A little bite of fruit, with a big bang of summer flavor! Blueberry stuffed cherries are dipped in Greek yogurt and frozen for a healthy dessert for July 4th and other warm weather parties.
Cuisine:
American
Servings: 12servings
Ingredients
12fresh cherries
12fresh blueberries
14.4 ounce cartonwhole-milke vanilla greek yogurtI used Siggi's Dairy
1tablespooncrushed dehydrated raspberriesor other topping of choice
Instructions
Take stems off all cherries. Cut each cherry in half crosswise and carefully remove seed. Take care to keep tops and bottoms of each cherry together so they match up when assembling later.
Place one blueberry in concave center of cherry half. You may have to dig through pint of blueberries to find ones that fit well, don't use ones that are super big.
Add top half of cherry to cover blueberry-stuffed bottom half and skewer with a toothpick. Repeat for remaining fruit
Set in freezer to firm up for 30 minutes.
Remove from freezer and dip in Greek yogurt, spooning extra yogurt on top for complete coverage. Carefully transfer to wax-paper lined baking sheet.
Sprinkle tops with crushed dehydrated raspberries, or other topping of choice such as sprinkles, chocolate or nuts.
Return to freezer for 30 minutes, or until Greek yogurt has firmed up.
To serve, remove from freezer and enjoy immediately.
Recipe Notes
17 calories, 1 gram protein, 2.3 gram total carbs and 0.38g fat each