You can make a crust with ground nuts, which avoids the sugar in the graham cracker crumb crust. Also, don't make it as sweet as is traditional. Sweeten it to taste. Add a little sweetener, taste the batter, and if need be add a little more. You'll probably be surprised at how little you can get by with. I regularly cut the sweetener in half pretty much any recipe, and even my sugar-loving family can't tell. Recipes call for way too much sugar. And I have made cheesecake with honey, so I don't see why you couldn't use the agave.
Now, this just *might* satisfy your craving. Cathe shared a recipe for cheese balls in a couple of other threads as a snack for kids. I don't like to give ds dried fruit, so I changed them a bit. I mixed a package of cream cheese and some carob powder together in a food processor (I just kept adding carob powder till I liked the taste). I also added some shredded coconut. I did sweeten it with a tiny bit of honey (probably about 1 tsp.). Next time I'll add some coffe sub. powder, too, which will make it taste more like chocolate (which I love, but am not allowed to eat right now
). Anyway, once I got the cheese tasting the way I wanted it, I made it into balls and rolled them in chopped pecans. You could make her recipe as it stands, though, with some other dried fruit (it calls for raisins). It seems to me that dried apricots or dried cherries would be really yummy. And dried cherries would be really yummy added to the balls I made. Anyway, just a thought.
Hope you get through the cravings!
Christie
