Protein Strawberry Cheesecake

Servings: 12

Nutrition per serving: 141 Calories, 8g Carbohydrates, 9g Fat, 7g Protein, 4g Sugar

By Deanna Hill, HRM Healthy Cuisine Artist

 

Ingredients

 

1 Cup Cream cheese

½ Cup Part skim ricotta cheese

3 Scoops (3/4 Cup) Vanilla protein powder (We love Isagenix IsaPro)

1.5 Cups Fresh strawberries

12 Chocolate wafer cookies

 

 

Directions

 

1. In a large bowl, mix cream cheese, ricotta cheese and protein powder with an electric mixer until well blended and smooth.

2. Place strawberries in a blender and blend until mostly smooth

3. Fold strawberries into cream cheese mixture

4. Spoon mixture into 12 silicone muffin cups

5. Top each cup with a chocolate wafer cookie

6. Place in freezer and freeze until solid.  This will take a few hours

7. Pop cheesecakes out of the muffin cups and store in an airtight container in the freezer until ready to eat.

 

Can be eaten as a frozen treat, or thaw for about 20 min on the counter for a more traditional cheesecake texture.