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March 1, 2015 Frozen Yogurt Pearls

Earlier this week I was invited to attend an event to taste a new kind of dessert, frozen yogurt pearls. They are made with organic frozen nonfat yogurt and wrapped in fruit casings – inspired by the way nature packages fruit, like a grape. The event was held at Cafe ArtScience in Cambridge. Mixologist Todd Maul was on site mixing up a signature cocktail, The Pearl Jam. Here’s the recipe:

1oz Hayman’s Gin

1oz Hayman’s Navy Gin

2oz Guava/Cranberry Juice

3/4oz Lime Juice

1/2oz Gran Classico

Method: Spin the guava puree at 10000 rpm in a centrifuge for 15 min to separate the liquid from the solids. Mix and serve.

The creator of the pearls, Dr. Dave Edwards was on hand chatting about the dessert and WikiPearl science.

The frozen yogurt pearls come in 4 delicious flavors: strawberry outside with vanilla inside, peach outside with vanilla inside, strawberry outside with chocolate inside and coconut outside with chocolate inside.

I think that the peach was my favorite of the bunch, it had the boldest flavor. The chocolate coconut was a close second.

The frozen yogurt pearls are available exclusively at Whole Foods in the northeast. They are perfectly portion controlled and come in packages of two. Even cooler, the packages are made from 100% renewable sugarcane.

About the size of a golf ball, these pearls taste best to me when you let them sit out for a minute once you take them out of the freezer. Because they are wrapped in these fruit “skins” they don’t melt nearly as fast as regular frozen yogurt treats.