Pomegranate cheesecake pots
Background
These no-bake pomegranate cheesecake pots are made with white chocolate, light cream cheese and yoghurt - so they are a bit healthier than normal cheesecakes. Also, you can use gluten-free cookies for the recipe, if needed. Perfect dessert for dinner parties, anniversaries, special occasions all year round.
Ingredients
- 2 pomegranates
- 6 almond cookies
- 1 Tbsp Amaretto (optional)
- 2 tsp soft butter, melted
- 1 Tbsp muscovado sugar or Stevia
- ½ tsp vanilla paste
- 50g white chocolate
- 165g Philadelphia light cream cheese
- 150g Vanilla yogurt
- Squeeze of lemon juice
- Almond flakes (optional)
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in glass bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Set aside.
- Put the cookies in a bowl and crush them with a pestle or a rolling pin until you get fine crumbs. Pour the melted butter and Amaretto over the crumbs and mix well.
- Spoon this mixture into glass pots or ramekins and rest them in the fridge.
- Take the seeds out of half of a pomegranate.
- Squeeze the rest into a small saucepan, including their juice. Add the sugar and vanilla and lemon juice. Bring to the boil and reduce it into a syrup.
- Let it cool.
- Mix the soft cheese, Stevia, yoghurt until light and fluffy. Mix in the white chocolate then the bitty pomegranate syrup.
- Spoon this mixture into the ramekins or glass pots.
- Chill for 2 hours or even longer.
- Garnish with the remaining pomegranate seeds and serve.
Categories
- Meal Type: - Dessert - Puddings - Quick & Easy
- Cuisines: - Fusion
- Occasions: - Anniversaries - Christmas - Dinner Party - Easter - Mothers Day - New Year - Parties - Sunday Lunch - Valentine's Day
- Ingredients: - Chocolate - Exotic Fruits
- Health and Diet: - Egg Free - Gluten Free
- Skill Levels: - Easy
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