Cottage Cheese Pound Cake Recipe
The other reduced fat pound cake recipe you can find is made with cream cheese but since i already made that here i decided to cut the calories further by using cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese pound cake recipe. 1 cup lemon curd found on jellies and jams aisle. Cottage cheese cake cottage cheesecake or cheesecake with cottage cheese are so confusing names as the cottage cheese itself. I didn t think guilt free cheese cake existed. Slowly beat in 2 cups sugar until fluffy.
4 1 inch slices pound cake. I used martha stewart s cream cheese pound cake recipe as the starting point and then quickly realized her recipe is the exact same one as paula deen food network. Beat in egg yolks one at a time. Mint sprigs for garnish optional.
Preheat oven to 300 f. The cottage cheese mixture is so wet when it gets poured in that it soaks into the crust and keeps it together so really the butter is not needed. Beat butter and cream cheese with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium speed until smooth about 30 seconds. In a separate bowl beat egg whites until stiff but not dry.
Generously coat a 10 inch tube pan with shortening. I made it even lower in fat by mixing corn syrup with the graham craker crumbs and pressing that into the lightly greased pie plate. Using an electric mixer beat butter or margarine and cottage cheese until smooth and creamy. Beat in orange rind vanilla extract and flour mixture until well blended.
A delicious piece of joy that s not even a cake.