The Best Healthy Cottage Cheese Swap Recipes, According To Nutritionists

Photo by Cathy Scola via Getty Images Cottage cheese cookie dough? Pureed to make high-protein “ice cream,” cookie dough and queso, good old cottage cheese is suddenly hot. I really like the no-added-sugar chocolate chips from Hu.” Nutrition writer Joyce Hendley, with a master’s in science in nutrition and food science had this to say about cottage cheese ice cream. And remember, if you’re eating it as dessert or a snack, it’s probably on top of a day’s worth of other food.” Hendley weighed in: “This is a no-brainer: Using cottage cheese allows you to use a lot less of the fat-packed dairy ingredients usually in cheesecake. “But most importantly, cottage cheese really tastes like cream cheese, and has a silky mouthfeel when it’s pureed within an inch of its life, so with a little wizardry, it’s not much of a compromise to use it in a recipe like this.” Hendley says using cottage cheese is brilliant here.