Fruit skewers

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Ingredients

• 6 wooden skewers
• 1 red apple
• ½ honey dew melon
• 2 bananas
• 1 cup (250mL) vanilla yoghurt
• 1 Flake chocolate bar
• ½ cup desiccated coconut
• 2 drops yellow food colouring (optional)
• 2 drops red food colouring (optional)

Method

Quarter and core the apples, then cut each quarter into pieces about 2cm square.

Peel bananas and chop each into 6 pieces.

Peel honeydew, deseed and chop into 2cm square pieces.

For each skewer, thread on two pieces of each fruit.

Kids love this bit; let them choose their own combination.

Pour yoghurt into a shallow bowl.

Place coconut in a shallow bowl, add 2 drops of yellow and red colouring (optional) and mix well – you should end up with some yellow, orange and red flecks.

Crumble the Flake bar into a shallow bowl.

Serve the fruit skewers on a plate, let the kids choose one, dip it in the yoghurt and then roll in the coconut or Flake. Ta da, fun fruit.

Notes

• If you would prefer not to use food colouring, use plain coconut, or toast it in a frypan over low heat.
• I used the fruit my kids will eat (and the honeydew for colour!); use your kids’ favourites.
• If you want to avoid the chocolate, you could use sprinkles or 100s and 100s or finely chopped dried fruit.
• Recipe created by Melissa Hughes for Kidspot.

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