Before my diet days I used to make the most divine tasting Baked New York Style Cheesecake, with a chocolate swirl. It was pure heaven.
So today I wondered if I could maybe make a really low synned version in some way. So off I went on my little experiment.
It WORKED!!!
Okay it is not as good as the real thing, however it is a pretty good substitute that won’t break the syns allowance
This recipe is gluten free, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly
Slimming Eats Recipe
Extra Easy – 5 syns per serving
Green – 5 syns per serving
Original – 5 syns per serving
- 8 digestive biscuits
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 175g (6oz) of strawberry fat free yoghurt
- 1.25 cups (300ml) of quark
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup of sweetener
- teaspoon of vanilla extract
- fresh strawberries
- Preheat oven to 160c or 325f
- Put biscuits into a food bag and bash with a rolling pin until it resembles breadcrumb.
- Put butter into a bowl and melt in microwave for about 15 secs. Add biscuit crumbs and mix together.
- Spray a springform cake tin with spray oil.
- Empty biscuit crumb into the cake tin and spread around evenly, then press down firmly until the entire base is covered with a thin biscuit crumb layer.
- Place in fridge while you make the cheesecake mixture.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the yoghurt, eggs, quark, sweetener and vanilla extract. Mix thoroughly until ingredients are all mixed together.
- Remove cake tin from fridge and pour the mixture on top of the biscuit layer.
- Place in the oven and bake for approx 30 mins or until the cheesecake becomes puffy around the edges but it still very soft in the centre.
- Turn off the oven but leave the cheesecake in the oven to cool.
- Chill well and then loosen the cheesecake from the sides of the tin using a small palette knife. Serve well chilled with fresh strawberries on top.
- You can do all sorts of different flavourings for this, by using different flavoured yoghurt or maybe even adding chocolate options (or similar) to the cheesecake mixture. Obviously that will make it more syns.
The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx. nutritional information (using calorie count recipe analysis)
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Approx. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION |
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per serving |
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Calories |
177 |
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Fat |
7.3g |
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Saturated Fat |
2.0g |
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Total Carbohydrate |
17.3g |
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Dietary Fibre |
3.5g |
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Sugars |
3.7g |
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Protein |
10.2g |
Oh my this is making me drool, defo going to try it at the weekend,
That looks amazing! I’ll have to try it sometime soon, instead of the normal cheesecake I make.
It is not as good as a real piece of calorie filled cheesecake obviously. But is a good low fat substitute, when trying to keep the pounds off 🙂
Hi Brit mum,
What are Graham Crakers and can I get them/equivalent in the UK? How many syns are in one of these crakers maybe I can work it out based on that?
I love the new take on the cheesecake, we have a taster session at group next week and going to make this! xx
prob wont be able to get them in the UK, but use a biscuit of similar calories for weight will be fine. Light digestives maybe.
ok will have to figure that one out, digestives and digestive lights are exactly the same syns!! Terrible!
oh are they, hmmmmm maybe just look for a biscuit that would work well as a cheesecake base that is of similar calories to the graham crackers.
What low fat spread do people use? I have tried baking with Flora extra light and its terrible?
it will be fine for the cheesecake, as it is just to bind the biscuit base together and you only need a very tiny amount.
Are Graham Crackers anything like Ritz Crackers?
graham crackers are kind of like a lighter digestive biscuit, you can use any biscuit really of similar calories.
I have just made the strawberry cheese cake it is lovely!!!! i made it with supermarkets own brand value digestive as they were actualy less calories than branded light digestives, by the way love the blog have told all my friends at slimming world about it x x
just made the cheese cake looks yum can.t wait till it cools down to try it woohoo!!! I have made your lasagne & carbonara and both were delicious… love your blogg its fab and helping me get back on track Thanks Pauline xx
I have never baked anything in my life and i have been with SlimmingWorld a month now + this my first venture into baking, i have 30 minutes, hope its ok, i didn’t know what graham crackers were so i have used digestive caramels, i used 7 biscuits, 4 syns each, i think it was worth it, lets hope its nice when it comes out of the oven 🙂