Apple pie meets rich cheesecake in these delicious Keto Apple Pie Cheesecake Bars. Creamy filling with apples and cinnamon and a delicious crumb topping.
Meet my new favorite fall dessert recipe: delicious keto apple cheesecake bars!
I am pretty good at knowing how my creations will come out, but this one far exceeded my expectations. And trust me, my expectations are pretty high when it comes to one of my keto dessert recipes.
Just picture it: tender almond flour crust, creamy cheesecake filling, chopped sweetened apples, and a cinnamon crumb crust.
It’s like two of your favorite desserts, apple pie and cheesecake, in one delicious package!
But apples aren’t keto!
Okay, I can hear about half of you totally freaking out and dismissing this recipe because apples aren’t very keto.
Chill, my lovely low carb friends. The amount of apple I use here is only 1 ½ cups, or about 1 ½ medium apples. When divided into 16 servings, it comes out to about 2g carbs per serving.
And each cheesecake has only 6.4g total grams per serving. That’s pretty doable for a keto dessert recipe! And you get real apple flavor to enjoy in a low carb, sugar free dessert.
Now, if you really don’t want to use apple, that’s fine. You can try something like Chayote squash in its place. I have never cooked with it, but I hear that the texture is similar to apple. I would add some apple extract to the chayote mixture, to get a more authentic flavor.
How to make keto apple cheesecake
You may find the long ingredient list and instructions for these apple pie cheesecake bars a little daunting. Don’t be intimidated! While they do have a lot of different parts, they are quite easy to make.
And the resulting apple pie flavor is phenomenal! Here are my best tips for getting it right:
- Make your apple filling first, and let it cool. You want it to be room temperature before pouring over the cheesecake.
- Remember, if you really don’t want to use apples, you can use something like chayote squash with a little apple extract.
- You may notice I don’t grease my pan. I have some really good nonstick bakeware and I find that greasing it can make the crust soggy. However, if your pans aren’t really nonstick, a light coating of avocado oil or coconut oil spray can help.
- USE A METAL PAN! Glass or ceramic pans don’t conduct heat as efficiently so your cheesecake takes much longer to bake through the center, but the sides can get overdone.
- Make sure your cream cheese is properly softened before beating it. If it’s still a bit too firm, or your house is a bit chilly, try warming it in the microwave for 15 seconds or so. Well softened cream cheese will mix better, without lumps.
- Make sure your other ingredients, like eggs, are also at room temperature. Adding cold eggs to nicely softened cream cheese means you will get lumps in your cheesecake. And nobody likes lumpy cheesecake!
- The crumb topping on this cheesecake can make it a bit harder to tell when it’s done. I recommend giving the pan a good shake to see how jiggly it still is. You want the very center to still have a bit of jiggle but the rest should seem set.
- Patience, my hungry friends! You need to let these keto apple cheesecake bars cool completely to room temperature, and the chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours, before they are ready to be eaten.
How to store Keto Apple Pie Cheesecake Bars
Like any cheesecake-based recipe, these delicious bars are best stored in the fridge and can last up to a week. I recommend placing them in an airtight container to retain the best flavor.
They could also be frozen for several months. For freezing, I would cut into bars once they are cool and flash freeze them first. This means placing on a tray or cookie sheet with space between each one, and letting them freeze solid.
Once they are solid, you can wrap each one up individually, or place them all together in an airtight container. Let frozen cheesecake bars thaw completely before serving.
More delicious keto cheesecake bars
- Keto Lemon Cheesecake Bars
- Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
- Keto Salted Caramel Cheesecake Bars
- Keto Pecan Cheesecake Bars
- Keto Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Bars
- Keto Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake Bars
Apple Pie Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients
Apple Filling
- 1 ½ cups chopped, peeled apple (about 1 ½ medium apples)
- 3 tablespoon BochaSweet or allulose (can use Swerve but it may recrystallize)
- 2 tablespoon water
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Crust
- 1 ¼ cups almond flour
- ¼ cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup butter, melted
Cheesecake Filling
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ⅔ cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon apple extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Crumb Topping
- ½ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup Swerve Brown
- 2 tablespoon coconut flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoon butter, melted
Instructions
Apple Filling
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the apple, sweetener, water, and cinnamon and bring to a simmer. Cook about 5 minutes, until the apples are tender.
- Remove from heat and let cool while preparing the cheesecake bars.
Crust
- Preheat the oven to 325F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, sweetener, and salt. Stir in the melted butter until the dough begins to clump together.
- Press firmly and evenly into the bottom of a 9-inch square metal non-stick baking pan (if your pan is not very good nonstick, you may want to grease it). Bake 10 minutes.
- Remove and let cool while preparing the rest of the cheesecake. Reduce the oven temperature to 300F.
