How do you make dried yoghurt?

[Ramius]

I´m making alot cereal bars these days. And I would like to learn how to coat them with yoghurt. That is dry of course.

I´m sure you´ve all seen this sort of yoghurt, and tasted it on classics like Flapjacks, or different nuts or fruits, covered in yoghurt.

I read on several of the ingredient lists on these products, and it seems that the yoghurt coating is made out of skimmed milk, dry milk powder, sugar, vanilla, and other stuff. I have all these, but I just have no idea on how to get it dry, like chocolate.

Do you boil the yoghurt, to reduce the liquid? Or do you smear it on and let the oven do it?

[katecm]

Mix full-fat yogurt with confectioner's sugar until it's thick enough to coat. Dip your bars, place on parchment and bake on a low oven until set.

[Ramius]

Damn. I was hoping there was a sugarfree alternative. How about milk powder?

[goodhealthgourmet]

you might want to try one of the products i tracked down for another Hound who wanted to make yogurt-dipped pretzels:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6737...

[Ramius]

No can do, but thank you any way.

I don´t buy products like that. It ain´t real cooking. And I live in Norway, so US products is too much hazzle for this kind of thing.

[goodhealthgourmet]

It ain´t real cooking.
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you're right. it's baking.

good luck!

[mamachef]

Ah, I see your dilemma. But what you're talking about is baking not cooking. Whoops,sorry just saw ghg's' response. Frankly I've no idea, except that you need to reduce the yogurt into a candylike base. However, having eaten the (nasty) things, the texture and flavor and mouthfeel I recall definitely had something to do with paraffin wax. It's a surefire way to make sure the yogurt will set for you. Good luck, hope it works out for you. :)

[BananaBirkLarsen]

I've never tried it myself, but I found a couple recipes for yogurt-covered raisins and almonds. It seems that the general idea is to make a yogurt candy that can be used sort of like a ganache or chocolate coating. Here's the basic recipe (paraphrased from http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus...

1/2 cup yogurt
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 tsp. light corn syrup
2 tbls. butter
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (or other flavouring

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Mix yogurt, sugar and corn syrup together in a heavy saucepan. Stir constantly over medium heat until it reaches 223 degrees on a candy thermometer (10-15 minutes). Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Stir for another minute, until the butter is melted and everything is combined. I imagine you can now use it as you would a melted chocolate coating.

The site also suggests that melted yogurt chips may be the easiest way to go.

Hope this helps!