These easy-to-make treats all feature a kid favorite – the banana. With a little bit of adult supervision and help, young children can help to make these treats as a snack or a family dessert. Older children can make these items with no assistance.
Fruit Cones
Cut up a half cup of strawberries and a quarter cup of bananas for each serving. Place in a mixing bowl. Drizzle one tablespoon of honey over the fruit. Stir gently. Place the strawberry and banana mixture in an ice cream cone. If desired, top with one tablespoon of granola.
Banana Crumbles
Place a dozen vanilla or chocolate wafer cookies in a plastic food storage bag. Crush the cookies with a rolling pin. Watch that the crumbs don’t spill out of the bag. Pour the crumbs onto a cookie sheet. Crush another dozen cookies and add the crumbs to the cookie sheet.
Peel a banana and slice into one-inch thick slices. Set each banana slice in the cookie crumbs and coat completely with the cookie pieces. Set the coated slices on a plate and set in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or until the crumbs adhere to the banana.
Frozen Banana-sicles
For each serving, place a half cup of cornflakes or another dry cereal in a plastic food storage bag. Crush the cereal with a rolling pin or by rolling a can over the bag of cereal. If the bag doesn’t seal shut, watch that the cereal doesn’t get pushed out of the bag. Lift the bag if necessary and jiggle the cereal to the bottom of the bag.
Shake the crushed cereal into a pie plate or cake pan. A flat plate could create a mess when the banana is rolled in the cereal. Peel one banana and dip the entire banana into a favorite yogurt flavor. Roll the yogurt-dipped banana in the cereal crumbs. Leave the coated banana in the pan and set in the freezer for three to five hours. Serve in a dish with a spoon or use fingers to pick up the frozen banana.
Frozen Banana Yogurt
Set a banana in a mixing bowl and mash it into a soft pulp. Stir in three tablespoons of apple, grape, or orange juice from unfrozen concentrate. Mix in a half cup of plain or vanilla yogurt. Stir well. Spoon the mixture into paper or plastic cups or into a bowl. Freeze for three to five hours. Scoop frozen yogurt into serving dishes. This recipe makes two servings.
Children can serve sliced bananas in ice cream cones, coated with cookie crumbs, rolled in cereal and frozen, or mixed with yogurt. Each recipe takes just moments to prepare.
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