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Mini Fruit Fondue

**Editor's note:**This recipe is reprinted from Rose Hammick's and Charlotte Packer's book Great Parties for Kids. For Hammick's and Packer's tips on throwing a kids' summer party, click here.

Make the fruit kabobs a day in advance and keep them in the fridge. The sauces can also be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge for 2 days.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 8 kabobs

Ingredients

Summer fruit version

Toothpicks
1 cup strawberries, hulled
2 peaches, cut in half, pitted, and cut into chunks
1 small cantaloupe, skin removed, seeded, and cut into small chunks

Winter fruit version

Toothpicks
1 small pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into chunks
1 mango, peeled, pitted, and cut into small chunks
2 bananas, peeled and cut into small chunks

Sweet dips

Thick whole-milk yogurt and honey mixed to taste
8 oz milk chocolate melted with 1 tablespoon of corn syrup
Multicolored nonpareils

Preparation

  1. Thread 3 pieces of fruit onto each toothpick. Chill for 1 hour. Make sweet dips. Sprinkle with nonpareils and serve with fruit.

Reprinted with permission from_Great Parties for Kids_ , Copyright © 2006, by Rose Hammick and Charlotte Packer. , Ryland Peters and Small, Inc.
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