If you're looking for a super healthy, sugar-free snack or tasty dessert, look no further than my famous sugar-free yoghurt bark recipe. It's easy meal prep, and not only delicious, but also packed with protein, making it the perfect post-workout snack or mid-day pick-me-up. Ready? Let's start cooking..
What Is Frozen Yoghurt Bark?
If you haven't tried this before, you are going to love it! Yoghurt bark is literally just Greek or vegan yoghurt spread thinly over a baking sheet and left in the freezer to solidify into bars or a breakable bark. This super healthy snack is easily prepared by mixing your favourite protein, fruit, nuts and seeds into the yoghurt before freezing. When ready, you simply crack the bark into bite-sized pieces (much like homemade chocolate bark). It makes such a healthy, sugar-free treat, and the kids absolutely love it!
Is Frozen Yoghurt Bark Healthy?
Yes, yoghurt bark is a delicious treat providing a serving of dairy or vegan based protein, high-fibre fruits and other nutrients depending on how you choose to make it. This recipe is also sugar-free, and you only need to enjoy a small piece to feel satiated and satisfy that sweet tooth craving. I almost always add a scoop of vegan protein powder to mine to really boost the protein content and make it a diabetic-friendly snack. The protein and healthy fats from nuts, balances any natural sugars found in fructose perfectly.
On A Budget?
This sugar-free yoghurt bark recipe is quite affordable to make using only a mid-sized tub of yoghurt, a scoop of protein powder, and your toppings of choice. You can use fresh or frozen fruits, but I do recommend eating in-season whenever possible if you're on a tight budget. Chia seeds, sunflower or pumpkin seeds are affordable topping with many health benefits and provide a boost of protein as well.
Key Ingredients Used
This is the perfect wholefood snack for busting those afternoon sugar-free cravings.. All you need to make it is four main ingredients and a few additions. The fabulous thing about this recipe though, is that you can flavour it any number of ways simply by varying the fruit, nuts, seeds, and other ingredients.
Yoghurt: this is the base of the recipe. Whether you prefer Greek (or a vegan version such as soy or coconut), a good quality, low sugar yoghurt is the key to a super tasty bark.
Fresh or frozen fruits: vitamin-rich fruit give this recipe a punch of sweetness and flavour. Unless using berries, I recommend chopping the fruit into small, bite-sized pieces.
Nuts and seeds: adding these to your bark provides a nice, satisfying crunch as well as provides an excellent source of protein, healthy fat and trace minerals.
As you can see, the sugar-free ingredients are simple, and are probably already sitting in your fridge or kitchen pantry. You can make yoghurt bark as basic or as fancy as you choose, based on what you have on-hand, and how much time you have to meal prep.
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Healthy Yoghurt Bark Variations
This sugar-free recipe is so easy to meal prep with your favourite ingredients, and customise to suit your family's dietary needs and weight loss goals. Here's some of my favourite ways to meal plan and create several snacks out of this one basic recipe:
Protein powder: stir in 30-60g of whey or vegan protein powder into the yoghurt before freezing. I recommend a top quality whey protein from grass-fed cows or a clean plantbased variety that contains both pea and brown rice protein to create the full amnio chain.
Granola or high fibre cereals: add a little crunch with homemade granola or a high fibre cereal.
Nuts and seeds: add a little crunch with crushed nuts like cashew, walnut, or pecan. Try seeds such as chia, flax, pumpkin and sesame.
Spices: a sprinkling of cinnamon can add a lovely flavour dimension and rev your metabolism; turmeric can boost immune, anise can help keep blood sugar levels in check. A few drops of vanilla gives the bark a divine ice cream-like flavour.
Superfood powder: boost the nutritional profile by adding your favourite superfood powders to the mix. Try 1-2 tsp of acai berry, your favourite greens blend, maca root, chocolaty raw cacao, or nourishing spirulina.
Probiotics: yes, that's right, crack your probiotic capsule or powder right into the yoghurt and stir well before freezing.
One of the best part about this yoghurt bark recipe is how simple it is to make in a variety of healthy ways. It'll literally take you 5-minutes to blend, pour into a baking tray, flavour, and tomorrow's healthy sugar-free snacks are done and dusted!
Food Sensitivities
Allergic To Dairy?
This sugar-free recipe can be made with any type of yoghurt, not just Greek. Experiment with coconut, cashew, soy or other non-dairy yoghurts to find one that provides the best consistency. Personally, I find a nice, unsweetened coconut yoghurt to be the best dairy-free option. Coconut freezes well and has that slight coco-nutty flavour that I really love, and since I am primarily dairy-free, it won't bother my tummy.
Diabetic, Can I Still Enjoy This Recipe?
Balancing your blood sugar is super important to your well-being as a diabetic. You can definitely enjoy this sugar-free recipe by focusing on using low carb, high fibre fruits like blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries, and counter balancing this with the addition of high fibre chia seeds, healthy fats from coconut oil and almonds, pumpkin or sunflower seeds. Choose a yoghurt that is very low in sugar and be sure to add a high quality protein powder to really ram up the protein content. This'll help keep your blood sugar levels in check.
If you choose to add dairy-based protein, go for an organic whey. And if you are plantbased like myself, go for a vegan version that has both pea and brown rice proteins to create the full amino chain. For me, I use Aussie Bodies, "Nourish". This brand has 16.5g of vegan sourced protein and only 3 carbs, 0.3g sugar and over 7g of dietary fibre per serving.
Sugar-free Frozen Yoghurt Bark Recipe
I promise you once you make this sugar-free yoghurt bark, you'll be as hooked as I am! It makes such a deliciously sweet dessert or afternoon snack, and one you can happily enjoy guilt-free. You only need a few minutes to prepare the mixture, and it is ready within 2-3 hours leaving your freezer to do all the work!
Easy Frozen Yoghurt Bark Recipe
Ingredients
2 cups Greek or coconut yoghurt, plain, unsweetened
60g (2 scoops) Vanilla flavoured protein, whey or vegan based
1/2 cup fresh or frozen berries, organic
2 tbsp melted coconut oil, organic
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2-4 drops stevia liquid sweetener (if needed)
OPTIONAL: 3 tbsp raw cacao or carob chips, sugar-free
Method
In a blender, add the yoghurt, protein powder, oil, sweetener and vanilla. Pulse to combine, then pour the mixture into a shallow pan lined with baking paper. Spread evenly to cover the bottom of the pan. Depending on the pan size, the yoghurt mix should be a few centimetres thick. Add the berries and chips evenly across the top. Cover and freeze the pan with the yoghurt mix for 2-3 hours. To serve, break off or cut into pieces. One to two small piece of bark count as a portion.
Emma Lisa, Nutritionist & Women's Practitioner
Emma Lisa is a Nutritionist & Women's Health Practitioner with over 14+ years experience in wholefood nutrition, meal planning and health coaching. She is a published cookbook author, passionate food recipe creator and lifestyle blogger, and an advocate for women's health and anti-diet culture. When she's not in clinic, Emma is mum to five kids, in her test kitchen and a wellness digital creator. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Healthy + happiness,
Emma Lisa xx
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