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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Weight Watchers Cottage Cheese Danish Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 slice toasted bread (I used whole wheat)
- 2 ounces (¼ cup) non-fat cottage cheese
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon sugar or sugar substitute
Instructions
- Toast the bread.
- Mix the cottage cheese with cinnamon, vanilla and sugar or sugar substitute.
- Spread on toast and place under the broiler until warmed through and beginning to bubble.
- Serve while warm.
Equipment
Recipe Notes
Recipe Notes, Variations & 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.
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
- Spinach & Feta Crustless Quiche
- Healthy Breakfast Egg Sandwiches
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Originally published April 2017; Republished with new content February 2024
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ellen
You need the classic Pineapple Fluff recipe - that is the quintissential WW recipe from my childhood. I remember this one too...
Ellen
Martha
Thanks, Ellen. I'll look for the pineapple fluff!
Heather May
I've been a member, off and on, since the 70s and I had a lot of the old cookbooks. Things have changed so much. I remember fish 5 times a week, mayonnaise was unheard of and so many different ways of calculating what you were allowed. There are some recipes I remember as being delicious but sadly have lost them, for example, a tuna mousse, which I changed from the original salmon mousse as well as a sweet and sour pork recipe that I swear I can still taste. I look forward to seeing more of the re-visited recipes.
Martha
My mom and grandma first joined WW in the 70s and I remember them mixing powdered skim milk and eating fish (lots of tuna). I first joined in the 90s, where I had to track my portions of protein, dairy, fruits, vegetables, carbs and fat. I learned so much about portions and felt so much better not stuffing myself!
I'll check out my old cookbooks to see if I can find tuna mousse 🙂
Priscilla Kennedy
I remember those rules also in the 60s. And we had to eat liver one a week.
My Mom & Grandmother would boil buzzards and eat them with mustard.
There was a recipe for Ricotta pie. It aS good and we could have 1/2 of it for a serving. If you should ever find that recipe could you post it? Priscilla Kennedy
Would you mind if I save your post to my timeline so I will have it?
Thank you.
Martha McKinnon
Hi Priscilla,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yes, absolutely, share the post to your timeline. My goal is to share my information as widely as possible to help people achieve their goals 🙂 And yes, if I ever see the ricotta pie, I'll let you know. Warmly, Martha
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Diane Natale
I would like the old weight watchers' recipe for Pineapple Fluff. I joined WW in the "70's and I really enjoyed that dessert...but of course, I have lost my recipe. Thanks
Kathy
I too remember the Pineapple Fluff & it was so good....The program back then had some food rules that I use to dread & vowed would never follow again......5 fish meals a week, liver (yuck) once a week, limited tomatoes, & skim milk made from powder that had a blue tone to it ......oh thank goodness for progress !! I do eat tuna & occassionally drink skim milk - but never from powder and liver has never passed over my lips again lol
Martha McKinnon
Hi Kathy, Thanks so much for taking the time to share your early WW memories. I love fish, but the thought of liver makes me gag and the sight of blue-grey powdered milk isn't very appealing either. Mom subjected us to both of these things when I was growing up!
Lindsey
As a vegetarian struggling to get enough protein without getting bored, I appreciate you sharing this recipe! I can only eat my standard cottage cheese with berries so many times a week before I lose my mind...
Martha McKinnon
Thanks Lindsey! Glad it helps with the boredom! I love cottage cheese with crushed pineapple. It's also good taken in a savory direction with a hefty sprinkling of lemon pepper or Mrs. Dash original 🙂
Diane
I too was a Weight Watcher in 1967 and lost over 100 pounds on those old wonderful recipes.
I remember the pineapple fluff was made wsith diet cream soda, unflavored gelatin, cottage cheese and crushed pineapple. Add all to blender and blend till smooth. Pour n cake pan and chill till firm. Can't remember if it had anything else or what the measurements were.
I would like to make it with sugarfree lemon Jello but can't find it anymore so have to learn to make it myself . Will try the cream soda, gelatin and fresh squeezed lemon. May need to cook the lemon juice for it to gel, don't know now.
Colleen Anthony
I felt so good when I followed the original WW diet plan. I learned to like liver, never would eat it before that. I am going to try it again, as I can now afford to do it. Before, I had Five other people to cook for, and could not afford to buy that much meat and fish for that many people, so cooked two separate meals, one for me, one for the family, which was very difficult. Now, husband needs to eat this way, and so do I. I loved the cottage cheese danish, and fresh pineapple.
Colleen Anthony
This food plan works, and I felt wonderfully healthy while following it in the 70's.
Carol Meyer
I am 78, have been, on and off, a weight watcher since I was 25. The weight came off easily back then, I had five children under the age of 5 and it was hard to fix a special meal for myself. So I ate a lot of small hamburgers and cans of green beans. It did not bother me back then, got tons of excerise , but I'm having a really hard time of it now even with the freestyle. I love to cook and bake, I want to thank you for your recipes without them I don't know what I woulddo.
Becky Isaac
Please post more of the vintage Weight Watchers Recipes. I have been trying to find the early cookbook in an electronic version because of allergies. If you know of one, I would be thrilled to get it! Thanks for your recipes.
Letitia Hernandez
Looking for old ww recipe with ff style green beans, chicken breast, dehydrated onions, worchest
shire sauce, chicken bou, cubes, salt and i can't remember all the rest. Please help me in finding this recipe. Thank you.
Sue Feuille
I've made the "Danish" since the late '60s. However, I used lowfat ricotta cheese and it really did taste like a Danish.
Cynthia Washburn
I've been eating this for years; since my first time with Weight Watchers in the early 80's. I've always added sliced banana to the top before broiling.
I also remember when the plan was very restrictive--no peanut butter! The new points plus is something that I think I can live with for the rest of my life. So glad I went back and got back to my goal weight. Can't tell you how much better I feel physically and mentally.
Marge
It is just as I remember it! Delicious. And it is easy and fast. Just watch your oven so your "danish" doesnt burn.
SHerry
Remember this from the 80s when I did WW and loved it. Never could find the recipe until now. Thank you so much
Sherry
Remember this recipe from the 80s when I did WW. Always loved it but could never it again. Thanks so much.
Barbara
Love this one, but my favorite WW "danish" is always the applesauce/cheese" one from the early 70's (or earlier?). Spread plain applesauce on toast, sprinkle with cinnamon, arrange strips cut from one slice of american cheese over the top and toast again, just to met the cheese. Yum
Linda
Loved that cottage cheese danish recipe!!
Ralph Beam
Back in the mid 60's I would make this for my mother while she was getting ready for work. She use to say that it was very filling and would keep her going till lunch without being hungry.
I am in my 60's and too found that this recipe keeps the hunger pains away till lunch. I googled this recipe to see how many calories it had. 110 calories isn't much but it's very filling. I have a 6oz glass of OJ with it. Thank you so much for posting this.