Baby Yogurt Melts are small drops of frozen yogurt that babies can eat and suck on from 6 months. It’s a great baby-led weaning snack or toddler snack to provide yogurt, fruits, and vegetables in a frozen form. As a result, these baby yogurt bites are also a great food to calm baby teething pain and feed teething babies that refuse food. Babies can eat yogurt melts as soon as they are allowed to eat yogurt or from about 6 months of age. But baby yogurt snacks are also a healthy toddler snack that can be offered to kids up to 2 years old as a fun, sweet, but sugar-free frozen dessert.
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need are two ingredients:
Plain Yogurt of Choice – we choose calcium-fortified dairy-free yogurt, but you can use any plain yogurt your baby love. The key to making healthy, nourishing baby food yogurt drops is to use a yogurt with no added sugar, no artificial flavor, and a good amount of calcium per serving. Baby Puree – it can be any baby puree from fruits or vegetables, homemade or organic from the store. The best flavor for kids are strawberry puree, spinach puree, homemade pumpkin puree, or carrot puree, and they also add nice colors!
How To Make Baby Yogurt Melts
It’s very easy to make baby food yogurt melts at home.
Storage Instructions
It’s recommended to store the melt in a single layer, so on their original plate covered with parchment paper. In fact, if you release all the yogurt drops at once and stack them in the freezer, they stick to each other. Then, it makes it difficult to release the drops one by one. I recommend only peeling off the number of yogurt drops you intend to serve to your baby and keeping the remaining ones in the freezer for later.
Naturally Coloring Melts
Kids love colorful finger foods, but it doesn’t mean you have to use food coloring in baby foods. Instead, use nourishing food coloring. Below I listed the best natural food coloring and the color they deliver in baby food:
Blue – Use blue spirulina powder, it’s also loaded with plant-based protein, and it has no flavor. Green – Green spirulina powder turns food dark green. It has an algae flavor, but most babies don’t mind it, and it also adds plant-based protein to their plates. Orange – Turmeric is a great anti-inflammatory spice that adds bright orange color to food. Brown – Cinnamon is a delicious sweet spice that turns baby food brown but only uses a tiny amount, and never uses it before the age of 8 months. Don’t give cinnamon to small infants, this is not a safe spice before 8 months of age! Pink – Beetroot powder is a vibrant pink additive loaded with anti-oxidants and vitamins.
Best Dairy-Free Yogurt For Babies
We made these baby yogurt melts with dairy-free yogurt. Our little ones enjoy these plain baby dairy-free yogurt:
Soy yogurt – The first choice for dairy-free baby yogurt. In fact, most soy yogurt contains minimal ingredients as regular yogurt it’s made of soy milk, probiotics, and a thickener. Also, most soy yogurts are calcium-fortified, which is great for vegan babies. Almond yogurt – most of them contain sweeteners or more additives, so it’s a choice that is better from 12 months. Oat yogurt – some oat yogurts are also calcium-fortified and have a clean ingredient list. Coconut yogurt – it’s a great thick Greek-style dairy-free yogurt for babies. We love that it has no additives or thickeners. Coconut yogurt is made from coconut cream and probiotics. However, few brands fortify coconut yogurt with calcium.
Choose the yogurt your babies love to make these yogurt drops. Any brand and style work very well.
More Baby Food Recipes
I have plenty of allergy-friendly baby food recipes for you to try on the blog, all dairy-free, egg-free and nutritious. Try some of the below recipes for a healthy baby snack:
