These Healthy Grain Free Cranberry Cheesecake Bars are so festive and perfect for the holidays! They’re made with a homemade shortbread crust, protein-rich cheesecake center and topped with a naturally sweetened cranberry sauce.
This post is sponsored by Nancy’s Yogurt, all opinions, recipe and photography are my own.
Cranberry cheesecake bars are delish!
These bars are crazy good and so much fun for the holidays.
This special treat has a crumbly, thick, buttery, shortbread-ish cookie crust, a delicious vanilla, protein-rich, creamy cheesecake center and a delectable, slightly sweet, cranberry topping with hints of orange and cinnamon.
You’d never know this cheesecake is packed with a special protein-rich food.
Most cheesecakes are filled with cane sugar and some even have condensed milk! These are not necessary at all in my opinion.
They usually contain a base of non-organic cream cheese and eggs – and so many of them these days use fat free or reduced fat cream cheese.
But my friends, fat-free and reduced-fat is an old school thought! I grew up in the 80’s when everything was being marketed to us as fat-free and low-fat, but what they pushed on us was false info.
Hopefully by now people are starting to catch on and know that quality WHOLE, full fat is the way to go. And butter is not bad my friends. Yep, it’s true. Fat is NOT our enemy.
Here’s the deal, traditional foods do not include low-fat or fat-free ingredients that have been stripped of their nutritional value.
Healthy fats like grass-fed butter, ghee, avocado oil, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, etc. are indeed healthy.
I am so happy that one of my favorite brands for cultured dairy, Nancy’s, has whole milk cottage cheese. High protein, cultured WHOLE milk organic cottage cheese is an option now!
It’s very hard to find quality, authentic, cultured, WHOLE MILK cottage cheese these days. Pretty much everything on the market is fat free, low fat and lacking in live cultures.
If you don’t see this whole milk version at your local grocery store, make sure to request it. Most stores do listen to customer requests.
Nancy’s Organic Cultured Whole Milk Cottage Cheese is high in protein! One serving is 14 grams of protein!
A bunch of protein from whole milk cottage cheese goes into these healthy cranberry cheesecake bars.
I grew up using Nancy’s products and always loved the tanginess and creaminess of their yogurt. Their whole milk sour cream became my absolute favorite along with their cream cheese too.
I love that this company has been focusing on sustainability and organic practices for many, many years. I also love that they are family owned and operated in Eugene, Oregon {since 1960}.
Plus, they offer TRUE live probiotic cultured products with billions of live active probiotic cultures! Isn’t that great?!
Probiotics are wonderful for gut-health!
WHERE TO FIND NANCY’S COTTAGE CHEESE
You can find Nancy’s Organic Whole Milk Cottage Cheese and other Nancy’s products at a store near you by entering your city or zip code into their store locator. In Northern California, Nancy’s products can be found at most Raleys and Bel Air Markets, Sprouts Farmers Market, Nugget Markets, Whole Foods Market and many natural foods co-op grocery stores.
Check out these other delicious recipes that I’ve created for Nancy’s: Healthy Spinach Artichoke Chicken Casserole, Grain Free Chai Spiced Pear Coffee Cake, High Protein Raspberry Cheesecake Smoothie, High Protein Golden Milk Smoothie, Healthy Raspberry Swirl Frozen Yogurt, Healthy Low Carb Cauliflower Breakfast Casserole, Healthy Chicken Broccoli Casserole, and Healthy Gluten Free Lemon Blueberry Breakfast Strata.
These cranberry cheesecake bars are so easy to make and can be made ahead of time.
Make these delicious cheesecake bars up the day before you have company coming over for any holiday festivities. They’re sure to please!
Healthy Grain Free Cranberry Cheesecake Bars
These Healthy Grain Free Cranberry Cheesecake Bars are so festive and perfect for the holidays! They're made with a homemade shortbread crust, protein-rich cheesecake center and topped with a naturally sweetened cranberry sauce. For the Crust For the Cheesecake For the Cranberry Sauce This nutritional information was auto-generated based on serving size, number of servings, and typical information for the ingredients listed. To obtain the most accurate representation of the nutritional information in a given recipe, please calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients and amounts used, using your preferred nutrition calculator. Under no circumstances shall the this website and the author be responsible for any loss or damage resulting for your reliance on the given nutritional information. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information provided is accurate, complete, and useful.Healthy Grain Free Cranberry Cheesecake Bars
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Yield: 12
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 386Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 67mgSodium: 253mgCarbohydrates: 61gFiber: 2gSugar: 45gProtein: 5g
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Oh my goodness, but this sounds delicious! I can’t wait to make it. I love making healthy versions of normally high calorie foods. I keep track of every calorie and protein gram, so it’s really important to find yummy recipes that are healthy too. Which bring me to my question … I couldn’t seem to find the nutritional information on each serving. Could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks so much!
Lisa
Thanks Lisa! 🙂 I don’t have a nutritional breakdown on my blog. I believe there are trackers online where you can input the ingredients to get the nutritional info. Wish I could help more, I hope you’re able to find one to help you out.
These look absolutely divine and that crust sounds amazing!
Thank you so much! 🙂
These looks amazing and so perfect for the holidays! Honestly, I never would have thought of adding cranberry to cheesecake but I can’t wait to try it!
Thank you! It’s such a yummy, tangy flavor paired with cheesecake. 🙂
Those are absolutely gorgeous! If I could have dairy I wouldn’t be sharing these… 😉
Thanks Raia! LOL I totally understand 😉
Ohhh my! I love this so much! Cranberries are my favorite! I can’t wait to make them!
They’re so yummy! I didn’t know that, how fun! I hope you get to try some. 🙂
Thank you for this wonderful recipe. I do have to question the Kerrygold butter though. I have read that Kerrygold butter is definitely on pasture and grass fed, but they are being supplemented with GMO animal feed. I read this in an article from the Healthy Home Economist “Beware Kerrygold Butter”. FYI
Hi Deborah, yes that info has been circling for a long time – there seems to always be back and forth about the truth of it or not. I don’t have the answer for you. There are some other great alternatives though – like Organic Valley pasture butter. I know that a lot of local formers markets and some co-op group buys have grass-fed butter available too.