Fast sugar free cheesecake that can be prepared without turning the oven on? Top it with some natural jam for perfection!

Not as a cheesecake would need any occasion to make but it’s always easier to peg cakes to occasions as it makes the whole affair special. If we turn the thing around then how would a celebration would look like without a cake. A birthday or wedding without cake is just a gathering of people who got drunk. It’s like any other passing Saturday night.

Anyway, cheesecake is nothing special, it’s exactly like any other passing Saturday or rather Friday as Thursdays are the new Saturdays. Well, this is getting rather complicated which is definitely not true for cheesecakes. Especially not this one as this one doesn’t even require baking. It’s the perfect cake for hot summer days when anything cool out from the fridge comes as a gulp of fresh water after a parching week in the dessert. Maybe, we are exaggerating here a little bit but cool desserts with a twist of savory taste during the sweaty summer days beat any baked goodies for sure.

The best thing about cheesecake is not it’s coolness though, but it’s plainness. It’s easy to prepare and doesn’t need much care after whipped together but a bit of space on the fridge shelf. Traditionally, it’s not a gluten free dessert except if we use gluten free crackers for the base or some nuts like in our gluten free cheesecake recipe. However, it’s a low carb and sugar free recipe as long as craving won’t take control over our mind and make us pour sugar wildly into the batter of course.

We can always use a favorite sweetener to adjust the recipe to the sugar level we are at the moment. Generally this means adding more to it as this recipe just bluntly leaves out the unnecessary carbs and artificial ingredients promoting healthy food choices as much as possible.

Optimally, we would make our own crackers from ingredients we would trust but time is always against us. So are hunger and late night snack raids in the kitchen thus making our reliance on a full cookie jar redundant. Making crackers from scratch then crush them to be able to prepare a no bake cheesecake is although quite doable but to be honest it defies the whole purpose of making a cheesecake. However, if we have some leftover sponge cake -the drier the better- or failed cake attempts then those could serve as a perfect base.

So if we are happy with gluten, a bit of carbs soaked in some palm tree oil or such goodies and sweetened with some trendy sweetener then don’t hesitate just grab a pack or two and get started.

Cheesecakes are a forgiving type.

We can abuse, ignore or mistreat them they will be there for us all the same when we need them most. We can mess with the ingredients ratio. We can add, swap or take out something and it will be all right. The only thing it will need is what everybody need during the summer. A bit of chill air to cool down.
This particular sugar free cheesecake recipe comes with a homemade apricot jam on top. Giving that apricots ripe around this part of the year it makes an ideal choice for seasonal food choices.

There is nothing better than baking from fresh, locally produced seasonal ingredients. Of course the modern life provides us the possibility to get almost anything anytime of the year but to be honest the fruits tastes best when they’ve been harvested at their peak. So if we can put our hands on a bucket of ripe apricot while wondering around don’t waste much time of thinking about what it should be done with it. Besides it’s a perfect choice to make some low sugar apricot jam it is a delicious ingredient for any low carb dessert.

Ingredients

7 medium / 250g Apricots
4 oz / 100g Sugar free crackers (alternatively there are ready made sugar free pie crusts too)
7 tablespoons / 100g Butter
21 oz / 600g Cream cheese
3 tablespoons / 60g Honey or sweetener of choice

Kitchen utensils

Ø8″ / Ø21cm Baking tray

How to make No bake sugar free cheesecake

Peel and slice apricots. Put them into a small saucepan with 5 spoonfuls of water.
Bring it to boil. Cook it for about 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Put crackers into a bowl then crush them into small crumbs. A food processor may come handy.
Mix softened butter with the crackers crumbs until there is a well combined mixture.
Spread crust mixture into the cake tin until it’s evenly flat. Press it down as much as possible.
Beat cream cheese and honey until soft. (Optionally we can put vanilla extract to the batter.)
Spoon cream on top of the crackers base and spread outwards to the edges.
Decorate it with slightly cooked or fresh apricots. Let it sit in the fridge overnight and our sugar free cheesecake is done.

Note: Slice and serve as soon as it’s out of the fridge. If we happen to have some leftover, don’t forget to pop it back to the fridge until next time.

Enjoy!

Fancy some more? Let’s cut to the cheese!

F.A.Q

Is cheesecake good for diabetics?

It depends on the ingredients and the amount of carbs a diabetic person is willing to have at one sitting. To make low carb cheesecake swap the crackers crust to low carb nuts like in this almond crust Gluten Free Cheesecake and skip high sugar content topping.

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Sugar-Free Cheesecake Recipe with Apricot [No Bake]

Fast sugar free cheesecake that can be prepared without turning the oven on? Top it with some natural jam for perfection!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Sugar free recipe

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 0

Resting time 6

Total Time 6 15

Ingredients

▢ 7 ripe middle size Apricots
▢ 1⅔ cup Sugar free crackers
▢ 7 tablespoon Butter
▢ 2⅔ cup Cream cheese
▢ 3 tablespoons Honey or sweetener of choice

Instructions

Peel and slice apricots. Put them into a small saucepan with 5 spoonfuls of water.
Bring it to boil. Cook it for about 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Put the crackers into a bowl then crush them into small crumbs. A food processor may come handy.
Mix softened butter with the crackers crumbs until there is a well combined mixture.
Spread crust mixture into the cake tin until it's evenly flat. Press it down as much as possible.
Beat cream cheese and honey until soft. (Optionally we can put vanilla extract to the batter.)
Spoon cream on top of the crackers base and spread outwards to the edges.
Decorate it with slightly cooked or fresh apricots. Let it sit in the fridge overnight and our sugar free cheesecake is done.