Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake --
by Carol CA



1 pkg gelatin
¼ c water
8 oz cream cheese, softened
4 large strawberries, fresh
1¼ cup heavy cream
1 t vanilla
DaVinci SF Strawberry Syrup

· Dissolve gelatin in cold water and set aside.
· Put 1/4 cup of the cream in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
· Cut the cream cheese into small pieces and stir into boiling cream along with the chocolate until cream cheese is smooth.
· Add the gelatin, vanilla and DaVinci syrup (to suit your taste) and pour mixture into largish mixing bowl and let cool down.
· While this is cooling, whip remaining cream until very stiff.
· After cream cheese mixture is cool, beat well with an electric mixer.
· Dice three largish strawberries and slice one.
· Add whipped cream and diced strawberries to the cream chees mixture and mix again until thoroughly blended.
· Pour into a sprayed pie pan.
· Arrange sliced strawberry on top.
· Chill until firm, about 2 hours. (Overnight is best.)


Calories for entire cheesecake: 1891
Fat for entire cheesecake: 191
Carbs for entire cheesecake: 22
Protein for entire cheesecake: 30

Strawberries.......cheesecake....mmmmmmm......

amieK

Carol

Looks and sounds amazing. One question, in the directions it mentions chocolate, but I don't see it in the ingredients?

Good catch, C-u-lean! That was my mistake... obviously! I modified my chocolate cheesecake recipe... and forgot to omit that. NO CHOCOLATE in the strawberry recipe. It's too late to edit that out... so here's the edited version:

1 pkg gelatin
¼ c water
8 oz cream cheese, softened
4 large strawberries, fresh
1¼ cup heavy cream
1 t vanilla
DaVinci SF Strawberry Syrup

· Dissolve gelatin in cold water and set aside.
· Put 1/4 cup of the cream in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
· Cut the cream cheese into small pieces and stir into boiling cream until cream cheese is smooth.
· Add the gelatin, vanilla and DaVinci syrup (to suit your taste) and pour mixture into largish mixing bowl and let cool down.
· While this is cooling, whip remaining cream until very stiff.
· After cream cheese mixture is cool, beat well with an electric mixer.
· Dice three largish strawberries and slice one.
· Add whipped cream and diced strawberries to the cream chees mixture and mix again until thoroughly blended.
· Pour into a sprayed pie pan.
· Arrange sliced strawberry on top.
· Chill until firm, about 2 hours. (Overnight is best.)


Calories for entire cheesecake: 1891
Fat for entire cheesecake: 191
Carbs for entire cheesecake: 22
Protein for entire cheesecake: 30


DO try the recipe. It's amazing!

Carol,
I am about to go make this cheesecake to take to a dinner party tonight. I have a couple questions. What is 'O cup? And I couldn't find DaVinci Strawberry syrup. Do you think it would turn out okay if I used strawberry jello instead? Should I add more water? Thanks!

I don't know what you mean by this, CU... "What is 'O cup?" Did I make a typo that I'm not seeing?

And yes... I think that Strawberry Jello would work just fine. I'd use 1/2 a package... and omit the gelatin in the recipe. I doubt that using more water would be necessary... just use the same 1/4 cup to dissolve the gelatin that's in the Jello. Then before you put it in the pie plate, give it a taste to see if it's sweet enough for you. If not, add some Splenda.

Good luck to you! And please let me know how it turns out!

sounds wonderful! Where can you get DaVinci SF Strawberry Syrup?

I don't know where in CA you are. I'm in the Bay ARea. I get the large bottles for about $3.50 at Cash and Carry. Check their website to see if there's one near you. You can also find it at stores like Greenbeanz in the Bay ARea... a Low Carb specialty store... but they sell it for something like $8 per bottle!

Just wanted to let you know I made this and it is WONDERFUL!! I am very glad I tried it, and am encouraged to try more.

By the way Carol, my computer at home must be wacked. When I looked at this recipe from home where it asks for 1/4 cup water and 1 1/4 cup heavy cream O was in place of 1/4. Luckily I came to work and I could see what it said.

Thanks for this great recipe!

I made this yesterday - yum yum!! Satisfies the sweet tooth! I don't have the Cash & Carry down here in S. Calif - I'll keep looking!

Cash & Carry = Smart And Final (I think)
They carry the DaVinci SF syrups but they one I went to did not have strawberry

I think I saw someone mention that they found the syrups at TJ Max. Could check with your local espresso stand to see where they get theirs.