Red Velvet Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt with a Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Swirl… Why, hello No Churn Red-Velvet-Cookie-Dough-Fro-Yo…. It’s been a while. How you been?
YES! ICE CREAM! I would honestly have about a billion brain freezes for scoffing it down my throat! But that doesn’t matter because it’s bloody good!
Don’t mind me. I’m pretending its over 40 degrees celsius over here…enjoying the hell out of this Frozen Yogurt, while possibly freezing my lips shut.
This isn’t just any frozen yogurt people. This is cookie dough made into a frozen yogurt…swirled with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese *slash* Cheesecake.
Have I lost my mind? No, I don’t think so? But it is a possibility.
I’m sure you guys will forgive me when you try this thing out for yourselves. Because…it all starts with Cookie Dough and Chocolate Chips and Red Velvet.
And pouring on the ‘Cheesecake *slash* Cream Cheese’ to create a swirl all through your frozen yogurt.
How long did this take? A good 5 minutes to prepare and make…and about 4 hours waiting ever-so-patiently-while-tapping-my-foot-and-sighing-every-5-minutes-to-plant-our-faces-into-the-whole-container. Give or take.
In other words…you don’t need an ice cream maker to make this! And you don’t need to be mixing it every 20 minutes for 5 hours to get a creamy consistency. Ohhhh happy days.
And may I say….worth every minute spent tapping feet and wringing fingers just waiting for Red Velvet bliss to hit our very own taste buds.
Next on my list? An ice-cream maker. But for now? COOKIE DOUGH FRO-YO…YO!
Red Velvet Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt
Weight Watchers: 4pp per scoop (out of 16 scoops)
Ingredients
Red Velvet Cookie Dough
- 1/4 cup butter , melted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons reduced fat cream cheese , softened
- 2 cups non-fat Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons red food colouring (or beetroot juice from canned beetroot slices)
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
Cream Cheese Swirl:
- 250 g | 8oz reduced fat cream cheese
- 1 cup non-fat Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Bean Paste
Instructions
- Whisk together the melted butter and sugars in a medium-sized bowl until creamy and well blended. Mix in the flour, cocoa powder and salt, beating to combine. Add in the cream cheese and mix until well blended; pour in the yogurt and red colouring. Mix until well blended. Fold the chocolate chips through and mix until smooth and creamy.
- Pour into a lined loaf tin and prepare cream cheese swirl:
- Combine the cream cheese, yogurt, sugar and vanilla paste, mixing well until smooth and creamy. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the red velvet mixture and swirl through the red velvet.
- Freeze for over 4 hours or until set.
- Remove from freezer for about 10 minutes before serving!
Hennah says
Would it be okay to make without the yogurt?
Karina says
You are welcome to try it that way. It may not have the consistency that it needs to be thick enough. Let me know how it turns out!
Shawna says
This looks so good! What do you think of replacing the sugar with Stevia baking blend ( zero calories)? Im not sure if the sugar is necessary to prevent crystallization. Thanks!
Cally says
Would you be able to substitute Red Velvet cookie mix or cake mix into the recipe to make it simpler (I’m in college so I don’t have all of the necessary ingredients lying about). Thanks!
Karina says
I haven’t actually tried cake mix in this recipe. Is there a way you can make cake mix into cookie dough? Then go from there with the yogurt, etc to make it into frozen yogurt 🙂
Cally says
If we wanted to use red velvet cake mix to make the recipe easier, would that work? and would we still need to add cream cheese and greek yogurt? Or, I guess, how would that change the recipe? Thank you!!
ethandeeay says
This might be a silly q but how many pints/quarts does this yield?
Karina says
Hey! I’m so sorry I didn’t measure it!
Ellen says
This will be in my tummy this weekend, I’m so excited to make it :)! I love that you show WW points too 🙂 xx
Karina says
That’s awesome! I’m so happy to hear! I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
sprinklesandsprouts says
Oh yes!!!!!!
I don’t care that it is about 6ºC outside! And we have been down to 2ºC this week.
Ice cream is always a good idea 🙂
This looks amazing!!!! Creamy, rich and yummy!!!!
Love it!
Karina says
Lol I hear you Claire! I’m so happy you like it! 😉 X