You Only Need 2 Ingredients To Turn Cottage Cheese Into Cake

Transforming cottage cheese into cake is surprisingly simple. Crack two eggs, melt a little white chocolate, and add a tub of cottage cheese. Blend them together, and you'll have the makings of a surprisingly rich dessert, somewhere between a crustless cheesecake and a custard: creamy in the middle and just set around the edges.

Use full-fat cottage cheese for the best texture since low-fat versions release too much water and won't set. The Takeout found Good Culture Organic Whole Milk Classic to be the best cottage cheese brand, delivering the right balance of tang and creaminess and keeping the sweetness in check. The eggs provide lift and structure, while the melted white chocolate adds both sugar and stability, turning the curds smooth and the crumb tender once baked. If white chocolate isn't your thing, other sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, or even jam work too, though they'll slightly change the texture. Other cottage cheese cake recipes take a similar minimalist approach, folding in apricots or other stone fruits for a tangy, jammy twist that keeps the dessert from veering too sweet.

Cottage cheese didn't just stumble back into relevance. After decades of languishing beside grapefruit halves and celery sticks, cottage cheese finally got its cool-girl era, mostly with the help of TikTok and Instagram. Social media hype helped fuel the cottage cheese boom well into 2025. This three-ingredient cake fits the viral formula: high-protein, quick to blend, and surprisingly photogenic once you slice into that custardy center, with a consistency similar to beloved cheesecake or ricotta cake.

It also tracks that some of the most popular cottage cheese recipes use fewer than three ingredients. The two-ingredient cottage cheese tortilla folds like a weeknight crepe and cooks in minutes. Dessert lovers can stick with this cake or swerve into a lighter three-ingredient cottage cheese chocolate mousse, while savory fans might prefer the cottage cheese bread that's equally simple. Because in the TikTok kitchen economy, the fewer the ingredients, the faster the fame.