This is a creamy high protein treat you can feel good about eating. This recipe is a little tangy, a little sweet, incredibly healthy and easy to make. Your whole family will love it!
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine Healthy Clean Eating
Keyword clean eating dessert or snack, cottage cheese bark, healthy yogurt bark, protein yogurt bark
Servings 6
Ingredients
1cupplain Greek yogurt
1cupwhole milk cottage cheese
1/2cupcashew (or any other nut or seed) butter
2tablespoonshoney or maple syrup
1teaspoonvanilla extract
Chocolate Drizzle
1/2cupchocolate chips
1teaspooncoconut oil
Optional Toppings
Sliced banana
1/4cuproasted peanuts or almonds, chopped
2tablespoonsgraham cracker crumbs
1/4cupshredded coconut
Instructions
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or waxed paper or you can use an 8 x 8-inch baking pan lined with parchment paper.Place yogurt, cottage cheese, cashew butter, honey and vanilla into a bowl and mix with a whisk until well combined smooth and creamy. Taste test and add more honey or vanilla if you think it needs it.Spread the mixture evenly onto the parchment lined baking sheet forming into a rectangle shape, using your spatula, about ½ inch thick.
Chocolate Drizzle
Place chocolate chips and coconut oil in small dish and microwave at 50% power with 20 second bursts stirring between each one until melted and smooth.Or use double boiler method - (pot of boiling water with a bowl resting on top) melt the chocolate chips and the coconut oil together.Add dollops of the melted chocolate on top of the cottage mixture and swirl it around using a toothpick or fork. Add remaining toppings like sliced banana or other fruit, graham cracker crumbs or chopped nuts.Freeze the bark for a minimum of 2-3 hours until hardened. Remove from the freezer and cut or break into pieces. Transfer pieces of bark to a freezer bag and store up to 1 month. A tip on serving: this is pretty hard straight from the freezer. I like to let mine sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes until it’s softened a bit. It’s still cold, creamy and frozen but more the texture of ice cream versus a hard bark. It is SO good.