35 Calorie-a-slice cheesecake!!

I think I'm going to try a recipe tonight and I'll let you guys know how it turns out...

You take 1/2 cup a boiling water, add sugar free jell-o (or unflavored gelatin w/ a flavored extract or cocoa powder), mix it until the gelatin's dissolved, put it in the blender w/ 2 cups of non-fat cottage cheese, then let it sit in the fridge.  Sound good?  I thought so.  I'll tell you guys how it is.

yeah doris...i'm with ya! i tried it last night and didn't go so well either ;(

our supermarket had the huge box of knox unflavored gelatin. i went the cheap route and got the sugar free strawberry jello pack. i followed the recipe but the taste was bitter. i even added more sugar. it tasted like nasty strawberries and unsweetened chocolate.

does the flavored jello make that much of a difference? and also, i used almond extract and cocoa powder, was i suppose to use one or the other?

SOMEBODY HELP ME!

findingfit....I've made this a couple of different ways, and while it is slightly different depending on what you use, it;s never been bad.

I have a couple of mine entered here, so I could cut and paste for you...one is strawberry and one was my attempt at chocolate minus not having actual cocoa powder here, so I used sugar free hot chocolate. I (and my bf) thought it tasted like creamy Whoppers, malted milk balls.... You wanna? ( :

PS: Never tried it with almond extract--always seems too strong to me, so I am not sure about your one or the other question....

olivia, what did u do? i will  take another stab at it tonight. i want cheesecake!

It's in my recipes. Can you get to those? um,

(also edited to give original credit to ezra's momma who gave me the recipe in the first place. ( : I have just kept making, just one more flavor, each time these yummy little treats run out, so I could resist sharing--think about it--key lime pie, banana cream, chocolate with mint extract or use hot coffee to dissolve the gelatin and make mochaccino.....)

2 cups low fat or fat free cottage cheese 320
1 packet unflavored gelatin  20
2 packets sugar free hot chocolate  25 each
sweetener to taste   (4 each)
1 capful vanilla extract (20

I mixed the h.c. with 3/4 cup water, hot from the microwave. (I think I would do a full cup next time to see if I could squeeze 2 or 3 more cheesecakes out of it.) Stir until mixed, then stir in gelatin while it is still hot.Dump cottage cheese into blender, then h.c./gelatin mix. Blend until all c.c. lumps are gone. Pour into 12 cupcake foils or I know other people to cheesecake pies, you know. I like the single serving thing for myself. Keeps me from going crazy. ( ; Allow regular amount set up time, couple of hours? I like them with a little whip cream (esp. frozen like ice cream) or as spread on my mini caramel rice cakes, YUM 40 calories each and endless possibilites!!!!

I've used strawberry which was simpler and only 18 cals each -- that one is just the same cottage cheese,and just mix 1/2 cup hot from the micro water with any flavor sugar free jello, then quickly get it all blended smooth and pour into cupcake foils. MY only caveat would be to warn you that whatever color the jello is is the color of your cheesecake. ( : I took this to a guy friend's bday party and they were disturbingly pink.

LOL ( : We laughed.

I think next time I would try a plain old vanilla one with a few strawberries or peaches on top---blueberries, bananas, watermelon, the list goes on and on. I also think the trick of these little buggers is to get the flavoring right before you quit-----I tasted the chocolate ones the first time and thought YUCK, but I added a few more sweetenters and elected at that point to add the second hot chocolate packet to make the kind of chocolate intensity I wanted. I think if I had had some sugar free Hershey's, I would have stuck with one packet and a few tsps of that. YUM! Keep tasting the stuff in the blender until it tastes good 'cause the flavor is not changing once it's in the fridge.

Hope you enjoy! ( : Olivia 

could i use cocoa powder instead of the hot choc packets?

I honestly have no idea about subbing cocoa powder----I would assume yes, but I don't know.   / :   (sorry)

Any cocoa users out there? the lovely and talented clairlaine? ( :

The one I made this time was better than the last one.

