Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars

These strawberry shortcake ice cream bars are made with blended cottage cheese and depart you with 13 grams of protein per bar. All of the scrumptious flavors of your traditional childhood ice cream bar with out the heavy cream.

In case you grew up within the early 2000’s you then in all probability loved a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar by Good Humor out of your native ice cream truck or your college ala carte line. It was the IT ice cream bar to have.

These bars are critically heaven, made with a strawberry filling, vanilla ice cream, and a scrumptious cake coating. Now we have stepped it up a notch and made a cleaner (and protein-packed) model of our favourite childhood ice cream bar.

What You Want for Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars

Popsicle Mould: this silicon popsicle mould with popsicle sticks makes creating home made popsicles at residence easy-peasy.

Strawberry layer: the strawberry layer is product of blended cottage cheese, freeze-dried strawberries, and sweetened with honey.

White chocolate dip: the sweetness of the outer coating comes from a little bit melted white chocolate and coconut oil. This layer is essential as a result of it is going to assist the crunchy layer stick with the ice cream bar.

Crunchy outer layer: the crunch comes from a combination of vanilla wafers, strawberries, and rice crispies.

Substitues & Variations

In case you can’t discover freeze-dried strawberries, be at liberty to make use of freeze dried raspberries.

The white chocolate dip is a candy layer so as to add a little bit sweetness and to carry the crunch on stick with the ice cream. If you need to reduce chocolate, be at liberty to drizzle the chocolate over the ice cream relatively than dipping the entire ice cream bar.

If you wish to substitute the white chocolate all collectively, you may soften coconut mana and coconut oil collectively and drizzle the combination over the ice cream. Simply you’ll want to drizzle the coconut mana relatively than dipping or else the coconut mana will seize.

Freezer Directions + Storage

There are two steps of freezing and storage for these strawberry shortcake ice cream bars.

The strawberry cottage cheese layer should be frozen in particular person popsicle trays. Be sure you freeze this layer for at the least 4-6 hours.

As soon as the strawberry layer is frozen, run the popsicle mould beneath heat water to launch every bar. Instantly dip the bar in white chocolate, add the crunch, and switch the bar to a plate.

Freeze the bar for an additional hour after which individually wrap every bar in parchment paper and retailer in a freezeer-safe container.

Serving Ideas

Serve these bars with different frozen treats like peanut butter chocolate cheese cake cups, dole whip, or pumpkin almond butter freezer fudge.

Excessive-Protein Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars

These strawberry shortcake bars are full of protein from blended cottage cheese, layered with white chocolate, after which rolled in a crunchy rice crispy coating.

Prep:4 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Cook dinner:1 minute minute

Complete:4 hours hours 31 minutes minutes

Fats 12

Carbs 55

Protein 13

Elements

Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream

• 44 oz. cottage cheese 2% or complete milk
• 1 cup freeze-dried strawberries
• ½ cup honey
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Crunchy Coating

• 8 vanilla wafers
• ½ cup freeze-dried strawberries
• 1 cup rice crispies

Directions 

• Mix the cottage cheese, strawberries, honey, and vanilla extract in a high-speed blender till utterly easy, 2-3 minutes. Switch to a gallon-sized bag.

• Lower the nook of the gallon-sized bag and pipe the combination right into a popsicle mould and freeze for at the least 4 hours or in a single day.

• Earlier than eradicating the bars from the freezer, add the vanilla wafters and freeze-dried strawberries to a blender or meals processor and course of till mud. Switch the combination to a bowl.

• Add the rice crispies to the wafers and strawberries and gently crush a number of the rice crispies with a fork or your fingers, put aside.

• Put together the white chocolate coating. Switch the white chocolate and coconut oil right into a microwave-safe glass. Microwave on excessive for 20-second intervals, stirring between every interval till melted and shiny. Put aside.*

• Line a big tray with parchment paper. Put aside.

• Run the underside of the mould beneath heat water to loosen the ice cream bar. Take away a bar and let it sit out for five minutes to melt barely. Gently dip it into the melted white chocolate till thinly coated (possibility to make use of a pastry brush and brush on a layer of white chocolate). Instantly roll it within the cookie crumb and set it on the parchment paper. Repeat till all of the bars are coated.

• Take pleasure in instantly or wrap them in parchment paper and retailer them in a gallon-size bag within the freezer for later.

Ideas & Notes

• Eradicating the ice cream bars from the molds too quickly will trigger them to disintegrate.
• Coconut oil is used to create a easy, shiny coating that freezes shortly and softens shortly.
• Each popsicle mould is barely completely different. In case you have a bigger popsicle mould, it’s possible you’ll not have sufficient cottage cheese combination. In case you have a smaller popsicle mould, you might have further.
• If you don’t wait 5 minutes for the popsicles to melt barely the white chocolate will harden too shortly earlier than you roll the popsicles within the crumb combination.
• You’ll doubtless have leftover white chocolate and crunchy coating.

Vitamin details

Energy: 385kcal Carbohydrates: 55g Protein: 13g Fats: 12g Fiber: 3g Sugar: 44g