Pumpkin Pie Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches with Nutella Swirls

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What to do with a cupboard finally stocked with pumpkin puree, and an open container of Greek yogurt that needs to be used?  Make ice cream sandwiches of course!  OK, maybe that is a far leap.  I am just dying to make pumpkin something, and searching and searching through all my fellow bloggers incredible pumpkin recipes, was not making my decision easy, or even possible.  I was asking my husband what sounded good and read him off options and he thought ice cream sounded good.  I had made frozen Greek yogurt pops before, had seen the idea of the ice cream sandwiches using graham crackers, which I saw somewhere, but I can't remember where now.  Long story short...through all my angst about not being able to decide on a recipe, I managed to make this one up.

Pumpkin Pie Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches with Nutella Swirls

Makes 9 servings

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups fat free plain Greek yogurt
• 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 2 Tbs. honey
• 3 Tbs. brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp. ground allspice
• 1/2 cup nutella spread
• 9 graham cracker sheets

Directions:

1. Line a 8x8" baking dish with foil and set aside.
2. In a medium bowl combine yogurt, pumpkin, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and mix well.
3. Break the graham cracker sheets in half, so you have 18 squares.  Place 9 squares in the bottom of the lined baking dish, doing whatever necessary to cover the bottom (I had to trip a few off, and turn a few different ways to get them to all fit).
4. Pour the yogurt mix over the graham crackers, spreading evenly.
5. Warm the nutella in the microwave for 10-20 seconds until it is loose enough to drizzle.  Drizzle it evenly over the yogurt mix, and using a knife, swirl it in to the yogurt mix.
6. Top with the remaining 9 graham cracker squares and place in freezer until set, 2-3 hours.
7. Remove the frozen sandwiches by lifting the foil out.  Using a large, sharp knife, cut along the edges of the graham crackers, making 9 squares.  Eat immediately or wrap individual sandwiches in wax paper and return to freezer.

Nutella Dipped Frozen Banana Bites

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Unfortunately, I still have even MORE bananas that need to be used. So more thinking ensued...what else is like chocolate and cookie butter?  NUTELLA! Everything is better with nutella. So I also made nutella dipped frozen banana bites with an oreo cookie crumble on top, because really, oreo's rock too! Since I have destroyed my teeth eating the whole chocolate dipped bananas I had, I have cut these into small pieces and put them on the sticks that I would have put the banana half on. Now they are much easier to eat and friendly on the teeth.

This is less a recipe, more a guideline, so I apologize, but it is kind of use what you need, and that's the right amount.  If you don't have a Trader Joe's where you live, then I am truly, truly, sorry.

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NUTELLA DIPPED FROZEN BANANA BITES

Ingredients:

• ripe but not mushy bananas

• nutella spread

• Popsicle or lollypop sticks

• a few oreos, crumbled

Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Peel the desired amount of bananas and cut them into about 3/4" slices, discarding the very ends.
3. Place banana slices onto popsicle or lollypop sticks by skewering them width wise. For the lollypop sticks I used, I fit 3 slices on each (See picture, left).
4. Place them on the parchment lined tray and freeze for an hour at least.
5. When ready, scoop out the nutella into a shallow bowl. If needed, microwave for 10 seconds, or until it is slightly runny.
6. Using a knife, spread the nutella on all sides of the bananas and place back on tray. If the spread will not stay on, the bananas need to go back in the freezer for a while.
7. Before it hardens, sprinkle the bananas with crushed oreo crumbs to coat.
8. Place back in freezer until hardened, and then store in freezer until ready to eat. Once they are frozen solid, they can be wrapped in parchment or wax paper and put in a ziploc bag to keep them fresher

Cookie Butter Dipped Frozen Banana Bites

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I have so many over ripe bananas on my counter it is depressing. I don't want any more muffins or bread or cookies in my house right now either (OK, I do, but I shouldn't have it here). After making my macarons I had half a jar of cookie butter left over. In case you have never heard of it (I hadn't until very recently), it is carried by Trader Joe's, and it has the consistency of peanut butter, but the taste of gingerbread cookies. It is like it is named--cookie butter. Putting my thinking cap on, I was trying to figure out what I could do that maybe would use both things, and while I was thinking about it I went to my freezer and grabbed the last chocolate dipped frozen banana from my son's 3rd birthday party. Then it hit me! Cookie butter dipped frozen banana bites! Too add a bit more dimension I also decided that a bit of crushed graham cracker would make a nice topping to them (because frankly, a dipped banana with nothing else on it is just kind of dull). Thus was born the cookie butter dipped frozen banana bites!

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COOKIE BUTTER DIPPED FROZEN BANANA BITES

Ingredients:

• ripe but not mushy bananas
• cookie butter (found at Trader Joe's)
• Popsicle sticks or lollypop sticks
• a few graham cracker sheets, crushed

Directions:

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Peel the desired amount of bananas and cut them into about 3/4" slices, discarding the very ends.
3. Place banana slices onto popsicle or lollypop sticks by skewering them width wise.  For the lollypop sticks I used, I fit 3 slices on each (See picture, left).
4. Place them on the parchment lined tray and freeze for an hour at least.
5. When ready, scoop out the cookie butter into a shallow bowl and microwave for 10 seconds, or until it is slightly runny.  
6. Using a knife, spread the cookie butter on all sides of the bananas and place back on tray.  If the spread will not stay on, the bananas need to go back in the freezer for a while.
7. Before it hardens, sprinkle the bananas with crushed graham cracker crumbs to coat.
8. Place back in freezer until hardened, and then store in freezer until ready to eat.  Once they are frozen solid, they can be wrapped in parchment or wax paper and put in  a ziploc bag to keep them fresher.

 
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