Pinkberry Vs. Homemade Frozen Yogurt
Have you ever made homemade frozen yogurt?Making frozen yogurt use to be all about trying to make a healthier version of ice cream.
The problem was that by the time you added the sugar to cover the tart flavor of the yogurt and the fat to
make it creamy like ice cream, it really wasn't very healthy.
Then came Pinkberry...
All About Pinkberry Yogurt
It's so good so people call it "crackberry." What ever you call it, it has revolutionized frozen yogurt. Good-bye sweet sugary frozen yogurt that trys to imitate ice cream.What is so amazing about this fro-yo?
It is nothing like ice cream.
It's tangy and refreshing. It's low in fat and sugar. It's made with real probiotic rich yogurt.
Also, it's a health food.
Basically this great new trend is frozen plain yogurt.
It carries the Live and Active Cultures seal, which means that it is guaranteed to contain a significant number of live and active cultures (more than 10 million per gram at the time of manufacture).Since this new kind of frozen yogurt has been on the scene there have been several other franchises opening shop and trying to duplicate Pinkberry's sucess. And they have. The frozen yogurt business is growing and thriving, even in a recession.
While Pinkberry maintains their huge cult like following of devotees who pay up to $6.00 per cup to eat froyo is a hip modern atmosphere, I make my own at home. The atmosphere at my house is quite different. Definitly not as sterile...actually it's very messy (I have four kids).
But, still we are enjoying our homemade frozen yogurt.
Our homemade frozen yogurt is a little different, since I don't use the same ingredients.
Pinkberry's (oringal flavor) ingredients are:
Nonfat milk, sugar, cultured pasteurized nonfat milk with live and active cultures, contains less than 2%: cultured nonfat milk powder, fructose, dextrose, natural and artificial flavors, citric acid, guar gum, maltodextrin, mono-and diglycerides, lactoglycerides, propylene glycol esters, rice starch, silicon dioxide (anticaking)
I don't make my homemade frozen yogurt nonfat, but you can if you want to. I put strained plain whole milk yogurt into a bowl and I add some sugar and vanilla and then I freeze in my frozen yogurt maker. That's it.
Try our recipe and let me know what you think!
Here is the recipe, if you want to try it.Make your own Pinkberry Homemade Frozen Yogurt
If you are a Pinkberry fan trying my recipe to compare, I'd really like to hear what you think of it. Please share your results, you can contact me here .
Just think of all the money you are saving!
We also have other kinds of frozen yogurt recipes like blueberry, banana and peanut butter! Check them out here:Frozen Yogurt Recipes
