Cool Eats and Inventive Treats Recipe from: Adam McNeill, London, ON

Varied / Optional (see below)

If you like your snacks smooth, sweet, cool, and creamy, try mixing it up by adding the delicious crunch of some flavoured nuts! The following ideas can be incorporated into dishes featuring either yogurt, frozen yogurt, or your favourite ice cream.

Parfaits

Start with your container of choice. This can just be a simple juice or pint glass, but we like mason jars! Then start identifying what ingredients will make sense. Our sweeter-flavoured nuts are probably best, layered with yogurt, whipped cream, granola, fresh fruit, and even dried fruits that have been rehydrated and then blended smooth!

To make a parfait simply alternate layers of your ingredients of choice and top with some sweet flavoured nuts!

Sundays

Any old dish will do! With Sundays, you don’t need to think about carefully layering your ingredients as you can just sprinkle them on top!

NOTE: Think like a chef about your yogurt, frozen yogurt, or ice cream base. What’s already in it? And what additions will best compliment it for both flavour and texture?

TIP: In the case of fresh fruit slices – like pear – consider roasting them in a toaster oven right before serving and put them right on top. Not only will this bring out their flavourful juices, but your guests will love the tantalizing sensation of both warm and cold ingredients melting in their mouths!

Flavoured Nuts

Honey roasted almonds
Butter toffee almonds
Coconut praline pecans

Jams & Preserves

Saskatoon berry Jam
Blood orange marmalade
Raspberry jam

Fresh Fruit

Fresh blueberries
Fresh raspberries
Ripe sliced banana
Roasted sliced pear (skins optional)

Dried Fruit

Dried apricots
Dried sweetened cranberries
Diced organic mangoes
Organic goji berries
Organic Medjool dates chopped, or date pieces

Seeds

Chia seeds
Sunflower seeds
Hemp seeds

• Apricots – Sun Dried Halves
• Apricots – Jumbo
• Apricots – Jumbo – ORGANIC
• Bananas – Diced – ORGANIC
• Blueberries – Sweetened – ORGANIC
• Cranberries – Juice Sweetened – ORGANIC
• Goji Berries – ORGANIC
• Mangoes – Diced – ORGANIC
• Mangoes – Sliced, Sweetened
• Dates – Medjool – ORGANIC
• Dates – Medjool
• Coconut – Medium Shred – ORGANIC
• Baker’s Fruit Medley
• Dark Chocolate Chips, 55% Cocoa – ORGANIC
• Dark Chocolate Wafers, 70% Cocoa – ORGANIC
• White Chocolate Wafers, 40% Cocoa – ORGANIC
• Milk Chocolate Wafers, 41% Cocoa – ORGANIC
• Almonds – Honey Roasted
• Almonds – Butter Toffee
• Pecans – Coconut Praline