I love to experiment with my recipes. Even when I have a recipe that I know I like, I throw in different things just to see how it will turn out.
My dad loves to tell the story about how I asked for chocolate yogurt when I was young, and it was my first full sentence to him. These days I still LOVE chocolate yogurt, but I prefer mixing up my own from plain yogurt and cocoa powder.
Ingredients:
- plain yogurt – about 1/2 cup
- 1 scoop of plain whey protein powder
- 2 TB of cocoa powder
- 15-20 drops of vanilla liquid stevia, or other sweetener to taste ( I also like using honey when I am in the mood)
Note: if you haven’t worked with cocoa powder much, it is easy to make a mess. Always start with all the dry ingredients in a bowl and slowly mix in the wet ingredients. If you dump in all the yogurt at once, it can be hard to mix all the cocoa powder sufficiently and you get lots of little pockets of unmixed cocoa. Not fun.
The end result is something like chocolate pudding! but with more protein! yay 🙂
PS: I suggest using regular yogurt, but not Greek yogurt. Many people do not understand that Greek yogurt is just yogurt with some of the water drained out – that is the difference. By adding protein powder, it will thicken the yogurt. If you started with Greek yogurt, it may end up too thick.