the 9 inch springform pan. Then, compact the crust.

STEP 2: Bake the crust. Bake the crust for 12 minutes.

STEP 3: Beat the cream cheese. Use a mixer and beat the cream cheese on high. Then, add in the sugar and beat again.

STEP 4: Add in wet ingredients. Mix in the sour cream, heavy cream, and vanilla. Then, mix in the eggs on low.

STEP 5: Fold in the Snickers. Fold the chopped Snickers into the cheesecake batter. Next, pour the batter into the pan.

STEP 6: Bake the cheesecake. Prepare a water bath. Then, bake for 85-95 minutes. The cheesecake should have a very slight jiggle in the middle.

STEP 7: Chill the cheesecake. Chill the cheesecake overnight.

STEP 8: Make the salted caramel. First, melt the sugar down. Then, stir in butter, heavy cream, vanilla, and salt. Make sure it is cooled completely. For more tips and tricks, check out my Homemade Salted Caramel recipe.

Mixing cheesecake batter in a glass bowl.

Cut snickers on top of cheesecake batter.

Decorating The Cheesecake

Pour the caramel sauce over the cheesecake. It needs to be completely cool before you use it. To get it pourable, heat in the microwave for 10 seconds.

Now it is optional, but you can top with extra Snickers, peanuts, or mini chocolate chips. I used all three because it makes it look fancy. Haha.

Baking Tips To Prevent Cracking.

Mixing the ingredients: The cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, heavy cream, and vanilla needs to be beaten throughly before adding the eggs. There should be NO lumps.

Mixing the eggs in on low: If there is too much air added to the eggs, it will cause the cheesecake to expand and sink rapidly while baking. This will lead to cracks.

Water bath: This part is important. The cheesecake needs to sit in the water bath. The steam will fill the oven and keep it moist. A dry cheesecake can lead to cracks.

Cool slowly: Letting the cheesecake sit in the oven for 30 minutes will let it cool slowly and cook at the same. A big change in temperature will cause the cheesecake to crack.

FAQ

Does this cheesecake taste like the Cheesecake Factory?

It tastes even BETTER! There are no processed extra ingredients and it is half the calories. I promise you will love this more than Cheesecake Factory.

Oh no! My cheesecake cracked in the middle.

It is okay! Cover the cheesecake in caramel and you will be good to go! No one will know.

Do I have to use Snickers?

No, you can use any chocolate candy bar.

Can I use gluten free Oreos?

Yes you can!

Slice of snickers cheesecake on a plate.

Storing and Freezing

Store this Snickers cheesecake in the fridge in an airtight container. Chill up to 5 days. I store mine in a cake carrier.

Freezing

This cheesecake can be frozen before decorating. Wrap the cheesecake, chilled overnight first, in foil. Freeze up to 30 days. Thaw for 1-2 hours before decorating.

The cheesecake can also be frozen an individual slices. Wrap each slice in foil and freeze up to 30 days. Thaw for 1 hour before eating.

Other Cheesecake Recipes To Try

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Stephanie Rutherford

This Snickers cheesecake has an Oreo crust, and a creamy baked cheesecake. There are cut Snickers folded into the cheesecake batter. It is topped with salted caramel, Snickers, peanuts, and mini chocolate chips.

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Prep Time 1 15

Cook Time 1 30

Chilling Time 6

Total Time 8 45

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings slices

Calories 340 kcal

Ingredients

Oreo Crust

2 ½ cups Oreo crumbs
5 tablespoon Unsalted butter melted

Snickers Cheesecake

24 oz Cream cheese room temperature
¾ cup White granulated sugar
½ cup Sour cream room temperature
¼ cup Heavy cream room temperature
1 teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
3 Large eggs room temperature
3 cups Mini Snickers bars chopped into eighths. uses 1 ½ bags of Snickers.

