Craving something chocolatey but still want it to be nourishing? This cottage cheese chocolate mousse is rich, creamy, and secretly packed with protein and fiber.
Made with just five simple ingredients, it’s the perfect nutritious dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth and support steady energy. Whip it up in three minutes and enjoy a dietitian-created treat that tastes indulgent but leaves you feeling good.
Amy’s 5-star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ WOW!! This is really delicious! I was skeptical because I’ve tried cottage cheese-based desserts before and was disappointed.
Why you’ll love this dietitian-made recipe
- Fast and easy: Just five ingredients and a quick blitz in the blender — dessert is ready in minutes.
- Protein-packed: Over 30 grams of protein per serving, all from real food (no protein powder needed).
- Rich in fiber: With 6 grams of fiber, this mousse supports fullness and stable energy.
- Seriously delicious: It’s rich, chocolatey, and satisfying enough to crave daily… even if you love traditional desserts.
Want more healthy cottage cheese recipes? Try my blueberry cottage cheese pancakes, cottage cheese brownies, or cottage cheese chocolate muffins.
Key ingredients and swaps
- Cottage cheese: This gets blended so don’t worry about the texture. I use 2% but you can use whatever fat percentage you like. Compare labels and choose one with less sodium so your pudding doesn’t taste salty.
- Maple syrup: You can sub honey, sugar, or any sweetener of choice. For a low sugar mousse, choose liquid stevia or sugar-free syrup.
- Chia seeds: Chia seeds add fiber and help thicken the pudding. Skip them if needed — just make sure to give your pudding time to chill in the fridge to thicken.
Scroll down to the recipe card for the full ingredients list and detailed recipe.
Don’t like the texture of cottage cheese? This recipe blends cottage cheese until it’s completely smooth so you get all the nutritional benefits without that questionable texture.
How to make cottage cheese chocolate mousse
Step 1: Add ingredients to a blender.
Step 2: Blend until completely smooth and chill for an hour before eating.
Topping ideas
Add a handful of toppings right before serving, like these:
- Crushed peanuts
- Crushed sandwich cookies
- Whipped cream
- Vanilla greek yogurt
- Fresh berries
- Banana slices
- Low sugar gummy worms or gummy bears
Helpful tools
Top tips
- Scrape the sides: If your blender gets stuck, pause and scrape down the sides or give it a gentle shake to keep things moving.
- Too runny? If your cottage cheese is watery, blend in an extra teaspoon of chia seeds to help it thicken. But don’t forget, it will thicken in the fridge too!
- Adjust the sweetness: Taste and add more maple syrup if you prefer a sweeter mousse.
Common questions
You can use greek yogurt instead of cottage cheese but the flavor and texture will be considerably different. Still yummy, though! If you use greek yogurt, leave the chia seeds out and simply mix ingredients in a bowl.
In my opinion, this tastes like a balanced and lightly sweet pudding or mousse. To make this taste the most like traditional mousse, choose a higher fat cottage cheese and a brand with less sodium.
Make this high protein chocolate mousse lactose-free by using a lactose-free cottage cheese.
Nope! But it won’t be as thick of a texture if you eat it right away.
More healthy dessert recipes
High Protein Banana Pudding
Dairy-Free Banana Pudding
Black Bean Brownie Bites
Cottage Cheese Banana Bread
Chocolate Greek Yogurt
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Cottage Cheese Chocolate Mousse
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup cottage cheese, I used 2%
- 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp chia seeds
Optional Toppings
- crushed cookies, nuts, berries, banana, vanilla greek yogurt, or whipped cream
Instructions
- Add cottage cheese, cocoa powder, maple syrup, chia seeds, and vanilla extract to a blender.
- Blend until smooth, scraping down the sides as needed. This will take 30-45 seconds.
- Transfer to a jar or cup, cover, and refrigerate for a minimum of 30-minutes or until mousse has thickened. Add toppings right before eating and enjoy!
Notes
- Choose higher fat and lower sodium cottage cheese for a creamier texture and less salty flavor.
- For a lower sugar mousse, swap maple syrup for any sugar-free syrup, or a few drops of liquid stevia.
- If you don’t have chia seeds, you can leave them out.
- Add toppings right before serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This is my new obsession!!!! Soooooo delicious and endless opportunities to add toppings. So easy and so good
delicious and simple!!
Easy, healthy and delicious.
My wife and I LOVE this! We both started working out a lot and this checks all the boxes! Delicious, high protein, low calorie, affordable. We’ve been using cacao which makes it more expensive but I’m slowly trying some tweaks to make it more affordable, fewer calories, and a little more affordable. Adding less or subbing the maple syrup for coconut sugar, and adding less or subbing the cacao for cocoa, frozen fruit, or carob powder. I also use hemp hearts instead of chia because I prefer the nutritional profile. A crazy variation I want to try to save time is to just add all the ingredients in my meal prep containers to mix on site and see if I still enjoy it haha
Delicious, served with fresh raspberries and whip cream. Very thick, would use food processor next time.
I’m so glad that I found this recipe. It was surprisingly good! I followed it, but added a tablespoon of coconut protein powder. I also don’t like Daisy cottage cheese. I go out of my way to get almost any other brand.
I really wanted to like this recipe, but I could not get past the salty taste. I used Daisy brand cottage cheese which is my go to brand, and I even added extra sweetener and cocoa to try and mask the saltiness, but it just didn’t work for me. I love sweet and salty together, but this was too salty for me. Did anyone else experience this? Maybe I should look for a low salt brand of cottage cheese…
I’m so sorry you didn’t enjoy, Sherry! I find the brand of cottage cheese matters quite a bit for this one. I don’t like Daisy, I use Nordica. Hope that helps if you try again!
This is so delicious. I have it for breakfast with a banana, mixed berries and sliced almonds..