Snack Recipes
Fruity ice treats
Pear and banana muffins
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Fruity ice treats
5 minutes preparation, 6 serves of fruit in this recipe.- 6 disposable plastic cups
- 6 pop sticks
Strawberry and kiwi
- 1 punnet strawberries, hulled and chopped
- 2 kiwi fruit, peeled and chopped
- 1½ cups orange juice
Drop strawberries and kiwi fruit into each disposable cup. Pour orange juice over fruit, add a pop stick to each cup and freeze until set. Run under hot water to remove from the cup.
Makes 6 cups.
Tropical ice treats
- 1 fresh mango, peeled and chopped or 425g can mango
- 1½ cups orange juice
- 410g can apricots in natural juice, drained and chopped
Puree mango in a blender and add orange juice. Divide apricots between plastic cups. Pour mango and orange juice over fruit, add a pop stick to each cup and freeze until set. Run under hot water to remove from the cup.
Makes 6 cups.
Recipe from Healthy Food Fast Cookbook©, State of Western Australia, 2010. Reproduced with permission.
Pear and banana muffins
15 minutes preparation + 20 minutes cooking, 3 serves of fruit in this recipe.- Olive or canola oil spray
- 2 cups wholemeal self-raising flour
- 2 cups white self-raising flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 150 mL low-fat natural yoghurt
- ½ cup orange juice
- 1 large banana, peeled and chopped
- 1 pear, cored and diced
- ½ cup buttermilk or low-fat milk
Preheat oven to 170 °C. Lightly spray muffin trays with oil. Sift flours, returning husk from wholemeal flour to the bowl, add brown sugar. In a separate bowl mix eggs, yoghurt and juice. Combine with the flour mix and fold through fruit and milk (you may need less milk depending on moisture in fruit). Do not over-mix. Spoon mixture into trays. Bake near the top of the oven for 18-20 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool. Makes 24 muffins.
Hint
Wrap muffins individually and freeze for a lunch box snack.
Variation
Any unsweetened fruit juice maybe used. Use apples, blueberries or other firm fruit to vary the flavour.
Make 12 muffins and 1 loaf, by spooning half the mixture into a greased loaf tin. Bake the loaf in the middle of the oven for 35 minutes, or until firm and golden brown. Bake near the top of the oven for 18-20 minutes.
Recipe from Healthy Food Fast Cookbook©, State of Western Australia, 2010. Reproduced with permission.