Bananas Foster Cheesecake
photo by lifeservant_1216178
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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10-12
ingredients
- 1 graham cracker crust (1-1/2 Ingredient Fiber Crust see my recipes)
- 24 ounces fat free cream cheese
- 6 teaspoons non-nutritive brown sugar substitute (Sweet 'n' Low Brown) or 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 5 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 8 egg whites (same thing either way) or 1 cup fat free egg substitute (same thing either way)
- 2⁄3 cup pureed banana
- 3 tablespoons banana Schnapps or 3/4 teaspoon banana extract
- 3 tablespoons light rum or 3/4 teaspoon rum extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp black walnut)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350*F.
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, brown sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon.
- Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Add egg whites, two at a time, mixing to combine after each addition.
- Beat in puréed banana, banana schnapps, rum and vanilla extract.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over the crust.
- Bake at 350ºF.
- for 15 minutes.
- Lower the temperature to 225ºF.
- and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until the center no longer looks wet or shiny.
- (Do NOT do the"knife test"- it only made my cake crack ALL over) Remove the cake from the oven and run a knife around the inside edge of the pan.
- Turn the oven off; return the cake to the oven for an additional 30 minutes.
- (I didn't notice this step, but the cake turned out all right, but I'll be sure to remember this NEXT time!:) Chill, uncovered, overnight.
- Enjoy as is or top with caramel sauce or even the REAL Bananas Foster!
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Reviews
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I only changed a couple of things and that was to make it even more figure friendly - I substituted Splenda for the sugar and took three packs of instant brown sugar maple oatmeal and pulverized them, then moistened it well with a fat free butter spray to form the crust. Very tastey - definitely not like some stiff new york cheesecake - lighter in texture, but man, did it hit the spot when we wanted to cheat. I'll definitely try it again and with other fruits in the mix. Excellent recipe.
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This recipe turned out beatifully!!! It was super easy to make. A couple of notes: I made a simple graham cracker crust with 1 pkg of crushed graham crackers and 4 T of melted butter and I used a 10" springform pan. I did not have banana extract and don't like the taste of artificial flavorings so I did not use it. I topped the cake with a bananas foster topping from allrecipes.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
nomnom
Wilmington, Delaware
I graduated from the University of Delaware's HRIM program in '06.
Been several years since I was last active and experimenting, but I'm coming back into it.
I used to be vegetarian (even had a touch of the veganism), and I still love me my veggies, but I also love me my meat. I will never stop liking tofu no matter what. Don't knock until you try it cooked PROPERLY. Tofu is so easy to mess up.