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Anabolic Cheesecake Recipe Review

For around 6 months now, popular fitness YouTube personality Remington James has been sharing creative “anabolic” recipes in his videos. Remington James was inspired by another popular YouTube personality Greg Doucette, who originally coined the phrase “anabolic kitchen” and started putting the word anabolic in front of things.

Each of these two has a cookbook they sell with all of their recipes. The cookbooks are probably great, but I haven’t bought either one (buy Rem’s here). Remington shares at least a recipe a week, and I am not hurting for ideas for food, so the cost doesn’t seem necessary at this point.

Cheesecake Sans Guilt?

Traditional cheesecake is one of the worst things to eat for health or hitting calorie targets. But by making it with fat free cream cheese, protein powder and greek yogurt, the consistency and taste can be approximated with great macros and calories. In fact, the bulk of the wasted calories in this recipe are in the graham crackers used to make the crust.

Pulling it out of the oven, just before I chilled it all night.

Ingredients for Anabolic Cheesecake:

  • Graham crackers – 155g
  • Sugar free syrup – 60g
  • Fat free cream cheese – 448g (two whole blocks)
  • Greek yogurt – 340g
  • Vanilla protein powder – 124g
  • Splenda or similar – 30g
  • Vanilla – 10g
  • Cake pan
Everything you need (except the mixer, oven and fridge)

Instructions:

  1. Put graham crackers in plastic bag and crush them using blunt object (ice cream scoop works).
  2. Pour into a bowl, add in syrup, and mix with your hands, forming a ball.
  3. Put the ball into cake pan and spread until the crust mix covers the entire bottom of pan.
  4. Put all other ingredients into a clean bowl, mix with standing mixer or by hand with spoon (mixer recommended).
  5. Add filling into pan on top of crust layer.
  6. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes, then at 200 degrees for another 50-60 minutes.
  7. Move to refrigerator to chill for 4+ hours.
  8. Enjoy.
Just before adding the filling to the graham cracker crust.

Anabolic Cheesecake Nutrition Information

  • Whole cake:
    • Calories: 1923
    • Fat: 19g
    • Carbohydrates: 220g
    • Protein: 218g
  • Quarter of the cake:
    • Calories: 481
    • Fat: 5g
    • Carbohydrates: 55g
    • Protein: 55g

How Anabolic was it?

Wednesday night after the kids went to bed, I set out to make this recipe. I had just barely enough graham crackers in the pantry, leftover from s’mores from this summer. I made the mistake of putting a little too much syrup in the mixture, which made the crust not exactly perfect.

Beyond that, the filling worked great in the standing mixer and it was no problem to spoon it into the cake pan. When I pulled it out the next day after my morning training session, I ate half of the cheesecake. I love vanilla flavored anything, so the taste was perfect for me. The consistency out of the refrigerator was perfect. I saved a quarter of the cake for the day after I made it and it was still great then too.

Also, my family tried it an they finished the small slices I gave them, so it couldn’t have been that bad!

Lunch is served!

Final Verdict

I recommend this recipe, it is simple, tasty and filling. The hardest part of the whole process is procuring the ingredients. Fat free cream cheese is not that easy to find, but otherwise, it’s a snap. Next up for me is to locate and acquire more fat free cream cheese to try the pumpkin pie recipe.

Check out Remington’s video on the anabolic cheesecake below. Let me know if you try it in the comments below. In the meantime, keep it on the DL.

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