Did you know today is World Diabetes Day? I didn’t either and if you take a look at my blog you can easily understand why. I bake absolutely nothing that can be called diabetic friendly, well except for these Pumpkin Cookies I made last year for my friend Carolyn and this beautiful Cranberry Cheesecake which happens to be both sugar and gluten free.
I’ve been reading Carolyn’s blog since I started blogging and I’ve learned that even if you have diabetes you can still enjoy lots of sweet treats, oh, and she’s a professional when it comes to whipping a low-carb gluten free sweet treat.
When she emailed me a few weeks ago about participating in an event to raise Diabetes awareness my first thought went to my mother in law. Some of you might smile of this point but I’ve mention her before and she’s as sweet as sugar, the sad part being she has to watch her blood sugar.
And just like Carolyn, my mother in law loves sweets. She has to has some every day, even if it’s just a few crumbs.
This cheesecake recipe is my favorite. I have made it several types using regular sugar and every time I just change the sauce on top, it depends on my mood and the season. This time I picked cranberries since they are in season, but you can leave it plain if you prefer.
Instead of regular white sugar I used Swerve, an all-natural diabetic friendly sweetener. It was the first time I have used it and it was a wonderful experience.
It was the first time I also made cranberry sauce for the cheesecake and can’t say for sure if it was the sweetener or just in general, but it dried out a wee bit. I’d recommend topping the cheesecake with the cranberry sauce just before serving, this way you prevent it from drying out.
The cheesecake turned out creamy and velvety, just like I like it. As a variation (and I’ve made it several times as well) you can replace one package of cream cheese with 1 cup of cottage cheese)
A creamy velvety cheesecake topped with cranberry sauce. The crust is made from ground almonds and the filling form a mixture of cream cheese, eggs and heavy cream, deliciously paired with the tart cranberry sauce.
Ingredients
- 8 oz whole almonds ground
- 1/4 cup swerve sweetener
- 1 egg
- 4 tbsp cold butter, diced
- pinch of salt
- 2/3 cup swerve sweetener
- 1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 2X8oz each cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 4 oz fresh cranberries
- 1/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
- 1/4 cup swerve sweetener
Instructions
- In a food processor add the almonds and process few minutes until ground. Add the butter, sugar, egg and salt and pulse few times until it forms a ball.
- Take the dough out and gently press it on the bottom and about 1 inch on the sides of a greased 8 inch springform pan.
- Chill for about 15 minutes.
- Turn the oven on and place a shallow dish with about 1 1/2 inch water in it on the bottom rack. Wait until the oven temperature reaches 350F.
- Now it's time to make the filling.
- In a large mixing bowl add the cream cheese and swerve and mix until combined. Add the heavy creamy, eggs and the egg white and stir until creamy. Pour into the chilled crust
- Bake without taking the water dish out of the oven for about 55 minutes or until the edges slightly become golden and the middle is just slightly wiggly.
- Turn off the oven, crack the door just a little bit and leave the cheesecake to slowly cool for the next two hours without taking it out of the oven. When the two hours are oven, run a butter knife between the cheesecake and the sides of the pan for easy release.
- While the cheesecake is cooling down you can make the cranberry sauce.
- In a small saucepan add the cranberries, swerve and orange juice and cook, over low heat for few minutes until the cranberries have popped and they become mushy. Remove from the heat and cool slightly before spreading it on top of the cheesecake.
- Remove the cheesecake from the pan and enjoy! Enjoy!
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To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment telling me what would you make first with Swerve.
For additional entries (please leave a separate comment for each entry)
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The giveaway is opened to US residents only, 18 of age and you can enter until Wednesday November 21st at 11.59 pm EST. The winner will be choose via random.org and will be contacted via email.
Swerve is also generously giving away a Blue KitchenAid mixer on my friend Carolyn’s Blog.
Good luck!
Roxana
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Just making my way through all the sites that are participating in Carolyn’s World Diabetes Day awareness campaign & wanted to say hello & thx (I’m a type 2, btw)
I would love to try swerve! I would bake up some sugar free chocolate chip cookies.
I would make a Chocolate Cake for my Aunt! She is diabetic and can’t enjoy the sweets like we can!
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I would probably make little mini pound cake muffins for my kiddos!
I would make this cheesecake for sure, then some brownies and cucumber salad
I have used splenda in the other two things before, but I am interested in learning more about swerve!
