WW Recipe of the Day: Low Calorie No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
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.
Weight Watchers Friendly No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Skinny on Easy Low Calorie No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Quick + Easy, it took all of 10 minutes to mix together the pumpkin cheesecake filling and plop 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.
How Many Calories/WW Points in this Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake?
According to my calculations, each slice has 234 calories and:
9 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
9 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
9 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
6 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
To see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, Click here!
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...
WW Low Calorie No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Substitutions & Variations
Sugar Free No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake: Substituting your favorite low or no calorie sweetener for the brown sugar will shave 1-2 SmartPoints 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 SmartPoints per serving.
If you like pumpkin you gotta give this 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
- ½ 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 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.
Recipe Notes
Substitutions/Variations
Sugar Free No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake:Substituting your favorite low or no calorie sweetener for the brown sugar will shave *1-2 SmartPoints 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 SmartPoints per serving. Click here to see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site. 9 *SmartPoints (Green plan) 9 *SmartPoints (Blue plan) 9 *SmartPoints (Purple plan) 6 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
Source: adapted from Kraft
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
More Yummy Low Calorie Pumpkin Recipes for Weight Watchers
- Low Fat Pumpkin Mousse Fluff
- Slow Cooker Pumpkin Pie Pudding
- Weight Watchers 2-Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins
- Low Fat Impossible Pumpkin Pie
- Healthy Mini Pumpkin Pies (Hungry Girl)
- Pumpkin Roll, Lightened Up (SkinnyTaste)
Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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Freda
I am always a Weight Watcher member, and am so thankful that I found this recipe. Thank you so much.
Martha McKinnon
Thanks, Freda 🙂
Celeste
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.
Martha McKinnon
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 🙂
Cheryl
What size can of pumpkin did you use?
Martha McKinnon
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
Jane
Can you use pumpkin pie filling and leave out the pumpkin pie spice?
Jane
Can you substitute pumpkin pie filling and eliminate the pumpkin pie spice?
Martha McKinnon
Hi Jane, I haven't tried it with pumpkin pie filling.
Charles
Want to try. Sounds great.
Julie Van Zant
Can I use fresh cooked pumpkin?
Martha McKinnon
Hi Julie, I haven't tried this with fresh cooked pumpkin, but believe it would work fine! Hope this helps. ~Martha
Kathy E.
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!