Ice Cream Cake - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Ice Cream (Any Flavour)	1 small cup
Cake Piece or Muffin	1
Milk Chocolate	1

Method

1. Take a piece of cake in a small serving bowl.


2. Add the ice cream from the cup and spread it over the cake.


3. Make small pieces of the chocolate and sprinkle over the ice cream.


4. Serve it cold.

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Ice Cream Soda - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Ice Cream (Any Flavour)	2 scoops
Limca or Mirinda	½ bottle
Cherry	1

Method

1. Take a tall glass put your favourite ice-cream scoops.


2. Slowly pour the soft drink into it.


3. To decorate it place a small cherry on top.


4. You can drink it with a straw.

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Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich

This is a quick and easy dessert for kids especially.If you have Marie biscuits,icecream and fruits this dessert can be prepared in jiffy.

This recipe makes two sandwiches.

Ingredients	Quantity
Marie Biscuits/Any Other Cookie	4
Vanilla Ice Cream/Or Any Flavour	1 scoop
Ripe Banana Slices	4
Mixed Chopped Dry Fruits	2 tsps

Method

1. Take two biscuits and place them upside down on a flat surface.


2. Take a tablespoon of icecream and put it on one biscuit.


3. Then plac a banana slice on it and cover it with the other biscuit and press it gently.


4. Repeat with the other two cookies.


5. Quickly place these sandwiches in a plate and keep them in the freezer for some time till the icecream freezes.


6. They can be served as a snack or as a dessert.


7. Instead of vanilla icecream,chocolate or strawberry ice cream with nuts or strawberry can be used.

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Banana Icecream Dessert

To coax children to eat fruits like banana is sometimes difficult. But you can serve it in a different way with icecream of their choice and ultimately eat the fruit.The kids would love to eat this yummy dessert.You can make two servings.

Ingredients	Quantity
Vanilla Ice Cream	2 scoops
Ripe Banana	1
Butter	½ tsp
Brown Sugar/Honey	1 tsp
Almond Slivers	a few

Method

1. Peel the banana and slice it in the center to get two long slices.


2. Take butter in a pan and heat it.


3. Place these banana slices in the hot butter and sprinkle brown sugar or honey and fry till golden brown.Cool them.


4. Take a serving bowl and place a scoop of icecream and beside it the banana slice and decorate it with almond slivers and tuti fruiti.

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Chocolate Strawberry with Ice Cream

This is an easy and quick dessert to make when strawberries are in season in India.Children will love it! Strawberries can be dipped in the chocolate sauce and placed on a butter paper and kept in the fridge till required.

Ingredients	Quantity
Strawberries	10 to 12
Semisweet Chocolate Chips	1 cup
Cream	3 tbsps
Vanilla or Strawberry Ice Cream	5 to 6 scoops
Grated Chocolate	for decoration

Method

1. Wash the strawberries and dry them between the folds of a kitchen towel.


2. To make the chocolate sauce,take a microwave proof bowl and add the chocolate chips and cream. Place the bowl in the microwave for twenty seconds or till the chocolate melts.The chocolate chips can also be melted by placing the bowl over hot water if a microwave is not available.


3. Dip each strawberry in this sauce and place them on a butterpaper or a plate and keep them in the fridge till required.


4. To serve, take a scoop of your favourite ice cream in a small shallow bowl and place two chocolate coated strawberries and decorate it with a sliced strawberry and grated chocolate.

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Sweet Coconut Basket With Ice Cream

In one of my travels to Kerala I came across a simple dessert made with coconut. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed it!

Ingredients	Quantity
Grated Coconut	1 cup
Jaggery (Gur or Gud)	½ cup
Cardamom Powder	1 tsp
Plain Flour (Maida)	½ cup
Water	¼ cup
Hot Oil or Ghee (Optional)	1 tsp
oil	for deep frying
Honey	2 tbsps

Method

1. Take a bowl and mix the plain flour,hot ghee and enough water to make a firm dough.Cover it and keep it aside.


2. To make he filling,take a pan and heat it. Pour half a cup of water and and add the jaggery and cook both of them till it forms thick syrup.


3. Add cardamom powder and grated coconut and mix. Remove from heat and let it cool.


4. Make lemon sized balls with this coconut mixture.


5. Take the dough and divide it into seven or eight balls.


6. Roll each ball into a thin circle.


7. Place a coconut ball in the center of the circle and with water wet the edges with little water.


8. Now bring all the sides of the circle to the center and close it to make a basket.Do the same with the rest of the balls.


9. Fry these baskets in hot oil till golden brown.


10. Place one coconut basket in a serving bowl and a scoop of your favourite ice cream and drizzle honey over this and serve.

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Quick Fruit Dessert

This dessert can be made with whatever fruits available in the house. It can also be made with only one kind of fruit like mango, pineapple or strawberry etc to enjoy a single flavour.

Ingredients	Quantity
Apple	1
Grapes	½ cup
Pineapple pieces	a few
Orange	1
Banana	1
Musk Melon Pieces	½ cup
Strawberries	4
Tuti Fruiti (or Vanilla) Ice Cream	6 scoops
Fresh Cream	½ cup
Jelly (Jell O)	1 pkt

Method

1. Make the jello with the jelly crstals as per instructions on the packet and keep it in the fridge to set.


2. Chop the the fruits with a steel knife into small pieces into a bowl.


3. Take icecream and fresh cream in a bowl and whip them together with an electric hand beater well and add the fruits.Mix them lightly.


4. Keep the contents in a serving bowl and keep it in the fridge to chill.


5. To serve,take two scoops of the icream fruit mixture in a dessert bowl and put the set jelly on it and sprinkle some candied sugar.

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