I used two cups ff cottage cheese (320)

1 pack of rasberry sf JELL-O (40) w/ 3/4 cup of hot water

3 spenda packets

and... 1 tsp of vanilla extract (12)

soo, total 372. reeaaallyyy good.

kay

Look up a recipe for hot cocoa. I think its 1 tbsp cocoa, 1 tbsp cocoa sub, but sometimes hto cocoa mix has milk in it too. Maybe you dont need it. Would have to try. Maybe you could do a half recipe?

Okay, so I ended up cheating...couldn't find any vegetarian jelly for the life of me, so used the arrowroot again (big mistake - the topping just collapsed!) however I subbed the cottage cheese for ff cream cheese and it tasted alright...think I just need to get a good consistency now as it tasted better but couldn't stand up on its own!

Was arrowroot the vegetarian substitute someone suggested to you?

Supposed to do the same job as gelatin? (Sorry--just don;t know what it is.....I;m trying to brainstorm alternatives...)

Its meant to
Try agar-agar. Asian shops stock it. Arrowroot prolly wont work. You have to boil it in I think

Okay, well I had to go out and buy a blender because of you, so this better be good! 

LOL---I sure hope you like it!

It's no 400 calorie a sliver, real cheesecake, by any means, but I love it! I decided when I ran out, I would just make an ew batch, trying a different flavor each time. What is it about my twisted psyche that feel better just knowing there is a sweet, decadent yet healthy dessert in the fridge? I can actually avoid eating if I just know it's there......

Let us know what you think, moscovite----and seriously, make sure you like the way it tastes in the blender because the flavor isn;t changing once it's in the fridge. Good luck! ( : Olivia

OMG I just spent the last 30 minutes reading this thread from the start...I can't wait to try it!  I think I'll try using fat free ricotta since cottage cheese just kinda skeeves me...

Thanks you guys for coming up with such wonderfully creative ideas...LOL and of course I have not only sugar free hershey syrup but I also have calorie free walden farms chocolate syrup!  Let the guilt free chocolate cheese cakes begin! :) ?

It's actually pretty good. I like the texture, except that it has tiny bits of solid cottage cheese, but that doesn't really ruin it. I think next time I'll use Splenda, and try using a little less Jell-o. Thanks guys.

Oh, and now I have my very own blender, thanks to this thread.

moscovite, I second your decision to use SPlenda----I think it makes it much more a realistic taste. ( :

And I have to  blend that stuff to within an inch of its life! I can't abide by lumps in my cheesecake =P lol

Let us know how it turns out jem! This discovery has been a diet saver several times for me ( : I haven't tried it yet with the choc syrup, and I too thought about ricotta---I would be really curious how you think it turned out when you are done....Can you tell us a calorie count comparison for the ricotta vs. fat free cottage cheese (80 per 1/2 cup) creaminess/texture, and flavor overall? ( :

I made myself hungry....

You can use the blender for so much more too!
I'd rather use cocoa that SF syrup just cos each syrup has a different amount of water/cocoa, plus we dont have s/f syrups in australia :D
Cant wait to try this.
How big were the cupcake papers you filled the 12 with?

I'm very frustrated!!!!

I tried to enter my cheesecake recipe into the analyzer and it won't accept:

fat free ricotta cheese although the Kraft Polly O fat free ricotta is in the foods list

sugar free jello for the same reason as above!

hey jem?

I hear you, girl! ( : I have had to hit clairelane up for help with the recipe analyzer more than once.

OK, here's the best I could figure out--knowing what I know (which admittedly is not much!)

I messed around with the recipe analyzer until I found your Polly O ricotta and sugar free jello and copied down their [12345] item number. Then I messed around some more until I figured out what type of measurement the analyzer was looking for..... Keep trying new if it ever does that to you again---esp. if you know the item is in the database. I always just resort to using the item number if it's being weird.

I got it to accept like this---holler back if it's cursed and doesn;t work again,.....

16 ounces (use ounces! but whatever number you're actually using.....) ricotta's item number is [109554]
and
7 grams (this is the way the analyzer views gelatin since one "envelope" = 1 tbsp = 7 grams, I guess) sugar free jello, item number [19177]

good luck! Let us know how it turns out! ( : Olivia

Okay, now I'm all confused!  I prefer Fat Free ricotta over cottage cheese, too.  Can somebody please post both recipes w/calorie count and comments?  There are so many here that I don't know which is best!  Thanks!!!!