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No-bake cheesecake

This low cost, make-over no-bake cheesecake desert recipe, will be a hit with both family and friends.

  • Time to make: 20 mins, plus overnight chilling
  • Serving: 10 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 200g plain Digestive biscuits
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 75g reduced-fat spread, melted
  • 4 gelatine leaves
  • 3 medium ripe bananas
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
  • 375g low-fat Greek-style yoghurt
  • 220g Philadelphia extra light cream cheese spread, at room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons cocoa powder, sifted, to dust
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1. In a food processor, place biscuits and blitz to form fine crumbs. Add cinnamon and melted spread, then blitz again.
    2. Line a 20cm loose-bottom cake tin with baking paper. Press biscuit mixture evenly into the bottom, using the back of a wet spoon. Chill in the fridge while you make the topping.
    3. In a small bowl of cold water, soak gelatine for 5 minutes. In a food processor, place bananas, maple syrup, vanilla bean paste, yoghurt and cream cheese. Blitz until mixture is smooth and creamy.
    4. Drain the soaked gelatine, then mix with 3 tablespoons boiling water until smooth, and pour into cream cheese mixture. Mix well, then pour over chilled biscuit base. Return to fridge and chill for at least 12 hours, or overnight.
    5. Dust cheesecake with cocoa powder just before serving.

    Variations

    If you can’t find gelatine leaves, use 4 teaspoons gelatine granules dissolved in 3 tablespoons boiling water. Don’t soak in cold water.

    HFG tip

    What we did

    • By replacing full-fat butter, cream cheese, and sour cream with reduced-fat spread, low-fat yoghurt and extra light cream cheese spread, we slashed a whopping 15g saturated fat per serve.
    • Using low-fat dairy also upped the protein and calcium in our cheesecake.
    • Using naturally sweet bananas meant we could cut the added sugars. They also increase the fibre.
    CLASSIC HFG MAKEOVER
    1950kJ 970kJ 50% fewer kJ
    5g protein 8g protein 60% more protein
    20g saturated fat 5g saturated fat 75% less saturated fat
    26g sugar 15g sugar 42% less sugar
    70mg calcium 160mg calcium 129% more calcium

    2 comments on No-bake cheesecake

    1. Vivienne Martin November 18, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

      You PRINT button is not working . It is bringing up a pile of nonsense at the moment.

      • Beatriz Acosta November 20, 2023 at 2:09 pm #

        Hi Vivienne,

        Can you kindly refresh your page and try the Print button again? We have fixed the issue so now it should successfully print the recipe page. Please let us know if you encounter any other issues.

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        Beatriz Acosta
        Digital Content Editor
        healthyfood.com

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