If you are looking for ideas to help your kids celebrate Valentine’s Day, I’ve curated a few ideas whether you are participating at home or your kiddos are having parties in person at school. I hope you are able to celebrate in some way with your loved ones! This Valentine’s Day recipe is guaranteed to show your love!
Part 1 – In the Kitchen
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First up is one of my favorite Valentine’s Day recipes adapted from the Healthy Hands Cooking library: Fruit Kebabs with Chocolate Drizzle Sauce
This couldn’t be simpler to make and is an easy way to get kids in the kitchen and participating in food preparation. Scroll through for my recipe tips!
One way I like to get kiddos involved with this recipe is by letting them choose the fruit and designing their kebabs in unique patterns:
- What are their favorite fresh fruits?
- What is in season at your market?
A recipe like this is an opportunity to chat with your kids about food choices and let them have a bit of autonomy in choosing what they would like on their skewer.
I also give my chefs-in-training the chance to use tools like mini fruit and vegetable cutters to make fun shapes. For Valentine’s day, we chose a heart but many cutter sets come with shapes like stars, flowers, wavy circles, animals and more. This adds some festivity to any holiday or season and makes these skewers just plain fun! These are the ones I use in my classes and at home.
For the youngest chefs-in-training, this kitchen activity is a good opportunity to practice fine motor skills and pattern/color recognition. As with beading on a string, this motion of picking up a piece of fruit and threading on a skewer or toothpick is helpful for fine motor development.
Let your child create as many patterns and color combinations as their little heart desires.
After our skewers were assembled, we opted to drizzle the melted chocolate from a condiment bottle.
This is an extra (optional) step but provides a bit of whimsy to the kebabs. If you choose this route you may want to add a bit of coconut oil to the melted chocolate so it flows through the tip and doesn’t melt as quickly.
👈 pre drizzle
post drizzle 👉
I hope you enjoy this whimsical Valentine’s Day recipe. Let me know in the comments what fruit flavor your chef-in-training enjoyed the most!
RECIPE:
Fruit Kebabs with Chocolate Drizzle Sauce
Ingredients:
- strawberries and in-season fruits
- dark chocolate chips
Directions:
- For Strawberries: Wash and dry strawberries. Cut off the strawberry stems. Place strawberry cut side down and cut in half. Cut a “V” shape into the top of each strawberry.
- For other fruits: Wash and dry fruit. Cut into bite sized pieces. Optional: Use a small heart-shaped cutter as desired for fruits like bananas.
- Thread fruit onto the skewers in various flavor combinations.
- For Chocolate: Melt chocolate over double boiler or in microwave in 15 second intervals to prevent burning. Use spoon to drizzle chocolate over fruit skewers on wax paper. Optional: combine chocolate with a small amount of melted coconut oil to condiment bottle and drizzle over as desired.
- Let cool and enjoy!
Fruit Kebabs with Chocolate Drizzle Sauce
Celebrate Valentine's Day in the kitchen with this easy to assemble fruit kebab with chocolate drizzle recipe. Perfect for all skill levels!
Ingredients
- strawberries and in-season fruits
- dark chocolate chips
- coconut oil (optional)
Instructions
- For Strawberries: Wash and dry strawberries. Cut off the strawberry stems. Place strawberry cut side down and cut in half. Cut a "V" shape into the top of each strawberry.
- For other fruits: Wash and dry fruit. Cut into bite sized pieces. Optional: Use a small heart-shaped cutter as desired for fruits like bananas.
- Thread fruit onto the skewers in various flavor combinations.
- For Chocolate: Melt chocolate over double boiler or in microwave in 15 second intervals to prevent burning. Use spoon to drizzle chocolate over fruit skewers on wax paper. Optional: combine chocolate with a small amount of melted coconut oil to condiment bottle and drizzle over as desired.
- Let cool and enjoy!
Notes
Special equipment needed: wooden skewers, mini heart shaped cutter, condiment bottle
I love this and will try with my grandchildren!!!!!
Looks awesome!
Looks awesome!