How to Make a Yogurt Coating

This is a recipe for making a yogurt coating for candy, nuts or dried fruit.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• double boiler
• tongs or dipping fork
• waxed paper or cookie racks
• 250 gram pkg cream cheese
• 5 cups icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cup plain yogurt

1. Soften cream cheese and place it in the top pot of the double boiler and add the icing sugar and yogurt. Put just enough water in the bottom of the double boiler that it won't touch the underside of the top pot, and bring the water to a gentle boil.
2. Put the top pot in place and stir gently and continuously until the cream cheese mixture is melted and well blended. Stir in the vanilla. Turn the heat off, but leave the double boiler on the burner so the water remains hot but not boiling.
3. With tongs or a dipping fork, pick up one piece at a time of the dried fruit, nuts or candy that you want to coat, and dip them in the melted mixture. Place them on wax-paper lined cookie sheets, or on wire cookie cooling racks.
4. Once the yogurt coated pieces are cool and dry, store them between layers of waxed paper in covered tupperware-type containers.

Tips & Warnings

• If you're short of time, or if you're coating very small pieces of fruit like raisins or peanuts, you can dump them right into the melted mixture (AFTER you turn off the heat), stir them in, and scoop out small clumps of the mixture and drop on waxed paper to cool. These make great little fruit/nut clusters to put in kids' lunches.
• From Step 2 on, you must work quickly and don't let the melted mixture get too hot or it will thicken and burn before you can get the pieces coated.