Best Easy Low Carb Keto Cottage Cheese Cloud Bread

This is the best low carb cottage cheese cloud bread that has 9 grams of protein and just 1 gram carbohydrates per slice! The next time you want to make a keto bread, try this satisfying cottage cheese cloud bread! Be sure to read my blog post that shares the best uses of the 4 different types of keto cloud bread recipes!

WHAT IS CLOUD BREAD? 

If you’re following a ketogenic diet or low-carb diet, you know exactly what this great recipe is! Cloud bread has been around for a long time on the internet and for good reason.

Long before both TikTok and the keto diet existed, there was another popular trend: the Atkins diet. Dr. Robert Atkins launched the low carb diet in the 1960s.

The Atkins diet became so popular that Dr. Atkins himself rolled out a recipe book in 1972 for followers to try out some low-carb options at home. One of the most popular was the recipe for Atkins Diet Revolution Rolls: a fluffy bread, yet flimsy alternative with the main ingredients being eggs, sugar substitute, and cream cheese.

You may have all ready tried the orginial recipe of cloud bread and wasn’t quite thrilled or satisfied with the texture. It does tends to be light and have an airy texture, but eggy and moist and not at all like a piece of regular bread to make a sandwich with.

The kids and I hated the fact that upon the first bite, it was stuck to the roof of your mouth and all we tasted was the cream cheese. So I wasn’t that impressed,
The rolls, often called oopsie bread rolls or sandwich buns are great for burgers or sandwiches if you don’t mind that cream cheese cloud bread taste.

It’s one of the easiest ways to enjoy “bread” without all the carbs. This easy recipe makes rolls or a loaf. 

I had to change the original recipe the first time I made it. That’s what I did back in 2016, I  first published my adaption to the fluffy Cloud Bread recipe including whey protein powder to provide a bit more substance.

I  removed the traditional cream cheese mixture and used sour cream instead. It produced a fluffy cloud keto bread recipe like no other!

If you see the use of protein powder in cloud bread anywhere else, you know it was first published by me in 2016, so all others are copycats.

Cottage Cheese Breads

If you happen to be on tik tok and have seen the 2-ingredient cottage cheese bread, you will see it uses just liquid egg whites and cottage cheese though some other cottage cheese bread recipes actually use bread flour or all purpose flour and are NOT keto friendly or gluten free.  

Always check the ingredients on tiktok- make the ones that don’t include regular refined flours and sugar because there are a ton of content creators who care nothing about using quality ingredients for keto and are just looking for a quick viral video for themselves.

CAN  I SWAP THE WHEY PROTEIN POWDER?

The whey protein powder acts like gluten would in baked gluten-free alternatives. It not only provides a great fluffy texture, it helps give the bread height and lift and a nice bite!

If you can’t use whey protein, look at the other bread options I’ve listed below that don’t include whey. 

BEST COTTAGE CHEESE BRANDS

Full-fat cottage cheese is best, either 4% or 2% cottage cheese will yield the best results. 

You can find many options for cottage cheese at your local grocery store, but specific brands vary in taste and texture.

I don’t recommend fat free cottage cheese because it won’t be as satisfying as full fat cottage cheese or as creamy. I like to use lactose free cottage cheese since my daughter and I both have lactose intolerance. 

The brand I like best is Green Valley organic, but the Lactaid brand is also a great brand as is, the Good Culture brand.

Can I swap cottage cheese in keto breads?

If you really don’t want to try using cottage cheese, you could swap it with ricotta cheese but please note, you will add more fat, more calories and more carbs, but it’s just about the same as far as protein.

How to use the 4 different types of Cloud Bread

All of these low carb cloud bread recipes are high protein and have anywhere from 8 grams of protein to 10 grams. 

Want the best French Toast or Grilled Cheese?

​Grilled Cheese or French Toast use my orginial cloud bread loaf with sour cream. Greek yogurt could also be swapped.

​Sour Cream Cloud Bread Nutritional Information

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 76kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 97mg | Potassium: 110mg | Fiber: 0.003g | Sugar: 0.4g | Vitamin A: 194IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 0.5mg

Keto Sandwich Bread?

Perfect for a sandwich like white bread use this NEW recipe for Cottage cheese cloud bread as it has more structure and less deflating. The printable recipe card is at the bottom of this blog post with full instructions.

Cottage Cheese Cloud bread Nutritional Information

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 67kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 95mg | Sodium: 120mg | Potassium: 80mg | Fiber: 0.003g | Sugar: 0.3g | Vitamin A: 148IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 0.5mg

Need Dairy Free Bread?

