Vintage Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese Danish Recipe (2024)

Here's a fun recipe for a "cottage cheese danish" from the original 1967 Vintage Weight Watchers Cookbook (affiliate link) by Jean Nidetch.

While this may not taste exactly like a fresh-baked cheese danish, as the book suggests, this simple sweetened cottage cheese topped toast recipe does make for a deliciously satisfying healthy breakfast, that is if you like cottage cheese (which I do).

Just add your favorite beverage and a serving or 2 of fruit, and you should be satisfied for several hours. It's now a staple in my healthy breakfast lineup.

I was reminded of this classic Weight Watchers recipe last summer at a WW meeting where a longtime lifetime member who has successfully been at goal for years mentioned it. (You can learn so much about losing weight and staying slim from these ladies)

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And was excited to come across it in my copy of this recently acquired vintage Weight Watchers Cookbook, which provides a fun, informative, nostalgic look at the original 50-year-old Weight Watchers program...

How Many Calories and WeightWatchers Points in this "Danish"?

According to my calculations each piece of Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese Danish has 118 calories. To see your WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW Recipe Builder APP Click here!

Of course the exact points and calories will vary depending on the kind of bread and cottage cheese you choose.

Recipe Ingredients

• 1 slice bread
• ¼ cup nonfat cottage cheese
• ⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ⅛ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon sugar or sugar substitute

How to Make Vintage Cottage Cheese Danish Step by Step

Step 1: Gather and prep your ingredients.

Step 2: Lightly toast the bread.

Step 3: Mix the cottage cheese with cinnamon, vanilla and sugar or sugar substitute.

Step 4: Spread the cottage cheese mixture evenly on toast and place under the broiler until warmed through and beginning to bubble. I like to use my toaster oven for this.

Step 5: Serve while warm.

Recipe Notes, Variations and Substitutions

If you are not a fan of cottage cheese's texture process it in a food processor (affiliate link) or with an immersion blender (affiliate link) for a creamier whipped texture. Here are more ideas for switching up this simple recipe:

• Use raisin bread.
• Substitute ricotta cheese for the cottage cheese
• Add a bit of lemon zest to the cottage cheese.
• Mix cottage cheese with a little whipped cream for a cheesecake like flavor.
• Top toast with a little crushed pineapple, chopped peach, sliced apple, sliced pear or fresh berries either before or after broiling.
• Add a dollop of applesauce, apple butter or your favorite low sugar fruit spread before or after broiling.

Serving Suggestions

This is part of my regular breakfast rotation. I usually enjoy it with a cup of coffee or tea and serving of fruit. During the winter I may enjoy a cup of skinny hot chocolate alongside.

If you like this classic Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese "Danish", be sure to check out some of my other easy healthy Weight Watchers friendly breakfast recipes including 4-Ingredient Microwave Mug Apple Pancake Puff, Easy Apple Yogurt Bowl, Whole Grain Waffles with Orange and Pomegranate, Crock Pot Baked Oatmeal and Cottage Cheese Power Pancakes, Laughing Cow Cheese Raspberry Toast

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Recipe Source: Weight Watchers Cookbook

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

More Weight Watchers Friendly Ways for Topping Your Toast

Here's a fun Weight Watchers video with a savory avocado toast from Oprah's Cookbook: Food, Health and Happiness (affiliate link)...

Or try this new favorite breakfast, Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Toast with Honey-Walnut Yogurt Spread

Or this BLT Avocado Toast

More Healthy Breakfast & Cottage Cheese Ideas for WW

• 12 Ways to Enjoy Cottage Cheese
• 14 Tasty Ways to Top Your Toast
• Cottage Cheese Recipes
• Healthy Breakfast Egg Sandwiches

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Originally published April 2017; Republished with new content February 2024