Tasty Desserts For Kids

Looking for ways for your kids and your entire family to eat more nutritiously for the New Year but you are not quite sure how to begin? You can always begin with nutritious children snacks that will excite your children and your entire family.

A lot of people have the misconception that healthy foods lack flavor.
Some people feel that if it is inorganic and found in the specialty aisle of the
food store that the product is cost prohibited. Nothing could be
farther away from the truth.

Little ones like ice cream but fruit sorbet is more nutritious for them.
Fruit sorbet is delicious and flavorful. You can create a wonderful sorbet sundae as a healthy and enjoyable Healthy Kids snack.

Don't be alarmed if the entire family doesn't start scooping and topping the sorbet
as fast as the kids.

Sorbet captures the essence of summer fruits and is literally fat-free. Best of all
this delicious dessert is easy to prepare. Sorbet contains no milk. Ice cream has air
whipped into it, sorbet has almost none, which makes sorbet a dense and extremely flavorful treat.

Add any type of berries to a sorbet recipe to make it even more flavorful. Raspberries and strawberries make a yummy
and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is loaded with vitamins and fiber as well as a lovely
sweet taste. When you tire of eating fruit fresh, try some of these nutritious recipes.
A lot of the recipes work well with frozen berries too. Sorbet is a fabulous way of adding a
touch of summer to the winter months

Here's how to prepare your own fruit sorbet. Raspberry sorbet is a favorite

Ingredients:.

*2/3 cup of superfine sugar
*1 cup of water
*Purée 23 oz. raspberries with 1/4 cup lime juice.

Instructions:

1)Combine sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan
2)Stir slowly over low heat until sugar is dissolved
3)Bring mixture to a boil
4)Boil for 1 minute.
5)Remove from heat and cool completely

Make the fruit purée in a food processor or blender

Add the raspberry purée to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.

Place the purée/sugar mixture into an ice-cream maker and freeze according to
manufacturer's instructions.

If you don't have an ice cream maker, here is an optional way to freeze the sorbet.

Place the purée/sugar syrup in a metal bowl or cake pan and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from freezer and beat with an electric mixer or whisk; return to the freezer. Repeat at hourly intervals 3 more times.

Fruit Sorbet Deserts For Kids

Ingredients

*2 pints of sorbet of your choice
*2 ripe bananas, sliced
*2 teaspoons lemon juice
*1 pint strawberries sliced
*1 package wafer cookies

1)Set out ice cream cups and the sorbet ice cream scoops
2)Toss the sliced bananas in lemon juice to keep them
from getting brown
3)Set each topping in a separate bowl
4)Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes
5)Add real whipped cream for added fun.

This healthy dessert for kids does contain sugar but the sugar can be cut back depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a nutritious way to enjoy fruit and a good way to introduce the kids' taste buds to a nutritious refreshing treat.

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