December 24, 2008 by Stacy McDonald

Christmas Morning Cooks!

Your children can make this one themselves!

My daughters, Abigail, Grace, and Emma, love to make this fruit salad (yes, William helps), so we’ve decided to add it to our Christmas morning menu. We received the recipe for the sauce from my friend, Alice, at church. It’s a wonderful starter for teaching little girls to follow and prepare a recipe on their own and it is yummy! It’s also naturally sugar free!

You can use an apple cutting tool for the apples and a lettuce knife for the softer fruits. This makes it a bit safer for little hands.

Cut the following pieces of fruit into bite sized pieces (or choose your own fruit):

Apples
Bananas
Baby oranges (cuties, mandarins, tangerines, or clementines – the easier to peel the better)
Kiwi
Fresh Berries

pineapple

Then mix the following sauce to pour over the top:

1/8 C. Agave Nectar
1/8 C. Coconut Oil (If it’s winter, and your coconut oil has turned solid, soften it in a glass under warm water until it becomes a liquid)
1/4 C. Lime Juice
1 tsp. real vanilla

If you use the measuring cup that looks like a little shot glass, but is marked with teaspoons, tablespoons, and ounces, this is the easiest for little hands to handle when measuring liquids.

You could add nuts if you wanted, but I don’t like nuts in my fruit.
God bless the master of your house, likewise the mistress too, and all the little children that ’round your table go!


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3 Responses to “Christmas Morning Cooks!”

  1. Patti says:
    Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    What a darling photo!! The daughter on the left (I’m thinking it’s Grace, but I might be wrong—the older daughter in the photo of the two girls and William) Anyhow she looks SO MUCH like you. I can picture you at that age just by looking at her.

    The recipe sounds delish!! And how fun that the little ones can pitch in to help prepare the meal.

    Also, the egg nog recipe sounds great. I LOVE egg nog, but I bet this homemade version is FAR superior to the store-bought stuff.

    Wishing you and your family a simply beautiful Christmas.

    Love,
    Patti

  2. Bethany Hudson says:
    Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    Thanks for sharing your recipe, Stacy. I would love to try it :) I have done fruit salads with lime juice and cardamom before, but never with coconut milk! That sounds fantastic. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

    ~Bethany

  3. Tracy says:
    Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Merry Christmas to you and yours, Stacy!

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