Low Carb Lemon Swirl Cheesecake

[Sherrie]

I made another cheesecake today, it is exactly the same as the Chocolate Swirl cheesecake except I replaced the chocolate for lemon curd, yummy

Now I am just cutting and pasting the previous recipe and just changing the chocolate to lemon, otherwise it is the same. I want to make note that, this time I used half splenda tabs and half xylitol and I did not use as much as the recipe states. I found the sweeteners combined were much sweeter (at least for me) so if you do it that way add sweetener gradually to taste and remember the lemon curd will be sweet unlike the dark chocolate. I can't tell you exactly how much I used as I just combined the xylitol and splenda needed for both the base and batter and then blitzed them in a magic bullet type thing and added to taste. I would've had 2 spoonfuls left over.

Oh and this one came out creamier then the chocolate swirl one but I have only had it in the fridge for 2 hours so that's probably why!




Low Carb Lemon Swirl Cheesecake

Base:

150g/5.3oz Almond meal (I used bought blanched meal this time)
50g/1.8oz Desiccated/finely shredded coconut
60g/2.1oz butter, melted
12 splenda tablets, crushed or 1/4 cup of granular splenda
dash of vanilla

Filling:

600g/21.2oz Cream Cheese
250g/8.8oz sour Cream
2 Eggs
25 splenda tablets, crushed or 1/2 cup splenda granular
1 tsp vanilla extract
about 100g or 1/2 cup of lemon curd (you may want to use a little less up to you), melted



Butter a 23cm spring form pan and Preheat oven to 170C/340F

Combine base ingredients and press into the base of the spring form pan and bake for 15 mins or until golden. Reduce oven temp to 140C/284F

Beat together all of the filling ingredients EXCEPT the lemon curd and pour over the base. Tap gently to burst any large air bubbles and swirl the melted lemon curd over the top.

Chuck in oven for 30mins and then turn the oven off and leave it alone for a long time, preferably overnight to cool. If you take it out to soon it may crack. When cooled, chill in the fridge.

[Sherrie]

Dare I say it but I think I prefer the lemon version to the chocolate and the chocolate was pretty good. Ryan said, it is awesome hehe

[janal]

Sherrie that looks Divine. Yum Yum Yum & looks so creamy.
I haven't made cheesecake in ages.

[jojoamethyst]

yum!!!

[lissylou]

wow, that looks bloody awesome! and i love lemony things and cheesecake = double whammy! i really need to get back into LC cooking, my meals have been so blah lately

[Sherrie]

Lissy, I love lemon too, give it a try it is really good. I have a lemon coconut slice recipe I made last month, should post the recipe soon if I can remember everything I did hehe

[Lou]

That looks so yummy- My 6 yo harvested a tree full of lemons today and I want to make some lemon recipes, this one will get a trial- thanks Sherry

[Sherrie]

Hey Lou did you give this a go?

I made another one the other day and I am tempted to chuck it out!

What happened is I only had half the amount of almond meal I needed, I thought I had fresh almonds but I couldn't find any so in desperation I thought I'd just replace what was missing with psyllium husks and just add some water... Big mistake!!!

I can't eat the crust it makes me gag because of the texture (I have always been fussy about textures) but to make it worse it seems to have sucked up some of the moisture from the cream cheese batter as well giving that an icky grainy texture. Ewww I really don't like it. Don't ever sub psyllium husks!!!

[Lou]

I have been overindulging in the lemon curd Sherrie :-) and having it as a topping on the cream cheese muffins- and having too many of them , I have not made this actual cheesecake as yet- I am not overly keen on the crust anyway so am happy with the muffins and curd.

That lemon curd is sooooo yummy

[Sherrie]

It is, isn't it hehe

I bought a shallow muffin tray thingy a while back so I could make little lemon curd tarts with the shortcrust I used for that other recipe I did but I keep using it all up on cheesecake and eating it off the spoon I did make a coconut lemon slice with it which turned out good.

[Lou]

coconut lemon slice- sounds good did you share the recipe here?

[Sherrie]

No, I will have to find the one I converted and put it up. Hopefully I will remember everything I did as it has been a while