Monday, January 21, 2013

Frozen Yogurt Drops

You need to make these. Seriously, make them right now. I'm betting you already have everything you need in the fridge. If you take 5 minutes now, they'll be ready by the time your kids get home from school, and you, my friend, will be sitting pretty on that pedestal reserved for Superstar Parent of the Week. You can thank me later.
On that day you're feeling guilty because you don't have time for paper mache butterfly crafts and building marble runs, you will make these. When you can't steal 15 minutes to read the next installment of the Boxcar Children to your twins because they don't want their sister to read it out loud to them they want you to read it out loud, you will make these. When the kids are asking, what are we going to do today while you need an oil change, have 15 emails to answer, grocery shopping to do, a school fundraising meeting, and a workout to fit in? That's the day you're going to make these. And everyone's going to wind up happy.

Here's the drill:
Pull some yogurt out of the fridge. See, I told you you already have everything you need! Any flavored yogurt will do, full fat, no fat, some fat, Greek, vanilla, strawberry, pineapple, goji berry papaya coconut swirl, pretty much anything but plain.

Now, and this part is purely optional, stir a drop of food coloring into the yogurt. I used orange for mango, yellow for pineapple, purple for blueberry, you get the idea. It's totally unnecessary but if you want to jazz things up and have some food coloring on hand, I say go for it. Who can't use a little extra color in mid-January?
Scoop each flavor of yogurt into a plastic baggie. Snip a corner off each bag with scissors and pipe bite size rounds onto a sheet pan.
Don't like using plastic bags? Fear not. Just use a teaspoon and drop dollops onto a tray like you would cookie dough instead.
Now put them in the freezer for a couple of hours. When they're frozen solid, pop them off the pan with a spatula (if like me, you require said pan for dinner) and toss them into a clean plastic freezer bag or other container and keep them frozen until you're ready to serve. That's it!
Super cute, healthful, crazy delicious to snack on while blogging doing homework and preposterously easy!
Kids seem to like them.
But make some extra for the grown ups!

15 comments:

  1. Cute! Treats like this make me wish I liked flavored yogurt (I know, I'm so weird!!). I like the pretty color combo - you're right, it's nice and bright this time of year! :-)

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    1. You could always use plain yogurt and a little food coloring though I wouldn't advise it - lol!

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  2. I can't wait to try these! I wonder how long until they start to melt and get your fingers messy. Though I will probably have eaten them all before that happens.

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    1. They held up surprisingly well for us - 15 minutes at least before things started getting messy, granted we were eating them in January. The summer will present more of a challenge but a chilling a bowl might help for a few minutes!

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    1. Thanks! They kind of remind me of nonpareil chocolates in this color combo. :)

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  4. How long do they stay hard before melting. Wondering if they could go into lunch boxes. My kiddos all love finger foods.

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    1. I don't think they'd make it to lunch time in a lunch box, but ours stayed frozen for 15-20 minutes just sitting out on the counter. Might have to be an after school snack :)

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  5. I made them this weekend! I usually don't like flavored yogurt but these frozen bites were yummy - I ate way more than the kids did!

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    1. Awesome! I'm so glad you tried them, they're really good, right? It's like a little bowl of ice cream finger food. :)

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  7. Looks delicious and well my favorite food is Yogurt, I'm thinking of trying froze Yakult milk to make yogurt.

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  8. These look awesome, just freezing them as we speak :D

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  9. Just got mine in the freezer. Can't wait to see how they come out!!!

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  10. Desperate and trying these! Thanks :)

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