(Photo by Brooke B. Oreo Cookie Dough Cheesecake.)
I’d like to introduce Brooke, the Sweet Prima Donna, a healthy dessert blogger. Our collaboration to bake the world’s best cheesecakes produced fantastic results! I baked classic New York Cheesecake and Brooke created fabulous Skinny Oreo Cookie Dough Cheesecake Cups, the perfect fun-sized dessert for individual servings! Enjoy Brooke’s recipe below!
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Hello lovelies!
I’m Brooke B. from The Sweet Prima Donna. The Sweet Prima Donna is a website dedicated to serving you up recipes for all your favorite desserts made skinny and or healthier. I believe that everyone should be able to enjoy life to the fullest, and that includes being able to indulge in the foods we love! I hope with my recipes you are able to do so without the guilt. I always say, “Life is short, eat dessert first!”, and I’m an honest believer in this!
I want to thank Carissa so much for allowing me to take over her blog today! We are both very excited about our baking collaboration and have been working hard to get ready to share with you all! Carissa informed me that she was going to share a New York Style Cheesecake with my friends on the Sweet Prima Donna Blog, which got my wheels turning. I hadn’t really thought much about making a cheesecake, but I’d seen some pretty delicious recipes floating around for cheesecake. The one that caught my eye above all was an Oreo Cookie Dough Cheesecake, holy yum! Right then and there I knew that was the recipe I was going to try to make skinny, I mean oreo, cookie dough, and cheesecake all in one place… there was no way that that wasn’t a scale tipper, ahah.
For the cheesecake base I used the recipe from Gina’s Skinny Recipes, which was a fabulous, easy to make cheesecake recipe. I also like the fact that it used greek yogurt, which gave them some extra protein, plus cream cheese has quite a lot of protein, so these cheesecake cups have quite a good amount of protein for being a dessert food! Her recipe called for a vanilla wafer as the crust, but I subbed the wafer for a reduced fat oreo. I then used my recipe for skinny chocolate chip cookies for the dough, and made it egg free so it was safe to eat raw by subbing an egg white for vinegar and baking soda.
These babies are out of this world. I’m not the biggest cheesecake fan to be honest. I’m the type of person that has to be craving a good old fashioned slice of cheesecake, but these kept me coming back to the plate for more. If the fact that I ate four the night I made these didn’t sell you on how good they are, or the fact that my sister and her friends pleaded for more, maybe this picture will do the job:
Skinny Oreo Cookie Dough Cheesecake!
(Photo by Brooke B. Oreo Cookie Dough Cheesecake.)
Servings- 12
Calories- 170 per cheesecake cup
Fat- 7g
Protein- 4.6 g – pretty good for a treat, don’t you think? (:
Ingredients:
Cheesecake Base: Recipe adapted from Gina’s Skinnytaste
Cookie Dough Recipe: Recipe adapted from my recipe for skinny chocolate chip cookies
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350.
2. Line cupcake tin with liners. Place an oreo in the bottom of each liner.
3. Beat cream cheese, sugar, stevia, and vanilla until smooth in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat in yogurt, egg whites, and flour gradually. Be sure NOT to overbeat.
4. Pour an even amount of batter into each cupcake liner until halfway full.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until center is set (Mine took exactly 20 minutes). Cool to room temperature
6. While the cheesecakes are cooling make cookie dough. To begin combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
7. Combine sugar, stevia, and butter in a large bowl of an electric mixer, and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy.
8. Add in vanilla and baking soda/vinegar mix and beat for another minute.
9. Add in flour & chocolate chips, mix just until combined. If the dough is dry add in fat free milk, rice milk, or soymilk by the tsp. (I used 1 tbsp all together)
10. Once the cheesecakes are cooled spoon the cookie dough on top of each cheesecake, about 1/2 tbsp a piece. Place in fridge to let the cookie dough set, and the cheesecake to cool further.
11. Open the fridge and gobble them all up!
My tummy is growling thinking about these… maybe another batch will be in order tonight.(; Hopefully you are feeling the same as well! Enjoy & thank you again for letting me join you all today!
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