Cooking Kids

Summer is fast approaching and that means longer days spent outside. It also means that people will fire up their grills on the weekends, invite their friends over, swim, play and eat. A great BBQ dessert, and one that fits a BBQ or Independence Day theme, is dessert skewers.

Dessert skewers are easy, so kids can help make them. Grab any sort of fruits and sweets that you like, and thread them onto a skewer. Grapes, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, kiwi, apple, canteloupe and watermelon are just a few of your choices. You can mingle the flavors of the fruits with your favorite sweets such as  pound cake, marshmallows, gumdrops, gummi bears and Junior Mints.

Serve the dessert skewers with vanilla yogurt, marshmallow cream, whipped cream, and chocolate, caramel or strawberry dip. For an Independence Day theme, thread strawberries, blueberries and pound cake together and serve with vanilla yogurt, strawberry dip and blue colored whipped cream. Pineapple and pound cake skewers grill up nicely and give these kid-like desserts a more adult appeal. Just remember to soak wooden skewers at least 30 minutes before grilling.

 Happy grilling!

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