Healthy Frozen Cottage Cheese Bark

Looking for a high-protein snack with few calories? Try cottage cheese bark, a crunchy frozen dessert that melts in your mouth.This protein-packed treat went viral on social media for its versatility and convenience. "Couldn't stop eating these. So creamy....nutty, and delicious. I love the chocolate swirl and the nuts add such a good crunch to these," wrote one Instagram user.

The versatile cottage cheese snack is often mixed with nuts, fruits and other extras and then frozen into a thin "bark" that you can easily break apart with your fingers.

It’s a delicious frozen snack for healthy food lovers. Packed with high-quality protein and low in calories. It's healthy, creamy, easy to whip up and packed with protein with tons of flavor!

This recipe features layers – on the bottom we have banana slices, cottage cheese blended with honey and peanut butter in the middle layer all topped with chopped nuts, granola and peanut butter drizzled. Talk about YUM! It’s the perfect tasty treat to keep in the freezer!

A few reasons this recipe works:

Whipping the cottage cheese makes it virtually unidentifiable as cottage cheese- removing the texture aversion that some people experience.

Using whole milk cottage cheese makes this an almost decadent treat with a yummy, creamy texture.

Fun toppings like a chocolate peanut butter swirl,granola and nuts add texture and flavor.

The layer of bananas contributes to the frozen creaminess of the bark while providing natural sweetness.

This cottage cheese bark recipe takes about five minutes to whip up, uses a handful of wholesome ingredients and stores amazingly well in the freezer for whenever you want a chomp of crunchy frozen dessert.

This frozen cottage cheese banana bark doubles as a healthy snack and delicious dessert, I can’t keep my hands out of the freezer!

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Keyword clean eating dessert, clean eating snack, cottage cheese bark, healthy cottage cheese bark

Ingredients

Banana Layer

• 2 medium bananas, sliced

Cottage Cheese Layer

• 2 cups cottage cheese
• 2-3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Chocolate Layer

• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil

Toppings

• 2 tablespoons peanuts, chopped
• 3 tablespoons granola
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter, melted to drizzle
• Flaky sea salt (optional)

Instructions

Banana Layer

• Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.

  Add banana slices to the parchment in rows to make a rectangle shape

  Two bananas should give you about 35 slices to make a 5×7" banana rectangle.

  You want to make sure all your banana slices are touching so they form one solid layer when frozen to support the upper layers.

Cottage Cheese Layer

• In a high-speed blender or food processor, combine cottage cheese, peanut butter, honey and vanilla. Start conservatively with the honey and adjust per your desired level of sweetness (I used the full three tablespoons). Blend until super smooth and creamy.

  Pour mixture over the banana slices and use a spatula to spread it in a rectangular shape. It should be an even layer that covers the bananas.

Chocolate Layer

• Place the chocolate chips and coconut oil in a small microwave safe bowl and melt, stirring at 30-second intervals, for 60-90 seconds until chocolate is smooth and melted.

  Or use double boiler method - (pot of boiling water with a bowl resting on top) melt the chocolate chips and the coconut oil together.

  Pour on the chocolate in a zigzag pattern. If you’re feeling fancy, use a toothpick to make a fun pattern. Drag the toothpick in lines one direction and then in between those lines, draw lines in the opposite direction.

  Sprinkle on granola, crushed peanuts, a drizzle of peanut butter and a tiny pinch of flaky sea salt. Be careful with the salt, cottage cheese is naturally salty so don’t overdo it!

  Place bark in the freezer for two hours (or until completely frozen). Break the bark up with your hands or use a knife to cut into uniform chunks.

  Store in a freezer-safe airtight container for up to three months.

   A tip on serving: this is pretty hard straight from the freezer. I like to let mine sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes until it’s softened a bit. It’s still cold, creamy and frozen but more the texture of ice cream versus a hard bark. It is SO good.

   

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