Baked Apple Cheesecakes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 large baking apples, hollowed
- 16 oz. cream cheese (2 blocks), very soft
- 1/2 c. confectioners' sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- Crushed graham crackers, for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a stand mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon until creamy. Transfer mixture to stuffed apples and bake until apples are soft and bubbly and cheesecake mixture is warmed through, about 30 minutes.
- Garnish with crushed graham crackers and serve.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Apples.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Apples wi...
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