Salted Caramel

1 cup White granulated sugar
4 tablespoon Unsalted butter room temperature
½ cup Heavy cream room temperature
1 teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
Extra Snickers for decoration

Instructions

Oreo Crust

Preheat oven to 325F. Spray a 9 inch spring form pan with non-stick baking spray. Place a 9 inch parchment circle on the bottom of the pan and spray again.
Use a food processor to pulse Oreo cookies into fine crumbs. There should be a total of 2 ½ cups of Oreo crumbs.
2 ½ cups Oreo crumbs
Combine Oreo crumbs and melted butter together. Pour all of the Oreo crumbs into the spring form pan.
5 tablespoon Unsalted butter
Use your fingers to compact the crust on the bottom and up ½ the sides of the pan. Then use the bottom of the measuring cup to compact the crust including the edges.
Bake crust for 12 minutes.

Snickers Cheesecake

While the crust is cooling, start on the cheesecake batter. Chop up 3 cups of mini Snickers bars. I cut each mini Snickers bars into eighths.
3 cups Mini Snickers bars
Using a mixer on high, beat the cream cheese for 1 minute. The cream cheese should be light and fluffy. Add in the sugar and scrape the bowl. Beat the cream cheese and sugar together for 1 minute on high.
24 oz Cream cheese, ¾ cup White granulated sugar
Add in the vanilla, sour cream, and heavy cream. Beat on medium for 1 minute until the sour cream is smooth. Make sure to scrape the bowl several times through this whole process.
½ cup Sour cream, ¼ cup Heavy cream, 1 teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
Add in the eggs one at time and mix on low. As soon as the eggs are combined take the bowl off the mixer. Then, fold in the chopped Snickers bars.
3 Large eggs
Water Bath. There are 2 options. Both require a large roasting pan and hot steaming water.
1. Place springform pan in a 10 inch cake pan. Place cake pan into roasting pan, fill up to halfway up the cake with hot water. This method prevents water getting into the crust.
2. Wrap springform pan twice in foil tightly. Place the pan into the roasting pan. Fill halfway with the hot water. This method can sometimes leak in the water into the crust.
Bake for 85-95 minutes. The cheesecake is done baking when the edges are set and there is only a slight jiggle in the middle. When the cheesecake is done baking, turn off the oven and crack open the oven door. Let the cheesecake sit for 30 minutes in the oven before transferring the cheesecake on a cooling rack.
Let the cheesecake cool completely on a cooling rack before covering it and chilling in the fridge. It needs to chill for 6 hours or overnight before taking out of the spring form pan.

Salted Caramel

Cut room temperature butter into cubes and set aside. Prepare the heavy cream, salt and vanilla so it is ready to go for the caramel because it bakes fast once the sugar is melted.
Using a sauce pan over medium heat, heat the sugar until it is melted and smooth. It will start to clump up, but will melt completely. Make sure all sugar crystals are melted.
1 cup White granulated sugar
Once the sugar is melted, stop whisking and let the sugar cook until it becomes amber in color. Don't walk away from your stove because it takes 30 seconds or less for the sugar to turn amber. Remove from heat.
Immediately pour in the cubes of butter and whisk continuously until the butter is melted. The caramel will become very bubbly.
4 tablespoon Unsalted butter
Immediately after that, add in half the cream and whisk continuously. Then, add in the rest of the heavy cream and whisk again. The caramel will be very bubbly when you add the heavy cream, but will stop once it is all mixed in.
½ cup Heavy cream
Add in the salt and vanilla. Pour the caramel in a glass jar and let cool completely. For storage, cover the glass jar and let sit for up to 3 days at room temperature.
1 teaspoon Salt, ½ teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
Pour caramel on top of the cheesecake. Sprinkle with more Snickers. Optional: add chopped peanuts and mini chocolate chips.
Extra Snickers

Notes

Pull out dairy ingredients 2 hours before baking.

Nutrition

Calories: 340kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 3gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 16gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 83mgSodium: 293mgPotassium: 80mgSugar: 23gVitamin A: 977IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 59mgIron: 1mg

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