These Amazing Sugar Free CheesecakeBrownies are flourless, low carb, keto, gluten free and grain free!
Best Cheesecake Brownies
It's July!! I can't even believe how fast the summer is flying by since school finished. Right now we are all about pool parties and easy food and treats to enjoy fun times with family and friends. What my kids love most is brownies. And I love cheesecake. So I married them and made these! The best of both Low Carb Recipes in my opinion, the ultimate Cheesecake Brownies!
Fostering a life style that's active and balancing special snacks like these brownies are goals I strive for regularly in my home.
Easy Cheesecake Brownies
Just because they are made without sugar or gluten or grains doesn't mean we can eat them for breakfast! Emphasizing this to my kids is always a challenge as an allergy friendly food blogger. Sometimes they think because my treats and snacks don't have sugar they can splurge a little more and that's just not the case. Snacks and treats have there place in a balanced life style for not only my kids, but myself. These easy cheesecake brownies will be completely satisfying so one is all you'll need to feel content.
Homemade Quick Cheesecake Brownies
Brownies like these are the perfect make ahead treat for when you've got a bunch of kids coming over and need something fast. These whip up in 30 minutes and prep time is around 15-20 minutes. Easy to transport to a party as well! These were given the thumbs up from my kids, after 3 attempts to make them fudgey AND flourless!
Brenda's Notes:
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- You can also make these without the cheesecake topping if you don't feel like getting fancy, they are equally as good. You would need to deduct the cheesecake topping ingredients and input the rest of the ingredients into a calorie counter like myfitnesspal.com to figure out the nutrition info.
- If you don't have instant espresso you can leave it out but it does help enhance the chocolate flavor in the brownies.
- You can sub the chocolate liquid stevia with vanilla liquid stevia or plain liquid stevia.
- You can also use another sweetener of choice. Here is my conversion chart.
- Swerve sweetener is less sweet than most erythritol sweeteners so if you were to substitute it, I would say just use ½ cup in the brownies and remove the chocolate stevia.
- I like the brand Lily's Sweets for sugar-free chocolate chips and that's what I used in this recipe. You can use 85% dark chocolate instead as well.
- If you don't use Swerve or stevia in the cheesecake filling you can replace it with a sweetener of choice that equals about ½ cup of sugar.
- This recipe was first published in July 2016.
Sugar Free Cheesecake Brownies (Keto, Low Carb)
Sugar-Free Cheesecake Brownies {Gluten Free and Low Carb}
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- ¼ cup butter softened
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon chocolate liquid stevia
- ½ cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso
- ¾ cup Swerve sweetener
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup sugar free chocolate chips
Cheesecake Topping
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup Swerve sweetener
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- optional topping: 2 ounces sugar free or 85% dark chocolate candy bar or chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a stand mixer, add the first 5 ingredients and blend on high until combined well.
- In another bowl whisk together the next 5 dry ingredients.
- Pour this into the wet ingredients and blend on high until combined.
- Gently stir in the chocolate chips.
- Grease an 8 by 8 baking dish.
- Pour half the brownie batter into the pan. Set aside remaining batter.
- Prepare the cheesecake topping using a stand or hand held mixer to blend until smooth.
- Pour half the cheesecake topping onto the brownie batter in the pan.
- Pour the remaining brownie batter over the the cheesecake topping.
- Finish with remaining cheesecake topping.
- Use a butterknife to swirl the batter and cheesecake topping together.
- Decorate with optional chocolate bar chunks or chips if desired before baking.
- Bake 30-35 minutes until toothpick in center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 15-20 minutes before slicing.
How do I change to cups and tsp measurements?
We LOVE these.... Are these freezable? It's only my husband and I and we can't seem to eat 16 brownies before they go bad.... LOL
It would be great to know if they are wrapped in parchment and them placed in a freezer zip lock if they would last for a couple of months... so when your sweet tooth takes hold, you can just pop one in the microwave an have a nice warm gooey brownie...
Yes absolutely! Wrap individually then seal in a freezer bag. Should get at least a month on freezer if not even more!
I’ve read all the comments. I want to make these this weekend. The recipe calls for granular swerve but I read a comment that you actually used confectioners. Is this true? Do you prefer a glass pan or does it matter? I’ve read suggestions on coconut flour. What are your thoughts? I just reached my goal weight, and I want the perfect celebration treat. Thanks!
Dark metal pan or ceramic and honestly I've made this many times swapping granular Swerve with confectioners and both come out delicious.
Thank you! I look forward to making these!