2 oranges with thick peels
Sugar
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup orange juice
2 mint leaves
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1. Carefully cut off the top of each orange. Slip a paring knife between the flesh and the peel. Then have your child slide a spoon into the slit you made to scoop out the flesh. Strain the pulp into a bowl.
2. Dip the rim of the oranges in sugar and place them in the freezer while you prepare the frost. Measure the juice saved from the pulp--you need at least 3/4 cup. (If there is extra juice, add it, too.) Combine vanilla yogurt and orange juice with 3 ice cubes in a food processor or blender. Process until the ice is crushed smooth.
3. Remove oranges from the freezer and fill them with the frost. Each orange will hold about 1 cup of frost. Place on a dessert plate and garnish with a mint leaf. Enjoy!
**Note: Preparation time: 10 minutes Servings: 2
Give a new twist to orange juice, a preschooler's old favorite. This frothy, nutritious drink is an easy one for you and your little one to prepare. Serve it as a treat for breakfast or save it for a delicious dessert at the end of a day.
Melissa
Cosmopolitan Punch
4 cups of cranberry juice
1 orange
1 lemon
1 lime
1 cup of fresh cranberries
Sparkling ginger ale
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Make sure all ingredients and utensils are chilled. Pour cranberry juice into chilled punch bowl. Squeeze juice from orange into punch bowl. Add large slices of lemon and lime. Add a cup of whole cranberries. Add splash of ginger ale.
To spike the punch: add splash of orange-flavored liqueur and citron vodka.
Ice ring for punch bowl: Combine slices of citrus fruit and whole
cranberries with bottled water in a bundt cake pan. Freeze overnight and add to punch bowl.
