Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Sugar Free Flourless Cheesecake Madelines

I was searching for a cheesecake recipe with no sugar and no all-purpose flour.  I came across one that was close to what I was looking for, but it had flour so I substituted the flour with almond flour which is just ground almonds.  I also thought it would be creative to make them into madelines.  Here's the recipe:

SUGAR FREE FLOURLESS CHEESECAKE MADELINES
Makes 1 dozen

Ingredients:
1/2 c. Almond flour
1/2 tsp. Truvia or other sugar substitute
1 T. butter, melted
4 oz. Cream cheese
1 Egg white
1 T. Raw organic honey
1/2 tsp. Vanilla

Instructions:
Mix almond flour, truvia, and butter til blended.

Press into a madeline cookie mold pan.

Mix the rest of the ingredients til smooth.

Spoon onto each cookie mold crust.

Bake at 325 degrees for 12 minutes or until tops start to crack and edges turn slightly golden brown.

Allow to cool and then remove from molds.

Enjoy.  Mmm...

Try dipping them in chocolate.  Mmm

I got the nutrition facts from recipenutrition.com.  The information below is with coconut sugar instead of truvia.  I'm trying to create a recipe with less calories per cookie, but it does have cheesecake on it which means cream cheese which means high calorie and fat.  Maybe use a fat free or light cream cheese, but that will only remove one or two calories per cookie.  I made a cake once that called for mascarpone which is very similar to cream cheese.  It's delicious, but using mascarpone will probably double the calories and fat per cookie.  Needless to say, I never made that cake again... but it was delish!

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size (20 g), Servings Per Recipe 12
Amount Per Serving:  Calories 76, Calories from Fat 54 (71%)
% Daily Value:  *Total Fat 6g 9 %, Saturated Fat 2.7g 14 %, Monounsaturated Fat 1.3g, Polyunsaturated Fat 1.8g, Trans Fat 0g, Cholesterol 12g 4 %, Sodium 41mg 2 %, Potassium 17mg 0 %, Total Carbohydrate 2g 1 %,Dietary Fiber 0g 0 %, Sugars 1g, Protein 2g 4 %, Vitamin A 3%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 1%, Iron 0%*
The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.