Raw Cheesecake Pudding – Real Food Diet Cookbook – pg. 217
Everyone loves a good dessert, but how often is it actually good for you? This Raw Cheesecake Pudding tastes great and has ingredients that will keep you healthy and happy.
- 1 cup raw cashew butter
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/3 cup raw honey
- 4 dates
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. celtic sea salt
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This is basically the recipe for the cheesecake I make, except I make a raw almond crust, and then place it in the freezer. Yum! Never thought to just use it as a pudding! Great idea! Much faster!
Would love to have your recipe for a raw almond crust. Can you either post it or tell me where to get it.
Thanks,
Mary Ruth
I am able to convert some of your reciepes for desserts by substituting other sweeteners for the honey & dates. Do you have any suggestions for sweets besides stevia, dates, & honey as all are off limits for cancer diets.
Dr. Josh,
Could I use raw cashews to do this? I make a reg raw cheese cake with a very similar recipe. How many cups of soaked cashews should I use if I go this route? Thanks!
I think the title of the recipe is misleading… at the very least you should add the word ‘faux’ or put cheesecake in quotation marks. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t simply use raw cream/farmers cheese? They are delicious and highly nutritious. This is a nut-butter pudding- why not simply call it that?
~Huntress
Probably it is because it wouldn’t be attractive at all specially for people that are not really into these new terms like “raw”?!, I like the term because is something that is familiar to me wether it tastes like cheescake or not I am going to try it just because of the name of the recipe It’s just not attractive nut-butter. It might be a marketing thing who knows. It worked for me though. I am making it.
If you need to be lied to to feel better about what you’re eating, that’s a very sad thing. The recipe makes less than 2 cups of finished pudding- if you divide that into 4 servings )less than half a cup each) you’re eating 438 calories for dessert alone.
It also has a glycemic load of 21 and 43 net grams of carbohydrate. Using real cream cheese rather than the cashews cuts 518 calories from the entire recipe and 130 from each serving. Plus, it’s “actual” cheese.
I don’t count calories, but I also wouldn’t eat as many calories for my dessert as I eat for my meal. I’m also all for plenty of fat n the diet, but we’re already inundated with 6s and 9s. We don’t need MORE of them, we need less.
Some people – such as myself can’t eat dairy even in its raw state as much as I would love to. I buy raw milk for my family but due to intollerance can’t use it myself. Thank goodness there alternatives out there for the rest of us!
Lovely recipe look forwards to trying it.
I very much agree with you Jayne… so if you’re a person who can’t eat dairy, the chances that you’ll even LOOK at a recipe title “cheesecake” go down quite a bit, don’t they? In fact, wouldn’t titling the recipe “Mock Cheesecake Pudding” be more likely to draw the interest of folks who can’t eat dairy?
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Tried this recipe and it is delicious. I had been craving something sweet , but didn’t want to go for a sugary, unhealthy snack. I didn’t have any dates, so I used organic raisins and it still tastes great. I also halved the recipe since it was only for me. Thanks for the great recipe; I am intolerant of dairy and this is a great substitute. I don’t see any thing wrong with calling it ‘cheesecake’. It is really rich like cheesecake. Thanks for all the great recipes.
This very much is “sugary”. If you’re going to eat sugar, I think it’s great to be sure to eat it without artificial ingredients and to include something nutritious with it as well- but this is a high glycemic food. One serving raises your blood sugar as much as a snack size (not bite size) Snickers bar. Your body doesn’t care what the source of the sugar is or whether or not it’s organic. Sugar will use leptin and insulin for metabolism… “natural” or not, this is a sugary dessert. Add a “natural crust” and the glycemic load doubles. (from 21 to 40) It’s not as bad as a candy bar, but I’m not sure which part is supposed to be healthy.
You could use Xylitol honey (I get it at my chiropractor’s office) instead of the honey and dates. I am not sure how much raw cashews it would take to substitute. You may have to try it to see.
That sounds yummy
I just learned that if you’re allergic to poison ivy/oak/sumac, eating raw cashews may make you ill, at the very least it will cause a rash. The raw nuts contain the same allergen (urushiol) as these plants do.