Blueberry Cheesecake Fat Bombs for Full GAPS

These blueberry cheesecake fat bombs are small frozen bites made with homemade yogurt cheese, butter, coconut oil, and fresh blueberries. They taste tangy and creamy, with the berries blended through the filling. There is no crust to bake. Spread the mixture in a lined loaf pan, freeze it, and cut it into twelve pieces.

The texture changes as the bites warm. Straight from the freezer they are firm; after about fifteen minutes they soften enough for the creamy filling to come through. Keep the rest of the batch frozen while you take out what you want to serve.

Jump to the Recipe

Homemade yogurt, kefir, ghee, and sour cream are usually weekly jobs in our house. Once the dairy is ready, a small recipe like this uses it in a different way without starting another ferment. That distinction helps with planning. Five minutes of mixing is useful on a busy morning, but only when the yogurt cheese is already drained and there is space waiting in the freezer.

Use Thick Homemade Yogurt Cheese

Start with dripped homemade yogurt cheese. That method separates finished 24-hour yogurt into clear yellow whey and the thicker dairy left in the cloth. For these bites, you want the thick part, not the liquid collected in the bowl.

Weigh six ounces of the drained cheese. The amount is measured after draining, rather than starting with six ounces of ordinary yogurt and hoping it thickens to the same quantity. How much cheese a yogurt batch produces depends on how much liquid drains away.

The cheese should hold a mound on a spoon and leave a clear track when spread. Loose, pourable yogurt brings more water into the mixture and gives you a different frozen texture. Have the draining job finished before measuring the other ingredients.

The linked method starts with homemade 24-hour GAPS yogurt. Making the yogurt and draining it are separate from the five-minute preparation time in this card.

Get the Fats Ready Before Blending

Measure five tablespoons of homemade unsalted butter. Let it soften so a spoon can press into it. A hard lump straight from the refrigerator is harder to blend evenly with the thick cheese.

Measure three tablespoons of melted coconut oil. It needs to be liquid for mixing, but let it cool until it is only slightly warm. Do not pour hot oil onto the cultured cheese. There is no reason to heat the whole filling.

Keep the butter and coconut oil as two separate measured ingredients. Butter gives a creamy flavor, while the coconut oil firms as the mixture chills. Replacing either one with more yogurt would change the balance of this recipe.

Blueberries, Vanilla, and Optional Honey

Measure one-half cup of fresh blueberries. Rinse them and dry off the surface water before adding them to the processor. A few small skin flecks may remain in the pale-purple filling even when the berries have been blended well.

One-quarter teaspoon of homemade vanilla extract rounds out the tangy dairy and berry flavor. This is the plain homemade extract linked here, without added sugar or other non-GAPS ingredients.

The one-eighth teaspoon of natural sea salt is a small amount, so measure it rather than tipping it from the jar. Using unsalted butter keeps that measurement separate from the fat.

Two tablespoons of raw honey are optional if you want a sweeter batch. Blend it in with the other ingredients and taste the mixture before freezing. The berries and yogurt cheese vary in sweetness and tang, so the plain version will taste different from a honey-sweetened batch.

Blend and Spread the Filling

Set Up the Loaf Pan

Line a freezer-suitable glass loaf pan with parchment, leaving enough paper above the sides to lift out the frozen filling. Put the pan somewhere level before you begin. A sloping layer makes some pieces thin and others much thicker.

Clear a level place in the freezer too. The mixture needs to sit flat while it sets. You do not want to finish blending and then find that the only space left is on top of an uneven bag of vegetables.

Process Until Even

I use the food-processor bowl and chopping blade from my Ninja BN801 kitchen system for a mixture like this. Put the measured yogurt cheese, softened butter, blueberries, vanilla, liquid coconut oil, salt, and optional honey in the bowl. Secure the lid before processing.

Process until the mixture is creamy and evenly purple. Stop the machine completely before opening it to scrape the sides. Look for any pale butter patches or pieces of cheese that have stayed above the rest of the mixture, then process again if needed.

