photo credit marthastewart.com.
so how to make this recipe gluten free? other than making sure I used cream cheese that doesn't contain modified milk ingredients, the crust was the only hurdle. I googled a bit until I found a gluten free crust recipe that seemed simple, and used ingredients I already have at home. this is the recipe I ultimately settled on, however I didn't have macadamia nuts, so I used raw almonds instead, which I didn't roast, as the recipe requests. this recipe is well-explained through a series of simple instructions and photos. one thing to note, however is that the recipe does call for all-purpose flour, which could be interpreted as wheat flour by someone not familiar with the gluten free diet, please make sure you are using gluten free flour such as rice flour. I used what I had left of Cate's gluten free flour mix, which I had made up last year during my gluten free cupcake odyssey.
you will only go to step six of the crust recipe, ignoring the last three steps which explain baking the crust in a springform pan. instead move on to the Martha Stewart recipe, where you will be instructed on how to bake the crusts in the individual paper liners. even though my crust is different from Martha's crust I still followed her bake time of ten minutes, the crusts turned out perfectly.
some notes about ingredients:
-I always use Avalon Dairy's organic butter because it doesn't contain color.
-I use organic evaporated cane juice granules instead of granulated sugar
-I used Olympic Dairy's organic cream cheese (look for coupon in the Healthy Shopper).
-I use Simply Organic Vanilla Extract, which I buy at Choices Market.
the recipe is a little tedious towards the end when it asks you to set the cheesecakes in the fridge for four hours in the tins! I only have one muffin tin for six, so this would take me hours and hours to accomplish, therefore I cheated, and I took them out of the mould, and placed them into glasses, and then into the fridge, thereby freeing up my one and only pan to make the next round. I admit I didn't read the instructions until the end before hand.
I hope this recipe works out for you, there will be plenty to go around as the recipe makes around 34 individual cheesecakes. give some out as secret valentine's at school or work! someone will love you for it, as they are simply divine. Happy Valentine's Day! Andrea.
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