Healthy Summer Desserts for Kids

Summer is the perfect time for healthy and refreshing desserts that kids will love, and parents will love, as they are full of vitamins and natural ingredients.

Simple ideas that you can prepare quickly and easily.

Homemade fruit popsicles

Instead of store-bought ice creams with lots of sugar and artificial coloring, prepare homemade ones.

• Ingredients: Blend any fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, mango), a little honey or maple syrup (optional) and yogurt or coconut milk for a creamy texture.

• Preparation: Blend the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour the mixture into popsicle molds, add sticks and freeze for at least 4 hours.

Fruit skewers with yogurt

A classic, but always popular dessert that is also visually appealing.

• Ingredients: Cut various fruits into cubes (watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes, peaches, apricots).

• Preparation: Stick the fruit on wooden sticks and serve with a cup of yogurt, in which they can dip the fruit.

Frozen bananas in chocolate

• Ingredients: Bananas, dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa), chopped nuts, coconut flour or colored crumbs.

• Preparation: Peel and cut the bananas in half, stick on sticks and freeze for 30 minutes. In the meantime, melt the dark chocolate. Dip the bananas in the chocolate and then roll in the nuts or coconut flour. Place them back in the freezer for about an hour.

Fruit smoothies

A smoothie can be a hearty and nutritious meal or a refreshing dessert.

• Ingredients: Frozen fruit (strawberries, mango), banana for a creamy texture, spinach (will not change the taste, but will add minerals), yogurt or plant-based smoothie (almond, oat).

• Preparation: Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth and serve immediately.

Yogurt “candies”

• Ingredients: Plain Greek yogurt, blueberries, raspberries or other small fruits, baking sheet with baking paper.

• Preparation: Use a spoon to form small mounds of yogurt on baking paper. Place a blueberry or other small fruit on each. Freeze for at least two hours, then store in an airtight container.

These desserts are easy to make, and the kids can help you make them, which will be extra fun.

This way you will teach them that healthy desserts can be just as delicious as those that contain a lot of sugar.