Pumpkin cheesecake

It's that time of year, time to eat orange things.

Full recipe: http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=cheesecake

Gotta say this is mostly inspired by Polished's cheesecake: http://www.askscooby.com/recipes/cheesecake-%28preparation-skill-810%29/




INGREDIENTS

Crust:

- 3 cups of Kashi GOLean cereal
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 egg whites

Filling

- 2 tubs (32oz / 500g ) of non-fat / fat-free cream cheese. Just take the lowest fat content you can find.
- 1 tub (16oz /250g) of non-fat ( or lowest fat you can find) cottage cheese
- 4 egg whites
- 1 cup of pureed pumpkin
- 3/4 cup Splenda
- 6 tablespoons skim milk powder ( or protein powder if you have it, vanilla or flavorless though or else it'll screw with the taste)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

Topping:

- 2 cups of fruit ( I had grapes)
- 1/2 cup Splenda

Let your 2 cups of fruit and Splenda simmer for an hour or so until you get a thick syrup / jelly.

Mix the dry crust ingredients in a blender until you get fine powder. Put in a bowl, add in egg whites and mix until you get a crumbly texture. Grease up a big cake mold and put the crust in the bottom. Shape it into a crust with your fingers. Put that in the oven at 350f for 10 minutes.

Mix the filling ingredients in the blender. Add food coloring if you want. No, forget that, YOU HAVE TO ADD FOOD COLORING. YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. Once that's all nice and smooth, pour it in the crust and ship your cake to the oven for 35-40mins.

Once the cake is done, pour the fruit syrup on top and let the cake cool in the fridge for however much patience you have. I lasted a good 3 hours on this run!

Really depends on what you find. I couldn't find any non-fat cottage or cream cheese so they had higher calories and I didn't use protein powder but skim milk powder. My cake turned out at: For 1/8th cheesecake: 248 calories, 22g protein.

With non-fat cream cheese? 227/22 ( knocks 21 calories from each slice)
Using whey isolate / protein powder could knock maybe 5 calories from each slice and add 1-2 g protein.
0% cottage cheese vs 1% removes 6 calories per slice
Remove the fruit topping for an extra 15 calorie bonus off each slice

So you could get it to about 200 / 24 per slice.

Cheesecake mastery here i come  .

That's the idea, hmm perhaps i'll do that when i'll finish my cut.