These creamy, fruity individual low carb raspberry cheesecakes are a perfectly guilt free indulgence.
I'm going to make a rather large statement here. Small, my friends, is better than big.
Think about it.
There is a tipping point in almost all aspects of life where big becomes too much, too unmanageable, unfeasible.
Do you know that feeling after a big meal? Not nice, walking around with stones in your stomach for hours. Your body will thank you for sticking to smaller, sensible portions. And if there is a large spread, small portions mean you can sample more flavours. Small food is fun, neat, grown-up in a good way and can be eaten with your fingers. Small food is almost too good to be true!
Here's the epitome of a perfectly formed small dessert: low carb raspberry cheesecake.
You all know I'm a big (oh dear - wrong word?!) fan of muffins. I've posted recipes for carrot cake muffins, low carb chocolate banana muffins, chocolate feast muffins and my most popular recipe, low carb muffins. I think they are the perfect size treat.
After making this (full sized) orange brandy cheesecake recently, I thought it was time to test my beloved silicone muffin pan with some mini raspberry cheesecakes.
These supremely tasty, super-fruity cheesecakes are so easy to make, you could basically do it with your eyes closed.
I made a raspberry sauce with the very useful low carb thickener xanthan gum. If you are in a hurry, you could even skip this step and drop a few whole berries into the cheesecake mix instead. The one thing I do recommend is to use a silicone baking mould (pan). Unless you use paper cups, a silicone mould is the difference between getting your muffins or mini raspberry cheesecakes out in one piece or scraping tasty crumbs onto a plate.
Raspberries are one of my favourite low carb fruits.
They have 7.3 net carbs per half cup.
You can, of course, make this recipe as a cake (increase the oven time in this case to 1 hour and use a springform).
Because as we all know, exceptions prove the rule and when it comes to cheesecake, big can be (almost) as good as small.
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Recipe
Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes (gluten free, low carb)
from Sugar Free LondonerNote: The servings slider only changes the first amount in each line and not any subsequent amounts. Please make your own calculations where necessary.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 100 g / 1 cup almond flour or ground almonds
- 50 g / ½ cup coconut flour
- 60 g / ¼ cup softened butter
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoon granulated sweetener
- 2 cups / 500g full fat cream cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup / 120g raspberries plus a few more to decorate
- 2 tablespoon water
- pinch xanthan gum
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 160 Celsius.
- Mix the ground almonds and coconut flour with 1 tablespoon Natvia, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and the softened butter until you have a ball of dough. Set aside.
- Mix the cream cheese with the eggs, the remaining 4 tablespoon of sweetener and the other 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
- Heat the raspberries (you can use frozen or fresh) with 2 tablespoon water in a small pot and cook on a low heat for ca 5 minutes until you have a thick sauce. Take off the heat and stir in a pinch of xanthan gum. This is a thickener - so if you do not have xanthan gum, make sure you reduce the liquid in the raspberries by as much as possible (without burning them!)
- Now you assemble the mini cakes: Form small disks in your hands and press them firmly into the bottom of the muffin pan.
- Next, spoon the raspberry sauce on the dough base and then pour in the cheesecake mix.
- Stir a little to get some of the sauce to the top, but be careful not to over-stir. It will still taste great, but not look as pretty. Dot any remnants of the raspberry sauce on the top.
- Bake ca 45 minutes until the top of the cakes is firm. The center will still be jiggly.
Christine Medway
I had one of your older recipes from 2020 for a full sized raspberry cheesecake, which was delicious. Unfortunately, I seemed to have lost it! It was always a favourite with my family and they loved to cut themselves a slice. Yet, I cannot find this on your website now - only the mini ones. Could you reprint the older recipe for the full size version again please?
My family wait in eager anticipation.
Many thanks for your lovely - easy to produce recipes.
From a life long non baker/ cook.
Katrin Nürnberger
I have a full-size keto strawberry cheesecake. You could use raspberries instead.
Barbara W
I made these today. I must have done something wrong because they came out of the oven with incredible shapes on the top. Then as they started to cool, they sunk. Can you give me an idea what I did wrong? The only thing I can think of is that maybe I blended the cream cheese and eggs too long.
Katrin Nürnberger
Yes, it is possible that by adding too much air to the eggs they fluffed up and then collapsed. It is also important that all ingredients are room temperature so the cake can rise and bake evenly.
Kasia
Do you really need xantan gum? Can i use anything else?
Katrin
Hi Kasia, you can also reduce the sauce as much as possible so it's thicker. Or use a pinch of ground chia seeds, they are also good for thickening
Anne
Just made the raspberry cheesecakes & they are delicious! I needed a bit extra butter as the base was a bit crumbly (fine once it was baked).
I kept a small amount of the cheese mix and added lemon juice to it to make a plain lemon mini cheesecake, Yum!
Will be making this recipe often I think! Thankyou Katrin
Lucinda Tyler
HI Anne, I like the idea of theplain lemon mini cheesecakes and would like to make this without the Raspberries.
How much lemon juice did you use for the one mini cheesecake you made?
Thanks Lucinda
Donna
Hi I’m guessing these would freeze ok too?
Katrin
Yes you can freeze them!
Lou
Can I use almond flour instead of the almonds?
Katrin
yes you can! 🙂