It’s like summer on an ice cream cone.
I got the idea for brownie fro-yo after making my favorite Brownie Batter Dip.
That’s actually how I come up with many of my recipe ideas: think of a particular flavor, then brainstorm every possible dessert that could work for said flavor. Brownie batter dip, brownie batter frozen yogurt, brownie batter fudge, brownie batter waffles…
In other words: don’t be surprised if you someday see brownie batter cheesecake on my blog!
Brownie Batter Frozen Yogurt
Adapted from: How To Make Frozen Yogurt.
- 3 cups plain or vanilla yogurt, such as Silk nondairy
- 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp dutch or regular cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- a little over 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 3-4 tbsp unrefined sugar or xylitol, or more to taste depending on the yogurt you use. The frozen result will be less sweet than the batter.
- 1/16 tsp pure stevia, or 2 tbsp additional sugar
- handful chocolate chips, optional
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, and stir until completely combined. Transfer to an ice-cream maker (If you don’t have one, see nutrition link below). Important note: Be sure that you like the taste of the particular yogurt you’re using. A few of my friends thought this recipe had a strange taste, but it turns out they just didn’t like the Silk yogurt!
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how delicious! who doesn’t love brownie batter:) thanks for sharing! it looks amazigly rich and fudgy!
Yum!!! I just made a single serving of this right now (and couldn’t wait to freeze it, so I ate it just as chocolate yogurt – it was like brownie pudding!!!)
I used sweetened yogurt so (at least in the non-frozen version) I really didn’t need to add any additional sweetener. It would of course be different using plain yogurt.
Thank you for your great recipes!
When I was little, I hated yogurt… the only one I would eat was chocolate yogurt. I was so excited when they came out with it! 🙂
This recipe looks AMAZING! Thanks for sharing!
…Can you adopt me? Please? Forget the fact that I’m 15 and you’re 20-something. I’ll wash all your dishes and clean your kitchen. 😀
Hi Katie! Any suggestions for making this with a Vitamix instead of an ice cream maker?
Sorry, I haven’t tried it. But if you do, please report back with results!
Try freezing in ice-cube trays and then blending once frozen.
great idea, thank you!
Hey Katie, I know grams are different for every food item in regards to cups, do you think you could post how many cups are in each of your servings as well, instead of just the grams? It would make life a lot easier!! 🙂
I try to do so as often as possible. With liquids, though (and semi-liquids like yogurt), they’re all the same. 240g is a cup, 120g is a 1/2 cup, etc.
Cocoa powder is 5 grams per tbsp.
So the serving size for this is about 1/2 cup? Haha thanks so much for the clarification! I appreciate it 🙂
That was just because I had to pick an amount for the nutritional info, so I went with the standard. But honestly, who eats just a 1/2 cup of ice cream? 😉
I’m kind of thrown by the baking soda. I’ve never used it in making ice cream before! What does it do?
It was just for more of a brownie batter flavor. (Baking soda does actually have a taste.) You can easily leave it out.
I’m kind of thrown by the baking soda. I’ve never used it in making ice cream before! What does it do?
I actually think it’s good that you don’t post the calorie counts on the same page. As someone who is recovering from anorexia, I find calorie counts triggering because I obsessively counted calories when I was ill.
Yes, exactly! I am in the same boat!
Ok, I saw the thing about the links and had to chime in. I have been using your website for about 6 months and have loved every recipe I’ve tried. For the awesome recipes – thank you, Katie! I have shared your site with so many other ppl I know with celiac disease or diabetes. It’s awesome to be able to make sweet, healthy desserts. BUT, I do get incredibly frustrated looking for old recipes. Sometimes I can not find them anywhere on the site clicking through all the menus, so I go to Google and search it by name, but then often times I get a 404 error. If I can magically navigate through the menus, it actually works… not sure why that would be. The dis-organization, clicking, 10 windows open after browsing through recipes… it drives me insane. I haven’t used the website in a couple months because I go bananas trying to find things. I understand you have a lot of content, but it’s out of control. I think you need to hire a professional to re-organize the website into something that makes sense and flows naturally. I read plenty of blogs and recipe websites and this one is dis-organized in a special way that I’ve never encountered before. Sorry to be critical, but maybe fixing the site will draw more users or help retain the ones you have before it explodes. Laura
P.S. Can’t wait for your book to come out!
Laura, I know your words were well-meaning, but do you have any idea how ungrateful they sound? Have you ever tried to run a big-time website? Do you have ANY idea how much work it takes to organize everything, keep every commenter happy, keep the server running smoothly, organize all the recipes, manage all the social media, etc? (Not to mention how much “hiring a professional” would cost, and forget the fact that you first have to find one you trust?) Katie has said she’s running this entire thing all on her own, and I for one think she is doing a DAMN good job.
