With 30 grams of protein per slice and no added sugar, this dessert satisfies your cravings without wrecking your eating plan.
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This lowish-carb cheesecake is packed with 30 grams of protein per tiny slice with no added sugar. No oven required either. Very filling.
Ingredients
8 ounces (one standard block) cream cheese, fat-free
I appreciate T Nation effort to provide some healthy dessert recipes, however, my wife and I agree having made the cheesecake type desserts including cookies as presented have been extremely disappointing.
BTW, this recipe works great without the chocolate bits using vanilla MD Protein if you like a more traditional cheesecake. You could also drop some calories by making the “crust” from sliced strawberries.
As long as you stick to the basic ingredients and ratios (water, gelatin, yogurt, cream cheese, protein powder, sweetener), you can change it up easily. Add or leave out chocolate bits, change or leave out the crust, make additions like berries (stir in after blending), or even add in some other flavors by using sugar-free preserves. Since it’s a no-bake recipe, it’s hard to mess up.
Use what you want, but my goal with most of these recipes is to keep the protein high and the calories somewhat reduced. Call it “volumization.”
In this case, the protein is the same but the calorie difference is huge: 230 calories for nonfat cream cheese vs. 800 calories for full-fat. So, it’s not about “being scared of dietary fat” but rather dropping 570 calories from the total count, or almost 100 per slice. Then you can eat more of it!
Worked great! The lime flavor was surprisingly light in mine so I might replace a little of the unflavored gelatin with lime gelatin the next time around.
Just had some key lime cheesecake….FANTASTIC!!! Only problem was stopping myself from eating it all! Used 1/3 cup key lime juice. Recipe was great, thanks Chris! You need to get more recipes up.
