Last week, I made yogurt cheese for the first time. Making yogurt cheese consists of lining a strainer with a paper towel, plopping some yogurt on top, and leaving it to chill out in the fridge overnight. Doesn’t get much easier than that folks.
I went with 1/4 cup Stonyfield Farms Fat Free French Vanilla Yogurt. Here’s the lil yogurt cheese:
Isn’t it cute???
To make the blueberry topping, I put 1/2 cup fresh blueberries + 1 packet Truvia + 1 tsp water into a food processor:
Then, I poured everything into a little pan and heated the mix on low heat until the sauce thickened up:
When the blueberries were cool, I took about 1/4 of the blueberry sauce and topped the yogurt cheesecake bite with it:
I put the cheesecake bite in the fridge while I got to cleaning my disaster kitchen…. Then I dove in to dessert:
HOLD THE TRAIN! The key component of any cheesecake is the crust! Crap! I didn’t have any graham crackers or nilla wafers (which both would have been excellent options), so I smashed up 1 tbsp of Honey Bunches of oats and put the cheesecake on top:
YUM. YUM. YUM. I’m not sure how to compute the calories on this lil guy since a lot of the yogurt is strained out and not used…. But when I include the total calories on the yogurt, this cheesecake bite is only 63 calories. I had a lot of blueberry sauce left over… Maybe I’ll use it on toast… better yet, waffles 🙂
GIVEAWAY TIME!
At the Healthy Living Summit this past weekend, I was lucky to get a whole bag of Adora Calcium & Vitamin D Supplements in Premium All-Natural Dark Chocolate!
What can be better than that?!?
Ummm… How about a whole bag of Dark Chocolate AND a whole bag of Milk Chocolate Adora discs?!
The nice folks at Adora are going to give one of my readers just that!
You can enter to win up to four times by leaving one comment on this post for each of the following items:
1. Leave a comment saying “hi” or whatever is on your mind
2. Follow me on Twitter (you stalker, you 😉 ) My ID is Fervent_Foodie — if you already follow me, leave a comment here saying so
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I’ll use a random number generator to select the winner, and Adora will ship the chocolate goodies directly to you! US mailing addresses only. Giveaway ends Friday August 20th at 11:59pm Eastern time 🙂
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Wow, the blueberry cheesecake bites are such a clever, inventive, unique idea! I love it. I definitely need to try that, myself. Thanks so much for the great idea! <3
I think the Adora supplements would be fantastic! I for one, which I’m ashamed to say, am not a big milk drinker. I do take a Vitamin D but not as I should either. I think the Adora supplements would be great to incorporate into a receipe, or one of Mary’s famous receipe’s. How awesome would it be to try this yogurt cheese with fresh cut strawberries and the chocolate adora supplement melted on top. Yummy! Strawberry covered cheesecake with chocolate sauce. Just a thought. But a yummy thought. 🙂
I’m trying to win the chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like you, I follow you, I retweet you, and I need to find a new source of calcium… hahaha. Love, Allison.
The blueberry bite looks FANTASTIC. I need to try yogurt cheese.
I follow you on twitter!
I already ‘like’ you on facebook!
Also- that cheesie bite of goodness looks delicious. My mom suggested straining the yogurt in a panty hoe. So I put it in a knee high. It didn’t work. Stick with the paper towel until we figure out where to buy cheese cloth.
I tweeted about the giveaway!!
Sorry, I’m not stalking… I was trying to make your blog updates come to my phone. Love you!
Maybe if Jessie wins, she’ll be a good friend and share with me.
Cuz I know that if I win, I will share with her!
Just posted on facebook:
Jennifer Csatlos Lind gets motivated reading http://ferventfoodie.com/ blogs every morning. Great nutrition facts and fantastic receipes. Thank you Mary! 🙂
I want to share with everyone how amazing you are and how inspirational you are. You are such a motivator and I cannot wait to get through this exam so I can start kicking it into high gear. Tomorrow night – a chicken receipe and this delicious yogurt cheese! yum yum 🙂
Nothing has made me ever think of making my own yogurt cheese before this post, lol
Yayyy strong bones in a tasty treat!
Your recipe is FANTASTIC I’d love to make that with some graham crackers, roll it up, and serve it to my kids as a dessert!
Mary, this looks AMAZING!! Definitely going to try this one.
Hi, i want to try these so bad!! 🙂
Wow girlie that sounds sooo good!
hi, i need healthy chocolate
i follow you on twitter
i like you on facebook 🙂
May Canadians enter this giveaway?
Sorry! US mailing addresses only.
I love those Adora discs! Somehow my bag of them never made it home from HLS.
The mini-cheesecake looks delicious! I got oodles of blueberries from the farmer’s market this week – now I have another great way to enjoy them. Thanks!
And I now follow you on Twitter – my handle is @kndlljn. 🙂
oh I hope Hope HOPE I win !! 🙂 I was unable to attend HLS, but in recaps everywhere have seen these… and WANT them SO bad! 🙂
I like calcium.
I just spent the evening making eye discs out of these suckers. Love them!
That’s all that yogurt cheese is?! I am so making some now!
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Twitter follower duckybunny!
Hi Mary!! I’m so sad we didn’t get to meet up, and omg, Adora, I adore 🙂 That would be awesome if I didn’t have to replenish my stock so soon, if I won!! 😀
I tweeted!
I like you on FB!!! And in real life 😉
AND I follow you on Twitter!!!
Did I win yet?!?
I *ALREADY* follow you on twitter ! 🙂
I love chocolate! YUM!
These are so good! Great giveaway.
I’m following on Twitter @healthytwists
Wow, that blueberry cheesecake looks amazing. I’m going to try it soon. AND just saw you are going to Fitbloggin’11–awesome! Me too!
Just started reading your blog (from HLS links) and I love it. Keep up the great work!
Hey girl love your blog! Dark chocolate is my addiction! Blueberry cheesecake sounds ammmmmmmmmazing! Have a great day!
I am now a facebook fan (under Kristina Sloggett) 🙂
I so really want these!! I cannot find them in stores here… trust, I looked!! 🙂
HAVE A FABULOUS FRIDAY !!
I found your blog via A Girl and Her Mutt. Looking forward to following you.
Found your blog through A girl and her mutt. I’m always looking for ways to get my kid. . I mean boyfriend to get good stuff in him. This would be to easy!
I too found you via A Girl and Her Mutt. Had to come right away to try to win healthy chocolates, but also, because if I win, I will do a photo like Erin did (because she did ask nicely for that). Glad to have found your blog!
Hi,
I hope i win because I love chocolate!
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Love the idea of the cheesecake yummy!!!
I would love a chance to win the Adora since I’m always looking for good ways to sneak in a little calcium and VitD since I’m only 32 and fighting osteopenia.
I follow you on Twitter!
I “like”d you on FB!
I posted your post on my FB!