A Tasty Greekcake Cheesecake Snack with Jason

Of all the high octane desserts that still call to me after all these years, it’s cheesecake. I get angry when I see cheesecake, because once you understand exactly how loaded just one slice is with fat, sugar, and calories, there is no way to justify eating it.

Forget how many hours on a treadmill it would take to burn one off, we are talking about days. If you cross-country ski in Norway for a month, then you can get away with having a slice. If walking to the mailbox constitutes the bulk of your daily steps, it is off the menu unless you want to start rolling down the driveway soon.

A slice of regular plain Jane cheesecake weighs in around 830 calories, 51 grams of sugar, and 59 grams of fat. If you get a fancy one with chocolate toppings, you can be looking at 1,580 calories for one slice, with 116 grams of fat and 104 grams of sugar. For some perspective, now that I’m in my cut phase, I’m trying to stay around 1,800 calories for the entire day.

There’s no getting around it, cheesecake is delicious. It would be pretty hard to make something that full of fat and sugar to taste bad.There are plenty of “low carb” cheesecake recipes out there on the interwebs that reduce the sugar and simple carbs, but they are by no means easy to fit into a healthy lifestyle. They still deliver a full day’s worth of calories and fat with just a slice or two. Now that it’s almost summer and slimdown season, that is no bueno. Cheesecake and swimsuits are natural born enemies.

So, what to do? Give up, and go without cheesecake until it’s Thanksgiving and everyone is back to wearing sweatpants as formal evening wear? No, not if I have anything to say about it. We can rebuild it, use different ingredients in order to satisfy the cheesecake monkey on our backs.

Will it be the exact same as cheesecake? Nope, and that’s a good thing. A dessert like this has to be good, and it is, but not so addictive that you end up eating half the pie at once. I’m talking about someone I know doing that…it wasn’t me…I swear…shut up.

Not only are we cutting those ridiculous nutrition numbers, we are sending the protein and good gut flora through the roof. We do it by substituting cream cheese with greek yogurt. We will make a crust out of pre-made cinnamon crackers consisting of watermelon seed flour, and even the sour cream topping will be made out of regular plain yogurt.

This comes together really easy and will keep you from breaking down and eating two days worth of fat and sugar in one slice of cake.

Sure, Greekcake may not be as mind blowing as real cheesecake, but it is still delicious. and it’s a light, refreshing treat on a hot day. You might find you feel so good after eating it that it becomes your go to favorite cheesecake, and you won’t even need those electric paddles to restart your heart anymore after enjoying a slice.

Greekcake Cheesecake:

Ingredients:

2 cups grass fed vanilla greek cheesecake

4 eggs

1/4 cup tapioca flour

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 tsp sea salt

3 tbsp powdered monkfruit

zest and juice of one lemon

Crust:

1 box Simple Mills Cinnamon thins

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp sea salt

1 tsp stevia in the raw

4 tbsp grass fed butter, melted

Topping:

1/3 grass fed plain yogurt (not greek)

1 tbsp lemon juice

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp powdered monkfruit sweetener

Instructions:

Pour the box of cinnamon thins into a gallon zip lock bag and beat it like it owes you money with a small cast iron skillet, or whatever you have handy that is flat and heavy. Mix in the other dry ingredients. Rub a springform pan with cold butter on the bottom and sides, then pour the bag into the pan. Pour the melted butter in the pan and mix thoroughly until all the crust is wet and pressed down into a flat disk:

Mix all the ingredients for the greekcake in a bowl until blended and smooth, then pour on top of the crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, then let cool completely on the counter before storing in the fridge. Once it has been in the fridge for a while and is cold, mix the sour cream topping and pour on top, Chill overnight and enjoy the next day:

See the list of all Jason Murphy’s recipes at www.mysaline.com/jason-murphy.

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