When life throws mangos at you, make a Mango Protein Cheesecake Cup for one. It’s no-bake, no stress and ready to impress your taste buds.
This easy, single-serve high protein snack is sweet and tart and creamy, a delicious healthy dessert that is nutritionally on point for breakfast or a post-workout snack! It’s a great source of protein, calcium and fiber (full nutrition in recipe card).
It all starts with one of my favorite ingredients, blended cottage cheese. A cottage cheese cup is such a powerhouse food providing lots of protein and calcium for a relatively low calorie expenditure. Vanilla protein powder pumps up the protein even more – use the variety you like best! In this cheesecake cup, I use Nuzest Clean Lean Protein, a plant-based protein powder that’s easy to digest and has a good texture. (Save 15% with code FITFORK)
TIPS FOR MAKING MANGO PROTEIN CHEESECAKE CUP
Container: You’ll need a 10 to 12-oz bowl, mug or jar for this mango protein cheesecake!
Juice: You can use straight up mango juice, or a mango juice blend – I prefer to look for juice with no added sugar.
Chia Seeds: these help the juice gel up and add a great jam-like texture – you can use black chia seeds or white chia seeds, your choice!
Cottage Cheese Tip: Because I almost exclusively use BLENDED cottage cheese in my diet (a texture preference), I pre-blend my cottage cheese when I get home from the market and then put it back in the container, ready to go. However, if you are just blending the small ¾ cup called for in this recipe, you’ll want to use a personal sized blender.
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- ¾ cup 2% cottage cheese blended
- 3 tbsp. vanilla protein powder
- 3 oz. mango juice or a no-added sugar mango juice blend I used Naked’s Mighty Mango
- 1 ½ tbsp. chia seeds black or white
- optional garnish Fresh mango, chopped
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Blend cottage cheese in personal-sized blender, scrape down sides as needed.
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Stir in protein powder. Add cottage cheese mixture to 10-12 ounce mug (or bowl)
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Add mango juice and chia seeds to small jar and shake. Pour over top, chill for 30 minutes to gel up chia seeds. Add chopped mango, if desired.
Creamy with a perfect balance of sweet and tangy that I loved. This is what I needed to refuel after a tough workout. So good! Definitely making this again for my Mom.
This is so refreshing! I love that it has chia seeds. Blending cottage cheese makes it creamy, and the protein powder adds a nice vanilla flavor.
After trying this I have wholeheartedly embraced the cottage cheese craze. It never occurred to me to combine these flavors but they really work. So pleasantly surprised.
I always crave something sweet after the kids have gone to bed. This was the perfect little snack, and stopped me from reaching for the bag of chips