Unicorn Yogurt Bark

We had some friends in town and Hazel was keen on making
this yogurt bark. What a cinch to put together! This is a recipe for eating right away or else it melts like yogurt, which is still good but half the fun is gone.  I used some whole milk vanilla yogurt and some mixed berry greek yogurt and both turned out great. I think you could potentially skip the food coloring and just use lots of different colors of yogurt, but this was much more vibrant with the coloring.

Ingredients:
6 - 8 cups yogurt of your choice (I used 6 C vanilla & 1 C mixed berry), separated into bowls
Gel food coloring
sprinkles

Directions:
1. Prepare a sheet pan by lining it with parchment paper then make room in your freezer for the pan
2. Mix each cup of yogurt with a toothpick full of gel food coloring to desired color, I used yellow, green, blue, pink, purple and some maroon color
3. Spread yogurt on the prepared pan. Then swirl slightly with the back of a spoon or spatula to get the desired rainbow affect
4. Sprinkle on a variety of different sprinkles
5. Freeze 3-6 hours
6. Remove from the freezer and break into chunks like bark, you can easily do this with your hands. Serve immediately or freeze bark in a ziplock bag

Yogurt Drink Waffles

Last week I wanted to use some old fruit to make a smoothie. Joey suggested we buy some Siggi's Drinkable yogurt for this because he likes that brand, it was on sale, and it seemed like it might make a good smoothie.

After tasting the drink though, I thought it was a little too bitter for a smoothie plus, making a smoothie didn't sound fun anymore--it sounded like a lot of work! When tasting the drink, however, I thought it smelled a lot like buttermilk. I suggested to Joey that we use it to make pancakes or waffles and then freeze them to eat whenever. He agreed to try it but it was risky.

We tested it out today changing Brown Eyed Baker's recipe slightly to use the yogurt drink instead of buttermilk.  The results? The batter was super thick and looked a little blue. But the results were a delicious waffle! It was maybe a little bit denser but the flavors were great, the blueberry was super subtle if there at all and the addition of the raspberries was of course fantastic.  So next time you don't know what to do with your extra yogurt drink--make waffles!

Yogurt Drink Waffles
Minorly adapted from Brown Eyed Baker

1 3/4 C flour
2 T sugar
2 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
1 3/4 C yogurt drink, any flavor
2 eggs
2 t vanilla extract
1/2 C butter, melted and cooled
raspberries (optional)

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. In a smaller bowl, whisk the wet ingredients until combined
3. Make a well in the dry ingredient bowl and add the wet ingredients
4. Mix until combined but don't over mix!
5. Preheat the waffle maker and spray with cooking spray. Add 1C or so of batter or according to your waffle maker instructions. Drop in raspberries. Cook according to instructions