Chocolate and fruit………….yes, please!

My family attends a bi-monthly church small group and all families bring a snack to pass.

Some of the snacks I have brought include: cut up fruit, fresh strawberries with coconut cream dip, air popped popcorn, fresh homemade bread with seasoned dipping oil, homemade green juice, and chips and guacomole…….

this time I wanted something really special and I had seen this idea from another blogger on Pinterest so I decided to make my own version!!

I started with non dairy chocolate chips (so my son could enjoy this too!) and melted them over a double broiler….

Then I took pineapple chunks and dunked them in the chocolate and placed them on a teflex sheet to harden.

I also took some bananas and sliced them into rounds. I added some sunflower seed butter to the center and topped with another banana slice….like this:

Next, I placed a toothpick in each one and dipped them in the chocolate!

I placed these all in the freezer to harden them quickly!

Did I mention these were a HIT at our small group??

I had some melted chocolate leftover and I didn’t want to waste it so I decided to whip up a few non peanut butter cups!!

I poured the extra chocolate into these molds and froze for 5 minutes

Once the chocolate was solid I added a scoop of sunflower seed butter to the center…..

and then poured more chocolate on top!

It only took 5 minutes of sitting in the freezer and look what we had!!

These didn’t make it to the small group……in fact they almost didn’t make it into the picture!

Want to see another idea I got from Pinterest?? I saw this idea HERE…..and that inspired me to fancy up my own fruit salad for small group on another night!

Here is my version….

It was just organic strawberries and organic pinepapple cut up with an ice cream scoop added in for fun!

This was a hit too!!!

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Bananas, chocolate, sunflower seed butter…..ummm, need I say more?

Everyone knows that bananas go well with peanut butter but in my house we use Sunbutter (made with sunflower seeds instead of peanuts) because both of my kids have peanut allergies.

Now add in some non dairy chocolate (we have dairy allergies too!)

and you have an amazing combination!

Chocolate Banana Sunbutter Bars

3 cups dried banana chips, ground into a flour

1/2 cup oats ground into a flour

1/2 tbsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. sea salt

1/2 cup Sunbutter or almond butter

1/4 cup maple syrup

1/3 cup sunflower seeds, ground into a flour

1 cup non dairy chocolate chips, melted

Place ground up banana chips, ground up sunflower seeds and ground up oats in food processor and process until mixed. Add in sea salt, vanilla, Sunbutter, and maple syrup and blend until a ball forms.

Press into a pie or 8×8 cake pan and set aside. Melt the chocolate in a double broiler. Spread melted chocolate over the banana sunbutter mixture. Place in freezer for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate.

For the visual learners (including myself!) Here it is in pictures!!