You’ve seen the chickles, the pancake spaghetti and the blue cookies, but TikTok’s latest recipe obsession is cottage cheese “ice cream.” This unlikely-sounding treat has hundreds of taste-testers singing its praises, no ice cream maker required. And most versions have just a couple of base ingredients, two cups of cottage cheese and two tablespoons of honey or maple syrup, with infinite mix-ins like cookie bits, fruit, cocoa powder and peanut butter.
Depending on the flavorings, a one-cup serving comes in around 300 calories, packing at least 25 grams of protein and almost 200 milligrams of calcium.
The top-viewed video on TikTok is @paigelindgren’s banana cream pie tutorial, with 1.2 million views. She suggests adding graham cracker crumbs to make the pie flavor pop.
TikToker @lainiecooks has a strawberry cheesecake version with about a million views and a game-changing method: Pour the mix right back into the original cottage cheese container for easy peasy freezing.
Despite rave reviews and an excellent nutritional profile, a few commenters are worried about the repercussions when TikTok has a new ingredient darling. “Cottage cheese is the new cauliflower,” quipped user @shekinah, and @leeannwithswan answered, “Cottage cheese gonna be $25.”
The TikTok effect strikes again!Courtesy Heather Martin
I actually agree with some of the eye-rolling over adding cottage cheese to everything, because there is such a thing as too much protein, and in my registered dietitian opinion, a lot of TikTok food trends lean hard into toxic diet culture. Nutritional tunnel vision can lead to forgetting to include other important nutrients like fiber and vitamins, and even unhealthy patterns like restriction or orthorexia.
Cottage cheese can be pretty unpredictable when added to recipes that are cooked, too. Not only do high-protein foods like eggs not need more added to make them healthy, but scramble them with cottage cheese just a few seconds too long, and you’ll get…
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