Keto Recipes
Low-Carb Candied Walnut Cheesecake - Featuring #Fearless Keto Candied Walnuts
Course: Dessert
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Chilling time: 2 hours
Total Cook Time: 1 hour
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 399kcal
Ingredients:
CRUST
- 1 cup of #Fearless Keto Walnuts - Maple Glaze (https://bit.ly/3Mo5QIq)
- 1 cup pecans
- 3 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tbsp Erythritol (Check our Shop!)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
FILLING
- 3 8 oz packages full fat cream cheese cut into smaller pieces
- 1 cup Erythritol (check our Shop!)
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- zest from one lemon
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Butter the bottom of a 9-in spring form pan.
- In a food processor, place the walnuts, pecans, sweetener, and cinnamon. Pulse until finely chopped. With processor running on high, drizzle in the melted butter until well combined and mixture starts to pul slightly away from bowl.
- Press the crust into the bottom of the pan, making sure it's spread as even as possible.
- Bake crust for 12-15 minutes
- Remove crust from oven and allow to cool slightly while making the filling for the cheesecake
- Wipe out the food processor bowl, or if you have a blender you can use it as well.
- Place inside the processor/blender the cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, sweetener, lemon zest and blend until silky smooth about 1-2 mins. Scrape sides of bowl
- Add the heavy whipping cream and process for about 30 seconds more. Scrape sides of bowl again.
- Place the spring form pan with the crust on a baking sheet. Pour the filling into the crust
- Bake 45-50 minutes, the center of the cheesecake should be slightly jiggly.
- Turn oven off and open door slightly. Allow cheesecake to cool inside oven, this will preventive top from cracking because of extreme temperature change.
- Once cheesecake has cooled inside oven to where if can be easily handled, place in the refrigerator and chill for at least 2 hours. You can even place it in the freezer to speed up the process, Be SURE to garnish your Cheesecake to your liking. Enjoy!