Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

This Cottage Cheese Ice Cream is an easy 4-ingredient homemade high-protein ice cream packed with 6.7 grams of protein per serving. Plus, it’s easy to make in less than 5 minutes, so you can always have a batch on hand.

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You might be wondering what to do with cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is a major food trend for its interesting nutrition profile: packed with protein, calcium, and vitamins and low in fat and calories. While eating cottage cheese in savory recipes seems natural like in my scrambled eggs with cottage cheese or cottage cheese dip, you can make many delicious sweet recipes with cottage cheese.

The latest TikTok food trend is to turn cottage cheese into ice cream using minimal ingredients. I couldn’t resist trying and the result is mind-blowing, and the flavors are so delicious.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need to make a batch of cottage cheese ice cream are:

• Full-Fat Cottage Cheese – I don’t recommend using fat-free or low-fat cottage cheese, the ice cream won’t turn out as smooth and creamy.
• Nut Butter – I like almond butter to add proteins to the ice cream, and it also adds flavor and creaminess. However, peanut butter, cashew butter, or sunflower seed butter also work well.
• Sugar-Free Maple Syrup – or feel free to use regular maple syrup, honey, or any unrefined sugar-free liquid sweetener you love.
• Vanilla Extract – for flavor.

I recommend stirring 1/2 cup of a mix of the below to add taste and crunch to the ice cream:

• Cookie pieces like Graham crackers, or try my homemade almond flour cookies.
• Dark Chocolate Chips
• Frozen Fruits, like blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries.

How To Make Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

It’s so easy to make a batch of ice cream with cottage cheese and so healthy that you will make this non-stop.

1. In a high-speed blender, or food processor, add all the ingredients: cottage cheese, almond butter, maple syrup, and vanilla.
2. Blend or process on high speed until the mixture is well combined. Blend until smooth – it shouldn’t take more than 1 minute to make.
3. Note that even if you are blending cottage cheese, it keeps a little grainy look, and that’s normal.
4. Fold in any optional ingredients that add crunch to the ice cream.
5. Transfer the ice cream mixture to a glass dish or loaf pan.
6. Freeze the dish for 3 hours or until firm and scoopable. The longer you freeze this non-churn cottage cheese ice cream, the harder it becomes. That’s why this ice cream gets hard as a rock the next day, and you will need some patience, thawing the batch for at least 15 minutes to be able to scoop it.

Tips To Avoid Icy Non-Churn Ice Cream

Like any non-churn ice cream recipe, you can expect an icy texture after the ice cream spends a few days or at least 24 hours in the freezer. Add 1 teaspoon of spirit to non-churn ice cream to avoid that. Spirits don’t freeze and prevent an icy texture in homemade non-churn ice cream.

Flavors

You can use this cottage cheese ice cream recipe to create a range of ice cream flavors.

• Strawberry Cheesecake Cottage Cheese Ice Cream – Blend in 1/3 cup of fresh or frozen strawberries, and add 1/4 cup Greek yogurt or cream cheese instead of peanut butter.
• Cookie Dough Cottage Cheese Ice Cream – Use almond butter and stir in 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips at the end.
• Chocolate Cottage Cheese Ice Cream – Stir in 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, and at the end, stir in 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips.
• Banana Peanut Butter – Add 1 small ripe banana in the blender and use peanut butter.
• Smores – Add 1/2 cup of frozen banana and at the end stir in 1/3 cup of chopped marshmallow and 5 crushed graham crackers.

Serving

Serve the cottage cheese ice cream as a dessert a healthy sweet treat. Place one scoop – about 3 tablespoons in a bowl. Add some of the below on top if you like:

• A swirl of almond butter
• Whipped cream
• Chopped nuts
• Desiccated coconut
• Chocolate chips

Allergy Swaps

Here are some ingredients swap ideas if you need them.

• Nut-Free – Swap the nut butter for sunflower seed butter or tahini.
• Sweetener Option – Use any liquid sweetener you prefer including coconut nectar, agave syrup, or maple syrup, or honey.
• Sugar-Free – Use sugar-free chocolate chips and sugar-free syrup.

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