Healthy Oreo Ice Cream

A thick and creamy ice cream tickled with crunchy Oreo chunks – you’d never guess this Oreo ice cream was healthy! The Greek yoghurt and light cream cheese provide the thick, smooth ice cream texture, whereas the vanilla extract and hot cocoa powder sweeten it up. This recipe doesn’t call for an ice cream maker, either – you can make it all by hand in a matter of minutes.

I’m not really bothered about ice cream – I’m much more of a brownie or cupcake girl – and when I think of all the cream and sugar that goes into it, I’m even less keen on it. This recipe tackles those issues – it calls for only a small amount of sugar and replaces double cream with a healthy substitute – Greek yoghurt.

My Official Treat Taster and I were having a discussion about the definition of a healthy recipe. I was arguing that I think a healthy recipe is one that’s pretty low-cal with hardly any fat and sugar. He was insisting that in order for a recipe to be healthy, it has to have nutritional value. For some reason, he would not humour my attempts to convince him of the uncountable health benefits of Oreos.

What’s your definition of a healthy recipe?

Healthy Oreo Ice Cream

Ingredients

250ml Greek yoghurt

4tbsp Light cream cheese

1tsp Vanilla extract

4tbsp Sugar

4 Crushed Oreos

1tbsp Hot cocoa powder

Recipe

1. Mix together the yoghurt, cream cheese and vanilla extract.

2. Stir in the sugar, hot cocoa powder and Oreos.

3. Place into a tub suitable for freezing and leave in the freezer for around 4 hours to set.

4. Remove from the freezer at least 15 minutes before you want to serve.

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