Cookies and cream baked cheesecake
Enjoy a guilt-free dessert that's only 210 calories per serve!
Annette Sym, author of Symply Too Good To Be True, shares her low-fat recipes
Ingredients (serves: 12)
BASE
- 12 choc chip Vive Lites biscuits (Paradise®)
- 1 tablespoon skim milk
- cooking spray
FILLING
- 500g low-fat cottage cheese
- 125g 80% less fat cream cheese
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 whole egg
- 1 egg white
- 1 x 400g can light condensed milk
- 25g (5 squares) dark cooking chocolate grated
- ¼ cup cocoa
Preheat oven 160ºC fan forced.
To make base: In a food processor crumble biscuits until fine crumbs appear. Add in milk and blend together. Coat a pie plate with cooking spray and press biscuit mix onto base of plate. Refrigerate while making the filling.
To make filling: Clean food processor bowl and blade. Blend cottage cheese in processor until very smooth. Add cream cheese, vanilla essence and eggs and combine well. Pour into a large bowl then add condensed milk. Combine well using an electric beater. Pour half of the filling into another bowl. Add grated chocolate and sifted cocoa to one of the bowls and combine using electric beater. Pour the white filling over biscuit base then carefully pour the chocolate filling in a zig zag pattern. Bake for 45 minutes. Leave to cool. Refrigerate until required.
Suitable to be frozen for 2-3 weeks
Nutritional Information (per serve):
FAT TOTAL: 4.7g
SATURATED: 2.2g
FIBRE: 0.3g
PROTEIN: 11.0g
CARBS: 31.7g
SUGAR: 26.5g
SODIUM: 223mg
KILOJOULES: 879 (cals 210)
GI RATING: MEDIUM
Note from Annette: I am so excited about this recipe. Who doesn’t love anything to do with cookies and cream, and now you can enjoy this delightfully guilt free cheesecake. You don’t get a huge serve, but it is quite rich, so remember everything in moderation is the key to weight loss success.
Dietitian’s Tip: This dessert is only 4.7% total fat. Traditional cheesecakes can contain up to 20%, which much of is saturated fat. If you have diabetes only have this on very special occasions as it contains significant calories and carbs.
Symply Too Good to be True 6, $13.95, is available from www.symplytoogood.com.au.
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