Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chips (Gluten-Free + Protein Packed!)

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Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chips (Gluten-Free + Protein Packed!)

If you're looking for a soft, chewy, and secretly protein-packed cookie—you're going to love these Cottage Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies! Made with simple, wholesome ingredients and no protein powder, these cookies are everything you want in a treat: satisfying, flavorful, and incredibly easy to make with only 8 ingredients.

Prep Time10

Cook Time12

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Author: Amy Rains

Ingredients

1 cup Cottage Cheese*
3 tbsp Cashew butter**
3 tbsp Maple syrup
1 large Egg
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup Blanched almond flour
1 tsp Baking soda
1/2 cup Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
In a food processor, combine cottage cheese, cashew butter, maple syrup, egg, and vanilla extract. Pulse until well combined.
In a medium sized mixing bowl combine almond flour and baking soda. Pour in the wet ingredients and mix until well combined using a rubber spatula. Fold in the chocolate chips. If the dough seems too sticky or wet, place in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can stir in 2 tbsp of coconut flour, ground flaxseed, or tapioca flour.
Spoon cookies (about 1.5 tbsp size) onto the baking sheet. This should make around 16 cookies, larger cookies will be around 10 - 12 cookies. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes depending on dough size and oven. They are ready when they are slightly golden on the edges and the top is slightly firm but the cookies are still soft. Let sit on the baking sheet for another 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Notes

*I use 4% fat cottage cheese. I would not use non-fat cottage cheese, and low-fat is okay but the 4% tastes the best

**You can use peanut butter or almond butter in its place.

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