Berry Frozen Treats in Honey Roasted Almond Cups
This post, featuring these gluten and dairy free Berry Frozen Treats in Honey Roasted Almond Cups, is sponsored by Blue Diamond Almonds. Thank you so much for supporting the brands that keep this Sri Lankan Runnin!
It has been an unusually warm week here in Georgia! So warm that we were wearing flip flops and shorts on Christmas day. All this warm weather has thrown a wrench in my plans. You see, this week I planned on working on my blog, my photography, and finishing Nagi’s book; but instead I’ve been galavanting around with my daughter.
We have been indulging in long runs at our favorite park and spontaneous road trips with the windows down. One such road trip took us to the town of Covington, Georgia – the filming location of Vampire Diaries. After strolling around graveyards, lakes and mansions where the show is being filmed, we sat down in the square by the courthouse and decided we needed a refreshing frozen treat and Scoops nearby only had dairy-full ones!
So, we headed home where there were some Honey Roasted Blue Diamond Almonds waiting on me. I wanted to make a quick, easy, cold treat with frozen berries and coconut milk and top it with ground up almonds for texture. But then my daughter had the idea to make a base of some sort with ground up almonds and top the base with a cold berry topping.
Well, her idea of a “base” lead me to make these 2-ingredient almond cups with ground up Honey Roasted Almonds and an egg. That’s all. I made the aromatic berry frozen treat by blending some frozen berries, almond extract, coconut milk, honey and cardamom together. We ended up enjoying these treats topped with some fresh berries and more ground up almonds.
These treats freeze pretty well too and would make a healthy addition to your New Year’s Eve dessert table. These treats could also be added to your healthier dessert choices of 2016 so Yumthis recipe for later. Also check out my Yummly Publisher Page for more delicious and healthy eats and treats!
Happy New Year to each and every one of y’all! Here’s hoping 2016 is filled with all that makes y’alls hearts happy!
Ingredients
- FOR THE HONEY ROASTED ALMOND CUPS:
- 1 cup ground up Honey Roasted Blue Diamond Almonds I ground mine up in a blender to a dust-like consistency
- 1 egg
- FOR THE BERRY FROZEN TREATS:
- 2 cups frozen berries of your choice I used mixed berries
- 8 tablespoons coconut milk or milk of your choice
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 2-3 tablespoons honey
Instructions
FOR THE HONEY ROASTED ALMOND CUPS:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Mix ground up Honey Roasted Blue Diamond Almonds with egg.
- Grease muffin pans or silicone cupcake liners and shape egg-almond mix along the contours/sides of the pan or silicone cupcake liners so mix lines the sides and bottom.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven for 15 mins
- Let cool – you might need to scoop out a little excess in the middle to make room for the frozen treat.
FOR THE BERRY FROZEN TREATS:
- Add frozen berries, coconut milk, cardamom, almond extract, and honey to a blender and blend till smooth
- Using a spoon, add frozen berry treat into the honey-roasted almond cups, top with fresh berries and any extra ground up almonds, and enjoy.
- *These treats can be frozen and thawed for about 30 minutes and enjoyed too.
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These almond cups are genius! Covington is such a cute town. My son goes to college in Oxford and I love to visit. 🙂
Christin, we’ve driven right by Emory in Oxford many times – it’s a gorgeous campus! Happy New year to you and your family! 🙂
Oh Shashi, seems like we were galavanting twins this Christmas! I had plans to get things done but ended up just having fun, too! (Oh well … who ever regretted setting aside time for fun?!)
Absolutely love this idea. What a great thought to make those cute little cups out of crushed nuts! You’re definitely queen of the healthy treats!
Haha – no way have I ever regretted setting aside some time for fun! 🙂 Glad to hear you’ve been gallivanting too – Happy happy New Year and thanks so much!
How amazing that your winter is so mild. Those mansions in Georgia are incredible. Your frozen treats would be perfect for our hot, humid days. Happy New Year to you and your family xx
Hey Charlie – I think those mild temps were temporary – our lows this morning were in the frigid 30s (-1 C)
Happy New Year to you and your lovely family! xx
Wow this looks so festive.. Can I have some.. Happy new year
🙂 Thanks so much! And, Happy New Year!
Everything you make is amazing, but these seriously take the cake at being one of my favorite recipes you’ve made all year. *-* I need to drag my friends together so we can make these! <3!
Aww – such sweet words – thanks so much Farrah! Hope you have a wonderful 2016 my friend!
I would never have thought of grinding up almonds to make the frozen berry cups. I bet that tastes much better than standard pastry cups too!
Hope you get to finish Nagi’s book. I got it a couple of months ago and her tips for me (particularly the ones to do with artificial lighting) are a great help. 🙂
And, have a fantastic New Year too Shashi. We’re already looking forward to seeing what excellent stuff will come out of runninsrilankan in 2016. 😀
Thanks so much Neil and Happy 2016 to you and Lady Lynne!
Unfortunately, I haven’t finished Nagi’s book yet – this was one busy Christmas break – but hopefully soon! BTW, so enjoyed your travel post!
How fun! love the idea of almond cups! Happy New Year Shashi!
Thanks so much Manali – Happy 2016 to you too!
Yum! Shashi, your berry and almond frozen treats look divine! The perfect treat for nut and berry lovers like me. Thanks for sharing, my friend. 🙂 Best wishes to you and yours for a fabulous New Year!
Thanks so very much Stacy! I hope you and yours have a wonderfully joyous 2016 too! xx
Happy New Year Shashi! these gorgeous little almond tarts with frozen berries is a fun but healthy way to start out the New Year right. I think it may be more warmer where you live compared to Hong Kong. LOL
Thanks so much Bobbi!!! Happy New Year to you too – I spoke too soon – it’s in the 30s F (-1 c) here now! 🙂
It’s been so weird here too! So warm and I am tired of the rain!! haha
These cups look fantastic Shashi! Happy New Year friend!
I got tired of the rain – it’s cold now but at least the sun has been out 🙂
Thanks so much Ashley and Happy Happy 2016 to you too, my friend!
These are so cute and look so easy!
Thanks so much Brittany!
It’s so hot here, frozen anything would go down well here, especially these 🙂
Yay – so glad this fits the season there! Thanks so much Tandy and Happy 2016!
Those cups are so creative! But that filling, it sounds SO amazing 🙂
Thanks so much Sharon! That filling was indeed wonderful – I saved some of it and have been defrosting it and enjoying it with a hot cup of coffee! 🙂
I would totally devour these!!
Thanks so much Beth!
Those look wonderful Shashi, so pretty and delicious, Love those almond cups.
Thanks so much Suzanne! I hope you are well.
You had me at cardamom! These sound fantastic, Shashi. Maybe a bit cold for us here in the chilly Rockies. And I think galavanting around with your daughter is way more important and fun than doing this!
Haha – thanks so much Nazneen! And you are right on!