can ff yogurt be frozen?

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Registered: 01-04-2005
can ff yogurt be frozen?
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Wed, 02-23-2005 - 9:08pm
Has anyone tried to freeze yogurt? What happened?
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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 02-23-2005 - 9:48pm

Yep, we do it all the time. The best way to make frozen yogurt is with an ice cream maker. I posted a whole list of my frozen yogurt/ice cream recipes we've made. I'll have to see if I can find it. But basically I take ff yogurt and thin it with ff milk until its about a smoothie/milkshake consistency (about 1 cup yogurt to 1/2 c milk) Then I add flavorings/sf syrup/splenda whatever I feel like. You have to add MORE than you would it eating it room temp because when you freeze things they lose a little flavor - so you want it to almost taste overly sweet when it goes in the machine.

The thing is though - that you have to eat it right away, you cannot put it into a container and freeze it for long term - it will turn into a brick! Commercial ice cream/frozen yogurt uses stablizers and such to keep it "creamy" when frozen that hard that we just have access to. Someone suggested gelatin to stablize frozen yogurt, I haven't tried it yet though. We just make enough for that night.

If you don't have an ice cream maker there are a couple other ways to do it, I would either put it in a shallow baking pan and then take it out and "scrap" it with a fork every hour or so while it freezes. It will be more of a slushee (the chef's term for this is a "granita" kind of like sorbet consistency) Or you could freeze it in a block that you could "slice" and then whizz it in the blender to break it up before eating.

HTH!

MichaelAnn



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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 02-23-2005 - 9:51pm

Here's the frozen yogurt ideas I posted before:

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-fbsouthbeach/?msg=12423.1

MIchaelAnn



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Registered: 01-04-2005
Wed, 02-23-2005 - 10:09pm
Thanks MichaelAnn!
I appreciate the info. I will have to try it! I don't have an ice cream maker but I'm sure I can make do with the freezer.
Something to look forward to when the weather gets a little warmer:).
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Registered: 01-05-2004
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 12:43pm

I am eating some right now (at my desk and should be working) but anyway. I don't have a small icecream freezer but if you eat it right away, which I always do, it is great. I have 1 cup plain ff yogurt, splenda, sf vanilla syrup and 1 T natural peanutbutter. I mix it up and bring it into work and stick it in the freezer for a couple hours. I've made the chocolate also. You don't have to wait til warmer weather! Hope you like it.

Trudy

Trudy