FROYO week: Key Lime Pie Frozen Yogurt

This flavor of frozen yogurt was our favorite of all the flavors during FROYO week.

Of course that also means that it was gone the fastest.

Um...yeah we ate all of it in two days, AND I am guessing the only reason that it wasn't gone the first night, is because I threatened everyone with utter doom if they did not leave enough for me to photograph.

There were snickers and eye rolling from my family at the mere mention of food photography. Good thing that they love me so much.

So I mentioned earlier how we all LOVED this frozen yogurt...it really was quite divine.

Hubby liked it in its pure and un-fancied form. Just the limey goodness in all its glory.

Then uh, you have me...

I liked it with a heaping dollop of whipped cream and a smattering of crushed graham crackers. I mean the flavor is Key Lime PIE. So it is only natural that you need a good amount of whuuupped cream and some graham cracker crust on top.

This frozen yogurt is creamy and refreshing. The swirls of lime curd that ribbon its way through are little treasures of flavor. The curd swirls might be my favorite part. Making the lime curd will be a little time intensive, but it is worth it. PLUS it makes more than you need to so you can store it for another batch. OR you can just eat it right out of the jar. YUM.

I am not going to lie, right now I am super sad that there is no more of this frozen yogurt in my house. A fact that will probably have to be remedied soon.

The last bit that was saved for this very photo shoot was promptly eaten after all the pictures were taken.

Middle and I quite enjoyed sharing this very last bowl of Key Lime Pie frozen yogurt.

Do you think he has a big enough spoonful?

Then to my horror, he dropped some.

Can you just see me screaming "Noooooooo" and lunging for the precious scoop of froyo falling toward the ground? Don't worry I did not pull a Rachel and Chandler from Friends and eat it off the ground.

I will just have to wait until I make more. 

Don't wait too long to make yourself some of this, just trust me on that.

Key Lime Pie Frozen Yogurt

adapted from The Novice Chef

1 32 oz plain Greek yogurt

1 can sweetened condensed milk

zest of 1 lime (finely zested)

1 cup fresh squeezed lime juice

1/2 cup prepared lime curd, divided

whipped cream

crushed graham crackers

Homemade Lime Curd

1 stick butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 egg yolks

1/3 cup plus 4 Tablespoons fresh lime juice

green food coloring

To make curd: 

Beat the butter and the sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer. Slowly add the eggs and the egg yolks one at a time. Pour in lime juice and mix again. The mixture will look a little curdled. Cook the mixture in a saucepan over medium until it looks smooth. Increase the heat slightly and whisk continuously until it starts to thicken. Using a cooking thermometer, continue to cook until it reaches 170 degrees.

Remove the curd from the heat. Let it cool slightly. Mix in several drops of green food coloring. You want the curd to be a lovely shade of lime green.

Transfer the curd to a bowl and cover the curd with plastic wrap pressing it on the top to keep from the curd from getting a skin. Place in the refrigerator and let chill until ready to use.

Whew, the hardest part is done.

Now to make the yogurt:

Combine the yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, lime zest, lime juice and 1/4 cup of lime curd.  Blend well. 

Put into your ice cream maker.

When done, remove to a freezer safe container. Dollop the other 1/4 cup of lime curd over the frozen yogurt and gently swirl in.

Freeze until firm, about 1 hour.

Serve plain or serve with some whip cream and crushed graham crackers.

Thanks for joining me for FROYO week. I hope you 

enjoy these yummy recipes as much as we did.

FROYO week: Almond Joy Frozen Yogurt

So much Froyo, so little time.

I have been lovin' all this frozen yogurt. My brain is also fairly busting with more ideas. Fingers crossed they all work and I will be sharing more recipes with you.

Today's recipe came from me coming across a can of coconut milk in our pantry. Coconut milk is so fabulous to cook with. So many handy dandy uses.

Today one little can of coconut milk and a couple bars of these for inspiration...

and we get this-

Hubby really likes Almond Joys. Really, really. I traditionally am more like "eh, well if it is all the chocolate we got, I will eat it."

For some reason though, I saw that coconut milk and then saw these candy bars and I was immediately craving Almond Joy Frozen Yogurt.

This frozen yogurt was yummy. It was a little more on the icy side then the other yogurts, probably thanks to the coconut milk. With that being said, Hubby and I still thoroughly enjoyed the coconut flavored frozen yogurt. Then add in the Magic Shell milk chocolate topping and a sprinkling of almond slivers and shut up...

DElightful.

That is what it is.

Almond Joy Frozen Yogurt


32 oz plain Greek yogurt
1 can coconut milk
1 can fat free sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 tsp coconut extract

Magic Shell chocolate topping
slivered almonds

Combine yogurt, milks, and extract in a bowl. Blend completely.

Pour into your ice cream maker. After is it firm, remove to a freezer safe container and freeze to set up about an hour.

Then serve up, topping with the Magic Shell and almonds.

Enjoy. One more scheduled FROYO recipe. I might be whipping up an additional one to share, but we will see. COME back tomorrow for our favorite frozen yogurt recipe...oh I can hardly wait to share it with you.

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FROYO week: Strawberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt

Hope all my American readers had a glorious 4th. We were busy, busy, busy all day long having fun and celebrating. Hence why my FROYO post is a little late today.

more pictures to come

I am sure you will forgive me, because this recipe is AWESOME. I shared this on Somewhat Simple last week and now I am sharing it here. It is YUMMY.

Strawberries are just delightful. Cheesecake, well heck, that is even more delightful. Frozen yogurt, double delightful. You know where I am going with this right? Strawberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt...DE-LIGHT-FUL.

