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Cottage cheese cinnamon rolls

Name: Cottage cheese cinnamon rolls
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 22 min
Total time: 42 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup cottage cheese; 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/3 cup packed brown sugar; 1 1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon; 2 1/2 tbsp butter, very soft; 1/3 cup nonfat Greek yogurt; 1/2 cup powdered sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract

The two-ingredient dough turned sweet: no yeast, no rise, forty minutes start to finish. Real cinnamon rolls with a fraction of the butter and a Greek yogurt glaze.

Time: 42 min (20 prep + 22 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 223 kcal
Protein: 8 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

Dough

1 cup cottage cheese250 g
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour200 g
2 tsp baking powder8 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g

Filling

1/3 cup packed brown sugar70 g
1 1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon10 g
2 1/2 tbsp butter, very soft35 g

Glaze

1/3 cup nonfat Greek yogurt100 g
1/2 cup powdered sugar50 g
1 tsp vanilla extract4 g

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Steps

Blend the cottage cheese smooth, then stir in flour, baking powder and salt to a soft dough. Knead 30 seconds on a floured surface — no more; there's no gluten to develop here.
Roll to a rectangle, spread with soft butter and the cinnamon sugar, roll up and cut 8 with floss.
Bake at 190°C for 20–22 minutes until golden.
Whisk the glaze and spread on warm rolls. Best the day they're made — no yeast means no second-day softness.

Alternative

Cinnamon rollsthe yeasted original7

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

15% of kcal

46% water

6 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

14%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1786 kcal goes into the pot, 729 g of ingredients comes out as ~750 g of food → 238 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 238
Protein: (15%); 9 g
Fat: (21%); 6 g
Carbohydrates: (64%); 39 g
of which sugar: 16 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 343 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

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.