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🍓 Now let's get our frozen yogurt bites on!
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🍓 A Recipe Note from Cleo
While we've had a temperate June here in New York City, Marc and I know the high heat and humidity will soon be sapping the life out of us, so frozen treats like these will be much appreciated.
While we've had a temperate June here in New York City, Marc and I know the high heat and humidity will soon be sapping the life out of us, so frozen treats like these will be much appreciated.
Whether it’s hot or not where you are, these pretty little Strawberry Shortcake Frozen Yogurt Bites are incredibly easy to make. They’re relatively light on the calories, too.
Because of the many combinations possible with flavors and add-ins, there is foodie fun to be had in creating these babies. It's also a part of our "Waste not!" philosophy since (as I mentioned above) it's a great way to make use of fruit yogurts in your fridge that may be approaching their expiration dates.
Because of the many combinations possible with flavors and add-ins, there is foodie fun to be had in creating these babies. It's also a part of our "Waste not!" philosophy since (as I mentioned above) it's a great way to make use of fruit yogurts in your fridge that may be approaching their expiration dates.
Stay cool, everyone, and eat with joy!
Makes 12 frozen bites
You will need:
1 mini muffin pan (with 12 cups)
12 mini paper liners
Ingredients:
1 six-ounce container (or 1/2 heaping cup) of strawberry yogurt
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk (low-fat is fine)
A few strawberries
12 Nilla wafers (regular or reduced fat) or see "optional crust" note below...
Step 2 - Prep cookie crust: The easiest "cookie crust" to use here is a Nilla wafer that's whittled down with a paring knife to fit the cups in your mini muffin pan. (See my photo.)
NOTE: The resulting cookie crumbs from Step 2 can be used as a tasty topping for these frozen treats, so be sure to save them for the final garnish.
Step 3 - Prep pan: Drop each whittled down Nilla wafer into a paper-lined mini-muffin cup.
OPTIONAL CRUST: If using a homemade graham cracker crust, press crumb mixture into bottom of paper lined muffin cups.
Step 4 - Freeze and finish: Spoon the yogurt mixture into each cup. Place in the freezer for at least two hours. If freezing longer, cover the pan with plastic wrap.
Before serving, you can pretty up the cups by adding a slice of fruit on top with a tiny shot of whipped cream and a final garnish...
~ Cleo
🍓 Cleo's Strawberry Shortcake
Frozen Yogurt Bites
Makes 12 frozen bites
You will need:
1 mini muffin pan (with 12 cups)
12 mini paper liners
Ingredients:
1 six-ounce container (or 1/2 heaping cup) of strawberry yogurt
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk (low-fat is fine)
A few strawberries
12 Nilla wafers (regular or reduced fat) or see "optional crust" note below...
OPTIONAL CRUST: Another option for a "cookie crust" is your basic graham cracker crust: Combine 1 package graham crackers (that's about 9 "boards" or 1-2/3 cups crumbs) with 1/4 cup granulated sugar. Add in 1/3 cup melted butter. Press crumb mixture into bottom of paper lined muffin cups.
RECIPE NOTE: The amount of sweetened condensed milk in this recipe works out to exactly 1/4 of a typical 14-ounce can. If you'd rather use up the entire can at one time, simply quadruple this recipe: that is, use 4 six-ounce containers of yogurt (or 2 heaping cups) and 48 Nilla wafers. You can certainly have fun with multiple flavors if you do this, dividing up the can of milk into four bowls and using four different flavors of yogurt.
DIRECTIONS:
RECIPE NOTE: The amount of sweetened condensed milk in this recipe works out to exactly 1/4 of a typical 14-ounce can. If you'd rather use up the entire can at one time, simply quadruple this recipe: that is, use 4 six-ounce containers of yogurt (or 2 heaping cups) and 48 Nilla wafers. You can certainly have fun with multiple flavors if you do this, dividing up the can of milk into four bowls and using four different flavors of yogurt.
DIRECTIONS:
Step 1 - Stir together the yogurt and sweetened condensed milk. Slice up the fruit, add, and stir. (How much or how little fruit or other items you add is up to your own taste.) Set aside in refrigerator.
NOTE: The resulting cookie crumbs from Step 2 can be used as a tasty topping for these frozen treats, so be sure to save them for the final garnish.
Step 3 - Prep pan: Drop each whittled down Nilla wafer into a paper-lined mini-muffin cup.
OPTIONAL CRUST: If using a homemade graham cracker crust, press crumb mixture into bottom of paper lined muffin cups.
Step 4 - Freeze and finish: Spoon the yogurt mixture into each cup. Place in the freezer for at least two hours. If freezing longer, cover the pan with plastic wrap.
Before serving, you can pretty up the cups by adding a slice of fruit on top with a tiny shot of whipped cream and a final garnish...
THE FUN FINAL GARNISH
Remember those Nilla wafer crumbs?
Top each yogurt cup with a sprinkling of
cookie crumbs over the top, and
eat with summertime joy!
Eat (and read) with joy!
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Coming Soon
New Paperback Edition!
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Includes a mini guide
to honey varieties
and a wonderful menu
of delicious recipes...
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Recipe Guide to Honey Roasted
Haunted Bookshop
Mystery...
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~ Fresh Fiction
"DELIGHTFUL" ~ Kirkus Reviews
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The Coffeehouse Mysteries are bestselling works
of amateur sleuth fiction set in a landmark
Greenwich Village coffeehouse, and each of the
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of amateur sleuth fiction set in a landmark
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20 titles includes the added bonus of recipes.
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