If you need dairy free this is the best high protein low-carb cloud bread recipe.

Dairy Free Cloud Bread using Mayonnaise

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 112kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 79mg | Sodium: 98mg | Potassium: 58mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 102IU | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg

Need Lowest Fat Bread?

This cottage cheese bread with egg white protein powder is the lowest in fat and the highest in protein of all the bread recipes. It also needs dried whole egg powder instead of fresh eggs, but it makes the best toast!

Cottage Cheese Bread with Egg White Protein Powder (lowest fat, highest in protein)

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 65kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 53mg | Sodium: 199mg | Potassium: 14mg | Sugar: 0.4g | Vitamin A: 18IU | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 0.01mg

More Cloud Bread Recipes

Keto Cloud Bread Mini Bagels

Keto Cloud Bread French Toast

Pumpkin Cloud Bread

Keto Cloud Bread Pudding

Keto Cloud Bread Cheddar Waffles

Keto Cloud Bread Hot Dog Rolls

Keto Cloud Bread Grilled Cheese

Keto Cloud Bread Texas Toast

Keto Cloud Bread Mini Cheese Danish

​Low-Carb Bread Recipes (NOT Cloud Bread)

Low Carb Blueberry English Muffin Loaf

Keto Cornbread

Keto Irish Soda Bread

Low Carb Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread

Low Carb Flax Bread

Low Carb Chocolate Peanut Butter Bread

Keto Everything Bagel Almond Bread

Low Carb Chocolate Pumpkin Bread

Low Carb Banana Bread

Best Keto Coconut Flour Bread

HOW TO STORE KETO CLOUD BREAD Recipe

Once your loaf has cooked and cooled completely, slice into 12 slices.

The best way to store is in an airtight container in the fridge for a week or you can lay slices between pieces of parchment paper then in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 2 months.

Take a piece or two out of the freezer and toast! 

Cottage Cheese Cloud Bread Rolls

You can turn this loaf recipe into rolls by placing the batter into a hamburger silicone mold. I filled them to the top and sprinkled sesame seeds on top as well.

Baked for 25 minutes but the tops were still a bit wet though they looked browned. I removed them from the mold and placed them upside down, so tops would cook better, onto parchment lined baking sheet pan and baked for another 5 minutes.

If you don’t have a silicone mold you can place the batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet pan but as you can see from the pictures, the rolls will be much flatter, first picture below and the one on the right above it.

Makes a total of 8 large rolls.

Best Cloud Bread Recipe with Cottage Cheese

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Keto Cottage Cheese Cloud Bread

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Total Time1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 12 slices
Calories: 67kcal
Author: Brenda Bennett | Sugar-Free Mom

Ingredients

  • 6 large eggs separated, room temperature
  • 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar or cream of tartar
  • 4 ounces cottage cheese or 113 grams
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup whey protein powder or 2.5 scoops or 62 grams
  • 1/4 cup egg white protein powder or 20 grams
  • 1 tbsp Allulose optional
  • 1/2 teaspoon optional: 1/4 tsp each of garlic powder and onion powder For savory bread only, skip for French Toast
  • Optional: top with sesame seeds or bagel seasoning.
  • 1 tsp optional: vanilla stevia for French Toast

Instructions

  • Preheat oven at 300 degrees F.
  • Place your egg whites in a stand mixer or electric hand mixer with vinegar and whip until stiff peaks. This should take about 10-15 minutes. Set aside.
  • Place the egg yolks in a bowl with the remaining ingredients and whisk and stir well to combine. You can also just add these ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.
  • Fold in a small amount of egg yolk mixture into the egg white mixture a little at a time until it's all incorporated.
  • Pour this into a parchment lined and greased 9 by 5 loaf pan. If making rolls, use a parchment-lined baking sheet pan or this silicone mold pan.
  • Bake on the middle shelf of oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick or skewer stick in the center comes out clean and it's golden brown.
    (See notes above if you are making rolls, cooking time changes.)
    Shut the oven off but do not open the door and allow it to stay 10 more minutes in the oven.
  • Enjoy warm, toasted with a little butter or cooled and used for a sandwich!
  • See storage instructions above.

Notes

If you decide to make these as rolls  you should get 8 and the nutrition info is doubled.
PLEASE NOTE: When making these as rolls and not as a loaf, the cooking time will only be 20-25 minutes if baked on a parchment lined baking sheet pan and not in a silicone mold. If baking in a mold see my notes above.
 
