# Sugar-free cheesecake
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404 "2025-06-10T00:37:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/21 "2025-06-11T11:33:10Z")
I have never been forgiven by a superhero or by a Luxembourgian before, so this is doubly awesome.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/22 "2025-06-11T12:05:43Z")
(psst, “Luxembourger”)
(you are forgiven again)
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/23 "2025-06-11T18:04:04Z")
> [@anny\_m](#):
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> Just a thought –
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> Unless it’s important that it be homemade, you can check if a local bakery makes sugar-free cheesecake. Some do. It looks like it can be pretty spendy, but my guess is that it would also be pretty good. (After all, bakeries that sell sub-par products tend to go out of business.)
The concern (IMHO) with such commercial options is that they absolutely are likely to taste better, or at least, more like a “traditional” along with a better consistency/texture, but you’re a lot _less_ likely to have the full details of exactly what went into the final product. A lot of low sugar / sugar free foods add tons more _stuff_ to compensate, each of which can have their own issues. And of course, our earlier discussion on what sugar alternate they’re using, which might have it’s own issues.
Baking it yourself can be a pain (dear FSM, do I hate spring form pans or water baths!), but puts you in full control.
As an aside, since the sweetener isn’t structural in any way to the cheesecake, how well it would work out to do a cheesecake entirely sans-sweetener, but serve with a (or a variety of) sweet topping (thinned marmalades, chocolate ganache, honey, etc.) on the side, which one could add to taste. Including a few varieties that had alternate sweeteners.
Just food for thought (you may now boo me, I deserve it) for future efforts.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/24 "2025-06-16T14:58:32Z")
Follow-up: as I made the main cheesecake, I set aside a small portion of all the ingredients except sugar, and mixed them up at the end. I took it to my mom’s house, and my sister added my mom’s preferred blend of artificial sweeteners (including some that she assured me could only be acquired online, thus my ill-advised comments above about smuggling) and popped it in a ramekin.
Success!
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/25 "2025-06-16T18:32:25Z")
It just shows everyone cared enough to make the extra effort!
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/26 "2025-06-16T18:34:14Z")
That was kind of my goal. My mom is hugely interested in food, but not always the way I am, including her fascination with artificial sweeteners and other ways to bake low-carb treats, which is why I was determined to use them.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404/27 "2025-06-16T19:12:16Z")
Yay! Glad it worked out.
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