As a former blogger (not as big as CCK, but I did have a following) and current graphic designer I can tell you that much, much more goes into running a high-traffic blog than you would ever imagine. In fact, I had to give it up because it turned out to be too much for me, and I even have a degree in web design!
I also don’t see where you come off as saying this blog is disorganzed, or more so than other blogs. Sure, maybe more so than blogs that have been around for a year. Remember that CCK has over 6 years worth of posts to organize, and she’s said she’s trying to learn this all as she goes along. Please don’t knock her unless you’ve been in her shoes and have tried it yourself.
Thanks, Kathy. That really means a lot to me. Oh goodness, yes, there is so much more involved in running this blog than many people–including me when I started out–would ever imagine. Just dealing with the server issues alone could be a full-time job.
Oh Kathy…I am SO with you.
My first big site I was stunned the e-mail I would occasionally get. I will never forget this one that ended with “FIX THIS NOW.”
Management and design is a lot of work – I swear the maintenance is even harder. And this is a very page “heavy” site with a lot of functionality already.
Oh dear :(.
I can’t tell you how much this comment upset me or how sorry I am that you’ve had trouble with my website. I try as hard as I possibly can to make my site easy to navigate, and I’ve even re-organized the recipe page multiple times and have asked for reader suggestions on things they’d like to see.
I am not a tech-y person, and I run this site entirely on my own. I’m having to learn a lot as I go, but I’m trying to do the very best I can to maintain it all.
As for the 404 errors a few months ago, I did post multiple times on the blog that my website was having difficulties, and that I was very sorry but I didn’t know why they werre occurring. I was not even sleeping trying to get it all sorted out, and I was googling all day for possible solutions… Obviously I am not happy either when my website is giving out errors.
Please know that I really am trying my very best :(.
Katie you are amazing, please don’t let people get you down with comments like that! I love your layout and the fact that I could spend hours clicking through recipes as I see pics of things I want to try. It has to be a herculean task to keep this running (on top of responding to comments, coming up with new recipes, and writing new posts!), and the fact that you do it alone without any ackground in web design or tech stuff is incredible.
Katie, I’m not sure why Laura seems to have such a hard time looking for old recipes. There’s a recipe page, a broken down list of ‘special’ recipes (non dessert, sugar free etc) on a drop down menu AND there’s a search box. Seriously? It doesn’t get more basic or easily accessible than that. I’ve never had a problem finding anything on this blog. Perhaps some people don’t know how to navigate a website? Or perhaps they don’t know how to search a website for something? Keep up the good work Katie. If people don’t like the way things are, they can go somewhere else. If it’s too much “trouble” to look up recipes up on your site, I have to wonder how lazy these people really are. Websites and blogs are a HUGE amount of work. They take HUGE amounts of time. You’re doing a GREAT job!
Here’s an example. I want the recipe for brownie batter dip. I search brownie batter within this site (see below). Where is the brownie batter dip? Melty Pizza Hummus shows up and Brownie Batter Dip (containing direct words searched) does not… hmmm, maybe something is wrong. I know I could navigate through the recipes, but there are A LOT, so it would be nice if the search worked. I just re-performed my search and I now have FIVE windows open to find one thing. That’s a bit excessive. Turns out, to get to brownie batter dip via search you need to click on melty pizza hummus and then click on the related recipes link at the bottom to take you to brownie batter dip. As M was explaining, that’s a bit backwards with more clicks than necessary.
I was trying to leave constructive feedback, which apparently people around here don’t take well. Yes, I know how to search and yes, I know how to click. I was just trying to point out the issues I’ve had, which I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Search : brownie batter
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Laura, I think you are going about this completely the wrong way. Katie has a very well-organized recipe page. Just go there to find the recipes. But you can’t fault her for mentioning the words “brownie batter” in multiple posts!
Also, if you’re searching for brownie batter dip, why on earth would you just type “brownie batter” into the search bar?
This is also an excellent point! If you click on the word “recipes” near the very top of every page on this blog (brown bar just under the banner with Katie’s pic), it takes you here:
https://lett-trim.today/chocolate-covered-recipes/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
where there is a link for “puddings and dips”. Chocolate brownie batter dip is the first one.
Your point about the search function showing you every page with the terms rather than just the recipes is true, BUT:
1) The recipe for brownie batter dip is in one of the thumbnails just before the comments on this very page (at least on my computer), as is often the case for recipes similar to the one featured in the post.
2) If you were searching for the dip recipe specifically, why not include the term in your search? Searching just “brownie batter” gives you everything with that flavor (as you found out), but if you search “brownie batter dip”, the original recipe post is the 7th link and the recipe is featured in two of the round-up pages included in the search results.
I realize this isn’t perfect, and you have a legitimate suggestion, but the point could have been made in a nicer way.