Strawberry Vegan Cheesecake
 
 
Sherri:
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Vegan, Dairy Free
Ingredients
  • For the crust:
  • 1½ cups pitted dates
  • ¾ cup walnuts
  • 1 TBSP melted coconut oil
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • For the cheesecake filling:
  • 2½ cups cashews, soaked overnight
  • 1 cup full fat coconut milk
  • ⅛ teaspoon vanilla powder (optional)
  • ¾ cup maple syrup
  • 1 TBSP vanilla extract
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 TBSP melted coconut oil
  • Juice of 3 limes
  • Strawberry Swirl Sauce:
  • ¾ cup frozen strawberries
  • ¼ cup fresh raspberries
  • ⅓ cup maple syrup
Directions
  1. Prepare an 8x8 square pan with parchment paper.  Take two long piece of parchment and lay one across the pan vertically and the other across the pan horizontally.  The excess hanging off the edges will act as handles and allow you to lift it out of the pan easily when you are finished.
  2. For the crust:
  3. Place all the ingredients into a food processor and process until it's fully combined and sticking together.  Then press it into the bottom of your prepared pan in a flat even layer.
  4. For the cheesecake filling:
  5. Combine the drained and rinsed cashews, milk, vanilla powder, and maple syrup in a Vitamix and blend until smooth (About 2 minutes).  Add the rest of the filling ingredients and blend until combined.  Pour this layer on top of the crust.
  6. For the strawberry swirl sauce:
  7. Place all the sauce ingredients into a small sauce pot and bring to a simmer.  As you simmer the sauce, mash the strawberries with a potato masher to help break them down.  Once all of the berries are mostly broken down, continue to simmer the sauce to allow the moisture to evaporate and the sauce to thicken and reduce down to a thick enough texture to make a sauce.  Strain your sauce through a fine mesh strainer to remove the seeds and strawberry pulp.  Check for consistency.  If it's still too watery, place the sauce back into the pot and simmer again until it's reduced down to a sauce texture.
  8. Pour the strawberry sauce onto the filling layer in a swirl motion so you can still see some areas of white between the red.  Then take a toothpick and begin swirling the red into the white in small circular motions.  The more little circles you the make the better the marbling will look, so don't be afraid to swirl it up.
  9. Once it looks marbled to your liking, place the pan in the freezer and freeze for 3 hours. Use the parchment to lift the cake out of the pan and slice into squares.
Recipe by Shaped By Sherri at https://shapedbysherri.com/strawberry-vegan-cheesecake/