My PCOS Kitchen - Keto New York Cheesecake (2024)

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Rich and creamy, this keto cheesecake is THE cheesecake to make. I promise. The best part is you can save on some of the carbs since my New York cheesecake recipe is entirely crustless! Top with your favourite low carb sauces for the most decadent dessert of all time.

This recipe was originally published on May 12, 2017 and was since republished with better instructions, pictures, video and recipe.

My Keto New York Cheesecake Recipe

My previous keto New York cheesecake recipe was originally a 6 inch cheesecake, but after reading different comments and requests, I decided to change the recipe to make a 9 inch cheesecake. I made it last week because I was hosting a party and I may have accidentally eaten half of the cake. I have no regrets whatsoever. It's the best cheesecake ever and I just love this recipe so much!

What goes in a New York Cheesecake?

New York cheesecakes are baked cheesecakes that rely heavily on heavy cream or sour cream. The cheesecakes that have sour cream added to them can easily be frozen, which is why I prefer making mine with sour cream. My low carb caramel cheesecake also relies on both sour cream and heavy cream, which makes it extremely creamy, rich and dense.

I live alone and can't possible eat a whole 9 inch cheesecake by myself so I always rely on freezing the baked goods that I make for the blog. I'll usually cut the cheesecake into individual portions and freeze each portions so that I can have a ready-to-be-eaten treat any time of the day.

What Toppings Can I Pour Over my Low Carb Cheesecake?

The greatest thing about this keto cheesecake recipe is that it's totally customizable. Eat it as is, plain, or pour some of the following topping ideas all over it to make the very best of cheesecakes.

• Sugar Free Caramel Sauce
• Sugar Free Strawberry Sauce (or any other fruit)
• Melted Chocolate from Lily's
• Lakanto Chocolate Syrup
• Homemade Nutella
• Strawberry Chia Jam (or any other fruit)
• Fresh Fruit
• Chopped Nuts
• Low Carb Lemon Curd

Instead of a topping, you can also make this classic tiramisu right on top of this cheesecake to make a tall tiramisu cheesecake!

Recommended Cheesecake Sweeteners

My go to keto sweeteners are always a mix of both erythritol and stevia extract powder. I like to mix both sweeteners together to give low carb desserts the perfect sweetness. My keto chocolate cheesecake also uses a mix of both sweeteners and it honestly creates the best cheesecake recipe ever.

However, using too much erythritol can cause a cooling sensation in the mouth, but it does provide the bulk required for baked goods. That's why I use the stevia to come up with the missing sweetness from the erythritol.

Stevia extract powder is 300 times than sugar and erythritol is just 75% as sweet. Combining both gives you the perfect sweetness for any keto desserts you wish to make. I recommend using pure stevia extra powder and not a blend because we're already using erythritol in this recipe.

I recommend using powdered erythritol in this recipe to ensure that your cheesecake stays smooth and creamy. Granulated erythritol tends to stay grainy or sandy as it cools and it's not a really nice feeling to have in the mouth.

You can easily make homemade powdered erythritol. Simply blitz any amount of granulated erythritol into a powerful blender for about 20-30 seconds, and you'll have powdered erythritol. If you don't want to make your own, you can simply use the ones from either Swerve or SoNourished.

If you would like to use sweeteners other than erythritol and stevia, I recommend the following:

• ½ cup xylitol
• ½ cup Lakanto erythritol
• ½ cup SoNourished Monk Fruit Blend
• 6 tbsp erythritol + 1 tsp monk fruit extract powder

How Many Carbs In This Low Carb Cheesecake?

Since this low carb cheesecake is entirely crust-free, you can save on most of the carbs. The cheesecake makes 10 generous slices and each slices have 2.71g total and net carbs and 296 calories. The entire cheesecake has 27.14 grams of carbohydrates.

Since this keto friendly cheesecake is super low in carbs, you can splurge a little with the toppings you put on it!

How to Make a Crack-Free Cheesecake?

Although cracks in cheesecakes do not affect the flavours of the cheesecake, it can be disappointing to not have a perfect cheesecake come out of the oven after all that baking time! So here are a few tips to follow when making any cheesecake recipe!

• Bake your cheesecake in a water bath.
• Use room temperature cream cheese. Cooled cream cheese is harder to mix and will leave lumps.
• Cream your cheese properly until there are no more cheese lumps.
• Don't over beat your eggs. Once your cream cheese and sweeteners have been added, mix the eggs in, one at a time, carefully. Don't over mix your batter or else you'll be adding unnecessary air into your cheesecake batter.