Cheesecake Filling
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth, then beat in the sweetener until well combined.
- Beat the eggs in one at a time, scraping down the beaters and the sides of the bowl as necessary. Beat in the extracts until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour the cheesecake filling over the cooled crust, then top with the apples, spreading them out for even coverage. Drizzle any liquid from the apples overtop as well.
Crumb Topping
- In another medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, sweetener, coconut flour, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the melted butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle evenly over the cheesecake filling and bake 30 to 40 minutes, until the edges are set but the center still jiggles slightly.
- Remove and let cool to room temperature, then refrigerate to firm up, at least 2 hours.
Marcia says
wow, these are delicious!!! would give them 6 stars if I could. Decided to sample before Thanksgiving since I made them before my apple extract arrived. They are so good, perfect fall Thanksgiving dessert, light but full of flavor! Thank you Carolyn, you make it easy to stay keto with all your recipes!
Sandy Tyree says
I didn’t have apple extract so replaced it with 1/2 tsp caramel extract…delicious! It was everyone’s favorite dessert at our small group gathering!!
Leslie Baker says
I made these for my cheat day and a gathering and I thought that I’d have leftovers because of the word keto but boy was I wrong! These are so yummy and the cheesecake part is smooth and rich. Thanks Carolyn
Linda says
Tasty dessert. I’m aware of an off-taste; most likely from the sweetener. Hoping that once I freeze the portions, that taste dissipates. Nice company dish.
Lorry Norton says
I don’t have any some extract. Would these still be good without it?
Carolyn says
Just do vanilla!
Linda says
I didn’t have apple extract so I substituted maple. Came out fine.
Janice Polk says
Carolyn,
You really are in a league all of your own. I made these bars and all I can say is bravo. Phenomenal taste and texture. I chopped up a zucchini and mixed them in with the apple for lower carb but wow. Thank you so much for what you do. You are always my go to and when people ask me about doing keto, your web site is where I send them.There is no such thing as deprivation on keto when you go to All day I dream about food and prepare a Carolyn recipe.
Carolyn says
Thank you so much!
Cher says
Do these freeze well? Living alone, 16 servings is alot for me! lol
Carolyn says
Yep, they should!
Catherine says
It’s been a while since I’ve commented because I’ve been sticking with several of your tried and true recipes. But this one!!!! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – you are brilliant! I am an NP with many obese and diabetic patients and I send them to your site. Thank you so much for all you do – you are a blessing more than you realize.
Maggie says
I made this most delicious recipe this past weekend! The apple did not affect my bloodsugar at all! I didn’t have apple extract so I substituted a touch of homemade applesauce and it tasted great! Thank you for this recipe!
Renee says
Delicious and easy to make. Great recipe and freezes well too!
Randy Boyer says
Absolutely loved this recipe. Easy to follow. Came out perfect. Brought it to friends and we all fell in love. Will definitely make again.
MsKittyFL says
Merry Christmas…I just made the Apple Pie Cheesecake bars for Christmas and oh my goodness! This will be one of my top desserts to make for home and potlocks! Very easy to make and I did not have to modify anything for my husbands dietery restrictions.
Kate says
These were so good! I tested two of your apple recipes for Thanksgiving for those of us who don’t like pumpkin pie, and my husband ate 2/3 of the pan in just over.two.days! So good. Although I had just made a big batch of a different .keto.apple.pie filling earlier that day for pancakes, so I had a couple jars of that to use instead.
DeAnna says
Can this be doubled and put in a 9×13 pan?
Carolyn says
Yes.
Vicky Phillips says
This recipe is one of the very best cheesecake’s I’ve ever tried. The perfect dessert for the holidays!
Dana says
What is the serving size?
Would the carbs remain the same if they were in cupcake form?
Thanks!
Carolyn says
Well, the serving size is 1/16th of the pan. You just cut them as evenly as possible. If you did cupcakes, I would recommend doing 12 to 16. If you do 12, yes, the carb count would be quite a bit higher.
Crystal says
Just made these and even my mother (who isn’t low carb) loves them. I was asked if I was no longer doing the low carb. Love your recipes!
Veronika says
Made it for Yom Kippur, super easy and delicious!
dominique says
i’m going to make these tonight. i can see parts of this making an amazing popsicle!!!
Mary~~BlaizenFit says
I made these for a Labor Day get together. I put them in cute paper muffin cups I already had. Thought it would be easier to take than a cake pan. I don’t have a square metal pan and didn’t want to use the glass one. I think I baked them for about 25-30 mins ????, made about 10. I melted white ChocZero chips and drizzled on top of each. They were a hit amongst keto and non keto alike! Only thing I did different recipe wise was use Lakanto granulated with the apples. Live allulose, but it ain’t kind to my gut ????
Thank you for yet another delicious recipe!