Desserts · Ice cream & frozen

Strawberry cottage cheese ice cream

Name: Strawberry cottage cheese ice cream
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups cottage cheese; 2 cups frozen strawberries; 3 tbsp honey; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 30 g dark chocolate 60-69%, chopped

The flagship of cottage cheese's dessert era: blended silky-smooth with strawberries and honey, then frozen. It scoops like soft-serve and carries real protein — dessert that doesn't undo the day.

Time: 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 235 kcal
Protein: 14 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
2 cups frozen strawberries300 g
3 tbsp honey60 g
1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
30 g dark chocolate 60-69%, chopped (optional)30 g

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Steps

Blend the cottage cheese, strawberries, honey, and vanilla until completely smooth — a full 2 minutes; the texture depends on it.
Stir through the chopped chocolate if using.
Freeze in a loaf pan for 2–3 hours for scoopable, or eat immediately as soft-serve.
If frozen solid overnight, let it sit 15 minutes on the counter before scooping.

Which cottage cheese?

Full-fat blends creamiest. The blender is non-negotiable — unblended frozen cottage cheese is exactly as grainy as it sounds.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

23% of kcal

76% water

9 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 939 kcal goes into the pot, 845 g of ingredients comes out as ~845 g of food → 111 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: 111
Protein: (23%); 7 g
Fat: (29%); 4 g
Carbohydrates: (48%); 13 g
of which sugar: 9 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 188 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.