I also retweeted your givaway!
Brownies come to my mind first.
I like Swerve on facebook.
I am hoping to order my first Swerve this week. I’m a recently diagnosed pre-diabetic and would love to make a fabulous desert that even I can indulge in for Thanksgiving!
I am having a family reunion and have been looking for a good cheesecake recipe. I would like to try the Cranberry Cheesecake you posted here. The cranberry and orange combo sounds wonderful!
I’ve been anxious to try something with the powdered variety of Swerve – so I’d probably try something like spice cookies with a cream cheese frosting. Thanks so much for participating in this effort.
I would love to use Swerve to make your recipe for cheesecake!
Man, that cheesecake is on my list of must eats…maybe at Thanksgiving! Hmmm, the first thing I’d make with Swerve would probably be a birthday cake for my son.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this — I will be making this for thanksgiving! I haven’t tried swerve yet but I am diabetic so would love the chance. I’d make lots and lots of cheesecake
Thank you for your blog about Diabetes Day. If I won the Swerve I would like to make a carrot cake or some other dessert. There are lots of recipes out there to try.
I would make all kinds of desserts! Cakes, pies, muffins… Yum
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If I can’t get my hands on Swerve, would you suggest any other sweetener or sugar to use? And should I just swap it into the recipe in the same amount as the Swerve or does the amount need to change? Thanks!
Hi Natty,
This is my go-to cheesecake recipe and usually I make it with granulated white sugar, the same amount as swerve. I don’t know much about other sweeteners.
Roxana
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So glad you are a part of Carolyn’s WDD! This looks fantastic!
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I can tell you I would make this cheesecake for my first recipe with Swerve. Just looking at the photo made me dream about the creamy yumminess in my mouth. Thank you for helping with Diabetes awareness!
I’ve tried a Swerve sample and liked it a lot. Didn’t realize they had confectioner’s sugar! The first thing I would make is cupcakes and frosting!!
I follow Swerve on Twitter.
I also like Swerve on Facebook!
LOVE Swerve! Have gone Low-Carb for several months now and a good sweetener makes being able to still eat yummy foods a possibility. I’ve been wanting to try a great pumpkin pie recipe!
Already a Facebook fan of Swerve! Thanks for sharing a beautiful recipe!
I will bake some cookies.
I subscribe via email.
Actually, I want to make THIS recipe with the swerve. it sounds amazing!
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I will make a red velvet cake with butter cream frosting first! And so good for my diabetic cravings too!
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Beautiful cheesecake, Roxana! I love your cranberry sauce!
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There’s too many goodies to even know what to begin baking with Swerve… But your cheesecake looks like a fabulous place to start. Thanks for participating and offering this wonderful opportunity to try Swerve.
Your Cheesecake looks so divine, I could just jump right into my screen and have a piece or two.
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First I’ll probably try it in my coffee, but then I want to make your cheesecake! Yum!
I would make chocolate chip cookies. If I could have cream cheese I would start with your cheesecake it looks amazing!
I liked Swerve on Facebook.
I’m SO borrowing your crust recipe for my cheesecake this year!! Love the thought of the almonds. My son, who is lactose intolerant, has asked for cheesecake (a once a year treat!) and we will make it just that much healthier with Swerve. I’ve been using it all week, and no one has noticed!!
(no need to enter me in the giveaway, we have one of our own!)
I would definately make this cheesecake recipe if I win the Swerve! It lookswonderful.
Thank you so much for participating in World Diabetes Day! I have the disease and appreciate all these recipes very much. The thing I think I would make is blondies.
I like Swerve on Facebook. They are a great company.
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Thanks so much for participating in World Diabetes Day and helping raise awareness! Your cheesecake looks yummy!
I made the best pumpkin pie (without crust) with Swerve and it turned out spectacular. No one believed it was made with sweetener! And my diabetic loved it — the best he’s eaten. I’m delighted to have tried Swerve. It’s the best.
that delicious looking cheesecake of yours would be tops for making on my list.
I would love to try Swerve All Natural Sweetener and the first thing I would make is your Cranberry Cheesecake! I am a diabetic and bake using artificial sweeteners but have not found one that I really like. I’ve looked in my local stores and cannot find this Swerve. Will have to look onllne. I want that cheesecake! lol
Such a lovely dessert and to know it’s low sugar and can be lower fat, even better. I like dessert too.
