Healthy Cheesecake with Cottage Cheese | The Worktop (2024)

Surprise yourself with a Healthy Cheesecake made with cottage cheese and Greek yogurt. It's muchhigher in protein than a classic cheesecake, but you'll never be able to taste the difference. Serve it with black currant jam for a beautiful sweet tang.

Sometimes people ask why I like to take something that's perfectly delicious (like a classic cheesecake) and change it(in this case, to ahealthy cheesecake with cottage cheese). Often, I just like to see what I can get away with. Did I say this Beet Muffin was actually red velvet? Oops!

Surprise! A Healthy Cheesecake made with cottage cheese and Greek yogurt

I made this swap to cottage cheese thoughbecause I'm trying to find a way to add more cottage cheeseinto my diet. Cottage cheese is high in protein, vitamins and calcium, all of which are a good thing to include in a breakfast.

It's muchhigher in protein than a classic cheesecake, but you'll never be able to taste the difference

Prior to the 1980s, cottage cheese overshadowed yogurt sales and was tooted as a health food. But halfwaythrough the 1980s, yogurt took off and leftcottage cheese sales in the dust.

While yogurt consumption has increased 7 fold, cottage cheese consumption hashalved (read more about the trend from NPR).

I remember eating cottage cheese as a kid every time I went to a self-serve salad bar. I'd always have it withmelon and pineapple, and itwas really tasty.

At some point, Istarted eating a lotmore yogurt instead of cottage cheese. I seemed to have forgotten about cottage cheese, until I became pregnant and I started scouring the Internet about what health foods I should eat.

Cottage cheese appeared on almost every list of 'best foods for pregnant women' because it's high in protein!

After multiple tubs of cottage cheese with fruit and toast, I started craving something new and knew I needed to make ahealthy cheesecake with cottage cheese.

When I shared this cheesecake, no one even noticed that instead of cream cheese in it, I made itwith cottage cheese and greek yogurt.

It's much higher in protein than a classic cheesecake, andto me, that's a thumbs upbecause our babyis getting nutrients while I'm getting a slice of heavenly cheesecake.

Make this Healthy Cheesecakeeven healthier by using a spelt crust and topping it with fresh fruit and granola

If you want to make this even healthier, you can use the spelt crust from this Breakfast Greek Yogurt Cheesecake, and top it with granola and fresh fruit instead of jam. Good morning to cheesecake!

This healthy cottage cheese cheesecake is topped with black currant jam in the photos. But if you would like a healthier topping, try using thisEasy Blueberry Jam with Chia Seeds(the jam is made with no refined sugar).

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