Fat free New York style cheesecake in one two three!

A few years ago I could't not imagine a life without NY style cheesecake. After almost three years on my diet I have gotten used to it, but seriously it has been hard work to convince myself that it is bad for me. A couple a weeks ago a colleague of mine brought some cheesecake to work that had to be eaten, I was really strict with myself and I did not have a piece, just a small taste which I just had to have when she told me the recepie. It tastet like a piece of heaven, if heaven can have a taste. It was made of Philadelfia cream cheese and marshmallow fluff, she only whipped it together and it was done. I think she said she used butter crackers and butter for the bottom part of the cake, but I did'nt listen to that part since it is a big no no for me.

After having the smalles taste of a cheescake ever I sat there thinking about this recepie and a big smile came across my face as I realized that I could make my bellowed NY style cheesecake with almost no fat, only 5 % . If I had lived in the States I could have made a fat free NY style cheesecake, 0% fat. I thought I had died and come to heaven. I will definitly make this cake in Boston in November when I am visiting my Dearest Aunt.

I have not  made this low fat NY styel cheese cake yet, but today I made the filling with  two parts Philadelfia cream cheese and one part marshmallow fluff. I just wipped these two ingrediences together and it was done. Next time, I will make the whole cake and I will use Laurie Miller Tarrs MCT oil fudge brownie recepie,I will only use half of the batter for the bottom of the cake. In my mind this will be the greatest combination of flavours I love, chocolate and cheesecake.

I hope some of you will share  my entusiasme for this fat free NY style cheesecake.

Enjoy!!

MCT Oil Fudge Brownies

I am making this article very easy to write, I am just cutting and pasting from the FOD Family Support group page on Facebook. I have been outside in the hot sun all day at work and I just wanted to do something inside and since I love baking and spending time in my lovely kitchen, thats what I did tonight.
I have through a fellow FOD (parent) in Denmark, Fie (Flo' Diner) found a fat reduced coco  (11%)that  I like that I have used in this cake.

MCT Oil Fudge Brownies

1 cup cocoa, unsweetened
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup MCT oil, divided
1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten (I have only used the eggwhites from 4 eggs)
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt

Lightly beat eggs, set aside. Combine cocoa and baking soda in a mixing bowl; blend in half of the oil. Add boiling water and stir until thickened. Stir in sugar, eggs, and remaining oil; stir until batter is smooth. Stir in flour, vanilla, and salt, stirring until well blended.

Pour into a greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Bake at 350˚ for 25 minutes. Cool in pan on rack.

Yield:
16 3inx2in brownies: each brownie contains ~1 Tablespoon MCT oil.
OR
32 1.5inx2in brownies: each brownie contains ~1/2 Tablespoon MCT oil.

I would like to give the credit and say thanks to Laurie Miller Tarr who posted this recipe to share with us fellow FOD's. This is the best brownies I have made since I started on the low fat diet.

Enjoy!

Fat reduced cocoa for baking and drinking

One of my greatest losses when I had to change my diet not to be able to eat my delicious and sinful brownies. I have tried to make a fat free or fat reduced brownies, but I have not manage to find a recepie that has satisfied my tastebuds, I guess they won't be perfect without butter. But I will not give it up yet.

In the mean time I am trying out different types of cocoa so I can try to make a satisfying chocolate cake.

Fie who is the writer of Flo's Diner  (in Danish) a great blogg with fat redused recepies and other fun topics and Mother of a beautiful girl who is diagnosed with VLCADD who is on a diet much like mine. She also makes a lot of fat redused cakes such as I. She wrote about this fat reduced cocoa that she buys in Denmark. I happens to be so lucky that one of my colleauge is Danish and she goes to Denmark all the time, so at Easter I gave her a shopping list to buy for me. She came back with two glasses of baking cocoa and two of cocoa for drinking, since I had not made a note specifing what kind of cocoa I wanted.
There is only 12% of cocoa fat and that is half of the amount of fat in the cocoa I can buy in Norway. This is a great discovery for me, so either I have to fly down to Denmark with a couple of good girlfriends and have a Girls weekend in Cophenhagen soon  and hoarding cocoa or get Jonna to buy me a big suply next time she goes south to Denmark so I can fill up my pantry.

I do live in the wrong contrie to be on a fat free diet, both my neigbouring contries Sweden and Denmark has more products that are fat redused/free than Norway. That sucks.

Chocolate in different disguise, A sweet tooth's sweetest dreams!

After work today I went strait home to make myself some dinner to get my energy up and prevent my muscles to act up on me. I have no time for high ck levels now, anyway who wants that! So here I am on the couch having eaten a healty dinner and letting my body relax a little and it is no better time than now to check out different bloggs I follow. On one of them Tea & Cookies, there was a post on a hot chocolate crawl. A group of friend in Seattle every year, once during the long and cold Winter goes on a Hot chocolate crawl to try out and find the best hot chocolate in Seattle. This post really appealed to me as I am a sweet tooth, espescially for home made hot chocolate, the kind that is thick, dark and luscious. As I can not treat myself to one of those sinfully cups of hot chocolate I savor all my good memories of them I have had pre diagnose. I have some great memories from a Chocolate Museum in Barcelona, the hot chocolate was so thick and sweet and for a couple of moments I was in Paradise.

Last Christmas I went to Rome with some good friends, as one of them are addicted to espresso we made small stops in almost every  little cozy cafè we came by. I, myself don't care to much for any kind of coffee, so I got to try out a large range of ciccolata calda, some of them were just a sweet chocolate powder mixed with water or milk, but a couple of times I got a cup of heaven, as thick and sweet as a old fashion hot chocolate should be.

Other chocolate favorits of mine are èclair au chocolat, I used to indulge myself in them when ever I went to France which was quite often as my Aunt has a house in Provance and I love Paris. These days I only have one on every trip to France and I am very picky on which Boulangerie I buy it from.

I would also recomend all chocolate lover out there to watch "Chocolat" with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche. I don't know what I love the most about the movie, the charming french atmosphere, the sinfully chocolate shop or JOHNNY DEPP (my favorite actor since "21th Jump Street").

Below are a couple of photos of the dark, sinfully, luscious, and delicous Mr Johnny Depp!!!