Keto dessert: Chocolate cheesecake recipe

Looking for a keto dessert to indulge in? This recipe for a ricotta and chocolate cheesecake is an utterly delicious showstopper. Even better, it’s also (amazingly) possible to incorporate into the keto diet.

Keto is a high-protein, high-fat diet that, as this cheesecake proves, doesn’t need to be boring.

The keto diet works by changing the body’s primary source of fuel from glucose to ketone. Ketones are chemicals produced when you don’t have enough sugar in your body to power your cells. The liver converts fat into ketones and sends these through your bloodstream as a sugar replacement. Eating high amounts of fat and limiting your carbohydrate and sugar intake means your body enters a state of ketosis, where it uses ketones (fat), rather than sugar, as its primary fuel source.

In general, a state of ketosis can be induced by restricting your carb intake to around 20-50g daily, based on around 2,000 kcals of food a day.

We’ve not included any sugar in this recipe, but if you prefer it a little sweeter, add some honey. Just bear in mind that it won’t be as keto-friendly.

Give this keto dessert recipe a try – you definitely won’t regret it.

Read more about the keto diet

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