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WW Recipe of the Day: No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Made Lighter
I’m afraid that I’ve fallen head-over-heels into the pumpkin recipe patch this year. It doesn’t help that I’ve always loved fall and it’s two golden children: apples and pumpkin.
And if there’s anything I love as much as easy slow cooker recipes, it’s easy no-bake desserts. So when I saw a recipe for an easy no bake pumpkin cheesecake I knew I wanted to attempt a lightened up version.
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake?
According to my calculations, each slice has 234 calories.
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9 SmartPoints (Green plan)
9 SmartPoints (Blue plan)
9 SmartPoints (Purple plan)
6 PointsPlus (Old plan)
Not bad when you consider a slice of pumpkin cheesecake at Costco and Olive Garden will set you back 570 and 870 calories, respectively. But if you want to lower the calories and WW Points even further, here are a few ideas…
Low Calorie No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Substitutions and Variations
Sugar-Free No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake: Substituting your favorite low or no calorie sweetener for the brown sugar will shave 1-2 Points from each serving depending on the sweetener you choose.
No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Shooters: Skipping the crust and serving the no bake pumpkin cheesecake filling in shot glass or little parfait dishes will shave 4 Points per serving.
Recipe Notes
Quick and easy, it took all of 10 minutes to mix together the pumpkin cheesecake filling and spread it into a prepared graham cracker crust. The hardest thing about this easy low calorie no-bake pumpkin cheesecake pie is waiting 3+ hours until it chills and sets up.
I adapted a pumpkin cheesecake recipe from Kraft. To lighten it up, I substituted half fat-free cream cheese and half reduced-fat cream cheese for the full fat kind. And used less whipped topping to give the filling a slightly firmer consistency.
Sweet and creamy with just the right amount of spice, this is much less dense than traditional baked pumpkin cheesecake.
Rod really loved this easy no-bake pumpkin cheesecake pie. He probably could have eaten it all in one sitting, but showed restraint enjoying a slice for dessert every night until it was gone. If you like pumpkin you gotta give this cheesecake a try.
Here’s a super simple way to make healthy pressure cooker pumpkin puree at home. Enjoy!
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Easy No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 ounces fat-free cream cheese, softened
- 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup thawed whipped topping (such as cool whip or Truwhip)
- 1 Ready-to-use reduced fat graham cracker crumb crust (6 ounces)
Instructions
- Beat the cream cheeses, pumpkin, sugar and pumpkin pie spice with electric mixer (affiliate link) on medium speed until well blended.
- Gently stir in 1 cup of the whipped topping.
- Spoon the pumpkin cream cheese mixture into crust.
- Refrigerate at least 3 hours (or overnight if you can).
- Serve topped with whipped topping, if desired.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 9 SmartPoints (Green plan) 9 SmartPoints (Blue plan) 9 SmartPoints (Purple plan) 6 PointsPlus (Old plan) Substitutions and Variations:
Sugar Free No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake:
Substituting your favorite low or no calorie sweetener for the brown sugar will shave 1-2 Points from each serving depending on the sweetener you choose. No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Shooters:
Skipping the crust and serving the no bake pumpkin cheesecake filling in shot glass or little parfait dishes will shave 4 Points per serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: adapted from Kraft
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This is a fabulous recipe! I made it for our Thanksgiving meal this year. I subbed Swerve brown sugar alternative to save some points and calories and it was a great swap. We loved the pie! Thank you!
Can I use fresh cooked pumpkin?
Hi Julie, I haven’t tried this with fresh cooked pumpkin, but believe it would work fine! Hope this helps. ~Martha
Want to try. Sounds great.
Can you substitute pumpkin pie filling and eliminate the pumpkin pie spice?
Hi Jane, I haven’t tried it with pumpkin pie filling.
Can you use pumpkin pie filling and leave out the pumpkin pie spice?
What size can of pumpkin did you use?
Hi Cheryl, you need 1 cup of canned pumpkin puree for this recipe or about 1/2 of a small 14-15 ounce can. – Martha
I created this recipe on the WW site (Create/Recipe) and it’s NOT just 6 points. Even with using a low fat graham cracker crust, it’s 10 points per serving. I’m at loss as to how they got 6.
Hi Celeste, If you look closely, you’ll see that this recipe has 6 POINTSPLUS, which was the previous WW Program before SmartPoints! It’s an older recipes that hasn’t been updated with the SmartPoints value, but 10 SP makes sense to me since everything with sugar increased in points values under the new Program. Hope this helps 🙂
I am always a Weight Watcher member, and am so thankful that I found this recipe. Thank you so much.
Thanks, Freda 🙂