No Bake Peppermint Cheesecake | Christmas Cheesecake

All the festive fun without hardly any effort! Make this no-bake peppermint cheesecake for your next holiday party, or a fun late-night snack.

No-Bake Peppermint Cheesecake

This no-bake peppermint cheesecake is such a great dessert for the holidays, you’re going to love the colorful layers, and the cool peppermint flavor with the candy crunch, and brownie crust.  You just can’t go wrong with this one.

It’s so much fun to make and to serve, and even more fun to share with your family or friends.  This makes a beautiful way to end a meal, or to bring out with coffee, or after dinner cordials.  No matter what you choose to serve this with, your guests will be glad you did!

How to Make No-Bake Peppermint Cheesecake

The entire recipe is in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. But first, I have some really helpful step-by-step pictures, a quick overview, and some extra tips that will help your cheesecake WIN!

What’s In It

The crust is made with Betty Crocker brownie mix. You can use whatever brownie recipe you want. You just have to put the unbaked brownie dough in the pie pan as the crust.

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Here is what is in the filling:

• 6 packages of cream cheese
• heavy cream
• granulated sugar
• corn starch
• powdered sugar
• Vanilla
• lemon juice
• Neon Pink gel food coloring

For the topping, we used:

• 1 – 10 oz. bag Starlight mints, in Red Peppermint – crushed
• 1 – 10 oz. bag Starlight mints, in Green Spearmint – crushed

Cook’s Tools Needed

• 1 – 9-inch Spring-form pan
• Parchment paper
• 1 stand mixer
• Rolling pin
• Double zip plastic food storage bags
• medium mixing bowl

No-Bake Peppermint Cheesecake Tips & Instructions

The entire details for this amazing cheesecake are in the printable recipe card. Follow along with my step-by-step pictures and some extra tips too.

Use brownie mix for the crust. Bake your favorite brownie mix in a springform pan as the crust. You will only use enough dough to barely cover the bottom of the pan. You don’t want a super-thick crust.

You will know the crust is fully baked when a toothpick comes out clean.

Make the Cheesecake filling.

Now you are ready to make the filling! I used a stand mixer, it was so simple to just keep adding the ingredients and mix until smooth.

Remember to keep scraping the sides of the bowl as you add each ingredient, that way everything gets mixed completely together. Then you’ll turn the mixer on high and let it do its thing for 2 minutes.

Creating the cheesecake layers.

Now you are ready to make those pretty cheesecake layers.

Pour just a little less than half of the cheesecake filling into a small bowl, and place in the refrigerator (this is the white layer on top of the pink layer – see photo).

Add the Neon pink food coloring gel to the mixing bowl, a little at a time until the desired color of bright pink is achieved (I used about half of a small tube of gel coloring) (see color in photo). Blend until all the food coloring is incorporated into the cheesecake filling.

Pour the layers on top of the brownie crust.

Pour the pink cheesecake filling on top of the brownie crust in the Spring-form pan, and place the pan in the freezer.  Allow it to freeze for at least 4 hours to set the cheesecake.

When the 4 hours is up, remove the cheesecake from the freezer, and remove the white layer from the refrigerator, and pour the white layer on top of the pink layer, and smooth the top with a spatula or spoon.  Place the cheesecake back in the freezer.

Make the Crushed-Mints Topping.

Remove the wrappers from about half of the bags of both colors of mints. Place about half of the bag of red Starlight mints into a double zip food bag.

Then place about half of the bag of the green Starlight mints in a double zip bag. Put the bag in another double zip bag, and with a wooden rolling pin, crush the mints into small pieces.

If you want to use all the mints, that’s fine, we used half bags, to decorate, but any amount will do, according to your personal taste.

You’ll have to hit the mints with the rolling pin to crush them.

Decorate the cheesecake.

Once the mints are crushed, sprinkle the red mints around the outside of the top of the white cheesecake filling.

Then distribute the green mints around the red mints, in a circle on top of the cheesecake filling.

Lastly, sprinkle the red mints in the center of the cheesecake, finishing the top of the cheesecake with the mints.

Freeze the cheesecake.

And you are done! Place the cheesecake back in the freezer for at least 4 hours, or overnight for best results.  Serve within 24 hours for best results.

How long will the cheesecake last in the freezer?

Cheesecake can be kept in the freezer, covered, for up to 7 days.

More Holiday Party Tips

This cheesecake is perfect at holiday parties. Here are some more holiday party ideas you should try.

• Free Printable Cookie Exchange Recipe Cards
• Easy Clothespin Doily Angel Craft
• Magic Reindeer Food Recipe and Printable