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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In a Nutshell: Yellowstone National Park

We finally made a family trip to Yellowstone National Park.

The park was gloriously breathtaking. We had such a great time. The park is huge and full of amazing and beautiful things.

The trip was a little touch and go in the beginning. A troublesome air conditioner and a necessary repair delayed our trip by a couple of hours. Instead of getting there mid morning we didn't get there until lunch.

After a couple hours in the car and being asked 100 times, "Are we there yet?", we finally rolled into the park. We orchestrated this little picture, minus Bean who was in the car crying and with an addition of our favorite girlie Richelle.

We were all glad to finally be there...

Well maybe all except Little, he was a little put out at first.

That was until we had to stop the car for a traveling herd of Bison.

There were tons and tons of them on the side of the road and then passing right in front of us.

Sidenote: Little did get back in his car seat before we started rolling again.

Our first stop was Old Faithful.

We got there with just enough time to hit restrooms and head over to see the geyser.

 That Old Faithful was pretty awesome. The boys were impressed and insisted on staying to watch it die down.

Someone did not want their picture taken. He must have felt we were interrupting his geyser watching.

We ate a packed picnic lunch close to Old Faithful.

Then we were off to some hot spring areas. Not the swimming in hot springs, but the burn the flesh of your hand kind. Needless to say we very carefully followed the advice to not walk off the plank sidewalk.

The hot springs bordered the lake. So pretty.

We even took a break for Middle to practice his reading.

The boys really hung in there.

Bean spent every moment out of the car wrapped up to me. Therefore, he spent every moment out of the car sleeping. The other boys trooped along, only taking breaks here and there.

We had a marvelous time as a family.

It was some good outdoorsy and up-to-our-kneepits-in-nature kind of fun.

We spent a whole day making some breathtaking memories.

We ended our park visit by getting out of the car and getting close to this giant elk (at least I am pretty sure it is an elk).

With excitement our first trip to Yellowstone was over. After a quick trip for dinner at 9 o'clock at night, we headed home for our multi-hour road trip. Where the only sleeper was Bean. The Little Men must have been too full of the day's wonders to rest their eyes.

We can't wait to go back.