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Elizabeth Smith’s Mars Bar Cheesecake

Robyn Foyster

This is something we all love to make, and we have it as a birthday treat instead of birthday cake.

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INGREDIENTS

Base
250 g plain chocolate biscuits
125 g butter, melted

Cheesecake topping
1 teaspoon gelatine
bit of hot water (enough to dissolve gelatine)
375 g cream cheese
½ cup caster sugar
few drops vanilla essence
300 ml thickened cream
3 Mars Bars (60 g each),
½ melted, ½ sliced

METHOD
1 Crush biscuits, add to melted butter, and mix well. Tip into a 20 cm (8 inch) spring-form tin, press down and push up slightly at the edge. Refrigerate.
2 Sprinkle gelatine over hot water. Cool. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together. Beat cream until peaks form.
3 Stir gelatine liquid into cream cheese mixture combined with cream and Mars Bars. Pour over biscuit base.
4 Refrigerate until set.

Recipe & image from Natalie Oldfield’s fifth cook book, Love & Food at Gran’s Table.

Categories: Baking Entertaining & Wine
Robyn Foyster: Robyn Foyster is a multi-award-winning journalist, media executive, and the owner and publisher of The Carousel, alongside the Women Love Network (which includes Women Love Wellness, Women Love Travel, and Women Love Tech). At the forefront of digital lifestyle and tech publishing, Robyn was named the 2025 Winner of the Samsung IT Journalism Award for Best Corporate Content and is a 2026 Lizzies Finalist. Voted one of B&T’s 30 Most Powerful Women In Media, she previously served as the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Australia’s three biggest flagship magazines—The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day, and New Idea—and was a senior executive at the Seven Network. A sought-after speaker and an eight-year judge for the Telstra Business Awards, Robyn remains dedicated to championing women's voices across lifestyle, wellness, and technology.
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