Welcome to my very first “skinny” recipe! I’ll be honest – I’m not sure I love the use of “skinny” in recipe titles, and I’ve been hesitant to jump on that particular bandwagon. But sometimes you’ve just gotta go with the most descriptive word, and so “skinny” it is.
These vanilla cheesecake pops are the best of both worlds – they taste so rich and utterly sinful, but they’re only 128 calories each. Seriously – 128 calories!
My first cheesecake popsicle attempt wasn’t quite so … slender. I crushed up a bunch of Reeses and threw them into the cheesecake mixture. Delicious, sure, but a bit too heavy for sultry summer days.
So I lightened her up.
Light cream cheese instead of full-fat (I like Organic Valley Neufchatel for its short and relatively real ingredient list), nonfat Greek yogurt instead of sour cream, and light milk help cut the calorie count. But you totally wouldn’t know it.
They taste just frozen vanilla cheesecake.
A decadent summer dessert for 128 calories?!
I’ll take three. (Kidding, kidding!)