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Low Fat Lemon Cheesecake

missduffbug
missduffbug Posts: 217
edited September 2024 in Recipes
I got this recipe from weight watchers a few years ago and whenever I am on a diet, I make it as it's delicious but not as fattening as normal cheesecake.
I guess you can deviate from the ingredients I use and substitute as you so wish but I always do it the same way and its lush.
I cant remember the points value per slice but I seem to remember it wasn't really high.

70g Low Fat Spread (Butter)
200g Crushed Low Fat Digestive Biscuits (I have wondered about substituting these for ginger nuts perhaps but I think they might be quite fatty)
500g Natural Yoghurt
1 Tin of Condensed Milk - I use the Regular l one as its not a huge variation in calories from the Light one.
Fresh Lemon Juice
Lemon Jelly

Melt the butter in a pan and mix with the crushed biscuits. Place in the bottom of a dish and crush as flat as you can to make a base. Place dish in fridge until the biscuit base is cold and has set.
Melt jelly in boiling water. I always fill 1/4 jug full and wait for jelly to dissolve.
Mix the yoghurt and condensed milk in a bowl and add the lemon juice. Once the jelly has melted, add the mixture to the yoghurt mix and stir well.
Taste as you go as some people may prefer it to be stronger in a lemon taste to others.
Pour yoghurt mixture over the biscuit base and place in the fridge to set.
It usually takes mine about 4 hours to fully set.
Serve with fruit or sauce or however you like it! Yummy cheesecake without all the nasty calories!!!

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  • sophieshaped
    sophieshaped Posts: 228 Member
    Yum. I have to admit that I've currently got a packet of ginger nut biscuits on the go and every now and again I make the laziest, quickest version on cheesecake you'll ever get... I just spread the biscuit with a little bit of mascarpone cheese and a little bit of lemon curd. hehe, naughty but nice :o)
  • chiliflea
    chiliflea Posts: 695 Member
    That sounds divine! Thanks! x
  • missduffbug
    missduffbug Posts: 217
    It honestly is divine!

    And those mini ones sound DELICIOUS!!! x
  • curran80
    curran80 Posts: 77
    Sounds yummy, thanks for sharing
  • missduffbug
    missduffbug Posts: 217
    no worries - its no expensive to make either as you dont have to have branded stuff - just trial and error really....... I guess you could also use strawberry jelly and dice fruit to put in it also..... in fact I may just try that!
  • corsayre8
    corsayre8 Posts: 551 Member
    Ok, so thrilled to see this, lemon cheesecake is my all time favorite dessert. However, I am at a complete loss as to what digestive biscuits? Are they an English thing?
  • missduffbug
    missduffbug Posts: 217
    Ok, so thrilled to see this, lemon cheesecake is my all time favorite dessert. However, I am at a complete loss as to what digestive biscuits? Are they an English thing?

    They are completely english lol (I think!) They are just basically plain biscuits. Can be eaten with sweet or savoury stuff.............. Maybe a plain cookie in America? Just a biscuit thats low fat and has not much sugar in - the yoghurt and condensed milk make it sweet anyway. Im just not sure what an alternative would be in america!!
  • sophieshaped
    sophieshaped Posts: 228 Member
    I think you guys call them graham crackers...?
  • corsayre8
    corsayre8 Posts: 551 Member
    Perfect, I know what graham crackers are - and we use them for cheesecake crust. Makes sense now. Thanks!
  • edyta70
    edyta70 Posts: 47 Member
    bump!
  • edyta70
    edyta70 Posts: 47 Member
    how do you melt the jelly? do you put water IN it?

    - Sorry, i am not an advanced cook yet :P
  • missduffbug
    missduffbug Posts: 217
    how do you melt the jelly? do you put water IN it?

    - Sorry, i am not an advanced cook yet :P

    Hello
    Yes, make up the jelly as normal - I use a jug......boil the water and melt it and then once the crust on the cheesecake is set in the fridge, mix the jelly with the yoghurt and condensed milk and lemon juice, then add to the base.

    In America though I think you call our Jam - jelly......I mean the jelly cubes that you pour water onto and set in the fridge - the kind that some people put into trifle........

    I just actually had a slice and it was lush!!!
    I guess its still alot of calories for your body but MUCH less than normal cheesecake!

    Definitely try and have fat free biscuits/graham crackers and use the lowest fat natural yoghurt that you can.

    :0) xxx
  • edyta70
    edyta70 Posts: 47 Member
    Thank you! I just made it and its looking good :) cant wait to try it!
  • Barelmy
    Barelmy Posts: 590 Member
    You could cut the butter entirely by making individual portions in glasses, and putting crushed amaretto biscuits at the bottom.
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