Baked lemon cheesecake
This delicious baked lemon cheesecake is suitable for vegetarians and is lower in saturated fat and calories than traditional cheesecake recipes.
Serves: 12 (makes 12 slices)
Time to make: 1 hr 30 mins , plus 30 mins cooling and 2 hrs chilling
Hands-on time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- Base
- spray oil, to grease
- 250g wheat digestive biscuits
- 50g reduced-fat spread, melted
- 2 tablespoons apple sauce
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Filling
- 400g reduced-fat ricotta cheese
- 2 x 150g pots vanilla fromage frais
- 1 egg
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 2 tablespoons apple sauce
- 4 tablespoons icing sugar
- 3 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- Topping
- 6 tablespoons reduced-fat crème fraiche
- 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar
- ¼ cup blackcurrants
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Instructions
1 Preheat oven to 180ºC. Spray a 20cm springform pan with oil. Crush biscuits and mix with melted spread, apple sauce and cinnamon. Press biscuit mix in pan base. Chill.
2 Meanwhile, in a bowl mix ricotta with fromage frais. Add egg. Beat until smooth. Add lemon zest and juice, apple sauce and icing sugar. Mix until smooth.
3 Whisk egg whites until they form soft peaks. Fold into the creamed mix with cornflour. Pour over chilled biscuit base.
4 Bake on a low oven shelf for 1 hour or until set and golden on top. The surface will crack a little. Turn off oven and cool in oven with door open for 1/2 hour.
5 Remove from oven. Cool completely and chill for 2 hours.
6 Spread with a thin layer of crème fraiche. Sprinkle with sugar and then blackcurrants.
Variations
Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free biscuits and icing sugar. Check ground spices, fromage frais and cornflour are gluten free.
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- 1830kJ (438cal)
- 42g total fat
- 29g sat fat
- 16g sugar
- 230mg sodium
What we did
- Swapped butter for small amount of reduced-fat spread and apple sauce.
- Replaced cream cheese and sour cream with reduced-fat ricotta cheese and vanilla fromage frais.
- Reduced sugar
- Cut out cream topping and replaced with crème fraiche, sugar and berries
- Served smaller portions
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 218cal
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Kilojoules 910kJ
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Protein 7g
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Total fat 9g
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–Saturated fat 3g
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Carbohydrates 25g
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–Sugars 17g
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Dietary fibre 2g
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Sodium 230mg
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Calcium 110mg
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Iron 0.5mg
Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.
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Will this cheesecake freeze?
Hi Hazel
Thanks for your question. Yes, you can freeze it. It won’t be quite a nice as fresh but it will be fine.
Warm regards
Jenny, Healthy Food Guide editor