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!
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
- 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.
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.
Step By Step Recipe Video
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.
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
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.
It is okay! Cover the cheesecake in caramel and you will be good to go! No one will know.
No, you can use any chocolate candy bar.
Yes you can!
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.
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📖 Recipe
The Best Snickers Cheesecake
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
Ashley says
This recipe is flawlessly-written and easy to follow. The cheesecake came out perfectly and I was so proud of how it turned out. We ate it for my daughter’s birthday and everyone was impressed. Absolutely delicious! Thank you!
Stephanie Rutherford says
I am so happy it turned out well!
Jessica McQueen says
I am excited to try this recipe however I have a quick question. Okay so do I put the caramel and snickers on the cheesecake while it’s on the cooling rack and before I take the springform pan or place it in the fridge to cool for overnight and then put the caramel and snickers on after I take it out of the fridge and take the pan off? I wasn’t sure?
Stephanie Rutherford says
Pour the caramel and decorate after cooling and removing the pan.
Barb says
I have only made one cheesecake before...it cracked ..I did
water bath....my question is if you put pan in a cake pan and cover with water how does the water not Get in springform
Stephanie Rutherford says
So the spring form pan goes into the cake pan. Put the cake pan into a large roasting pan. Fill with hot water. The hot water should go halfway up the cake pan. No water will go inside the cake pan!
Landon says
if you use 2 layers of HEAVY DUTY aluminum foil and wrap up the sides and around the top edge of your springform and place in the water bath it will also prevent water from getting in. they say to use heavy duty because foil micro tears when folded which is how the water gets in. if you use heavy duty in a couple of layers it prevents water from leaking through
Niketa says
Forgot the stars!
Niketa says
I made this for a friend's birthday cake- her favorite candy bar is Snickers and she said it was the best birthday cake ever!!!! And that's saying something since it was her 56th birthday... ha!
Thank you for such a wonderful recipe Stephanie!
Ryan S Lekan says
The cheesecake was great. Everyone who tried it, loved it. One person said she thinks it was the creamiest chessecake she's ever tasted.
So I had a question. What do you think about using this cheesecake as a base for other types of cheesecakes, types without candybars, like lemon or lime with the juices and zest of these fruits or perhaps berries? Since spring is coming, i want to do something lighter, but still have the creaminess of your recipe.
Patti says
Made this cheesecake yesterday and I must say that is absolutely the best cheesecake I have ever tasted. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
Seryna Graham says
I made this cheesecake for my friend’s birthday and I guess he really loved it because his explanation was “it’s like you made love in my mouth” 😂 he said it was easily the best cheesecake he’s ever tasted his rating was a solid 20 out of 10
Aminah says
I made this cheesecake for friends and it turned out absolutely amazing!
Pearl says
I haven't cut into it yet but the top got really dark. I left it for the lower bake time and it looks very overdone with no jiggle. Should I have lowered the oven temp after baking the crust?
Stephanie Rutherford says
It the top got really dark, this means it was over baked. Did you bake the cheesecake in a water bath? A water bath helps to prevent it from over baking. It also could just be your oven runs hotter, reducing the bake time would have helped.
Jazmine says
Hi!! What do you think would be a good crust replacement ? I don’t really like oreos. But I’m willing to try it.
Stephanie Rutherford says
You can use any cookie like, graham crackers, nutter butters, animal cracks, nilla wafers.
Aldale says
Okay so I made this and it was amazing. Yes. It is very sweet so next time I may forgo the salted caramel but everyone I gave a piece to said it was the best cheesecake they ever had. Kudos Stephanie! Love your recipes.
Sabrina says
Made this for my husbands birthday and it didnt disappoint. Very very luscious but equally as delicious and the caramel sauce is to die for. Every1 was v impressed!!
Margaret says
Hi I just made your snickers Cheesecake Wow its delicious! Recipeamateurinvestigator
Kyle says
This was so good! Love the caramel and snickers. Great flavor combinations!
Heather says
This was so good. Such a tasty balance of cream cheese and snickers. It was fun to make!
Chad says
This cheesecake was perfection. Snickers and cheesecake!! So amazing.