I am so so sooooo excited about this recipe.
1. I love frozen yogurt.
2. I love goat cheese.
Combining them; oh.my.sweet.heavely.goodness. I can die happy.
It’s 10 pm, 2 hours past my bedtime. I’m on pinterest, par for the course, no matter what time of day it is, I’m probably on pinterest. I saw a post for ice cream, or fro yo, or goat cheese. Something along those lines that made me get off my butt and get in the kitchen, 2 hours past my bedtime.
I must make frozen yogurt with goat cheese, somehow, this must happen, right now. See what staying up past my bedtime does? Crazy things, like combine yogurt and goat cheese, and turn it into dessert.
After a quick search I found goat cheese ice cream from one of my favorite food blogs: Ezra Pound Cake. I used her tip on adding cornstarch to help keep the ‘ice cream’ soft, and off I went, on a fro yo goat cheese experiment. 3 minutes later, I had the yogurt base. 7 hours later I had goat cheese frozen yogurt. No ice cream maker required.
Sometimes, ok, often times, I impress even myself with what I come up with. This is one of those times.
You can’t have frozen yogurt without ample amounts of toppings, can you? Remember how I devoured a batch of Chewy Granola Bars in 2 days? Some of those may have ended up on a few bowls of goat cheese frozen yogurt. PERFECT to top off my goat cheese fro yo. I mean honestly, no joke, no exaggeration. I can die happy. I have met the ULTIMATE frozen yogurt.
Goat Cheese Frozen Yogurt
Makes about 1 quart
2 cups Greek-style yogurt (I used non fat)
1/2 cup sugar
3 ounces goat cheese
1 tbsp cornstarch (this helps keep it soft)
Chewy Granola Bar Crumbles
Mix together the yogurt, sugar, goat cheese and cornstarch in a blender or food processor. Pour into a bowl. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Pour mixture into a freezer safe container and freeze for about 7 hours. It should be ready and scoopable (yes, this is a word, in my vocabulary anyway) at this point. If it’s too soft, keep freezing it. After a few days in the freezer it will be pretty hard, so just leave it at room temp for a few minutes before serving.
*In the middle of the freezing process I mixed it up, just took a spoon to the container and mixed for a minute or so. Then kept freezing it. I don’t have a very good reason for doing this, other then hoping it helped evenly freeze it to keep a creamy consistency. I have no clue if it helped, but, it didn’t hurt anything.
If you have an ice cream maker, freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions after you chill it for that hour.
I'm a wife, mom, runner, recipe developer, freelance writer, early riser, Christ follower, peanut butter lover, frozen yogurt addict. I think the majority of the food I consume should be life giving; healthy, natural raw fruits and veggies. Which allows me to have room to splurge occasionally, and I take full advantage of it. 
Even better for me? I always have a supply of Greek Gods Honey yogurt in the fridge…I can taste how amazing this would be now but I'm thinking popsicles. Probably cause I just got new popsicle forms and I'm like a kid want to use them! LOVE this; and thanks for participating in #goaterie!
Oh my gosh. This looks so amazing. I'm totally on a frozen yoghurt craze at the moment (despite it being winter here). This post now resides in my 'things to make' favourites folder
Beautiful blog btw
Yum, this frozen yoghurt looks delicious! I am in a bit of an ice-cream madness phase at the moment and I love the sound of this. Does it taste like a cheesecake at all?
Kate- the creaminess of the goat cheese does give i a little bit of that cheesecake taste, just a little though.
Oh wow… You are my new favorite person! There is a goat cheese gelato that I had in Maui that was to die for. I figured I'd need an ice cream maker for it but not any more thanks to your recipe! I can't wait to try it!
Goat cheese ice cream?? Shut the front door, that sounds good! I love goat cheese!!!!!!! I will totally be making this with my beloved Greek Gods Honey or original yogurt, that stuff is SO good! Awesome idea, awesome recipe :)
Totally going to make this! Thank you for combining two of my favorite things: goat cheese and greek yogurt!
I'm totally addicted to pintrest as well!! WOW this looks heavenly! love the idea of goat cheese frozen yogurt.
1. I also like goat cheese
2. I also like frozen yogurt!
YUM!
goat cheese is my absolute favorite, i really want to try this asap. and im also really excited that i dont need an ice cream maker for it! thanks for posting :)
you rock! (and not just because your greek cheesecake recipe is AMAZING!)
i can't wait to try this–maybe for my hubby's bday? he will love me!
Wow, such unusual ingredients but it looks incredible. Will definitely be trying this out.
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Julia, I must know, how did this do after storing in the freezer? Was it scoopable? I bet it would be delicious with honey in place of some of the sugar, since honey goes so well with tart Greek yogurt and tangy goat cheese :)
I made some of this last night and topped it with fresh organic raspberries. SOOOOO amazingly delicious!!!!!!
I definitely have to try this. My cousin posted your blog and recipe link on facebook. She said it was really good!
I just found your blog and LOVE it and your “phood philosophy” in general!…
This frozen yogurt is exactly what I have been searching for….healthy with the “yum” factor intact!
I have been putting off purchasing an expensive “turbine à glace”…self-freezing gelato/ice cream maker (on purpose…in a way…for I fear I would use it as an excuse to be constantly concocting frozen treats!)…so this easy…low-tech method is the ticket!
Also…could I possibly follow your exquisite blog via e-mail (I have gmail here in France)…Thank you for sharing your culinary wisdom!