Chocolate strawberry yogurt clusters
20 min · 16 g protein · 174 cals / serving
Chopped strawberries folded into vanilla protein yogurt, frozen in little mounds and dipped in dark chocolate with a pinch of flaky salt. They snap like a chocolate-covered strawberry and melt into frozen yogurt, and a bag of them in the freezer is the easiest sweet snack you will make all week.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 1/3 scoops whey protein, vanilla
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 packet (0.5 g) stevia, only if your yogurt is very tart (optional)
- 2 1/2 cups strawberries, patted dry, diced small
- 1 3/4 oz dark chocolate 70-85%, chopped
- 3/4 tsp coconut oil
- a big pinch salt, flaky sea salt
Steps
- Line a tray that fits in your freezer with parchment. Stir the yogurt, protein powder and vanilla together until smooth and thick. Taste it: it should be sweeter than you would eat it unfrozen, since cold dulls sweetness, so add the stevia if your yogurt is very tart.
- Fold in the strawberries. Dry them well first: water on the berries freezes into ice crystals.
- Drop the mixture onto the tray in 20 mounds of about 3 tablespoons each and freeze about 2 hours, until solid.
- Melt the chocolate with the coconut oil in 15-second bursts in the microwave, stirring between each. Dip the top half of each cluster in the chocolate (or spoon it over thinly), set it back on the tray and sprinkle with flaky salt. Freeze 10 minutes more to set the shell.
Good to know
How do I store them?
In a freezer bag or box for up to a month. Let them sit 5 minutes before eating so the yogurt softens a little under the shell.
Why coconut oil?
A little coconut oil thins the chocolate so it coats in a thin, crisp layer instead of a thick one, and it sets fast on the frozen yogurt. Leave it out if you like; dip quickly and the shell will be a little thicker, at about the same score.
Can I use vanilla yogurt instead?
Yes, and skip the vanilla extract. Pick one with no added sugar (sweetened with stevia or sucralose): it scores almost as well as plain. A sugar-sweetened vanilla yogurt pulls the whole dish down, because it makes up so much of it.
Per
- Calories
- 98
- Protein
- (38%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (30%)
- 3 g
- Carbohydrates
- (32%)
- 8 g
- of which sugar
- 5 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 68 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 868 kcal goes into the pot and 899 g of ingredients comes out as about 890 g of food: 98 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.