Saturday 16 October 2021

Healthy Lemon Cheesecake (Trim Healthy Mama S)

I have been craving cheesecake!  I love the Trim Healthy Mama cheesecake recipe in their original book however I wanted something that used less cream cheese.  Long story short is that I have been experimenting and combining a few recipes together (Cottage Cheesecake, Basic Cheesecake THM book page 373) to come up with this recipe.  


Healthy Lemon Cheesecake 

Ingredients

Base

Cheesecake*

  • 250 grams Low Fat Cream Cheese
  • 250 grams Low Fat Cottage Cheese
  • 200 grams Low Fat Sour Cream 
  • 2 Large eggs
  • 150 grams sweetener (I use xylitol which I grind to icing sugar consistency)
  • 30 ml lemon juice
  • 10 ml vanilla essence (or vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste)
  • Quarter teaspoon xantham gum

Method

Base

  • Preheat the oven to 180 c fan forced
  • Lightly grease an 8" by 8" pan
  • Mix the ingredients.
  • Press into a greased dish 
  • Bake for 8 min 
  • Set aside.

Cheesecake

  • Using an immersion blender blend the cottage cheese and sour cream until smooth. 
  • Soften the cream cheese and add to mix and blend.
  • Add the remaining ingredients and blend.
  • Pour over the base and return to the oven.  
  • Bake for 40 min.
  • Remove from the oven and let it cool completely. 
  • Refrigerate to chill completely before cutting and serving.


  • *If you prefer a slightly firmer cheesecake add 1 teaspoon of gelatin to the recipe.  
  • To make a vanilla cheesecake omit the lemon juice. 
  • You can use full fat options to make this recipe if you prefer however it will raise the overall fat content which in turn will produce a higher calorie dessert.  This may not be beneficial to everyone. 

A huge shout out to Susan from Nourish & Flourish who encouraged me to experiment and try new things.  Be sure to pop on over and look at all her wonderful resources.  I so appreciate her support on my journey to wellness over on Facebook and in the Facebook Community.  

Happy Baking 
Chareen

---oOo---

For those of you who are interested in the nutritional information here is the breakdown as calculated on My Fitness Pal. 




No comments:

Post a Comment

I love to hear from you so please leave your comments below ♥