Low calorie strawberry cheesecake cookies
These low calorie strawberry cheesecake cookies are soft vanilla cookies with a creamy cheesecake filling and filled with strawberries throughout!
Ingredients
For the cheesecake filling:
- 30 g Philadelphia lightest or low-fat cream cheese
- 1 tsp stevia*
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- ¼ tsp vanilla
For the cookie:
- 10 ml oil
- 10 g applesauce
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 20 g stevia*
- 65 g plain/all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 60 g fresh strawberries diced
Instructions
For the cheesecake filling:
- Line a small tray with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the cream cheese, stevia, lemon juice and vanilla until smooth.
- Create 6 equal circular blobs of the cheesecake filling onto the parchment paper and set in the freezer for at least 1 hour to set.
For the cookies:
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC (350ºF). Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Make the cookie dough by whisking together the oil, stevia, applesauce and vanilla until well combined. Add in the flour and baking soda and fold to combine.
- Gently fold in ¾ of the diced strawberries. Set the other ¼ aside for topping later.
- To assemble the cookies, weigh out 6 equal portions of cookie dough and split each cookie into two. Place half of each cookie dough onto the parchment paper and flatten slightly using a rubber spatula.
- Place a cheesecake disc onto each of the cookies and then top with the remaining cookie dough.
- Use the back of a spoon to join the dough together and completely cover the cheesecake disc.
- Top each cookie with more diced strawberries and bake for 12-14 minutes, allow the cookies to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy the cooled cookies!
Notes
*Stevia – The stevia I use is twice as sweet as sugar so I use half the amount of sugar this recipe would require (40g). If the sweetener you use is a 1:1 ratio to sugar then you would use 40g. Adjust the sweetener according to the sweetener you’re using.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 CookieCalories: 60kcalCarbohydrates: 9.3gProtein: 1.7gFat: 1.8gSaturated Fat: 0.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.3gSodium: 53.9mgPotassium: 17.4mgFiber: 0.6gSugar: 1.1g
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