This incredibly Easy Sugar-Free Low Carb Keto Peppermint Cheesecake Pie is a no bake sensation and will be your favorite low carb dessert to make for the holidays with family and friends! This is also Nut Free!
Sugar-Free Keto Peppermint Cheesecake Pie
If you're a lover of cheesecake, is there anything better than enjoying a creamy slice? Only one, that is a No Bake recipe that is also, Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Low Carb and Keto and tastes like Christmas day in pie form!
No bake cheesecake recipes are my favorite, especially at this busy holiday time of year!
This No Bake Cheesecake pie takes very little time in the kitchen and is just in time for Christmas! Peppermint flavor throughout the cheesecake as well as the topping!
Sustaining a low carb lifestyle to me, means not feeling like you're missing out on anything!
FOMO is one of the reasons people fall off health goals during this time of year because they want to enjoy a little bit of deliciousness like everyone else.
If you're a low carb cheesecake lover, you won't feel like you're missing out at all during the holiday season with this great recipe!
Not a fan of peppermint?
No problem, I've got a bunch of other no bake cheesecakes you might like; Pecan Cream Pie, Cranberry Cheesecake Pie, Coffee Cheesecake, Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake!
If you feel like baking, I've also got an amazing chocolate cheesecake and another smaller cheesecake made in the instant pot!
All can be enjoyed on a low carb diet or keto diet without spiking your blood sugar!
I love my Pecan Snowball cookies for a holiday dessert and gift giving of course, but we all know when it comes to Christmas dinner party, festive desserts like this no bake low-carb recipe are what people gravitate to.
It's a beautiful low-carb dessert with decorative, cracked sugar-free peppermint candies or sugar free cracked candy canes on top of the cheesecake. It screams the holidays to me.
Carbs in Regular Cheesecake
I use the app Cronometer and found a commercially prepared cheesecake has 20.4 grams of carbs for an 80 gram slice.
Carbs in our Low Carb Cheesecake
One slice of our low carb dessert has just 5 g net carbs or 8 total carbs per slice.
No Bake Peppermint Cheesecake Recipe with Nut Free Keto Crust
Almond meal may be substituted for sunflower seeds in the crust, barring nut allergy issues.
The crust is a nut free option as my youngest has a tree nut allergy.
Using almond flour in place of the sunflowers I've used is a fine substitution. If you prefer a standard baked pie crust, this keto chocolate pie crust is fabulous and also nut free.
The great thing about this low carb cheesecake recipe is that you can easily adapt it to how much or how little peppermint extract or peppermint candy you'd like to use.
Can I swap the peppermint extract?
If you don't want to use peppermint extract or peppermint stevia you can leave them out or swap with vanilla extract and vanilla stevia.
You could also use a few drops of peppermint oil instead of use a store bought peppermint extract.
Either way, a combination of peppermint stevia and the extract is what gives this no bake dessert an incredible minty flavor.
Low Carb Sweetener Options
And the same goes for the sweetness. Always add a small amount of any low-carb sweeteners I recommend then taste and adjust.
If you're worried about it being too sweet, since I do have a well known sweet tooth, reduce the amount I've suggested then taste again and adjust.
Here's my ultimate guide to low carb sweeteners and a conversion chart!
Can I use low fat cream cheese?
If fat is a concern, simply swap the regular cream cheese for a reduced-fat option.
I'd recommend sticking with full-fat cream cheese for the best results in taste and texture. Often low fat products contain sugar to amp up the flavor and usually have more carbs in them than using the full fat version of the product.
Other Peppermint Desserts & Sugar-Free Recipes you might enjoy:
White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge
Happy Holidays! Enjoy!
Sugar Free Peppermint No Bake Keto Cheesecake Recipe
No Bake Sugar-Free Peppermint Cheesecake Pie
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups sunflower seeds or almonds if no nut allergy
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 tbsp butter softened
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup Swerve sweetener
Filling
- 16 ounces cream cheese (softened cream cheese or room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon peppermint liquid stevia
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
Topping
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon peppermint liquid stevia
- ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract
Optional Topping
- ½ cup sugar-free candy canes crushed
Instructions
Crust
- Prepare the no-bake crust by placing all ingredients into a food processor. Process until the mix is a fine crumb consistency.
- Taste the crust and add more low-carb sweetener, as needed. Spread into a 9-inch pie dish. or you could also use a springform pan if you prefer. Set aside.
Filling
- Place all filling ingredients, except heavy cream, into a stand mixer and blend on high until smooth. Taste and add more stevia as needed.
- Pour heavy cream into a new mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to blend on high until all whipped in texture and you have stiff peaks. Fold this whipped cream into the cream cheese filling. Spread this into the pie crust.
