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Gluten Free Sugar Free Sopapilla Cheesecake

Yield 8 Pieces

Gluten Free Sugar Free Sopapilla Cheesecake is sopapilla meets old fashioned crescent cream cheese coffee cake and they complement each other well. 

Ingredients

For the crust:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

For the filling

Instructions

Directions for the crust:

  1. Prepare the Lighter Low Carb Pastry Dough according to directions and lightly spray a 9-10 inch pastry dish with oil. Place the dough in the center of the pan and with damp hands, press out toward the side and up the sides of the pan. Prick the dough with a fork before placing in the oven.
  2. Sprinkle well with *Granulated Cinnamon Sweetener combination.  Just sprinkle lightly over the whole crust and repeat until you get a good coverage. 
  3. Bake in a preheated oven for 5 minutes which will just dry this crust out then you can fill it with the cream cheese filling with no problems of sogginess at all.
  4. Keep a close eye on this and don't let it burn.

Directions for the filling:

  1. Soften the cream cheese in the microwave then remove and beat in the sweetener, lemon juice, vanilla, and egg then cream it all together well.
  2. Spread the cream cheese mixture onto the partially baked bottom crust.
  3. Sprinkle with the Granulated Cinnamon Sweetener Combo
  4.  Bake this until the filling is set  20-30 minutes. *See note.
  5. Keep an eye on it and if the crust begins to get golden but the cheesecake still jiggles just cover it lightly with a piece of foil and the crust will stop darkening and the cheesecake will still get done, it just might take a bit longer. If yours is not set after 20 minutes keep it in for longer.
  6. Mine was just done at 20 minutes but ovens and cook times vary.

Notes

*A link to the granulated cinnamon sweetener combination is included to answer questions about the various combinations of cinnamon and sweetener that can be used here without going into it all in this recipe. 

*Do not use a powdered sweetener for this as it will burn or at the very least it will looked burned.

*Keep an eye on it and if the crust begins to get golden but the cheesecake still jiggles just cover it lightly with a piece of foil and the crust will stop darkening and the cheesecake will still get done, it just might take a bit longer. If yours is not set and still jiggly after 20 minutes keep it in for longer.

* This dish is much better cooled than warm from the oven, it actually gets sweeter.

Recipe by Nana's Little Kitchen at https://www.nanaslittlekitchen.com/gluten-free-sugar-free-sopapilla-cheesecake/