Cottage Cheese Cake Is A Low-Fat Cheesecake Alternative

Cheesecake is the one dessert that most people find impossible to pass up. Unfortunately, cheesecake made with cream cheese is loaded with calories and fat. Many dieters find this to be a very sad set of circumstances. One way to get around this dieting conundrum is by substituting cream cheese for low fat cottage cheese next time you make cheesecake.

Cottage cheese cake is as tasty as cheese cake yet it is low fat, low carbohydrates, and high protein. Cottage cheese cake can even be tastier and lighter, because it is so much lower in fat, than the typical cheese cake. Enjoying the usual cheese cake can leave a person feeling weighed down and bloated. Cottage cheese cake doesn’t have this drawback -- it is much lower in fat and has fluffier texture that doesn’t make you feel quite so full.

Cottage cheese cake is also quick, simple and cheap -- all benefits that can expect when baking with humble cottage cheese. First gather your ingredients: graham crackers, flour, sugar, butter, salt, vanilla, milk, lemon juice and cottage cheese. To make the crust crush the graham cracker crumbs.

Next melt the butter. In a large bowl combine the crumbs, sugar, and cinnamon. Next pat the crumb mix onto the bottom and up the sides of the pie dish. To make the filling mix the flour, sugar, salt, vanilla, milk and cottage cheese in a blender until it is smooth.

Finally, pour the cottage cheese mix into the graham cracker crust. Place the pie into a 325 degree oven. Bake it for one hour or until the cottage cheese is firm. While hot the pie will jiggle. As it cools it will firm up to the proper texture. You can use the skin of a lemon and a cheese grater to make a delicious lemon zest -- this gives the cheesecake a fresh, citrus flavor.

Another great addition is blackberries -- these can be swirled into the cottage cheese mixture to make it a berry cottage cheese cake. Fruit is also a delicious topping. Cottage cheese cakes use less sugar than regular cheese cakes so be certain that any fruits you add are extra sweet and ripe.

So what’s stopping you? Don’t you want to make a cottage cheese cake? Go ahead and try! Cottage cheese cake is a scrumptious dessert has the added benefit of being a bit healthier than the usual cheesecake. Cheese cakes are quite adaptable when you consider all of the combinations of fruits and toppings that can be added to them. Cottage cheese cakes are even more adaptable because you can adapt them many different ways to be a healthier alternative to the typical cream cheese cake.