With a month gone of the new year already and a month less to go until I reach a certain milestone birthday (eeeeek!), I am really trying to be good when it comes to cakes and desserts. Not making them of course that is ok, but eating them is what I mean. Therefore, the opther weekend when I invited my Mum and Step Dad for Sunday lunch I wanted to make a pudding to follow our slow cooked roast beef which was light and not too heavy on calories as we are all trying to watch our weight. Having looked around to see what I had I found some greek style lemon curd yogurt, some cream cheese and some Dorset Cereals Berry Granola. So I thought I would try to make a cheesecake from yogurt but make a granola base for it instead of biscuits, in the hopes that not only would it taste yummy but it would be less fattening than a normal cheesecake.
- 400g Dorset berry granola
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter (I used a butter spread)
- 200g light Philadelphia cream cheese
- 2 x 400g pots of Stapleton Farms Lemon Curd Greek Yogurt
- Raspberries to garnish - as many as you like
- white chocolate chips - for garnish but this is optional as I had some to use up
- Grease and line a dish of your choice - I used a 8 inch removeable base cake tin
- Melt the butter and honey in a non stick pan over a gentle heat
- Once melted stir in the granola and then once it is all coated in the honey and butter push into the base of your dish and press down firmly.
- Allow to cool completely before adding the cheesecake
- To make the cheesecake, simply place the cream cheese and yogurt into a bowl (I used my free standing Kenwood but a bowl and electric or hand whisk would also work) and whisk together for about 5 minutes - it will not go as thick as a normal chesecake would using double cream but it will thicken.
- Pour over the top of the granola base, decorate with your raspberries and white chocolate if you are using it, and then place the cheesecake in the fridge over night
It actually tasted really, really good and both my Mum and Step Dad had seconds!! You would not know if contained yogurt instead of cream and in fact my OH complained, bizzarely, that it was too creamy! The only problem I had with it, was that the base was a little prone to collpasing and did not look neat when served in their bowls which is why I have adjusted the recipe to include some honey as butter alone was not enough to hold the granola in place. However, that aside it was such a nice change from a normal cheesecake. And actually to make it even healthier, when I do this again I might layer the cheesecake and the granola (not butter or honey required then) in sundae glasses instead of making a tradional cheesecake in a dish.
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oh nice looking pud there mmmm
this looks lovely, I love lemon & raspberry combo – it would be nice assembled & served in one of my posh cocktail glasses! 😉
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