Desserts
Chocolate cottage cheese mousse
The second act of cottage cheese's dessert era: blended with cocoa and melted dark chocolate until it turns into a dense, glossy mousse. Nobody guesses the base — they just notice it holds you like dessert rarely does.
- Time
- 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 232 kcal
- Protein
- 15 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cottage cheese450 g
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder30 g
- 2 1/2 tbsp honey50 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
- a pinch salt0.5 g
- 40 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted, slightly cooled40 g
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Steps
- Blend the cottage cheese, cocoa, honey, vanilla, and salt until completely smooth — scrape down the sides once; graininess means keep going.
- With the blender running, pour in the melted chocolate. It tightens the mousse and deepens the flavor.
- Divide into four glasses and chill at least 1 hour — it sets firmer and tastes more like mousse cold.
- Optional: a few berries or a shave of dark chocolate on top.
Why both cocoa and melted chocolate?
Cocoa brings the deep chocolate flavor almost calorie-free; the melted chocolate brings texture and shine. All-chocolate versions taste similar but roughly double the calorie cost per serving.
Why this score
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 930 kcal goes into the pot, 576 g of ingredients comes out as ~575 g of food → 162kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.
The numbers
| Per serving (144 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 232 kcal | 162 kcal |
| Protein | 15.2 g | 10.6 g |
| Fat | 9.6 g | 6.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25.2 g | 17.5 g |
| …of which sugars | 14.2 g | 9.9 g |
| Fiber | 3.6 g | 2.5 g |
| Sodium | 445 mg | 310 mg |
Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.
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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.