Frozen Snacks

07/04/2018

This past week has just been awful with this heat wave going around so I thought it would be fun to share some frozen, healthy snacks that I create for myself and my kids. Now I know that everyone has different tastes so the snacks I’m sharing today can have substitutions if there are some things that I put on my snacks that you may not like.

Since it has been so warm, I have absolutely no desire to even use my oven, so I stick with snacks that come out of my freezer or my fridge. The first snack is called “butterfly frozen cups.” So first, you’ll need to gather all the ingredients. You need a cupcake tray, cupcake liners, yogurt (any flavour works, we use strawberry greek yogurt) and your choice of fruit. Almonds can also be used if you like them.

First, put all the cupcake liners and fill the cup with yogurt (I fill about 1/4-1/2 full). Then with your choice of cut up fruit choose the fruit to create the wings, body, and antennas. Personally, my kids love this part and they are such great helpers with choosing their flavour of yogurt and their fruit. Once all the cups have been decorated, place the muffin tin in the freezer for about 2 hours and then presto, all done. You and your family have created frozen butterfly cups and trust me they are pretty yummy!

My second snack is called “banana popsicles.” Now gather popsicle sticks, fresh bananas, yogurt, sprinkles, and a cookie sheet. Once you have all the ingredients have mom cut the bananas in half and stick them onto the popsicle sticks. Then I let my kids dip them in yogurt. I usually choose vanilla, but sometimes my kids like mixing it up and having different flavours. Before putting sprinkles on the bananas I place them on a cookie sheet with wax/ parchment paper. Helps create less mess for me. Once the bananas are on the cookie sheet we put the sprinkles on and let the bananas sit in the freezer for about an hour. Once frozen they are absolutely delicious to eat!