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Best Dairy-Free Cheesecake

A rich, creamy, dairy-free cheesecake that will delight even your pickiest guests.

  • Author: Dr. Rosane Oliveira
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Yield: 8-10 1x
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Ingredients

Crust

  • 1/2 cup dates, pitted
  • 1/2 cup pecans

Cheesecake

  • 4 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, dairy-free
  • 1 cup sucanat
  • 4 tbsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Crust

  1. Combine dates and pecans in a food processor and pulse until the mixture sticks together.
  2. Press dough into a 9-inch springform pan to make the crust.
  3. Proceed to prepare the cheesecake filling.

Cheesecake

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Combine all ingredients into the food processor and mix until very smooth.
  3. Pour the cheesecake filling into the pan (over the crust) and bake for 35 to 40 minutes (bake it covered with aluminum foil for the first 20 minutes, then remove the cover to slightly brown the cheesecake).
  4. Remove cheesecake from the oven and cool for 15 minutes.
  5. Top with a berry sauce and place it in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
  6. Serve it cold and enjoy!

Notes: For this recipe, I used Kite Hill’s plain cream cheese style spread.

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Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD

President & CEO, Plant-Based Life Foundation | Dr. Rosane Oliveira combines a lifelong passion for nutrition with 25 years of genetics research to create programs that help people develop healthy habits on their journey towards a more plant-based lifestyle. She is a Visiting Clinical Professor in Public Health Sciences and was the founding director of the first Integrative Medicine program at the UC Davis School of Medicine. She completed her postgraduate studies in Brazil and did her postdoctoral training in immunogenetics and functional genomics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.