High Protein Mini Biscoff Cheesecakes
These easy, creamy & lower calorie High Protein Mini Biscoff Cheesecakes have a crunchy biscoff biscuit base, creamy caramel cheesecake filling and is topped with some melted biscoff. They can be mixed up and baked in less than 30 minutes. They are the perfect high protein and low calorie dessert that actually tastes good!
Ingredients
Base
- 7 mini biscoff biscuits 56g, can sub for equal parts any biscuit of choice
- 10 g melted butter light/normal or can sub coconut oil
Cheesecake
- 130 g light cream cheese room temp
- 170 g yogurt vanilla or plain, room temp
- 1 egg room temp
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 30 g granulated zero calorie sweetener or any granulated sweetener of choice
- 30 g caramel or vanilla protein vegan or whey
- 30 g smooth biscoff spread melted for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160c (320F) and place 8 muffin liners in a muffin tin
- Add Biscoff biscuits to a food processor and blend for 10-30 seconds. Add melted butter and mix until a slightly sticky crumble forms
- Add 1.5 tsp of the base mixture to each cupcake liner, and press mixture down until even using the back of a spoon or a protein scoop
- Bake for 8-10 minutes then let it cool slightly
- Add cream cheese, vanilla, sweetener and protein powder to a bowl. Whisk by hand until well combined
- Add yogurt and 1 egg and 1 egg yolk and using an electric hand mixer (or a normal whisk), whisk until just combined & no clumps remain.
- Add 2 tbsp batter on top of each base Optional Use a water bath: place the muffin tin containing the cheesecakes into a larger baking dish or pan filled with hot water, making sure that the water level comes up about 1 inch on the sides of the muffin tin
- Bake for 20-25 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before refrigerating for minimum 1 hour
- When ready to serve, melt the biscoff spread and spread evenly on top of each cheesecake
Notes
*This recipe uses 56g of Biscoff biscuits for the base. If you want to sub this for a different kind, simply use 56g
*This recipe uses a zero calorie granulated sweetener that has a 1:1 substitution to white sugar. Please make sure if you are going to use a sugar substitute that it has the same substitution. If the sweetness is more concentrated, please use less of the sweetener.
Protein used: Salted Caramel flavoured protein from MacroMike. My affiliate code for Macromike is AMB-ELIYEATS (saves you 10%!)
Yogurt used: Yopro Vanilla Protein Yogurt
*Can use plain yogurt