Mini Sugar Free Keto Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe
This adorable Mini Red Velvet Cheesecake is perfect For Valentine’s with your Sweetie! It’s Sugar Free, Keto, Low Carb, Gluten Free, Grain Free, and perfectly portioned for two! Just 6 net carbs per serving!
Mini Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe
It’s almost Valentine’s day and that means some sweets for the sweet one in your life! If you’ve got kids like me, it also may mean some Red Velvet sweets for them, as well as your spouse.
I prefer making mini cheesecakes so portion control is a little bit easier for me and there won’t be a giant, delicious cake in my fridge all week staring me down and tempting me with it’s deliciousness.
Mini cakes are in but if you’ve not tried a mini cheesecake yet, this is the best one to start with!
This red velvet recipe is easy and it makes enough for 4 servings or split the cake in half if you each want two servings.
These mini red velvet cheesecakes are low in calories and carbs so it really won’t be an overindulgence if you decide to keep it all for yourself!
Sugar Free Chocolate sauce is optional, but oh so perfect for a little extra special Valentine’s treat when you’re on a keto diet .
Decadent, delicious, perfect for special occasion, but simple enough for a weeknight Valentine’s treat for your sweetie and your sweet tooth.
Can I Change the Low Carb Sweetener?
Yes, you can swap out the chocolate liquid stevia with Chocolate Liquid Monk Fruit which is just as sweet as stevia and delicious.
Replace the chocolate liquid stevia with chocolate liquid Monk Fruit sweetener in the same amount in this delicious recipe.
If you are new to sugar free baking, it can be difficult to adjust and your taste buds may need some time.
If you want to use another low carb sweetener, I would not recommend any granulated low carb sweeteners as that may make your keto cheesecake gritty in texture.
I would recommend a powdered sweetener like Swerve or this one with Monk Fruit and Allulose.
I will say, if you notice any aftertastes with any low carb sweeteners, it’s better for your palate to combine sugar-substitute options together which can help alleviate and cancel out any aftertastes in either.
Here’s my Sweetener Guide and Conversion chart to help you decide how much to use.
Red Food Dye versus Natural Red Coloring
If you really want that deep red color for red velvet desserts or any of your low carb recipes that need a little bit of coloring, I avoid red dye 40.
It is an artificial food coloring common in dairy products like ice cream, yogurts and popsicles, sweets like candy, chewing gum and cereals and things like sports drinks, energy drinks and even whey protein powders.
It’s considered safe by the FDA, but some research has linked it to allergies, migraines and even behavioral problems like ADHD in children.
Since we have lots of allergies from mold, pollen, dust, and my youngest with tree nut and peanut allergies, I stay away from anything with Red Dye 40 in it.
I’ve found this natural food coloring on Amazon and at Whole Foods as a perfect choice to using artificial food coloring and it’s worked really well to color my baked keto desserts and no bake desserts beautiful red for my low carb red velvet creations!
Can I Make this Cheesecake Dairy Free?
Yes, you should be able to swap out the cream cheese used with a vegan cream cheese and then swap out the sour cream with canned coconut milk.
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Mini Sugar Free Keto Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon Chocolate liquid stevia
- pinch of salt
- natural red food coloring
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Optional Chocolate Sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- In a stand mixer, or large mixing bowl and electric hand mixer, combine the softened cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, salt, natural food coloring, and sweetener. Blend on medium speed until smooth and well incorporated. Add in the remaining ingredients and blend on high speed until smooth.
- Grease or line a 4-inch springform pan with parchment paper. Wrap the bottom of the pan with aluminum foil to form a seal, and place the pan into an 8-by-8-inch baking dish. Pour hot water into the dish until it’s halfway up the sides of the springform pan.
- Pour the cheesecake filling into the springform pan and bake for 40- 45 minutes. Bake time varies with gas and electric ovens. Electric ovens tend to cook quicker than gas so check at 35 minutes then continue baking time until center is set. Remove from the oven and let cake cool for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the water bath and refrigerate 4-6 hours or overnight.
- When ready to serve, combine the melted chocolate and melted butter together in a small bowl and mix until smooth. Drizzle over cheesecake, if desired.
Video
Notes
- The sugars in the Nutrition Facts are from the natural lactose in cream cheese and sour cream.
- Nutrition information does not include optional chocolate sauce drizzle.
- If you are used to regular sugar and very sweet cheesecake, adjust your cheesecake batter as needed before adding eggs. Simply mix the cream cheese and Stevia Chocolate Sweet Drops, then taste to decide on the sweetness.
- If you don’t have Liquid Stevia Chocolate Sweet Drops, you’ll find vanilla stevia will be just as delicious.
- The optional chocolate sauce is not included in the nutrition information.
- Just 6 g net carbs per slice.
- This recipe was first published in 2017.
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
I made this for Valentine’s Day and it was absolutely delicious!! My husband loved it too! Thanks for your delicious easy recipes!
So glad you both loved it!
I made it today ..didn’t have a 4 inch springpan,so used a 4 inch fruit cake pan..it is so delious…instead of round mine is square
Awesome!
I have smaller springform pans with diameter of 4″. If I divide the recipe into two smaller pans how much do you think I should reduce the cooking time by?
I would reduce the time by half.
Thanks!
How did it work out, cutting the baking time in half? Often microwave bake times are like that; where you double or halve the time; when you double or halve the amount being cooked. But, with regular ovens and cakes; it’s usually 5 – 10 minutes you’d add or take away. I’m planning to make this cheesecake this week
Can’t wait to try this Cheesecake! Have really enjoyed getting these newsletters.
Thank you!
This is perfect for Valentine’s Day! It looks so decadent especially with that chocolate on top!
Thanks Maya!
Why is it so difficult to find the recipe? I just want to read it on my computer – not on instagram or any of that other stuff. I scroll thru so much junk and still don’t have the recipe.
“Scroll through so much junk ?” Hard to find?
In bold right under the video, large print: Recipe for Mini Red Velvet Cheesecake! http://sweetleaf.com/mini-red-velvet-cheesecake/
You can’t please all of the people all of the time. Sad sad sad. …..recipe looks great, I’ll try it. .but need to buy a mini pan first! Thank you!
🙂
Thanks will try but there are quite a lot of adverts flashing up if viewing on iPhone as I do so I did have to scroll through about 4 screens worth to get to the recipe. Maybe put at the top and the bottom perhaps? Or on the blog itself so users don’t have to click off page?
Brenda and Lisa I think both of your responses are very rude!
This page is full of ads which makes it frustrating and puts many people off to the point they close out your blog and go to one that has a clear recipe without all the pop ups!
Which is exactly what I’m doing!