When I came up with this recipe, it was one of those recipe "ah-hah" moments. I had some strawberries in the fridge and I had some cream cheese. Then a dessert light bulb went off in my head. AND this is what came from my frozen yogurt epiphany...

 

Yes, it is a yummy as it looks. The good news is that this frozen yogurt is also super easy to make.

Strawberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt

Ingredients:
 1 8oz package of cream cheese, softened
 1 tsp vanilla
 juice of half a lemon
 1 32oz container of plain Greek yogurt
 1 can sweetened condensed milk
 1 cup strawberry jam, divided
 1 cup diced strawberries
 crushed graham crackers, for topping

In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, vanilla, and lemon juice until well mixed. Then mix in the yogurt, sweetened condensed milk and 1/2 cup of jam. Combine until everything is completely incorporated.

Put into your ice cream maker. Once it has been sufficiently frozen according to your specific machine, transfer to a large air-tight storage container. The yogurt should be soft.


At this point gently fold in the cup of strawberries and the other half of strawberry jam. The jam should appeared swirled. Put the frozen yogurt in the air-tight container in the freezer for several hours (until firm) before serving. 


Sprinkle with graham cracker crumbs just before serving. This frozen yogurt will keep. However, the berries will get harder the longer you let it freeze. 


So if it is hot in your neck of the woods like it is hot here... Then I think you need some homemade Strawberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt.


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FROYO Week: Mango Honey Frozen Yogurt

Yesterday's frozen yogurt recipe was my kind of recipe. Cinnamon, cinnamon, more cinnamon and then top it all of with cookie dough...yup, that is my kind of treat.

Not everyone is a baked good flavored frozen yogurt lover. Some people like it all natural, healthy, and fresh.

Take hubby for instance. He is one of those people.

We go out for ice cream, frozen yogurt, shakes, or pretty  much dessert of any kind and he almost always steers himself toward fruity something or other.

As he contemplates which fruit to add to his dessert, I just shake my head and wonder where in the world is the chocolate or cookie or brownie.

So today's recipe is for those more traditional frozen yogurt fans. The ones who like it fresh, fruity, and void of any extra sugar. All natural...NATCH-UR-AL...insert my best Matthew McConaughey impression here. I am not sure if I really even heard him ever say that in a movie, but when I thought it in my head he was the person I heard saying it. Go figure. I will have you know I had to google how to spell his last name...talk about tricky.


This Mango Honey Frozen Yogurt is tangy and fresh. The majority of the flavor comes from fresh mangoes and a touch of honey...hence my really ingenious name.

Mango Honey Frozen Yogurt
Sweet Basil


1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
1/2 cup 0% Greek yogurt
1/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 mangoes, peeled and diced

In a food processor or a blender, puree the diced mangoes until smooth. Then add the rest of the ingredients into the food processor or blender and mix until completely incorporated.

Chill for about 30 minutes before adding it to your ice cream maker.

Serve immediately and wait for it.....

Can you hear the refreshed chorus of "ahhhhs"?

The perfect end to a perfect Summer day.

FROYO Week: Cinnamon Roll Frozen Yogurt

Yep, you read that right. This week at Just Another Day in Paradise it is FROYO week. Uh, YUM.

I have been frozen yogurt obsessed lately. Just ask anyone who has been within any vicinity of me in the last three weeks.

Who knew there were so many yummy possibilities of homemade frozen yogurt. I had so much fun coming coming up with some of my own original flavors and tweaking some pintrest found recipes.

So much fun in fact, I decided to turn all my frozen yogurt making into an entire week of blog posts. Lucky you is right!

Let's start the week off right with a Just Another Day in Paradise original- Cinnamon Roll Frozen Yogurt.

This frozen yogurt is a delightful combination of cinnamon frozen yogurt, sweet dough flavor, and cinnamon swirls. Plus there might be itty bits of dough hiding within.

This frozen yogurt is so good that I have made a couple of times. The first time we ate it so fast that I didn't even get pictures in. Yeah, it is that good.

Okay enough talking about this yogurt, let's get to makin' some.

Cinnamon Roll Frozen Yogurt


Ingredients:

frozen yogurt
1 container of plain Greek yogurt
1 can fat free sweetened condensed milk
1 snickerdoodle cookie mix (set the cinnamon sugar packet aside)
2 TBS cinnamon sugar mixture from cinnamon swirl

cinnamon swirl
cinnamon sugar packet from cookie mix
1/4 cup white sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 TBS butter, melted

1/2 of roll of prepackaged sugar cookie dough

First in a small bowl combine the cinnamon sugar packet from the cookie mix with the 1/4 cup sugar and the1 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. Set aside.

Next in a larger bowl combine the yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, dry cookie mix, and 2 TBS of cinnamon sugar mix. Mix until well combined.

Pour into your ice cream maker and let it do it's job.

Now take half of the sugar cookie dough (yes I do use the dough, you can omit this part if you do worry about raw dough) and make itty bitty bite sized pieces. I rolled mine and set them on a plate. Then I let them sit in the freezer until I was ready to mix them into the finished frozen yogurt.

Right before the frozen yogurt is done, pour the melted butter into the left over cinnamon sugar mixture. This will create a kind of cinnamon syrup type stuff.

Once the frozen yogurt is done, transfer to a freezer safe container. Gently fold in the cookie dough pieces. Then drizzle the cinnamon sugar syrup over slowly and gently fold that into the frozen yogurt. This should create a swirl in the yogurt.

Place in freezer and let it set up for about an hour.

Then well, get ready...

...to have a cinnamon-tastic frozen yogurt treat.

Happy frozen yogurt eating!!

Come back tomorrow for more frozen yogurt fun.

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