What Makes a Good Low Carb Cheesecake Recipe?
How can you make a low carb cheesecake recipe taste like the real thing? And much more, how can you make a low carb chicken recipe? These issues pose quite a problem trying to create a delicious meal and dessert that fits within your daily dietary requirement. It would be great though, having a complete meal without all the extra carbohydrates.
A true cheesecake has to have that rich and smooth texture when it runs through your tongue, with a tasty crust on the bottom to even out the flavor. This New York style cheesecake on top a Brazil nut crust should be the right recipe for the job.
You need 2 cups of raw Brazil nuts, 2 teaspoons of brown Sugar Twin, about 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, and pinches of cinnamon and salt for the crust. The filling requires 2½ pounds of cream cheese placed at room temperature, 5 tablespoons of granular Splenda, also 5 tablespoons of granular Sugar Twin, a bit of fine salt, a half cup of sour cream, 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract, 2 teaspoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice, 2 large chicken egg yolks, and 6 large whole chicken eggs.
You will need to set the oven at 350ºF, and then prepare a 9-inch pan. Line the bottom with some parchment paper, make sure you do not forget this step unless you want the cheesecake to get stuck to the pan and ruin it by trying to take the cheesecake out when it is done.
Next thing you want to do is roast the nuts, do this for approximately fifteen minutes while tossing in melted butter. You should turn it around so that the butter gets in contact with all the nuts. Next, transfer the nuts into a food processor to chop them finely. The nuts should be even in size. Now mix in all the last crust ingredients, when that is done you can place them evenly in the pan to form the plate bottom. Place it in the fridge when you are done.
Now adjust the oven to 400ºF, after beating the cream cheese until it is smooth you can then add all other ingredients except the yolks and whole eggs. When all ingredients were combined you can now add the yolks, then the whole eggs a couple at once, beating them until they have mixed well. Slowly pour this mixture over the crust, bake for ten minutes then reduce back to 350ºF. This should set in about two hours. This low carb cheesecake recipe is definitely a winner!
January 09 2009 05:49 am | Low Carb Recipes