Fresh and light cakes, funny fruit salads, fruit to be grilled or caramelized, and then ice creams and popsicles that can't miss in the heat
Summer snacks must meet two fundamental characteristics: they must be quick to prepare and must contain of the good seasonal fruit. Such as? Here are our proposals.
The cakes
A snack is always a good idea, but in summer we think of it light doughs like that of the classic yoghurt cake or breakfast donut. We use oil instead of butter e we make it with jams or fresh fruit instead of with custard, cream or dried fruit creams. If in winter we prepare apple pie, in summer we can put plums, apricots, peaches, grapes and figs in the cake, all together.
Don't want to light the oven? We advise you to use small molds, perhaps from muffins, for quicker cooking.
fruit salad
It seems a foregone and somewhat sad idea, instead the summer fruit salad it is always an excellent proposal especially for children.
You can prepare it with your favorite fresh fruit and then flavor it with lemon juice and some sugar, but you can also use peaches, apricots, plums or melon and add a alcoholic part, obviously only for adult snacks. Have you ever tried peaches with white wine and brown sugar or pineapple with maraschino?
Children instead will be happy with adding a scoop of ice cream. To make the fruit salad more beautiful, serve it in a melon or watermelon shell and cut the fruit either with a bottle brush to make many balls or with small biscuit cutters.
Grid
You know that some fruits are very good grid? The only advice is to choose those that are not too ripe and cook them just a couple of minutes so as not to lose consistency.
Try it with peaches, apricots, pineapples and bananas and then season with honey and cinnamon.
Serve with ice cream when they are still warm.
Caramelized fruit
Another snack that children especially like is the crunchy caramel fruit.
They are usually prepared mixed skewers with strawberries, peaches and what you prefer and then decorate with del hot caramel. They are left to cool and then eaten. A snack not very light and rich in sugars, not really everyday, but perfect for a standing party.
Beware of younger children both for cutting fruit and for the skewer stick.
Fruit bruschetta
Who said that bruschetta do they have to be salted? Have you ever tried them in version dessert with ricotta and fruit?
I am a quick, easy and above all nutritious and healthy idea.
Ricotta is the protein part of this snack, the fruit provides sugars, fiber and vitamins and the bread represents carbohydrates. You can prepare the bruschetta with just one type of fruit or with a colored mix and you can also use spreadable cheese instead of ricotta.
Ice creams and popsicles
The quintessential summer snack is ice cream or in the lighter version, the icicle.
Do you know that you can prepare both at home with genuine ingredients?
Ice cream is made by simply blending frozen banana slices and adding cocoa, peanut butter, dates or other frozen fruit to taste. And the cream? Try the coconut one. Just mount the coconut milk in a jar when it's cold.
For the popsicles instead mix the Greek yogurt with honey and mixed fruit and put everything in the special molds.
