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CARAMEL TURTLE CHEESECAKE
You are absolutely going to love this dessert and your friends and family are
going to think you are a culinary genius!
Ingredients (Serves: 8)
1 low-fat graham cracker crust
¼ cup butter
1 cup coconut
½ cup chopped pecans
2 low fat cream cheese, 8 oz. each, room temperature
2 eggs, room temperature
½ cup Splenda® brown sugar (or similar sweetener)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Caramel ice cream topping, sugar-free
- In an 8 inch cake pan (not included with oven) combine butter, coconut and
pecans and add to high rack in oven.
- Bake for 4 minutes on 205ºC, stirring often and watching closely not to burn
coconut. Remove and cool.
- In food processor, add cream cheese, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla and process
till smooth, scraping sides.
- Pour half of mixture into graham cracker shell and top with half coconut-
pecan mixture and drizzle with caramel topping; top with remaining cream
cheese mixture.
- Bake on low rack at 160ºC for 20 minutes. Take out and top with remaining
coconut-pecan mixture and drizzle with caramel topping.
- You may add halved chocolate covered caramel confections for garnish.
Refrigerate.
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