A few fine blueberry-skin flecks are different from a whole berry that has not blended. The filling should spread as one creamy mixture rather than showing separate oily streaks and hard butter lumps.

Spread Into a Level Layer

Once the machine has stopped, remove the chopping blade by its top shaft before emptying the bowl. Spread the filling into the lined pan, working it into the corners with a spatula. Smooth the top without adding water or extra oil.

The yield is twelve pieces from the complete batch. Their exact thickness depends on the loaf pan. Keep the same ingredient amounts and divide the finished layer evenly instead of promising a fixed weight for every bite.

Freeze, Cut, and Finish Setting

Freeze the pan for one hour. Lift the layer out using the parchment and cut it into twelve pieces. It should be firm enough to hold its shape while you cut, though it still needs its final freeze.

Return the pieces to the freezer for another one to two hours, until solid. Cutting after the first hour is easier than trying to force a knife through a fully frozen block. Keep the pieces separate enough that you can take out one portion later.

Allow five minutes for mixing, two to three hours of freezing, and about fifteen minutes of softening before serving. The card shows the minimum total of two hours and twenty minutes. Making the yogurt, draining the cheese, and softening the butter happen beforehand.

Where It Fits on Full GAPS

This is a Full GAPS treat after homemade yogurt cheese, butter, berries, and the other ingredients have been introduced. Dr. Natasha describes draining homemade yogurt into a thicker cheese and serving that cheese with fruit or honey in her 2020 book. The dairy preparation matters here, not just the word cheesecake.

Keep these as a small snack between meals. The Full GAPS guidance keeps fruit and sweet treats in that role while meats, fish, stock, eggs, vegetables, and fermented foods make up the main meals. A rich little frozen bite does not replace lunch.

This yogurt-cheese version is not labeled for ketogenic GAPS. The 2020 ketogenic guidance replaces yogurt and kefir with homemade sour cream, and the berries and optional honey also need consideration in that approach. Changing the dairy and sweetener would need a separately measured recipe.

It is also not a No-Plant or early Intro recipe. Blueberries and coconut oil are part of the formula. For a dairy-free frozen dessert, use the separate dairy-free blueberry cheesecake, which has its own cultured filling, crust, and freezing instructions.

Storage and Serving

Once the pieces are solid, transfer them to a covered freezer container. Separate layers with parchment so you can lift out a few pieces without thawing the whole batch. Label the container with the date and whether you included honey.

Take out the serving portion about fifteen minutes before eating. The edges should soften and the center should become creamy enough to bite through. The pieces contain butter and coconut oil, so they will not stay firm indefinitely on a warm plate.

Keep the remaining pieces covered in the freezer. This is a frozen snack for serving at home, rather than something to put loose in a bag for an outing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Use Ordinary Yogurt Without Draining It?

Use the weighed, drained yogurt cheese for this batch. Ordinary yogurt contains more liquid. The linked draining method explains how to collect the thick dairy and save the whey separately.

Can I Use Goat’s-Milk Yogurt Cheese?

The linked component method accepts completed homemade cow’s- or goat’s-milk yogurt. Drain it to the thick cheese stage and weigh the same six ounces for this recipe.

Do the Blueberries Need to Stay Whole?

No. They are processed into the filling. Fine skin flecks can remain, but these are purple cheesecake bites rather than white filling with whole berries stirred through it.

Can I Double the Batch?

The 2× setting doubles every measured ingredient for twenty-four pieces. Keep the layer thickness similar by using two pans if needed. Do not double the freezing time automatically; finish freezing until the pieces are solid.

Equipment and More Frozen Snacks

Use the Ninja BN801 food-processor bowl with its chopping blade, a kitchen scale, measuring spoons, a spatula, a freezer-suitable glass loaf pan, parchment, a cutting board, a knife, and a covered freezer container. Have the storage container ready before cutting the pieces.

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