Thursday, October 16, 2008

Healthy Cheesecake / Mousse

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This is another oldie, but goodie. I perfected this recipe in college, but then lost it and forgot how to make it. The recipe posted below is my best guess...

Ingredients

  • 1 cup cottage cheese (low fat or non fat)
  • 1 tbsp sugar free, fat free pudding mix
  • 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
  • vanilla extract (couple drops)
  • coconut extract (couple drops)
  • Splenda (optional, to taste)
  • 1/2 cup thawed frozen strawberries

Procedure

  1. Put everything in a mixing bowl.
  2. Go sparingly with the extracts.
  3. Blend until silky smooth using a hand blender.
  4. Put fruit on top and put in refrigerator.

Nutritional Info

protein carbs fat calories
totals 52.5 26.28 3.9 359
cottage cheese 28.0 6.1 2.3 163
whey 24.0 4.0 1.5 130
pudding 0.0 6.18 0.0 27.0
strawberries 0.5 10.0 0.1 39.0

Notes

For pudding mix flavor, I use cheesecake or white chocolate.

You can add unsweetened cocoa powder to make it chocolate, but then you need to add extra sweetener or it will be bitter.

Instead of using the extracts and Spenda, you can use a couple squirts of Davinci or Torani sugar free syrups.

Using a hand blender is a chore. It's too thick to do in a blender. Maybe a food processor would work better?

1 comment:

Christopher J. Bottaro said...

I got a food processor and it makes this recipe tons easier.

Here's how I'm doing it now...

24 oz collage cheese (1 whole container)
3 tbsp sugar free, fat free pudding mix
3 scoops whey protein powder
6 pumps of Torani sugar free coconut syrup

Put all that in the food processor and let her rip till it's silky smooth.

Makes 6 servings. Macros per serving: 28 g protein, 12 g carbs, 3 g fat, 185 calories.

Note, most protein scoops are 70 cc.