Ice cream needn’t be a ‘processed food’ nor full of lots of excess sugar for babies or toddlers’. You can SO easily make foods sweeter, delicious and bursting with flavour by using fruits and veg. Check out my blog on sweeter healthy food for kids or adding sweetness to meals without sugar, for more. However, I’ve teamed up with Barbora from The Devilled Egg and recently with Emily Kerrigan from Nutritious Family Food to bring you some delicious homemade “ice cream” dessert recipes to share with your little ones and the whole family.
Let me know if you try out these delicious recipes too!
Ice Cream Baskets
- Makes 4 baskets
- 2 frozen bananas
- 100g frozen blueberries
- 2 sheets of filo pastry
- Knob of melted butter or oil
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Cut the filo sheets into 6 squares
- To create the baskets, you will need a muffin tin
- Start by layering the squares into the tins
- To create one basket, you need 3 on top of each other, brushed with the butter or oil in-between
- Bake in the preheated oven 10-15 minutes until crispy and golden brown around the edges
- Leave to cool
- To make the ice cream, simply blend the frozen bananas and blueberries until smooth
- Scoop and serve in the baskets, perhaps decorated with more blueberries, chopped nuts or other berries
Frozen yoghurt bark
- 200g greek style yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon of rose water
- 1 tablespoon of desiccated coconut
- 1 teaspoon of honey
- Strawberries, raspberries and chopped pistachios to decorate
Directions
- Simply combine the yoghurt, rose water, coconut and honey (add more to taste)
- Spread on a sheet of baking parchment and place on a baking sheet
- Decorate the yoghurt with the berries and nuts and freeze, ideally over night
- Break up and enjoy!
Instant mango sorbet
- 400g frozen mango
- 1 lime
- Ice cream cones (optional)
Directions
- Get your mango out of the freezer and whizz briefly in a food processor until it turns into sorbet.
- Zest in a little lime and pulse again to combine.
- Quickly scoop into cones or bowls.
I hope you and your family enjoy this recipe. For some more summer recipes that are ideal for the whole family, try these recipes:
Watermelon and Strawberry Smoothie
Pineapple, Lime and Coconut Ice Lollies