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These Gingersnap Cashew Cheesecake Cups are dairy free, easy to make and so delicious!

Gingersnap Cashew Cheesecake Cups


  • Author: Kelsey
  • Yield: 15 1x

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 ½ cups crushed ginger snap cookies*
  • 5 tbsp coconut oil
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups raw cashews
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup full-fat coconut milk 
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
  • 3 Tbsp melted coconut oil (refined for no coconut flavor), you can use light olive oil too
  • 2 Tbsp lemon or lime juice
  • zest of an orange

Instructions

  • Start with soaking the raw cashews in a bowl covering them in water for 4-12 hrs.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tin with paper liners.
  • In a medium bowl combine gingersnap crumbs, 5 tablespoons coconut oil & coconut sugar and mix until evenly combined.
  • Scoop about 2 tablespoons of cookie dough into each muffin liner and flatten slightly.
  • Bake for about 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
  • Once the cashews are done soaking, drain water and add to a high powered blender or food processor with remaining ingredients.
  • Put cashew mixture in ziplock bag with cut off the tip.
  • Once cookies have cooled, squeeze cashew mixture into the cookie cups.
  • Zest an orange over the cups.
  • Put them in the freezer to harden for at least 2 hours and store in the freezer as well.

Notes

*crush cookies in a food processor into a fine powder