Light As Air Cheesecake

NOT New York style cheesecake! Good with fresh berries. From "Diabetes Cooking for Everyone", by Carol Gelles. Exchanges: 1 lean meat, 4 1/4 fat. If fat-free cream cheese is used, exchanges are 1 very lean meat, 1/2 lean meat, 1/4 other carbohydrate, 3/4 fat.

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1  cup  agave syrup
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4  eggs
• 1⁄2 cup  toasted almond, ground

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Butter an 8-inch springform pan.
2. In a large bowl beat the cream cheese with agave syrup and vanilla until smooth. Beat in eggs. Remove and reserve 1/2 cup of the batter.
3. In a medium bowl, stir the ground nuts into the reserved batter. Spread over the bottom of the prepared pan, then pour the remaining batter on top. Bake 1 hour, or until browned on top.
4. Cool completely in the refrigerator.