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Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe. This recipe was contributed by my friend and fellow Plan Z dieter Amy. She came up with this awhile back because she was planning ahead for Thanksgiving and wanted to make a more healthy meal. She’s lost a bunch of weight, so she’s more conscious now. When she got it done she had leftovers so she drove it over to our house so we could have some.

I could hardly believe my taste buds! This tasted more like a smooth pumpkin pie than a cheesecake to me, but in either case I found it to be a heavenly option for a pumpkin dessert destined for Thanksgiving. I assure you, it will be my featured dessert this year and I plan to have a piece and not just a sliver.

Servings: Serves 8

Ingredients:

For the Crust:

• 1 cup crushed pecans
• 1 cup super fine ground almond flour (Bob’s Redmill is the most popular brand)
• 6 Tbl butter, melted

For the Filling:

• 16 oz cream cheese, softened
• 18 tsp Truvia
• 15 oz can pumpkin
• ¾ cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp ginger and ¼ tsp cloves)
• ½ tsp salt
• 4 large eggs, room temperature

Instructions:

Combine pecans, almond flour and melted butter. Press into bottom and 1 ½ “ up the sides of a large spring form pan. Set aside.

For the filling blend the cream cheese and Truvia (stevia) until creamy. Add the rest of the ingredients except eggs, mix well. Add eggs one at a time until just blended.  Pour over crust. Bake at 325 degrees for one hour.  Remove from oven and run a knife around the edge of the cheesecake to loosen from the sides. Let cool completely and then refrigerate overnight to set.

Suggestions: You should put a cookie sheet with sides on it one rack down from the cheesecake in case any butter leaks out. Don’t want burned butter and your smoke detector going off. Also, this cheesecake should be ready to eat after about 4 hours of cooling, so if you make it same day it should be fine, but I truly believe cheesecakes always taste better a day later.

And lastly, if you don’t want that tell-tale crack in the top of your cheesecake heed the advice to let the cheesecake cool completely to room temperature before you put it in the refrigerator. This is not a fool proof way not to have a crack but it really ups your odds of a smoother surface.

Enjoy!

Cheers,