Cottage Cheese Brownies Recipe

You’ll Need

• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, melted
• 1 cup cottage cheese
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar-free sweetener (like monkfruit)
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/8 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Get Started

Heat oven to 350F. Spray a 9×9 pan or line with parchment.

Blend the Wet

Put the cottage cheese, melted chocolate, butter, vanilla, egg, milk, sweetener, and cocoa powder in your food processor.

Blend on high until completely smooth. No cottage cheese texture should be left – takes about 45 seconds.

Mix the Dry

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.

Make the Batter

Pour the chocolate mixture into the flour bowl. Fold with a spatula just until combined – lumpy is fine.

Fold in the mini chocolate chips. Don’t overmix or they’ll be tough.

Bake

Spread the batter in your pan, pushing into the corners.

Bake for ~20-25 minutes. A toothpick should come out with moist crumbs, not wet batter.

Let them cool completely before cutting – they’re too soft when warm and will fall apart. Cut into 16 squares.

The whole wheat flour and cottage cheese make these filling. One square actually satisfies instead of making you want to eat the whole pan. Sugar-free sweetener works great here but regular sugar is fine too – use the same amount.

Cottage Cheese Brownies

Nobody believes these have cottage cheese until I show them the container. The blender turns it into extra protein that makes these fudgy instead of cakey.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Cook Time: 25 minutes mins

Cooling Time: 1 hour hr

Total Time: 1 hour hr 40 minutes mins

Ingredients

• ▢ 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips melted
• ▢ 1 cup cottage cheese
• ▢ 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 egg
• ▢ 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
• ▢ 3/4 cup milk
• ▢ 1/2 cup sugar-free sweetener like monkfruit
• ▢ 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• ▢ 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• ▢ 3/8 tsp baking soda
• ▢ 1/4 tsp sea salt
• ▢ 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F. Line 9×9 pan with parchment.
• Blend cottage cheese, melted chocolate, butter, vanilla, egg, milk, sweetener, and cocoa powder until completely smooth, about 45 seconds.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in large bowl.
• Pour chocolate mixture into flour mixture and fold until just combined.
• Fold in mini chocolate chips.
• Spread batter in pan.
• Bake 20-25 minutes until toothpick has moist crumbs.
• Cool completely before cutting into 16 squares.