Topping
- Add all topping ingredients into stand mixer, except crushed candy canes, if using. Blend on high until whipped. Taste and adjust stevia, if needed.
- Spread this over the cheesecake filling. Top with crushed peppermints if desired. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate pie for 3-4 hours or overnight.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Brandi
Hi! I’d love to make this for my birthday pie and sounds delicious as is however, would you have a suggestion for me to make it with more chocolate than just the cocoa powder in the crust? Thank you!
Erin
Can’t wait to try! Glad I don’t have to use a springform pan!
Nutfree-eggfree-ketomama
Thank you! Finally a nut free recipe, I'll be trying this for my holiday dessert
Taryn Harding
Hi! Would it make a difference if you used Swerve granular vs Swerve Confectioners??
Thank you!!
Toni
What holds the crust together? Do you bake it first?
Brenda
The butter is enough to keep it together and it must stay in the fridge as it's cheesecake so that keeps it together fine.
Lauren
17.5 grams of saturated fat. That’s six times more than you should have in one day. It’s incredibly unhealthy though sounds so good.
Brenda
Actually when fat is combined with carbohydrates and sugar that is a deadly combination, but when the carbs and sugar are greatly reduced, fat is not unhealthy for your body. More and more studies are showing that fat does not make you fat it is the carbs and sugar that does.
Marianne
Lauren, your figures are incorrect. 17.5 gms of fat is just under 1 tablespoon. Your claim that this is six times the amount that one should eat in a day would mean that people should only eat 1/2 of a teaspoon of fat per day. This is the actual recommended amount: "For a 2,000-calorie per day diet, the recommended daily fat intake is 44 to 78 grams. The recommended daily fat amounts for 1,500-calorie and 2,500-calorie diets are 33 to 58 grams and 56 to 97 grams, respectively."
Marianne
Oops, I need to correct my own correction. 🙂 I didn't read properly that you were referring to saturated fat specifically. Still the recommended amount of saturated fat per day is 13 gms according to the American Heart Association, which doesn't make one slice of this pie equal to 6 times the recommended daily amount.
Heather
Your ingredients and printed recipe isn't included in this post???
Becky
I don't want to spend $10-15 on the liquid peppermint stevia. Can I substitute the regular liquid stevia? It still gets the peppermint flavor from the extract, right?
Brenda
iherb.com has many of the liquid stevias and my discount code is YAJ035. You could use more peppermint extract and plain stevia though.
Shawn
The recipe page states 1 cup of cream for the filling & 1/2 cup cream for the topping. The video completely leaves out the adding of the whipped cream to the filling & a the video doubles the amount cream for the topping. I'm assuming I can use the video recipe for a more dense texture & the actual recipe on the sweetleaf website for a more fluffy texture. Can you please clarify?
Shawn
I meant heavy cream not whipped cream going into the filling.
Brenda
The video doesn't leave out the heavy cream in the filling, it's stated in words when I'm filling the pie, but doesn't show me pouring it in the video. I changed the whipped topping amount as it was too much I felt the first time I made it for the video and adapted the amount for the recipe on the Sweetleaf website. You can certainly make more topping if you feel it's needed.
kim
The only sugar-free peppermint candies I find have sucralose in them 🙁
Brenda
I've only found them online through Amazon.
Asiya Subani
My family loves cakes but they tend to eat cakes without any sweet content...This sugar free cake and on top of it no baking has made me go crazy for your cake...I shall soon make it and post my feedback...Thanks...
Cameron
I would think that since they are crushed up anyway sugar free pepermint candies would work as well. I think i got ours at Walmart.
Rachel
Cameron I did not even think of the sugar free peppermint candies even though I have definitely seen them in the store. Thank you! So much easier than waiting for them on Amazon. Peppermint is my favorite so I'm really wanting to make this. lol
Ashlee
Is there another option to the peppermint stevia? Just extra peppermint extract?
Brenda
Extra peppermint extract but also something more to sweeten since extract is not sweet and stevia is quite sweet.
Rachel
Brenda I am so excited to make this. Peppermint is probably my favorite flavor. However I do have one question: I've never seen sugar free candycanes before. Where might I find these? Thank you.
Brenda
I've only seen them online through Amazon. There are some natural kinds with few ingredients and no artificial colors at Whole Foods, but they do still have sugar. Unfortunately the ones online were not on Prime, so it takes some time to get them.
Carolyn
You could use the sugar free starlight mints (crush them up) that are hanging in little bags in the candy aisle if the grocery store 🙂
Brenda
sure
Rachel
Thank you for the info Carolyn! I will keep an eye out for these.
Loretta
Health food store may carry them seasonal and check Walgreens