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I received so many good tips on how to make a sugarless no-bake cheesecake: How to Replace Icing Sugar in a No-Bake Cheesecake

As a final touch I want to put Nutella frosting on top of the cake. A layer of Nutella will be amazing, and it really complement the basic recipe. But nutella is very thick, and rigid. Spreading it on top of cheesecake will be tough, and I thought why not change it into an icing ! I found a number of recipe to do this, but they all involve powdered sugar. For example (I got this from http://juliatylerfoodblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/nutella-frosting/):

Ingredients:

3/4 c butter, softened

1/4 Nutella

1 tsp vanilla

1 Tbs milk

3 c powdered sugar

Blend all ingredients in a bowl until smooth. Adjust consistency by adjusting with a little more milk if too stiff, or a little more powdered sugar if too runny.

Can I still make a frosting out of this recipe without a powder sugar?

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    What about heating it up to reduce viscosity? Just use it full strength..
    – Ray
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 2:00
  • Are you avoiding powdered sugar from the store here, or sugar at all again? Running normal sugar through a food processor + a lil cornstarch is powdered sugar.
    – rfusca
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 2:08
  • @rfusca thank you for the info. I am trying to avoid sugar at all again.
    – zfranciscus
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 2:16
  • @Ray I tried heating the nutella. It still very rigid, and hard to spread =(
    – zfranciscus
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 2:21
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    You can't really be avoiding sugar and using Nutella. The first listed ingredient is sugar.
    – rfusca
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 5:18

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A simple alternative would be to make a ganache flavored with Frangelico or another hazelnut liqueur. This has the advantage of having much less sugar, and probably better overall flavor, than an even-more-sweetened Nutella, assuming you start with a reasonably dark chocolate. All you do is boil cream, and pour it over a similar quantity by weight of chopped chocolate, into which you've added a healthy splash of hazelnut liqueur (or the liqueur can go into the cream as you bring it to a boil; either way works in my experience). Then stir vigorously until all the chocolate is smoothed out. You can pour it over while the mixture is still moderately warm and refrigerate it with the cheesecake. It will not be Nutella, but from experience it will be good, and evoke the same basic flavors.

Alternatively, most cheesecakes I am familiar with aren't topped with an icing, but a mixture of say cream or sour cream and other ingredients, sometimes added in the last few minutes of baking. These usually spread out reasonably well. You could consider softening the nutella in the microwave and mixing with a bit of cream, which will be a sort of less heavy ganache.

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  • Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try and post the result here
    – zfranciscus
    Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 20:57
  • Making ganache requires heating though. Do we want to keep with the theme of "no bake"?
    – Megasaur
    Commented Oct 25, 2011 at 8:03
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I would suggest making an almost mouse out of it by heating then folding into whipped cream or going more with just adding some cream and whipping together.

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