People are Obsessed With This TikTok Cottage Cheese Hack

Nutritionists and dietitians have long touted the health benefits of cottage cheese, which is low and calories yet high in protein and other nutrients and can assist with weight loss and muscle gain. However, not everyone finds the dairy product exactly palatable, with a runny, watery consistency and chunky curds.

Enter TikTok, where a decidedly much more tasty way to eat cottage cheese has emerged. Instead of trying to mask the consistency by adding fruit or spreading on pieces of toast—people are now baking the stuff.

A cursory search for “baked cottage cheese” yields hundreds of results on the social media platform, with some simply spreading it on a baking sheet or parchment paper and others coming up with slightly more complicated and inventive recipes.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Katie Austin shared the basic hack on her TikTok account last month after hearing others rave about it. As you can see in her video, below, when baked, cottage cheese turns crispy and brown around the edges.