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This cheesecake is made lighter with cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. This change makes it higher in protein and lower in fat. Don’t even worry though, because the cake is also super fudgy and rich with chocolate flavor!
This delicious and rich chocolate cake will deceive even the wisest of foodies. No one will ever guess it was made with cottage cheese. You can really shave down the sugar in this if you use sugar free chocolate chips and sugar free maple syrup. Another exceptional recipe that is super decadent is our 3 Ingredient Flourless Chocolate Cake. It’s made with only dates, eggs and cacao powder and so many of you enjoyed making it!
Another versatile aspect of this recipe is that you can substitute in Greek yogurt or cream cheese at room temperature if you have only that on hand. A viral recipe on our blog that does just that is our 3 Ingredient Greek Yogurt Cake.
I baked this cake in no time in my counter top convection oven aka air fryer. Instead of baking for 1 hour in your oven, you can air fry for only 35 minutes. My Healthy Chocolate Blender Cake and Lighter Pumpkin Cottage Cheese Cheesecake also come together in minutes.
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Lighter Chocolate Cottage Cheese Cheesecake
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup (210 g) cottage cheese
- 3 eggs
- 5 tbs cacao powder
- 2 tbs arrowroot powder, (or cornstarch)
- 1/4 cup (27.5 g) granulated sweetener, of choice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup (45 g) chocolate chips
- drizzle peanut butter
Instructions
- Preheat air fryer or oven to 350℉ (or 175℃). Line a 6 inch round cake pan with parchment paper.
- Add the cottage cheese to a small food processor and pulse until mostly smooth. Add in the eggs, cacao powder, arrowroot powder, sweetener (if using), vanilla, salt and pulse until smooth. Pour the batter into your pan and top with the chocolate chips. Bake for 30 minutes (rotating halfway through) or until the top of the cake puffs up. Remove from the oven and allow the cake to set in the pan for 15 minutes. The top of the cake will deflate a little. Drizzle with peanut butter and flaky salt and serve.
- Please Note: if you want a gooey type of cake serve right away. If you want more of a cheesecake texture, refrigerate for at least a few hours prior to serving.
Notes
- You can make this with Greek yogurt instead of cottage cheese.
- Store leftovers in an air tight container in your refrigerator.
- To make this dairy free, make sure you use vegan chocolate chips and dairy free yogurt.
So good and i used lilly’s dark chocolate sugarfree chips. As alternate topping i used cool whip but peanut butter was great
can you use unsweetened cocoa powder?
for my liking a little less cocoa powder but still brilliant recipe. thank you
I made this but added 2 tsp of espresso powder. It really wasn’t quite sweet enough for me so I melted some semisweet chocolate chips and poured it on top. Then it was perfect. I’ll be making this again for sure!
I put mine in for 20 mins at 175 degrees and it was burnt on the top and dry as hell 🤦🏼♀️ Is my airfryer too powerful or something 🤷🏼♀️ Next time I’ll put it in the oven x
The texture was good. To avoid too much sugar, I used 2 packets of stevia. Unfortunately it wasn’t sweet enough 🙁
But I’m sure if I used more, or real sugar, it would be great! I made it in the air fryer, which worked out great. 350 for 20 min
Can you let us know what size slice the nutrition content relates to what size slice? And does the nutrition content include the 1/4c sugar?
Absolutely delicious! I added less than 1.5 TBS of golden coconut sugar as the sweetener. I added some more chocolate chips instead. I had a sliver with HALO ice cream and tasted heavenly!
Absolutely delicious!
can I use cream cheese instead of cottage cheese ?
HI Alicia, yes!
What can I replace cornstarch with and how much? I follow a keto/low carb diet.
Hi Dawn, any flour or arrowroot powder, tapioca flour, potato starch, etc
can I put oat flour
Delicious! Dense and great flavor. Used monk fruit sweetener and had to add more to be sweet enough for me. Baked in silicone cupcake pan.
I don’t have a 6″ pan — would it work to double the recipe and put it in a 8″ or 9″ round or a 9 x 9″ or 9 x 12″ rectangle? Thank you SO much — looking forward to trying it out!
double the 6 inch recipe would be OK in an 8 inch pan, you may have to check the cooking time and add a couple more minutes.