This Low Carb Cheese Cake Recipe was originally featured by Jimmy Moore on Livin’ La Vida Low Carb website and is reprinted here with dairy free low carb cake options for readers avoiding dairy products. Please read our notes for how to make dairy free whipped cream and a dairy free cream cheese substitute for your alternative dairy free low carb cake recipe.
Our own version of Jimmy Moore's recipe in individual sized cupcake papers.
A Valentine’s Day Dessert Treat from Livin’ La Vida Low Carb!
Let me tell you how this low carb cheese cake recipe came about. My wife Christine and I headed to Virginia for the Thanksgiving holiday and stayed with my sister-in-law and my beautiful little niece. It was so much fun cooking meals for them. We made high fat, grain free, low carb recipes of course! From fresh bacon and eggs for breakfast to gourmet chicken and pork chop dinner dishes with salad greens, I love low carb recipes that taste delicious and are a whole lot healthier to consume than anything else people are eating.
This low carb cheese cake recipe started with a chocolate bar. While visiting with them and shopping for food I found some 86% Ghirardelli dark chocolate. I hadn’t tried it before because I usually opt for the 100% dark chocolate and sweeten it to my own taste with stevia. Ghirardelli’s 86% dark chocolate only has a few carbs per square, so I purchased it. It’s advertised on the front of the packaging and “intense chocolate” and they weren’t kidding! But this stuff was utterly AMAZING! There’s no bitterness and it contains a really deep, rich dark chocolate. It was so good I had Christine try some and she was hooked too. I hate coffee notes in dark chocolate and this one didn’t have any. WOO HOO! …continue reading
