Baking with Chobani Greek Yogurt

As requested last week in my WIAW post…the details on the yogurt cookies..and more!

I’ve baked with applesauce before in place of butter, but when I heard you could do basically the same thing with greek yogurt…I got really excited!

I got a whole lotta Chobani Greek Yogurt for a review slash giveaway I did, so I had plenty to experiment with.

Here’s what I found out:  You can substitute Chobani Greek Yogurt part for part for the butter OR the oil in a recipe.  (I’ve only tried with Chobani, I’m sure other greek yogurts would work as well.)

What you do have to think about is that greek yogurt is a little tart, so you can add extra sweetness (which defeats the purpose of using greek yogurt to make the dessert healthier) or you can add spice or other flavoring to balance the tartness.

In these birthday cupcakes I used a spice cake mix, substituted Chobani Vanilla Greek Yogurt for the oil and added half of a packet of Duncan Hines Cinnamon Roll spice.

They went over very well.

I get very excited about cupcakes.

I substituted plain Chobani in these oatmeal Peanutbutter M&M cookies.  The texture of the dough was pretty sticky, even after putting the dough in the fridge awhile, but the cookies were moist and delightful.

The mix I used is already pretty sweet and the Peanutbutter M&Ms do the trick. 

To sum it all up:
Baking with Chobani Greek Yogurt:

• You can substitute the yogurt part-for-part for butter or oil in baking.
• Cookie dough will be sticky, putting the dough in the fridge will help a little.
• Remember greek yogurt is tart, so plan accordingly.
• Greek yogurt is healthier than butter and oil so get excited about semi-healthy baking!

So get baking friends!  I’m off to mail my old textbooks off to amazon for some extra CASH!  (Poor college girl here!!)

What do you do to make sweets semi-healthy?

What’s your favorite greek yogurt?