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Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)

December 13, 2020 By Hana Leave a Comment

Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)

Today I’m sharing with you my first Christmas recipe for this year, Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake. Baked cheesecake has been on my list for ages and what a perfect occasion to finally make it. Themed with beautiful gingerbread spices it’s my kind of heaven.

This is a wholesome plant-based cheesecake, lightly sweetened and yet again made with my favourite almond chickpea crust, what can I say, I love it so much, sweet or savoury, it works like a dream!

Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)

It’s a protein rich cheesecake with creamy filling of cashews, silken tofu and vegan creme fraiche. Spiced with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and orange zest it feels nourishing and cosy.

Not a complicated recipe, the crust is easy to make and filling is just simply blending all ingredients together. Plus it’s a perfect recipe to make a day in advance. I have used chickpea flour in the filling, but I feel that cornflour will be more creamy and lighter flavour. So you have an option to pick depending on your diet preference.

It’s not one of my prettiest recipes, but I feel it speaks for itself. You could dust it with little powdered coconut or sugar or top it with gingerbread cookies or cranberries and rosemary if you wish. 

Hope you love it :)

Much Love

Hana xx

Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)

Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)
 
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Author: Hana, Nirvana Cakery
Serves: 9" tart
Ingredients
  • Cheesecake crust:
  • 100g ground almonds (1 cup)
  • 60g chickpea flour (1/2 cup)
  • 30g tapioca flour (1/4 cup)
  • 2tbsp coconut sugar
  • 1tsp ginger
  • ½tsp cinnamon
  • ¼tsp cloves
  • pinch sea salt
  • 4tbsp solid coconut oil
  • 1-2tbsp water as needed

  • Cheesecake filling:
  • 120g cashews, soaked for 3 hours (1 cup)
  • 400g silken tofu (14oz)
  • 200ml vegan creme fraiche, or use coconut cream or coconut yogurt (3/4 cup)
  • 60ml maple syrup (1/4 cup)
  • 1tbsp blackstrap molasses
  • 2tsp vanilla extract
  • zest of ½ orange
  • 1tbsp lemon juice
  • 1½tsp ginger
  • 1tsp cinnamon
  • ¼tsp cloves
  • ⅛tsp nutmeg
  • ⅛tsp allspice
  • 2tbsp cornflour or chickpea flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350F)
  2. Prepare 9" tart tin with removable base. You can grease and line the base, but the pastry is quite greasy and it's not necessary.
  3. In a medium bowl whisk together ground almonds, chickpea flour, tapioca flour, coconut sugar, spices and sea salt.
  4. Using your hands rub in the coconut oil until mixed in. Now add 1tbsp of water at time until you have a smooth soft dough. Don't overwork it, rather just bring it together.
  5. Press the dough directly into the tart tin and work your way around the base and up the sides to form a crust.
  6. Pierce the base few times with a fork and bake for 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from the oven and leave to cool down. If the base puffed up gently press it down.
  8. Filling:
  9. Rinse cashews with plenty of running water and drain well.
  10. Place cashews and well drained tofu into blender, add creme fraiche, maple syrup, molasses, vanilla, orange zest and lemon juice and blend until smooth. Add spices and cornflour and blend again until incorporated.
  11. Pour the filling into your pre-baked crust and bake for 50 to 60 minutes until set.
  12. Remove from the oven and leave to cool down completely before transferring to fridge to set. It will still wobble when baked but will set in fridge.
  13. Enjoy!
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Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake (vegan & gluten-free)

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Have a wonderful Sunday beautiful! 
Much love Hana xx 
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Happy New Year beautiful! ✨ I’m feeling that Happy New Year beautiful! ✨

I’m feeling that this is the year we all need to ease into. Use this sacred pause we’re in until the 5th of January to really go within and listen deeply to what are you being called to birth this year. Forget creating goals from your ego. What are those whispers of your soul calling you to? Is it time to take the lead in your life? ✨

If this year is a continuation of 2020 we will need more conscious embodied leaders taking charge to create the change our planet needs. It’s us who create the future. ✨

Now that many of us are awake we need conscious women and men to walk together hand in hand! We’ve got this! 

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Sending so much Love Hana xx
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Merry Christmas beautiful ones!!! ✨ May it be f Merry Christmas beautiful ones!!! ✨

May it be filled with eternal Love, Joy, Abundance & Peace 🕊

Love & Magick Hana xx ✨

Gingerbread cupcakes with white chocolate frosting on the blog from last Christmas ✨
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White Yule Log from last year ❄️ Chocolate spo White Yule Log from last year ❄️ Chocolate sponge cake with white chocolate frosting, all gluten-free & vegan! You can find the recipe on my blog in the Christmas round up post for easy access.🎄

What dessert are you making this year? To be honest I’ve got my gingerbread cookies stored in fridge, the leftover chocolate cranberry orange cake in freezer so I’m quite sorted! But still pondering whether to make the gingerbread cheesecake. And just have written a new recipe for a lentil nut roast which I’m really looking forward to making on Christmas Day. 🎄
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Sending much Love & Magick Hxx 💫
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Chocolate Cranberry Orange Cake 🌱 @amoredimona Chocolate Cranberry Orange Cake 🌱 @amoredimona has challenged me to create vegan, grain-free and nut-free chocolate recipe and so I took on the challenge with this layer cake. And I have finally experienced with cassava and tigernut flours, something I’ve been wanting to do for ages. If you fancy some grain-free baking check out the recipe on the blog. 😉

Have a wonderful weekend beautiful! ✨

Sending much love Hxx 🕊
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Hello beautiful! The two new promised recipes are Hello beautiful! The two new promised recipes are on the blog. Gingerbread Cookies and Baked Gingerbread Cheesecake with my favourite almond chickpea crust. Simple, wholesome, delicious. ✨

I have also updated my Christmas recipe collection so you can browse through them all under one post if you’d love some inspiration. ✨

Sending much love! Hana xx
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