Cheryl's Cream Cheese Pie

Cheryl’s Cream Cheese Pie

(for special diets)

Cheryl Eisenman 

1 - Healthy Crumb Crust (see recipe below) 

2 - 8oz packages cream cheese

Sweetened Condensed Milk (see recipe below)

1/3 Cup lemon juice

1 tsp. vanilla 

Prepare crumb crust.  Prepare Sweetened Condensed Milk. 

Add Milk to cream cheese, blend until smooth.  Add lemon juice and vanilla, pour into prepared crust.  Chill 2-3 hours.  Garnish with fresh or frozen fruit sweetened with a little honey, agave, or sweetener of your choice.
 

Healthy Crumb Crust

(for special diets)

Cheryl Eisenman 

1 cup almond meal (almonds ground fine)

4 tbsp butter

2 tbsp honey 

Mix together with a fork until well blended.  Pat into bottom and up sides of a pie plate.  Place in micro for 1 minute.  Let cool.  Use in place of any recipe calling for a graham cracker crumb crust, especially those recipes that aren’t baked very long as the honey and almonds tend to brown easier than graham crackers and sugar do.
 

Sweetened Condensed Milk

(for special diets)

Cheryl Eisenman 

2/3 cup honey, heated to not quite a simmer

3 Tbsp. butter

1 cup powdered dry milk 

Pour hot honey into blender, add butter.  Gradually add powdered milk though hole in blender lid.  Process until smooth, a minute or two.  This makes equal to one can.  Use in any recipe that calls for sweetened condensed milk.  May make ahead and store in refrigerator if desired.