Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cottage cheese chocolate chip cookies characteristic whipped cottage cheese which supplies them unbelievable taste and a lift of protein. You’ll love this easy-to-make cookie recipe.

When you’ve been right here some time, you understand how a lot we love utilizing cottage cheese in distinctive methods (ahem, lookin’ at you, cookies and cream cottage cheese ice cream, cottage cheese buffalo rooster dip, and tremendous creamy cottage cheese alfredo).

And these cottage cheese chocolate chip cookies are based mostly on our ricotta cookies on The Cheese Knees, however we wished to try to substitute the ricotta with blended cottage cheese, and ohhh my gosh, these cookies could be our new fave — they’re tremendous smooth and slightly fluffy, and pack superb taste. Plus, you already know they’re a better protein dessert because of our good pal cottage cheese.

Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies – What You Want

All-purpose flour: The bottom stuff for these superior cookies, giving them their construction and texture.

Semi-sweet chocolate chips: Gotta have these little chocolate surprises in each chunk, proper?

Blended cottage cheese: Yep, you learn that proper! Provides moisture, tenderness, and a touch of tang to our cookies.

Baking soda: Helps the cookies puff up good and even whereas they bake.

Baking powder: Provides a little bit of fluffiness to our cookies.

Salt: Only a pinch to stability out all that candy and make the flavors pop.

Unsalted butter: Provides our cookies that buttery goodness and makes ’em good and smooth.

Brown sugar: Sweetens the deal and offers our cookies a chewy, caramelized vibe.

Egg yolk: Helps maintain every part collectively and provides a little bit of richness to the combo.

Vanilla extract: Only a splash to provide our cookies that cozy, vanilla goodness.

Straightforward Recipe Swaps & Variations

Chocolate chips: We love the basic style of chocolate chips in cookies, however be at liberty to substitute 1:1 for every other yummy cookie toppings like butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips, nuts, or m&ms.

Vanilla extract: Have one other favourite extract to bake with? Go for it! Almond extract could be scrumptious.

Notice: We’ve got NOT examined these cookies with any flour or egg options.

What sort of cottage cheese ought to I exploit?

We advocate avoiding non-fat cottage cheese, and utilizing both 2% or 4% for this recipe for just a few causes:

1. Texture: full-fat cottage cheese has much less water/moisture than nonfat, making the feel when blended extra just like a better fats yogurt than a water-y nonfat yogurt. Utilizing a 2% or 4% cottage cheese can even be sure that your cookie dough isn’t too runny.
2. Style: full-fat cottage cheese will give these cookies a richer style.

Prime Suggestions for These Cookies

Don’t use non-fat cottage cheese: Non-fat cottage cheese has a better moisture/water content material, which can lead to a runnier blended cottage cheese. This can even trigger the dough to be too skinny.

Mix the cottage cheese till easy: It is very important mix the cottage cheese completely so it’s easy. If there are any chunks left, they’ll keep complete within the cookies.

Press the cookie dough down earlier than baking: If you don’t barely press these cookies down, they’ll find yourself in a dome form. When you overlook to do that, they’ll look totally different, however nonetheless style the identical 😀

Storage and Freezing Directions

Let these cookies cool fully earlier than storing them in an hermetic container. Ensure the chocolate chips are cooled earlier than stacking them.

Freezer directions: As soon as the cookies have cooled, place them right into a freezer-safe bag and freeze for as much as 3 months.

Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cottage cheese chocolate chip cookies are a hat tip to a ricotta cookie, however characteristic blended cottage cheese as a substitute. They’re fluffy, scrumptious, and made in underneath half-hour.

Prep:15 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner:11 minutes minutes

Whole:26 minutes minutes

Elements

Moist

• ¼ cup unsalted butter ½ stick, softened
• ⅓ cup brown sugar
• 1 massive egg yolk
• ½ cup blended cottage cheese 2% or 4%
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions 

• Preheat the oven to 350℉. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

• Place all the dry elements right into a bowl and blend to mix. Put aside.

• In a big mixing bowl, add the butter and brown sugar. Utilizing a hand mixer, combine till gentle and fluffy, about 4 minutes.

• Add the egg yolk to the butter and sugar and blend to mix.

• Subsequent, add the cottage cheese and vanilla to the bowl and blend till mixed.

• Slowly add the dry elements to the moist and blend utilizing the hand mixer till simply mixed.

• Utilizing a 1.5 tablespoon scoop, scoop the dough and place it on a cookie sheet. Press down on the cookies to barely flatten.

• Bake for 10-12 minutes.

• Take away from the oven, let sit for 2-3 minutes on the recent baking sheet, after which switch the cookies to a cooling rack.

Suggestions & Notes

• Don’t use a non-fat cottage cheese because it has too excessive of a water/moisture content material for this cookie batter.
• It is very important mix the cottage cheese completely so it’s easy. If there are any chunks left, they’ll keep complete within the cookies.
• If you don’t barely press these cookies down, they’ll find yourself in a dome form. They are going to look totally different however nonetheless style the identical.

Vitamin info

Energy: 130kcal Carbohydrates: 16g Protein: 2g Fats: 6g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 7g