Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream tastes just like strawberry cheesecake ice cream!
- Even if you don’t like cottage cheese, you will love this recipe!
- It’s creamy, sweet and tangy- just like cheesecake.
- The cottage cheese is blended until smooth and creamy, so no weird textures.
- Check out my fudge bars for another great healthy dessert recipe.
Ingredients And Substitutions
These are the main ingredients and substitutions for Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream. Scroll down to the recipe card for a full list of ingredients and instructions.
I highly recommend using a high quality cottage cheese for best results. Not only will this enhance the flavor, but it will also be a higher quality protein. I actually used low fat cottage cheese and it worked great.
Add in a sweetener of choice, I prefer using maple syrup because it’s a unrefined all natural sweetener, however you can use honey, agave or date syrup. Even cane sugar, brown sugar or monk fruit sweetener will work!
Fresh strawberries are going to naturally sweeten the mixture and also give that lovely pink color. You can also use frozen if preferred!
For more flavor and texture, I adding in peanut butter, but I think i’d prefer cashew butter or almond butter instead! You can make it nut free also by using sun butter or oat butter.
How To Make
ONE: In a food processor or blender, add in the cottage cheese, maple syrup, strawberries, and peanut butter. Blend until smooth and creamy.
TWO: Pour the mixture into a loaf pan. I mixed in strawberries and topped it off with more strawberries, and then sprinkled with graham crackers before freezing till firm, about 4 hours.
THREE: When ready, scoop and enjoy!
Tips And Tricks
Use a high quality cottage cheese for best results. I used low fat and it worked great!
Feel free to make it your own by adding in your favorite toppings such as oreos, peanut butter, chocolate, banana, or any other fruit!
Use a blender or food processor to combine all the ingredients.
For easy clean up, I added some parchment paper to my loaf pan, but this isn’t necessary.
Keep it covered to prevent freezer burn.
How To Serve And Store
Serve this Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream once it is firm enough and has an ice cream consistency, about 4 hours. Serve with fresh fruit, peanut butter, almond butter or your favorite ice cream toppings.
Store in an airtight container with a lid, and place in the fridge! Enjoy within 30-60 days.
Taste And Texture
Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream tastes like strawberry cheesecake ice cream. It’s sweet, slightly tangy and delicious! NO, it doesn’t taste like cottage cheese!
The texture is just like ice cream, it’s smooth and creamy!
Other Recipes You May Like
- Chocolate Fudge Bars
- Strawberry Overnight Oats
- Strawberry Shortcake Drop Cookies
- Gluten Free Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
- Stuffed Strawberries
If you make these Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream, I would really appreciate a comment and rating down below, under the recipe card. Don’t forget to take a picture and tag me over on Instagram, Tiktok or Pinterest!
Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream
Ingredients
Cottage Cheese Ice Cream
- 2 cups of cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup peanut butter (cashew butter or almond butter. sub sunflower butter or oat butter for a nut free option)
- 1.5 cups fresh or frozen strawberries
Toppings
- 1 cup sliced strawberries
- 1/4 cup crushed graham crackers
Instructions
- In a food processor or blender, add in the cottage cheese, maple syrup, strawberries, and peanut butter. Blend until smooth and creamy.
- Pour the mixture into a loaf pan. I mixed in strawberries and topped it off with more strawberries, and then sprinkled with graham crackers before freezing till firm, about 4 hours.
- When ready, scoop and enjoy!
Notes
- Use a high quality cottage cheese for best results. I used low fat and it worked great!
- Feel free to make it your own by adding in your favorite toppings such as oreos, peanut butter, chocolate, banana, or any other fruit!
- Use a blender or food processor to combine all the ingredients.
- For easy clean up, I added some parchment paper to my loaf pan, but this isn’t necessary.
- Keep it covered to prevent freezer burn.
I was so hesitant to try this but OMG so good!!! Will for sure make again
YAYY!
I don’t even like cottage cheese but this really surprised me, it was creamy and so good
I’m so glad you gave it a go!
I really wanted to try this recipe because I’m trying to increase my protein intake, and I said I could try with adding cottage cheese to my diet. First of all, I’m not new at cooking, and follow the recipe as described but didn’t turn out well. The texture was great as soon as I finished blending, the taste not my favourite (I don’t think strawberry-peanut butter is the better option but that’s a personal opinion). The issue is that I made it at night so at the following day it was impossible to scoop it out of the container. It was hard like a rock. Not ice-cream texture at all! I had to transfer the container to the fridge but the texture was ruined.
Hi Maria, I’m sorry you didn’t like the flavor, you can also add a different nut butter. However, as stated in the recipe: to achieve the perfect texture only let it freeze for 4 hours. Leaving it in overnight will then need to be thawed on the counter for a couple hours to make it scoopable.
I had the same problem as I froze it overnight and it’s impossible to scoop. After thawing it’s icy rather than creamy. But I do love the flavour as I love peanuts butter (didn’t use the strawberries). If you only freeze 4 hours does that mean you have to eat it all? Or can you re-freeze it?
Hi Sharon! Yes, freeze it only for 4 hours if you want to enjoy it “fresh”, otherwise you do need to let it fully defrost for a few hours otherwise and it should return to a creamy texture, it just takes a while. That can be a problem with these viral recipes.