Sugar Free Cottage Cheese Cake

Short on protein and even shorter on cakes? Check out this Cottage cheese cake recipe that’s bagging to be baked!

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For some obscure reason cottage cheese is not baked itself into our everyday life as it deserves, given the time it has spent together with the human race in the past 5000 years since Mesopotamia.
Its popularity is somewhat waned nowadays that people exiled butter churning from their homes into more efficient and tireless factories. Back then the cottage cheese was made out of milk left over from butter making process.

The origin of the name comes from the “cottages” where people lived and still do in some parts of England. But as it is with modern age not many of them are making their own cottage cheese anymore, even if they live in a cottage.

It still can be made at home fairly easily with a bit of heat and a coagulating agent. The milk needs to be heated to just under boiling temperature then vinegar or optionally lemon juice can be added. After a couple of minutes stirring, the curds can be strained from the whey and the cottage cheese is ready.

As being a mildly sour tasting ingredient cottage cheese can be used in a variety of dishes, be sweet or sour. A simple but excellent example of this is cottage cheese with pasta that depending on taste can be served with sweetener or smoked bacon and cheese on top.

It is a top food source for athletes because of a long list of benefits such as casein, protein, electrolytes and versatility. Casein is a slow-digesting protein, its’ fixed release of amino acids help to repair muscle fibers and prevent muscle breakdown. It can help athletes to minimize muscle loss that could normally occur whilst sleeping. Protein fuels exercise and workouts. Electrolytes can contribute to optimal athletic performance by helping to reduce muscle cramps plus enhances fluid absorption.

The cake could be served with nuts, fresh fruit or in our case with jam such as Sugar Free Strawberry Jam or Ultimate Low Sugar Apricot Jam Recipe.

Surely, the jam can be substituted with any kind of jam but we are trying to use natural ingredients to bake as naturally as possible.

The amount of honey might seem fairly low but the cake isn’t supposed to be sweet at all. It might be entirely left out too. It’s only there to balance the sourness of the cottage cheese and the jam is there to add some fireworks to our taste buds.

Try not to add more sweetener to the cakes that absolutely necessary as that will ruin our perception of taste on the long run. Coming back from the sweet highs once is hard work so better keep low on sweeteners and not to get there ever.

Ingredients

• 6 medium / 300g Eggs (separated)
• 3 tablespoons / 60g Honey or sweetener of choice to taste
• 2½ cups / 300g Flour
• 2 teaspoons / 7g Baking powder (follow instruction on packaging)
• 8 oz / 200g Cottage cheese
• 4 oz / 100g Season fruit or sugar free jam of preference
• 1 teaspoon / 5g Vanilla extract (optional)

Kitchen utensils

• 9¾” x 8″ / 25cm x 20cm Baking tray

How to make Cottage cheese cake

1. Beat eggs and honey until foamy and light yellow.
2. Mix flour and baking powder in.
3. Add the cottage cheese and the optional vanilla extract too. If the process is done by hand alternate the ingredients for even distribution.
4. Keep mixing until getting an even mixture but be quick about it as the acid in the cottage cheese can diminish the baking powders raising power. Pour batter into a parchment paper lined baking tray.
5. Add lumps of jam on top.
6. Place tray into the middle rack of a 350°F / 180°C preheated oven until the inner temperature of the cake reaches 185°F / 85°C, which should happen when golden brown spots start to appear on top of the cake in about 30 – 40 minutes. Let it cool down and cut it into squares to serve it.

Enjoy!

Cottage cheese is as strange as ingredient as good. It’s like a wild horse that needs taming to be our best companion:

• Cottage Cheese Pie
• Cottage Cheese Cheesecake Recipe
• Cottage Cheese Pastry Recipe
• Cottage Cheese Chocolate Cake

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