Food - Recipe - Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

Another recipe to use up all the items in my fridge before going to Las Vegas for a week of sun and relaxation

Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

 • Preparation time: 10 minutes

Makes: 1

 Ingredients 

• 3 Digestive Biscuits
• 25g Unsalted Butter, melted
• 25g Cream Cheese
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 2 Dessert Spoons Caster Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Lemon Juice 
• A handful of Mint Leaves, Snipped 
• Fresh Fruit and Icing Sugar to decorate 

Method 

1. Meanwhile, crush the digestive biscuits into fine crumbs –bash in a sandwich bag with a rolling pin – and mix with the butter. Divide into a ramekin or glass, lightly pressing down with the back of a spoon. 
2. Whip together the soft cheese and the remaining ingredients apart from the fruit. Spoon over the biscuit bases, top each with the fresh fruit and icing sugar, then serve.

Adapted from this recipe

Nutritional Info 

 For this dish I calculated that this had about 50g of carbohydrate so for this, so for a Type 1 diabetic on a Short-Acting insulin Regime with 10g of carbohydrate to 1 unit of insulin, this would require 5 units of insulin

Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

Yield: 1

Nic: Nic

Prep time: 10 MCook time: Total time: 10 M

A Quick easy pudd for 1 person

Ingredients:

• 3 Digestive Biscuits
• 25g  Unsalted Butter, melted
• 25g Cream Cheese
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 2 Dessert Spoons Caster Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Lemon Juice
• A handful of mint leaves, Snipped
• Fresh Fruit and icing Sugar to decorate

Instructions:

How to cook Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

1. Meanwhile, crush the digestive biscuits into fine crumbs –bash in a sandwich bag with a rolling pin – and mix with the butter. Divide into a ramekin or glass, lightly pressing down with the back of a spoon.
2. Whip together the soft cheese and the remaining ingredients apart from the fruit. Spoon over the biscuit bases, top each with the fresh fruit and icing sugar, then serve.

Calories
566

Fat (grams)
41

Sat. Fat (grams)
24

Carbs (grams)
46

Fibre (grams)
6

Net carbs
41

Sugar (grams)
26

Protein (grams)
7

Sodium (milligrams)
395

Cholesterol (grams)
85

Adapted from this recipe - https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/m/maple-and-rhubarbcheesecakes.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=maplesyrup&stop_mobi=yes

dessert, cheesecake, mint, lemon

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