All fathers and mothers know of the importance of taking care of your children's diet. Children should eat a healthy diet, which includes foods from all groups, and that includes desserts. For the little ones to grow and develop in a healthy way, they must take all kinds of nutrients.
Now that we are in summer, it is when the task of maintaining good eating habits becomes more complicated. In addition to the meals outside the home, common at this time of year, we must add the long hours children spend without much to do.
A very simple idea to help children occupy all this free time is to make desserts and simple recipes to make as a family. To most of the little ones they are attracted to the idea of playing with food, cook and see how different products become a delicious homemade dessert. That is why today we are going to take advantage of all these circumstances, we are going to enjoy free time in summer to cook with the children.
The star ingredient today is going to be chocolate, since almost all children like it and working with it is a lot of fun. With these simple proposals, you can spend a fun afternoon with your family, creating fun desserts and enjoying them later.
Chocolate lollipops
The ingredients to make these delicious lollipops are:
- a bar of dark chocolate or milk chocolate
- a tablet of white chocolate
- a cup of chocolate sprinkles
- a cup of chocolate noodles
- ice cream sticks
- baking paper
How to prepare chocolate lollipops
- First we put melt the chocolate in a bain-marieFor this you only need to put a saucepan with a bottom of water on the fire, place a container with enough depth on top so that the water does not enter. Place the chopped chocolate in the second bowl, and stir to help it melt completely. We do the same with the two types of chocolate and reserve each chocolate in a pastry bag.
- Spread the parchment paper on the counter. Now is the fun time for the children, cut the nozzles of the pastry bags and spread the chocolate on the paper. They can create the shapes they want, a flower, a heart, or a nice circle. Add the desired decorations, sprinkles, noodles, hearts, whatever they want.
- Place an ice cream stick in each portion of chocolate and cool well so that the chocolate solidifies. Once they are warm, put them in the refrigerator for a while. Then you can take off the vegetable paper without problem. And now, to enjoy these delicious chocolate lollipops.
Chocolate and biscuit milkshake
For accompany any snack, whether sweet or saltyThere is nothing like a good shake, especially if it is homemade.
Ingredients:
- Cocoa powder, preferably defatted and unsweetened
- Oreo cookies, chocolate cookies, or filled cookies
- 2 glasses of milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 egg yolk
Preparation:
- We put in the blender glass milk, sugar, egg yolk, and cocoa and beat good.
- Then we add the cookies chosen a little chopped and we beat again.
- Let echill in the refrigerator before drinking the shake, before serving it, add a few pieces of biscuit so that it is noticeable when drinking.
Banana and chocolate ice cream
Finally, we will add some fruit to turn a sweet with chocolate into a complete super food.
Ingredients:
- 1 banana per person, not too ripe
- fondant type chocolate
- chopped almonds, walnuts, or hazelnuts
- ice cream sticks
Preparation:
- We put the chocolate in a microwave-safe container and melt well. Do it little by little so that the chocolate does not burn, start for a minute, stir and return in batches of 20 or 30 seconds.
- Now we have to peel the bananas and cut the tips, we carefully insert an ice cream stick in the center of the banana without protruding from the top.
- We prepare the chosen nuts in a bowl and the chocolate in another. Now is the time for fun for children. Let each one take their banana and cover it first with the chocolate, taking care so that all the fruit is well covered. Later, go through the bowl of nuts until it is to the taste of each one. Place on parchment paper until the chocolate solidifies, then put in the freezer for a few hours.