If your goal has been to eat a bit lighter in the New Year, then The Pioneer Woman has a fast, easy, and healthy dessert you can add to your weekly rotation. It’s a take on berries and cream made with protein-dense cottage cheese that can be enjoyed after dinner, for breakfast, or as a mid-day pick-me-up.
The whipped cottage cheese portion of this recipe is super simple to make. Just add your plain cottage cheese to a food processor along with maple syrup (or honey) and vanilla bean paste to sweeten it up. Blitz in the processor until the cottage cheese is smooth — and that’s it!
You could also try to add more flavor to your whipped cottage cheese by adding in a bit of your favorite jam, a dash of chocolate hazelnut spread, or a spoonful of Greek yogurt (either plain or flavored).
Drummond tops her whipped cottage cheese with roasted mixed berries. To make these, she tosses a bag of frozen mixed berries in some brown sugar and puts them on a baking pan. She roasts them for just over 10 minutes until they’ve deepened in color and a fragrant syrup has formed.
“The combination of berries and cream is really great,” one person commented on Drummond’s post. Another said, “So good.”
Grab Drummond’s recipe here and try this delicious and healthy treat out. The cool whipped cottage cheese paired with the warm sweet berries is a treat you’re going to crave over and over again.
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