Cottage Cheese Ice Cream Low Carb Food

HEALTHY 6" CHEESECAKE (MADE WITH COTTAGE CHEESE) LOW CARB &

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a food processor, blend the cream cheese until smooth. Add the cottage cheese and blend with the cream cheese. Add the sugar, vanilla, lemon juice, and milled chia seeds (for thickening). Blend away until no lumps remain. Add the egg and egg white. Blend again until evenly mixed.
• Pour all the mixture into a 6" springform pan that has been sprayed with PAM.
• Place in the oven and bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 250 degrees without opening the door. Bake another 20 minutes, or until a thermometer inserted 1" from the edge reaches 155 degrees.
• Remove from the oven. Run a knife around the edge. Let cool on the counter with a hot pad holder on top to keep it from dropping temperature too fast. After 30-45 minutes move it to the fridge and chill eight hours, or overnight.
• Yummy Variations: Just omit lemon juice and then. . .
• Chocolate Truffle: Add 1/4 Celsius cocoa powder and increase sugar to 3/4 Celsius Add 1-2 oz melted bittersweet chocolate for more richness.
• Pumpkin: Add 1 cup canned pumpkin, 1/2 t. cinnamon, 1/4 t. allspice, 1/8 t. nutmeg. If you love pumpkin spices a lot, double them (I do).
• Chocolate Chip: Stir 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips to the batter before baking (sub 3/4 t. mint extract for a mint chocolate chip).
• Peanut Butter: Add 1/2 cup peanut butter with the cottage cheese.
• Banana-Walnut: Add 3/4 cup mashed banana with the cottage cheese. Stir in walnuts right before pouring mixture into the pan.
• Ricotta: Keep lemon juice. Sub 1/2 the cottage cheese for ricotta.
• Fruit Swirled: Keep lemon juice. Swirl in preserves or sugar free spread into the top of the cheesecake before baking.

COTTAGE CHEESE ICE CREAM (LOW CARB)

Steps:

• Blend cottage cheese until smooth in food processor or blender (I use my blender) Add remaining ingredients, mix well.
• Pour into ice cream maker and freeze according to directions for your particular freezer.
• This recipe makes 1 quart of ice cream. This ice cream will freeze rock solid when put into the freezer. To make it easier for later serving, I put muffin/cupcake liners in my muffin tins and fill each with 1/4 cup portions and put into the freezer. Once the ice cream is frozen solid, I remove the portions and put into gallon freezer bags. I get 16 servings.