Alternative to Cream Cheese

Our answer

Nigella's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake (from Kitchen and on the Nigella website) uses both cream cheese and sour cream in the base and sour cream and milk chocolate in the topping. As there are several dairy ingredients it is extremely difficult to suggest alternatives for all.

Depending on where you live, there are lactose free and soy a cream cheese spreads available as well as dairy-free/lactose-free alternatives for whipping cream. As these contain various stabilizers we are not sure that they are suitable for baked cheesecakes, but they are suitable for unbaked cheesecakes. So we would suggest looking at Nigella's Cherry Cheesecake (from Nigella Express and on the Nigella website). This is a no-bake cheesecake that is simple to make and shuld adapt well to non-dairy alternatives. In the base you can use a vegan margarine or coconut oil instead of the butter.