Comments on: Paleo recipes: cheesecake base

By: Hermit

Hermit — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:49:43 +0000

I know I’m a bit late to the party. I’ve been looking up cheesecake recipes and this one sounds quite excellent. I know that the pie crust you buy at the store contains (partially-hydrogenated) lard, so I’m thinking the flavor wouldn’t be too strong for a pie, but again the flavor might be a tad too strong for a cheesecake. I’m all in favor of butter, and I’ll probably be using your second idea for a crust.

By: Ammi

Ammi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:43:37 +0000

The leftover almond meal wasn’t in itself too strong in nut flavour so the traditional base wasn’t at all nutty and worked fine. It was only a very small bit of butter to hold it all together but I guess it depends how non-dairy you are. My mind is a bit blank though on what else you could use to hold it all together instead of butter. Perhaps lard, though that could introduce a whole new flavour into the base!

By: Alisa

Alisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:51:26 +0000

I had wanted to experiment with nut bases, and hadn’t thought about the almond flavor overwhelming, but now that I think about it, that does seem likely. I will have to do some dairy-free, grain-free crust experimenting!