Wanna know what makes me happy? Making something really decadent from 100% homemade and/or local ingredients. Like cheesecake. Yup, homemade cheese, homemade vanilla, eggs from our front yard, and honey from our neighbor’s bees. It rocks. And incidentally, cream cheese is one of the easiest cheeses to make. I highly reccomend trying it.
On a whim a few weeks ago, I decided to go sugar-free until Thanksgiving. Crazy? Yeah, pretty much. Especially with our anniversary being last week. One does not simply let their anniversary slip by without sort of special dessert. Not around here anyway.
So I set out to make a honey-sweetened cheesecake, and let me just say that it was phenomenal! Whoever would have thought there could be such a thing as a healthy cheesecake recipe?
Well, this cheesecake is. Still high calorie yes, but they’re healthy calories, so it’s all good, right?
Honey Sweetened Cheesecake Recipe
- 2 lbs. cream cheese
- 4 eggs
- 1 T. vanilla
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup cream or milk
Bring cream cheese to room temperature. Beat cream cheese and milk until fluffy. add eggs, vanilla and honey.
Pour into a gluten-free “graham cracker” crust lined spring-form pan.
Bake at 350 for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until set.
Chill overnight before serving.
Enjoy!
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Carmelle says
so when do you add the milk in the hiney flavored cheesecake??
Elise says
You would beat it with the cream cheese.
Jamesia says
I LOVE this recipe! I’ve made it 3 times already, i can’t wait to make it again for my mother’s birthday, September 8, it’s the only thing she loves more than chocolate cake🤗
Elise says
Oh yay! So glad you all like it!
TR says
Do you find it sweet enough? I’m making it for a birthday, I usually use another recipe but I want to try something new!
Jan says
This is amazing. Best cheesecake recipe I have found! Thank you. 😀
Cari says
What size of spring form pan would you recommend for this recipe?
Jake Blake says
14”
Mike says
This is a terrible recipe!! First of all, it needs at least 1 cup of honey for it to be sweet enough. 2nd, if you bake a cheesecake at 350 degrees, IT WILL BURN!!! Thanks for helping me to waste my time and money on this recipe…
Toni says
Hi, I just wanted to check on the amount of cream cheese, 2lbs that would mean 4 blocks of cream cheese right ? Thanks!
JoAnne Salmon Reyes says
what size are the eggs? thanks
Bridget says
I made this cheesecake yesterday and today my family and boyfriend got to taste it. They loved it! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! ♥️
Tanya says
This sounds good and easy. Incidentally, I watched the entire video of the homemade cream cheese and she said this cream cheese was not good for baking recipes. Have you actually made that cream cheese and then used it in this cheesecake recipe! I’ll let you know how mine turns out. Cheers!