This easy Vanilla Frozen Yogurt recipe is sweetened with honey for a mindful treat. Whip it up at a moment’s notice for a cool and refreshing dessert!
This three-ingredient frozen yogurt is no more complicated than mixing store-bought or homemade plain whole milk yogurt with honey and the scrapings of a vanilla bean.
Pour it in your ice cream maker, et viola! Homemade vanilla frozen yogurt with honey.
Frozen yogurt is one of my favorite treats, especially during the summer. Making it homemade is now a rule I have set for myself.
You see, I can’t be trusted at frozen yogurt shops, because proper utilization of empty space is a thing for me. When handed a giant empty bowl, I must fill that bowl.
And because I am an over-achiever, I’ll over-fill it with toppings.
The price? No less than $20 each and every time. Closer to $25.
So homemade honey yogurt ice cream deliciousness? A treat that won’t make you question your sanity.
Vanilla Frozen Yogurt Ingredients:
Whole Milk Plain Yogurt: Pick a brand of yogurt you know you love. I prefer using plain whole milk yogurt, but you can easily use a sweetened, flavored yogurt.
Honey: We need some form of sweetener. I like using liquid sweeteners in this application because they blend into the yogurt easily. Pure maple syrup or honey are my two recommendations.
Add sweetener to your personal taste. Some people prefer barely sweet fro yo, and others prefer very sweet yogurt.
Vanilla Bean or Vanilla Extract: I like using a vanilla bean to flavor the yogurt because it brings richer vanilla flavor. Nevertheless, you can swap the vanilla bean for 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract.
How to Make Vanilla Frozen Yogurt:
- Freeze the bowl of your ice cream machine 24 hours in advance of making this recipe (or follow manufacturer instructions).
- Add the yogurt and honey to a bowl and stir together until completely combined. If your house is cold and the honey is solid, you can heat the honey slightly on the stove just until it’s pourable. You can also mix the ingredients together in a blender.
- Carefully slice an incision down the whole length of your vanilla bean. Open the bean and using a dull knife, scrape the small black specs out of the bean and add them to the bowl along with the pure vanilla extract with the yogurt and honey.
- Mix everything well and pour mixture into your ice cream maker and follow the instructions according to your maker.
- Serve immediately after frozen yogurt is ready with honey drizzled on top and walnuts. You can also get creative with your toppings, adding fresh fruit like berries or sliced banana.
If you love making homemade ice cream or homemade frozen yogurt, also try my Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt and my 3-Ingredient No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream recipe.
Vanilla Frozen Yogurt Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 32 ounces plain whole milk yogurt*
- 1 large vanilla bean scraped
- 2/3 cup honey or pure maple syrup, to taste
- 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
- Walnuts for serving
Instructions
- Freeze the bowl of your ice cream machine 24 hours in advance of making this recipe (or follow manufacturer instructions).
- Add the yogurt and honey to a bowl and stir together until completely combined. If your house is cold and the honey is solid, you can heat the honey slightly on the stove just until it’s pourable. You can also mix the ingredients together in a blender.
- Carefully slice an incision down the whole length of your vanilla bean. Open the bean and using a dull knife, scrape the small black specs out of the bean and add them to the bowl along with the pure vanilla extract with the yogurt and honey.
- Mix everything well and pour mixture into your ice cream maker and follow the instructions according to your maker.
- Serve immediately after frozen yogurt is ready with honey drizzled on top and walnuts.
Notes
For best results, serve the frozen yogurt immediately after it’s finished in the ice cream maker. Save leftovers in a freezer-safe container, but note that you’ll need to thaw the yogurt out for quite some time before it’s soft enough to serve
Oooh, I want a pretty ice cream scoop! And/or a pretty garlic press! My fav FY combo would probably be Chocolate and Peanut butter. Or Coffee and Chocolate….either one…both…
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Could your yogurt look any more delicious?! OMG!!! I’m a sucker for vanilla anything – and yogurt anything – so I’m pretty much drooling right now. 😉 We don’t have any decent frozen yogurt shops in my area, so I need to get myself an ice cream maker STAT! so I can whip up your recipe. (I make my own yogurt at home which is to die for, so I can only imagine how amazing it will be once combined with all the other ingredients in your recipe!)
Beautiful, friend!! I seriously need to action this immediately!
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Hey Julia! In Thailand now and the family can’t get enough of the coconut ice cream. So coconut frozen yogurt would be my dream flavor right now. Will be making it ourselves when we get back home!
Megan! I’ve been thinking about you! Can’t wait to catch up when you all are home. I bet you’re having a wonderful time an I’m jealous of your coconut ice cream experiences 😉 Say hi to the fam for me!! Big HUGS!
Now I’m totally going to have to draw stick figures in my cards. This yogurt looks amazing!
Luckily, there aren’t many of those fancy yogurt shops near me (there’s one about 30 minutes away… other than that, probably an hour or so) because I just go crazy in there too. My favorite flavors tend to be something like peanutbutter or caramel.
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dark chocolatd frozen yogurt with some roasted pecans