Meet our cute little Santa Party Popper.
I’ve taken to calling anything on a short stick a “popper” because you can pop it into your mouth and enjoy in one or two bites.
These guys are a dessert for the kids to help make after dinner one night or in preparation for a little party.
*Note: Santa Party Poppers should be assembled within an hour of when you plan to serve them, because the bananas will brown being out in the air too long.
To make 10 Santa Poppers you will need:
10 regular sized marshmallows (not minis)
2 additional regular sized marshmallows cut into eights (for puff on Santa’s hat)
10 one inch tall banana chunks
10 red mini M&Ms
1/2 cup chocolate chips (for melting)
10 strawberries cut to appropriate size for a hat
Before assembly, slice each full sized marshmallow in half lengthwise. You will need 2 halves per Santa.
To assemble, slide the small marshmallow bit (from those cut into eights) to the top of a decorative toothpick. Next, slide the strawberry (flat side down), one half marshmallow, the banana, and lastly the other half marshmallow.
Make sure you slice your banana into chunks evenly and straight to ensure that they do not lean or tip over once assembled.
Tip: Sliding the bottom marshmallow on with the sticky side down will allow it to stand up better on the serving plate because it will stick!
Next, melt your half cup of chocolate chips in the microwave. I melted mine for a total of 45-50 seconds on high, stopping to stir every 20 seconds.
Once melted, spoon chocolate into a Ziploc bag and snip a TINY triangle off one of the corners. You will pipe the chocolate out through this hole.
Pipe two eyes and dot for his nose on every Santa. I placed the nose dot right above the bottom marshmallow.
Place a red M&M on each chocolate dot and press to stick down for Santa’s nose.
Once this step is complete, refrigerate for 10 minutes and serve (see *note above)
The kids will love this dessert, and you can feel good knowing it is mostly fruit. The only refined sugar they will be getting is the equivalent of 1 1/8 marshmallow and a tiny bit of chocolate.
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These are too cute!!!
These are adorable! Just shared on our FB!:)
Yum!!!!
Such a fab idea – I made them last night and have added the recipe to my Blog, linking back to this page
http://threecountiesmum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/father-christmas-fruit-snacks.html
OMG, these and the Grinch ones are so stinking cute! FYI – I pinned both recipes several times in Pinterest because I love them so much. You also inspired a roundup post for Wednesday on my cooking blog – snacks for Christmas school parties. I did one for Halloween to help encourage moms to bring in healthy snacks. This week’s Christmas Open House linky on my cooking blog will be focusing on recipes if you’d like to link up there – http://frugallocalkitchen.com/blog/
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These are wonderful!!! I love them! Thanks for sharing at For the Kids Fridays at Sun Scholars. I am featuring you in this week’s party! Feel free to stop by to grab a featured button!
Yummy! I featured them this week on Housing A Forest’s weekly kids co-op. Thanks for linking up! I would love for you to stop by and check it out.
Adorable! a healthy Santa snack!