Chocolate, Butterscotch & Coconut Vegan Protein Cheesecake

Three ingredient protein cheesecake crusts are perfect due to the fact that they’re simple, quick, delicious, and  perfect for protein cheesecakes. You make them by mixing together 1. ground almonds + 2. honey or agave syrup + 3. nut butter. But what do you do when, for whatever reason, you don’t want to (or can’t) use any nuts? Do you then walk away from the three ingredient protein cheesecake crust? No. What you do instead is just substitute the ground almonds for rolled oats and the nut butter for a seed butter. So your crust ends up being 1. rolled oats (gluten-free or regular) + 2. sunflower seed or pumpkin seed butter + 3. honey or agave syrup. Those three ingredients combined will yield a crust that is just as good (if not better) than that which you get by combining ground almonds + nut butter + syrup. The only bad part about making three ingredient cheesecake crusts is that they’re really tasty. So you sometimes end up eating more of the batter than initially intended. It tastes kind of like cookie dough, you know? And cookie dough has magnetic powers…As you’ll see from the ingredients below, the filling for this cheesecake is vegan (as is the crust and topping).

If you don’t care to make your cheesecake vegan though, or if you just can’t find the coconut yogurt and/or the pea protein powder that we used to make it, that’s OK. Don’t worry. Just use some cream cheese instead of the coconut yogurt and casein instead of pea protein powder. Ready to rumble? Here goes:

Ingredients Crust

1/8 to 1/4 cup agave syrup 
4 tbsp pumpkin seed butter (thus the colour!) or, if you prefer, peanut butter or almond butter
1/2 cup rolled oats (gluten-free or regular)

Filling

400 grams coconut yogurt
1/2 cup vanilla Pea Protein powder (or Vegan Wondershake)
1/4-1/2 cup agave syrup or honey of Zero Syrup 
1/2-1 tbsp vanilla essence 
1 tbsp butterscotch flavouring (optional but amazing)

Topping

2 tbsp coconut flakes
1/8 cup chocolate sauce, melted chocolate, or jam!

Directions

1. First, combine your crust ingredients in a bowl using a spatula or in a food processor if you want your crust to not have an oatmeal-texture

2. Once your crust is well combined, taste it!

3. Using your fingers, press the dough in a 9″ nonstick springform tin.

4. Then, make your filling by blending all the filling ingredients together using a handheld blender or food processor. Taste the filling to ensure it’s sweet enough and it hits all the right notes, flavor wise. Feel free to add some vanilla essence or more sweetener if you want.

5. Bake at 160 C (320 F) for around 25 minutes or until the sides have cooked through but the center is still a bit wobbly.

6. Remove from the oven and let it sit in the fridge overnight.

7. Add your toppings. This is totally optional but nice for extra flavour. You can use chocolate sauce, a bit of melted chocolate, or if you want to go fruity then some jam.  

Vegan Wondershake

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Pea Protein 80

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Zero Syrup

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