The cloud bread recipe with sour cream was published first on 2016 and updated and improved in 2021. This cottage cheese cloud bread loaf is adapted from the original in 2016.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 67kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 95mg | Sodium: 120mg | Potassium: 80mg | Fiber: 0.003g | Sugar: 0.3g | Vitamin A: 148IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 0.5mg
Tried this recipe?Mention @sugarfreemom and tag #sugarfreemom, I’d love to see your dish!
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About Brenda

Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.

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50 Comments

  1. No rating as I haven’t tried it yet, but plan to! Is it fine to use either the liquid or the granulated allulose or is there a particular format that works best for this recipe?

  2. I have a question regarding the egg white protein powder. Your link leads to a vanilla flavored version. Is that what you use? Or do you use unflavored? Thanks!

  3. hi I want to make this but I want to know what can I substitute for egg white protein powder? also In terms of the actual whey protein powder, all i have is a cookies and cream flavour which i assume wouldn’t work?
    I live in ireland, so unfortunately, with some of your recipes some elements are more difficult to get.
    cheers

    1. Right you need an unflavored whey protein and you could replace the egg white protein with more whey. The loaf may not hold it’s shape as well with just the whey.

  4. 5 stars
    So far this is the best low carb bread I’ve made. Thank you for the great recipe! I wanted a regular bread so I didn’t add seasonings or extra sweetener or vanilla. Next time I would increase salt to 1/2 tsp and increase time in oven by 5 min. I did squeeze most of liquid out of the cottage cheese and then measured it. I put all ingredients except whipped egg whites in the food processor. Thanks again!

  5. I want to make this but am unsure of I need to drain the cottage cheese first. A lot of recipes depend on it!

  6. I live in Panama and cannot get the whey or egg white protein powder. I have collagen powder. Can I use this instead? I know the texture will be different.

  7. 5 stars
    Very good. I did buns and cook them 25 min. Left them in oven 10 more minutes and open the oven door for 20 min. They didn’t deflated and were very good !
    Didn’t put allulose or any toppings.

  8. 3 stars
    I really wanted to like this bread because it was higher protein. I followed the directions to a tee. The bread folded over the sides and made a mess in the oven. That wasn’t the bad part. after I left it sitting in the oven for ten minutes, when I pulled it out of the USA pans, the sides were completely caved in. When I sliced it, it looked similar to a gingerbread boy cookie. There’s no way it can be used for sandwiches, toast, etc. I need help on keeping it from doing that. I used the pieces under gravy this morning and the taste seemed to be good.
    I took pictures, but I’m not sure how to post here. suggestions.

  9. Is it possible to use a different sweetener? I can’t handle the GI issues I get with allulose or erythritol.

  10. Dear Brenda,
    Just tried making this Recipe. Followed the Recipe really well but 20 minutes after pulling the Bread out of the oven, it did ‘collapse a bit’. It also tastes more ‘mooist’ than regular Bread. Do you think I need to prolong the cooking time in a next try?
    Kind regards

  11. I’m new to protein powders, can Hemp protein powder be used in this recipe? Or only Whey powder will work?

    1. 5 stars
      I just made this bread and it’s great! Mine sliced into 11 pieces. Should I have blended the cottage cheese mixture in the blender? Mine was really thick and a bit difficult to fold into the egg whites. Delicious and fits my high protein diet perfectly!

  12. 5 stars
    Thank you, Brenda! This bread is absolutely the best one yet. Thank you for experimenting, creating, and sharing the results. I’ve tried other keto breads and yours and like this the best!

  13. I’m in Canada, and I cannot find egg white protein powder anywhere. I can get it on Amazon, but it costs $60 up here. Can you recommend a good substitute?

    1. The recipe sounds great.
      Unfortunately, I don’t have egg white powder. Can I just replace it with 20g more of the protein powder or maybe flour?
      Thanks in advance

    2. The other bread options I mentioned above, like my first cloud bread version using sour cream and whey and no egg white protein would be the best option.

  14. I don’t have a rating for your recipe yet as I was just reading through it. It sounds so delightful to make French toast with or to make a grilled cheese sandwich. I had originally tried Atkins bread about five years ago when my son and daughter-in-law were doing keto and I just Couldn’t palate It. I do have a quick question. I don’t have the unflavored whey protein if I was to use vanilla whey protein I can favor that for French toast would it be recommended? Thank you so much, Brenda for your recipes. I am really starting to get into this lifestyle slowly but surely.

    1. Hi, quick question. The link for the egg white protein is for chocolate flavor. Is that the flavor you use? Thank you!

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