I have cut way back on added sugar in my cooking. I don’t think it does any of us any favours. Your cheesecake looks delightful.
I use swerve regularly, and I think the next thing I’m going to use it for is a chocolate mousse with hazelnuts.
This cranberry cheesecake!
I’d love to try this cheesecake. Can’t like you on facebook, because I don’t do facebook. Sorry.
I’ve heard a lot about Swerve and would love to try it. In this recipe, did you use the granulated or powdered? For my first use, I would probably make this cranberry cheesecake recipe b/c Thanksgiving is next week, and cranberries are so Thanksgiving!
Hi Rica,
I used the granulated one.
Roxana
I would make this! I LOVE cranberries and I LOVE cheesecake. I’ve been eating low-carb for nearly five years now–thank you for making such an awesome dessert!
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Gorgeous cheesecake! Such festive, cosy colours!
so many choices! With the holidays coming up I would love to try this recipe out. Cranberry cheesecake just so festive!
I follow swerve on FB!
I will make low-carb brownies with swerve!
I would make grain-free pumpkin spice muffins.
I would first make this cranberry cheesecake recipe…it looks delicious and is perfect for the holidays!
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first thing i would make with Swerve is Vanilla muffins
What a great cheesecake! Way to make it over for WDD!
I would make my husbands favorite dessert, peanut butter cheesecake, using Swerve instead of sugar to help control his diabetes
I liked swerve on facebook
I can’t wait to make a pumpkin pie with Swerve, I made a blueberry cobbler last month that was wonderous!!
I liked Swerve on Facebook!
I would use Swerve to make cinnamon buns
Just a thought on the cranberry sauce… we did a Swerve Cranberry Sauce for our post, and my sauce also “dried” out. I made it the day prior, then when I went to shoot it, the sauce was almost like a glaze. I gently heated it with a bit of water and it got more saucy. I think the cranberries didn’t get quite as juicy with the Swerve, but fixed with a little liquid (oj, water… grand marnier… etc!!)
I don’t know exactly how cranberries react to swerve, the sauce was OK when I put it on the cheesecake ans shoot it. The next day it was dried so I don’t know if it’s the sauce, the humidity in my fridge or what’s the explanation
Roxana
Same here!!
Cheese cake is my favorite goodie. Chocolate, fruited, plain on a plat or in my hand. Looking forward to trying Swerve now to find it online
I would make my boys a red velvet bundt cake. They love red velvet!
I would make my boys a red velvet bundt cake to enjoy. That’s their favorite kind of cake.
Would love to try it for my diabetic mother!
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I would make cheesecake
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The first thing I would make with Swerve is the wonderful looking, healthy Cranberry Cheesecake that you created. Thanks for the recipe.
I would love to switch over completely to swerve. Since the holidays are right around the corner, I would probably use it to make a pumpkin pie. After that, it would go in all my christmas cookies!
Cant wait to make my cranberry sauce with Swerve this year!!!
your cranberry cheesecake! happy thanksgiving!!!!
I would try it first in my coffee and then baked into my molasses cookies
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I’d make pumpkin cheesecake so I could have a great Thanksgiving dessert.
I’m a diabetic and would love to try this sweetener
Congratulations Lynn. You won the swerve sweetener package. Please email me your name and address.
We’d make cookies
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I would make chocolate chip cookies.
Sweetie I love Swerve. I wish you could get it locally here in Dallas. It has changed the taste of sweets forever! Thats a good thing! I would totally make a cheesecake!!
Oh my gosh the cheesecake is cooling in my oven as I write this! It looks fantastic! I am sooo nervous making this. I am so NOT a cook but love cheesecake. I bought swerve over a month ago and love it. Use it all the time on oatmeal and normal stuff you would use sugar on. Venturing out into the new cooking world is so much fun. I am following you on Pinterest, and FB. Oh and I have ZipList for lots of recipes too. Thanks for this one and all your hard work.
This is so gorgeous, Rox. Thanks for taking part in my WDD Initiative!!!
Cranberry orange bread
I would use Swerve to make cheesecake.
I would make this recipe! Sounds & looks delicious
I would have to say I would make the cheesecake recipe…LOVE cheesecake!!
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I love this recipe! … and thanks for bringing it to the brunch today … (& oh btw I like you on fb
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