Summer Treat inspired by Sprout's Noodle & Doodle

If your children are anything like mine they want anything they see on TV, at least until the next thing comes on then they want that instead! LOL Everyone once in a while though my daughter wants something that I can actually give her without having to leave the house or spend money. She gets inspired by a lot of her favorite television shows.

Anyone who knows me knows that when my daughter is awake and we're actually in the house the TV is usually tuned to the Sprout network or some other educational kids channel. I prefer Sprout to most other kids programming because it presents educational concepts in every aspect of its programming, but this is not a blog post about the best TV channel for your children to watch. This is about a fun and yummy AND mostly healthy summer treat I threw together based on one of the programs. This morning on the Noodle & Doodle show Shawn and Noodle made blueberry smoothies using milk, apple juice, and blueberries in a blender. What excited my daughter about these smoothies were the sprinkle rim glasses they made for the smoothies. Upon seeing this tasty twist to a rather ordinary treat my daughter very excitedly asked if we could make glasses with sprinkles on them.

This is one of the few recipes I've seen on this show that I could actually make almost immediately without even having to log on to www.SproutOnline.com to look up the recipe. I as a health conscious mom sprang into action, because if your kids are anything like mine, they usually request all the fun looking junk food they see advertised on TV so I definitely wanted to make these for her.

I didn't have blue berries so I couldn't make the blueberry smoothie as scene on the show, but since my daughter's interest was in the sprinkle rimmed glasses I didn't really think that matter. So I used what I had on hand, bananas and strawberries. This is the recipe I threw together off the top of my head:

2 large Bananas (peeled)
5 large Strawberries (tops cut off)
2 cups Milk - I used 2% organic, to cut back on calories you can use Fat Free
1 cup  Apple Juice

Honey
Sprinkles of your (or your child's) choosing

1) Blend bananas, strawberries, milk, and apple juice together in blender until smooth.
2) Coat the rim of the glass of your choosing with honey either by drizzling it on or painting it on with a pastry brush
3) pour enough sprinkles in to a small bowl so that there is enough to cover the bottom.
4) Turn the glass with honey coated rim over and place honey coated rim in the sprinkles. It helps to wiggle the glass back and forth a little bit to make sure you get sprinkles all over the rim.
5)Pour blended smoothie mixture into sprinkled rimmed glass and enjoy!

Makes 5 eight once servings

For a cooler thicker smoothie you can add ice cubes before blending.