I was looking for a simple keto friendly cheesecake. It should also consist of basic ingredients as I only had 250gram of cream cheese and 1 lemon and did not have sour cream, heavy cream or greek yogurt. Moreover, I also wanted the portion size to be quite small to serve 6 people.
The mini cakes are baked using a cupcake tray. To remove it, I used a table knife along the edges after refrigerating it overnight. Edges were slightly irregular. Maybe it might be easier if I use cupcake liners.
This recipe only consist of 8 ingredients.
Keto Mini Lemon Cheesecake Recipe
(Adapted from Vicky Ushakova and Lindsay Conchar)
Ingredients
Keto Mini Cheesecake Crust
15g butter (adjust according to oiliness of walnut powder)
50g walnut
½ tbs lakanto/ sweetener to taste
Keto Mini Cheesecake Filling
235g cream cheese (room temperature)
1 egg
½ tsp lemon juice
2 tbs Lakanto
Lemon Curd
40ml lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest
1 tbs Lakanto
2 egg yolk
1 tbs butter
Method
Keto Mini Cheesecake Crust
1. Preheat oven to 180 °C.
2. Grind walnut into powder. I used a mortar and pestle instead so it was quite oily.
3. Add soft butter to walnut and sweetener to taste to form soft dough.
4. Divide it into 6 portions. Use finger/ spoon to press the dough onto the base of cupcake pan
5. Bake for 5 mins and leave it to cool for 10 minutes.
Keto Mini Cheesecake Filling
1. Mix all ingredients using mixer
2. Pour the filling into the cupcake mould
3. Bake it for about 15-20 minutes until top is slightly browned
Lemon Curd
1. Stir all the ingredients in a heat proof bowl.
2. Heat the bowl in a pot of water (water bath method), stir until mixture thickens.
3. Leave it to cool for a few minutes at room temperature then pour it onto the mini cheesecake.
Keep the keto mini cheesecake refrigerated overnight in the cheesecake tray. Only remove it from the baking tray the following day.
How did it taste?
I really liked it. It was just nice for me, not too sweet but tasted like a dessert. Keto friend was agreeable. But piglet thought otherwise as his dessert needs proper quantities of sugar.
The nutty walnut base of the keto cheesecake matched nicely with cheese. Piglet commented that it tasted ‘premium’ as most biscuits are usually used. Maybe I could use nut flour in the future for the normal (non keto) cheesecake.