Why Use a Water Bath?

A water bath is simply a pan of hot water placed in the oven to add moisture into the air when baking baked goods. It's important to add moisture to an oven because cheesecakes tend to crack under hot temperatures.

Cheesecakes usually have lots of eggs added to their batter. Eggs tend to rise in heat so they need a moist and humid environment to properly rise without cracking.Also, the steam from the hot water will lift the cheesecake up slowly and evenly without cracking it. It's also super important for the cheesecake to not fall in the middle after it has cooled.

If you can spare a few minutes to prepare a water bath for your cheesecake, I promise you won't regret it!

How to prevent your cheesecake water bath to leak

The most important thing is to wrap your springform pan with lots of aluminum foil. I usually use three sheets of aluminum foil. One placed horizontally and one vertically stacked on top of another. Then I usually add the springform pan in the middle and wrap the aluminum foil around the edges of the springform pan.

Once that's done, I usually wrap an extra long sheet of aluminum foil all over the sides and bottom so that no extra water can get in the cheesecake pan.

How to Make a Keto Cheesecake

Before you start making your cheesecake, you'll want to make sure to use room temperature cream cheese and sour cream because when they're fresh out of the fridge, it's much harder to cream without leaving any bumps.

You'll first cream your cream cheese with a hand mixer or a stand mixer. You could also use a food processor if can hold about 11 cups of liquid or more.

Once your cream cheese is soft and creamy, you'll add your erythritol and stevia and mix well together.

Once your sweeteners and cream cheese have been creamed, you'll add your vanilla essence and then the eggs one at a time. It's important you add the eggs one at a time, but don't over beat them. Just mix until they've been incorporated perfectly into the cheese.

The final step will be to add the sour cream and mix it all until there are no more creamy bumps. Make sure to use room temperature sour cream if you have a thick type of sour cream.

Before pouring your cheesecake batter into a springform pan, you'll want to make sure to add a piece of parchment paper at the bottom. Since this cheesecake is crustless, the parchment paper will help pull it off the pan to put it on a plate.

You don't have to add parchment paper on the sides, as you just need to spray oil all over so that the cheesecake batter doesn't stick to the sides. If you prefer to use parchment paper, that's fine too.

Just make sure to add the cheesecake batter after you have wrapped your springform pan with aluminum foil as it's much harder to do so once the batter is in the pan.

Pour the cheesecake batter into the springform pan and then place it inside a large rectangular cake pan or something similar. Anything that can carry water for the water bath will be good.

Slowly add boiling water to the rectangular cake pan. About 1-2 inches/5cm of water should be enough.

Carefully place the cheesecake into the oven and bake.

How Long Should I Bake My Cheesecake?

Slow and steady wins the race. I prefer to bake all of my cheesecake recipes at a low temperature in a water bath. That way I can avoid making cracks in my cheesecake from the high heat and can ensure that it rises properly and evenly.

I like to bake my keto New York cheesecake for about 70 minutes at 150C/300F. Depending on whether your oven distributes heat evenly, a side of your low carb cheesecake may turn golden brown like mine. But then again, my Japanese oven is tiny, a third of the size of an American one so that may be why too.

What Type of Pan do I Need to Make this Cheesecake?

You absolutely need to use a springform pan with a loose bottom or a cheesecake pan with a loose bottom. If your pan doesn't have a loose bottom, it will be super hard to get your cheesecake out of the pan!

Final Tips & Recaps

Read the following tips before making my keto New York cheesecake and you'll have made the perfect crack-free cheesecake!

• Use room temperature cream cheese and sour cream so that it's easier to cream and you don't get any clumps or bumps in your batter.
• Bake your cheesecake in a water bath to avoid cracks and get an even rise.
• Bake your keto cheesecake at low temperature so that it's not exposed to high heat for a long period of time.
• For sweeteners you have the options to use the following:
  • 6 tbsp powdered erythritol + 1 tsp stevia extract powder.
  • ½ cup xylitol (powdered)
  • ½ cup Lakanto erythritol (powdered)
  • ½ cup SoNourished Monk Fruit Blend (powdered)
  • 6 tbsp powdered erythritol + 1 tsp monk fruit extract powder
• Make sure to wrap your springform pan with lots of aluminum foil so that water doesn't leak in the cheesecake batter.

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