Are you having a picnic, grill fest or potluck for July 4th? If your answer is yes or no this yogurt berry parfait will tempt your sweet buds no matter what. It will also help keep your healthy eating in check. This yogurt parfait is a sweetly satisfying alternative to heavier desserts. With raspberry and blueberry sauces it is sort of like a ice cream sundae, but the yogurt version.
With the abundance of all kinds of sweet and juicy fruits in the markets I had to highlight their star status in these creamy parfaits. We should all give credit where it is due, right? Berries are my favorite fruit. I love their sweet tart flavor and the fact that they are all ready in bite sized pieces.
Summer has been excellent so far. We have been enjoying time as a family. I have been loving more time for recipe development & creativity as I am not on the road to the kids school 3 hours a day!  I just got back from Boulder, CO from a two day photography workshop called Food and Light. Our teachers, White on Rice Couple, Tartelette and Use Real Butter were unbelievable. I will share a post on that next week.  Here is a link for a sneak peek at our Flickr gallery from the event. For now let’s create some sweet stuff, shall we?
People love to interact with their food, especially dessert. Â You can serve these parfaits pre-assembled or your kids and/or guests can make their own. Â They can take as much or as little as they want. Â Think ice cream dessert bar….just a few less calories. Â You can go with small “shooter” sized portions, or bigger ones like these.
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Yogurt Parfait Recipe Links
- Caramelized Apple, Yogurt and Granola Parfaits Cookin’ Canuck
- Double Blueberry and Yogurt Parfait Kalyn’s Kitchen
- Fruit Yogurt and Granola Parfaits Annie’s Eats
- Greek Yogurt Parfait Handle the Heat
- Matcha Green Tea Yogurt Parfaits MarlaMeridith.com
Love these. Happy 4th to you!
I love the colors and all the gorgeous berries!
Awesome -raspberry sauce sounds great – love the colors and the jars – very nice!!
Wow, Marla, those are adorable! That would be a great little favor to hand out to party guests for their “morning after” breakfast! I know I would certainly love ’em! Great job!
These are so beautiful Marla! Hope you guys have a great 4th of July!!
I love berries and yogurt and your pictures are outstanding! Cant wait to hear about the workshop.
Beautiful photos, beautiful colors and have a beautiful and flavorful 4July!
Cheers,
Gera
I’m a huge Greek yogurt fan so these look wonderful. Beautiful photography too!
I’ve been living outside the US for so long that I’ve almost forgotten how to celebrate our national Independence Day celebration. But I see plenty to celebrate in this recipe! I’ve been on a berry, yogurt, smoothie, smoothie popsicle, lassi kick as summer has heated up, and I love what you’ve done here. A wonderful red, white, and blue treat for all to enjoy!
Fresh berries and yogurt pair perfectly together, I plan to enjoy them mixed up this weekend! Probably not displayed as pretty as yours though 🙂 everthing always looks so good!
So gorgeous and yummy looking!
Happy Independence Day, Marla!
🙂
Valerie
This is a Star Spangled post and such inspiring photos. Bravo!
I hope you guys have a great holiday weekend!!! 🙂
Cant wait to see you soon!
xo
wow…what a beautiful parfait..love the red , white, and blue!! Greek yogurt is so very good, with all that delicious fresh fruit and your fruit sauce it must be heavenly!
thanks so much for sharing!
Dennis
these are a perfect treat for the 4th
sweetlife
So great to connect with you and subscribe to your site! We apparently have a lot in common, and I love your site! Look forward to reading your awesome posts!
Thanks! These are so cute and festive, plus they sound like a tasty treat. I hate it when something is pretty, but doesnt seem like it would taste very good.
Wow, what a treat these would be! So glad to hear that the Food & Light Workshop was such a success. If Jen does it again, I would love to go next year!
I’ll certainly say this…everything looks so amazing.
A small disclosure on my part…I’ve had a terrible experience with Stevia and now for some reason do not ever want to use it again. Even though, I may have somewhat used too much of it (my fault)…my brain can’t cancel it out…hence to those that want to avoid my experience…use the Stevia very cautiously.
Everything else can be modified to my satisfaction. Great refreshing treat;o)
Have a great celebratory day and flavourful wishes,
Claudia
Claudia, I too have had some awful experiences with stevia. Thankfully I have found found a few go-to brands that taste great and satisfy my sweet tooth. Most folks I know like NuNaturals the best. if you do try it again, I suggest you try a few of their products. You all ready know this from regularly reading my posts….but here is the info in one place. My favorites are the vanilla stevia drops: http://astore.amazon.com/familyfreshcooking-20/detail/B001G7QWF8 and the no-carb powder: http://astore.amazon.com/familyfreshcooking-20/detail/B001G7QWK8
They are VERY sweet so a little goes a long way. If you ever try it I hope have you have good success….but make sure you buy it some where you can return it if you don’t. I agree that the wrong ones can be stomach turners. I keep far away from those. xo
Oh those look delish – especially the raspberry! I bet a blackberry one would be epic too!
These look incredibly delicious!
You and your stevia drops, girlie. I need to find some so I can make some of your recipes! Gorgeous!
Nicole, Stevia has become our go-to sweetener in this house. As you know my ingredients are meant to serve as an inspiration and a guide. If you dig maple, honey or something else go for it. xxoo
The parfait looks gorgeous!! I can eat it anytime. Just too irresitable!!! Your food styling and photography skill are stunning too!! The shots look like a magazine, so professional! 🙂
These look very tempting to “whip” up! But I am in Palm Springs for the week and sworn off cooking. Of course I am also supposed to be staying away from the computer and you see how well that is going. Besides parfaits are not really cooking. Right? GREG
That’s right Greg, these parfaits would look mighty fine poolside in the dessert. (With your laptop perched next to your margarita!)
These look delightful! Colorful and healthy – they should be served at every Independence Day party! Hope you had a wonderful 4th!
This looks so fresh and yummy!
I’m always so impressed with your blog. Those parfaits looks stunning and delicious. And glad you are experimenting with stevia. I just started growing the actual plant in my garden back home.
Mmmhhh, irresistible!
Cheers,
Rosa
these are REALLY pretty, marla–i can’t stress that enough! tasty too, no doubt. 🙂
This looks delicious! Can’t wait to start layering the goodness for a nice treat. Great seeing you the other day and look forward to reading you regularly 🙂
Great meeting you “again” too! Funny what 2 kids & 6 years can do to the memory 🙂
Wow those are gorgeous! I love the contrast of the bright colors of the berries with the white of the yogurt. And I just adore that you used Greek yogurt, it’s my favorite! 🙂
Gosh I wish my daycare kid would eat something like this! The 4 year old won’t eat any kind of berry at all, no yogurt except go-gurt and she complains because I buy “simply gogurt”! Yesterday I took a blueberry yogurt and sliced up an apple and made a “blossum” out of the apple and then she could dip it in the yogurt. She asked me when she got to eat breakfast…. huh? I offered a cantelope or an apple for morning snack and I got “the lip” (elvis style) and that was the end of AM snack (they eat at school for breakfast – I just give them a morning snack since they come at 6:50 am and don’t eat until 8:45 or 9:05). Oh well…. I would love this!