Over the weekend, I really wanted to buy an ice cream maker. It’s completely impractical and unnecessary, but I had the desire to get one. Saturday, while I was at Target, I saw one on clearance and decided it was fate. So, for St. Patrick’s Day, I had to come up with a tasty, frozen treat!
I wanted something healthy and I wanted it to be ice cream, so I decided to make up my own recipe for yogurt-Thin Mint cookie-green cold treats.
So what did I use:
- Dannon’s Light and Fit vanilla yogurt
- Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies
- Green food coloring
- My new ice cream maker
- Food processor (but this probably wasn’t necessary)
To start things out, I put the yogurt into the ice cream maker and let it go for about five or six minutes, until it was frozen and soft-serve style. While that was spinning, I used the food processor to pulverize the Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies.
Once the yogurt had come to a nice consistency, I added the cookies to the ice cream and ran the ice cream maker for a few more minutes to make sure they were all mixed in.
For good measure, I added some green food coloring.
I gave some to my older daughter to taste and she didn’t like it. She’s not a huge fan of yogurt to begin with and the Dannon Light and Fit is a little sweeter than most. However, my younger daughter loved it–but she loves yogurt. To me, these reminded me to the grasshopper yogurts that I found at Kroger a while back, except frozen. They are a delicious low-cal treat.
In the future, I might make it with plain yogurt, that might help my older daughter accept the flavor.
I am very excited about the possibilities of the homemade ice cream makers. Do you have any healthy ice cream recipes to share?
Want to see what other St. Patrick’s Day crafts I completed? Check them out in my St. Patrick’s Day mini-series.