Vegan + Gluten-Free No-Bake Fig Cheesecake Bars!
- For the crust:
- 1 cup finely crushed Vegan Gluten-free cookies with chocolate : measured when finely crushed/ I crushed my cookies this way : I placed them in a plastic bag & closed it well. I put the bag on a chopping board & bashed the bag a lot, until there were cookie crum
- 1/4 cup white almond powder
- 1/8 cup melted vegan butter
- 1 tablespoon coconut sugar
- * For the cheesecake layer:
- 225 grams = 1 packet of tofutti cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons fine white sugar
- a pinch of sea salt
- 3-5 fresh ripe fat ripe figs, cleaned, bottom & tip cut off, sliced very thinly. Each fig cut up into thinner slices
- In a Kenwood bowl or in a bowl: add cookie crumbs, melted vegan butter, sugar & almond powder. If you are using your Kenwood, place the K-paddle in. Mix until everything is well-combined. Or in a large bowl, mix everything well with a wooden spoon. Line a baking dish with the size of 19 cm x 19 cm with parchment paper, slightly overlapping the edges, to easily remove the bars later on. Press this mixture in the baking dish. If you want to create 6 thicker cream cheesecake bars, you must use a smaller baking dish, like 11 cm x 11 cm. Place into the fridge.
- Clean your Kenwood bowl & add cream cheese, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of white fine sugar & a pinch of sea salt. Mix until all is beautifully combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl & mix again. Taste! It has to taste like a lovely cream cheese mix with a touch of lemon! Take the cookie crust baking dish out of the fridge & put this cream cheese layer equally divided over the cookie crust. Spread it all out with a knife, if you need to. Arrange the cut up fig slices over the cream cheese. I used 12 thinly sliced fig parts. Place the dish back into the fridge to stiffen up, preferably all night long. Cut into 12 bars. Enjoy these bars with a loved one! ;) They were just perfect for my husband Peter & I! :) Store them in the fridge.
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/38159-vegan-gluten-free-no-bake-fig-cheesecake-bars (may not work)