Abby, Zoë and Enzo

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August 29^th 2007

Banana Pops

Abby and Zoë helped make banana pops today.  I had checked out a snacks  recipe book at the library and saw a page with banana pops that looked good.  You're supposed to take chocolate chips and melt them along with some oil, or something like that, and then pour that over the frozen bananas and then in the toppings of choice and then freeze again.  Well we had some reese's chocolate hard shell stuff that Nonno Ernie had sent a while back, so I decided to see how that worked out.

I cut two bananas in half and put in popscicle sticks (thank goodness for saving all of those for art projects) and froze the bananas for an hour.  Then, I chopped up some cashews and put those on one plate.  We had sprinkles left over from something or another, so I put those on a separate plate.  Zoë went first and held a banana while I poured over the hardening shell stuff and then she rolled it in the sprinkles and I put it back in the freezer.  Next, Abby did the same and then I did the next two, rolling them in the cashews.  It was tricky because I really had to hurry since the chocolate shell stuff is supposed to harden in seconds on a frozen treat.  I put the bananas back in the freezer and let them set more until after nap, when the girls got to take out their frozen treats and have them for snack.  They turned out really tasty, I would definitely try it again, maybe next time even going the chocolate melting route.

Abby @ 3 years, 8 months, 14 days
Zoë @ 3 years, 8 months, 14 days
Enzo expected in 1 year, 26 days
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