60 sweet cottage cheese recipes

Pineapple-walnut dip: creamed cottage cheese and sour cream blended with crushed pineapple, toasted walnuts, and lemon. A versatile sweet-savory dip for fruit, cookies, or chicken.

Silky cottage cheese blends with lemon zest, plump raisins, and crunchy nuts in a sweet custard pie that tastes like a lighter, tangier version of cheesecake.

Lasagne frutta layers lasagna noodles with a sweet mascarpone-cottage cheese filling, tart apples, raisins, and pistachios. An Italian dessert lasagna with lemony cream and fruit.

Sweet noodle kugel layered with cottage cheese, sour cream, raisins, and vanilla, then rested overnight and baked into a golden cinnamon-sugar-topped Jewish holiday classic.

Traditional Slovak pirohy (pierogi) with a tender egg dough boiled and bathed in browned butter. Choose from cottage cheese, dill potato, or sweet-savory cabbage filling.

German cottage cheese and oil pastry dough (Quark-Öl-Teig): a tender, no-butter base for fruit tarts, sweet rolls, and stollen made without yeast. Quick to mix and ready to roll in 20 minutes.

Creamy poppy seed salad dressing with cottage cheese, sugar, dry mustard, and dried onion. A sweet-tangy homemade dressing that brings spinach salads and fruit greens to life.

Sauteed ham and tender apple slices baked in a smooth cottage cheese custard with a clever buttermilk biscuit crust. A savory-sweet brunch quiche ready in one hour.

Orange-scented sweet crepes rolled around a cinnamon-sugared cottage cheese filling. A Central European-style blintz made in a cast iron skillet, served for breakfast or dessert.

Creamy cottage cheese and brown sugar fold into tender muffin batter for a protein-packed breakfast that bakes up moist and lightly sweet in 20 minutes. No mixer required.

Spicy cottage cheese veggie dip blends raisins, curry powder, chili and onion into a creamy chilled crudite dip. High-protein, low-fat and ready in 20 minutes. Curry-meets-sweet flavor that hooks dippers.

A creamy Swedish cottage cheese pie with toasted almonds, baked in a flaky crust until set and custard-like. Lightly sweet with a nutty crunch. Served chilled for a Scandinavian take on cheesecake.