Cheesecake Recipes

Jennifer Amos didn't let a medical condition that prevents her from eating sugar sour her sweet tooth. Instead, she developed for herself and friends low-sugar dessert recipes that still taste good.

Now she's bringing her low-sugar cheesecake to the masses via Sweet Revenge, the business she started to sell her treats.

Amos, a former Licking County Municipal Court judge, founded the business in January. She currently sells about four cakes per week by phone and through her Web site, www.mysweetrevenge.com, shipping them overnight or delivering them locally.

After she was diagnosed with a digestive disorder three years ago that prevents her body from tolerating sugar, Amos decided to adapt traditional dessert recipes so that they contain less sugar, but retain the sweet flavor of conventionally made treats.

"I was very frustrated by the fact that I could not have desserts out at a restaurant, so I started working on this cheesecake," she said.

Amos sought to adapt cheesecake recipes so that they kept the flavor and texture of the traditional dessert, but without the sugar content that prevents diabetics and others from eating them.

She substitutes Splenda for sugar and uses sugar-free candies and preserves in her cakes. Sweet Revenge offers 10 kinds of cheesecake, including white chocolate raspberry, peanut butter cup and chocolate, as well as a plain variety.

An FDA-approved laboratory that analyzed the cheesecake for nutritional content found it contains 14 grams of net carbohydrates and as few as 4.2 grams of sugar per serving, Amos said. That makes the cakes ideal for low-carb dieters, diabetics and others looking for more healthy dessert alternatives, she said.

"My goal is to provide a flavorful dessert to the medically restricted," Amos said. "It does fit in with the Atkins and South Beach diets, and it also fits in with a diabetic's dietary needs."

Amos said she's concentrating on promoting her desserts locally right now, but hopes one day Sweet Revenge will be a household name.

"We hope to get a really good response locally so we can approach companies nationally," she said. "We'd like to go nationwide, and we'd like to be a name everybody knows like Cheryl's Cookies or Sara Lee."

Reporter Jason Main can be reached at 328-8544 or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it