Fruit skewers with coconut dip

Name: Fruit skewers with coconut dip
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 10 strawberries; 1 cup grapes; 2 bananas; 1 cup blueberries; 8 blunt skewers or lolly sticks; 1 cup coconut yoghurt; 1 tsp maple syrup; ½ tsp vanilla extract

Gluten-freeVegan

Thread a pattern of fruit onto sticks and dip it in sweet coconut yoghurt. Little chefs can make it all themselves.

Prep: 15 min
Little chef: No knives, no heat. Kids can do it on their own.

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Steps

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Wash the strawberries, grapes and blueberries and pat them dry. Pull the green tops off the strawberries.
Wash the fruit. Pull the green tops off the strawberries.
Peel the bananas and cut them into thick slices with a table knife.
Peel the bananas. Cut thick slices with a table knife.
Thread the fruit onto the sticks in a pattern: red, green, yellow, blue, and again.
Put the fruit on the sticks. Make a pattern!
Stir the yoghurt, maple syrup and vanilla together in a small bowl.
Mix the dip in a bowl.
Dip and eat.
Dip and eat!

Tips

For children under 5, cut grapes and blueberries in half lengthways: whole round fruit can block a small throat. Snap the sharp points off wooden skewers, or use lolly sticks.

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