I have written about it before: we all love ice cream at home. Well, apart from Hubby, but he was an ice cream man in his twenties, so he says he has eaten all the ice cream he could ever eat!
My children all love play dates, whether it be having friends at our house or going to a classmate’s home. Homemade ice cream makes us all very happy, and whenever the children have friends over for a play date, I always make sure we have frozen fruit in the freezer for a quick treat.
On the way to the children’s swimming lessons this afternoon, we had a chat about play dates.
Me: “What do you like about play dates?”
Crevette (6 years 9 months): “I like seeing my friends and playing. That’s why it’s called play date!”
Beanie (4 years 7 months): “I can’t tell you it’s too funny. We eat sweets!”
Hubby: “She steals them then she eats them.”
Jumpy (2 years 6 months): “Play date. I like play dough. I like play date!”
Crevette: “I like cooking together and making smoothies, pizza or ice cream. We make our own. It’s nice having different ones and we can try each other’s as well.”
Beanie: “Mummy, I want your phone.”
OK, conversation over…
When I was asked whether I wanted to write a post including Petits Filous Magic Squares in Strawberry & Vanilla Flavour or Raspberry & Vanilla flavour, I did not hesitate for a second. I am always happy to help promote anything French that reminds me of my childhood. As far as I remember, I have always loved Petits Filous. My favourite ones are the strawberry Petits Filous, and I always take them to work as a snack. My little ones all ask for Petits Filous for dessert as well!
First of all, the children were all won over by the Magic Squares in both flavours, so was my mum. The size is perfect for little ones and they loved the fact they could mix the two flavours together, or eat one then the other. I have to say that I am a bit of a Petits Filous purist, and to me, nothing is better than the strawberry ones.
This challenge made us think of a creative way to use Petits Filous. When friends came over for a play date last week, we had the perfect opportunity. We put our ingredients together: Petits Filous Magic Squares, frozen strawberries and frozen banana. We also happened to have freeze dried strawberries in the cupboard (I know, fancy!) so I gave the little ones the option to add it to their own ice cream.
My Vitamix was once again the star of the show,
And a couple of minutes later, we had ice cream!
Most of us had ours in ice cream cones, but because of her allergies, Jumpy could not have the ones we had at home. She did not mind as we gave them one of her ‘free from’ biscuits to dip in the ice cream.
As for Wriggly, I put her scoop in one of the Magic Squares pots, and she loved it!
3-Ingredient Homemade Ice Cream Ready in 3 Minutes
Ingredients
- About 20 frozen strawberries 400g
- 1 sliced banana frozen
- 2 strawberry & vanilla Petits Filous Magic Squares or 4 small strawberry petits filous
- Optional: 1 tablespoon freeze dried strawberries
Instructions
- Blend the three ingredients together and if using, sprinkle freeze dried strawberries on top. Enjoy!
If you are planning a party, you could also freeze Petits Filous with lollipop sticks in.
They look cute, don’t they?
Who wouldn’t love that?
I was not paid for this post and genuinely love Petits Filous. All opinions and photos are my own.
I think Josh is a bit of a petit filous purist too. He’ll eat any colour but I’m sure he prefers strawberry, it always disappears more quickly.
We discovered frozen petit filous this week by accident when my friend’s fridge went funny and froze everything (we also had coffee with frozen milk!). It tastes so nice, definitely something I’m going to make again in future.
Random question. Where did you get the freeze dried strawberries from? I need some for something I want to try and make.
Coffee with frozen milk? Not sure about that one! I got the freeze dried strawberries from Waitrose. x
looking forward to trying these with the warm weather and long weekend coming up!! My kids will love them!
Looks very yummy. I’m glad you have a Vitamix now, it’s quite a lot of money to fork out but so worth it. xx
It was so worth it! I use it every single day. How are you, my lovely?
I use mine every day too.
I’m fine, just so busy, I feel like I don’t get a second to do anything I enjoy hence the lack of blogging.
My kids are huge fans of petite filous and I may have to use some of these tips! If summer EVER decides to arrive the petite filous lollies would be perfect! Love the little conversation about playdates too. xx #ftmob
That looks delicious!
It really is tasty! Sometimes the simplest things are the nicest.
This is super cool. Never thought about freezing them! Must try this.
Loved the random conversation….especially when it clearly was over lol love how they’re always short and sweet 🙂 #ftmob
She takes no nonsense… even from her mum!
Mmmm! Une bonne recette de glace, simple et facile à réaliser comme je les aime !
Il n’y a pas plus simple et c’est super bon!
The ‘ready in 3 minutes’ drew me in! They look delicious and so easy too. I am thinking mango and vanilla once I have a kitchen!
Mango and vanilla sounds dreamy. Still no kitchen? I hope the work is progressing a bit. x
I jumped on this as soon as I saw it…and I especially love the yoghurt ice cream pops tip! So clever! 🙂
Quick and simple… that’s what I love best (so do the kids!).
Yummy!!!
Love your three-ingredient ice-cream, that sounds fabulous and I will definitely be giving it a try. I love your little one’s comments on playdates as well and the way that Beanie ended the conversation by asking for your phone. Thanks for linking up to #ftmob 🙂
That’s my girl! She is not the most patient 4 year old, bless her!
Love the frozen yogurt pops idea, we have some that we have had our nose turned up at this week. I made two ingredient ice cream yesterday,fairly similar recipe! #tastytuesdays
Mel! This is amaze!!!! Guess what we are making tomorrow!!!
#TastyTuesdays
I love the idea of sticking lollipop sticks in petit filous and then freezing them. It’s definitely something I’m going to try soon.
Great photos the food looks yummy and gorgeous yet funky presentation!
I love this recipe, Mel! Definitely need to make these during the summer! 😀
We tried the homemade ice cream. A revelation! The kids loved it
Oh, thank you so much for letting me know, Gemma! You’ve made my evening. I sometimes wonder whether anyone (other than me) actually makes the recipes I share on my little blog. Merci beaucoup!
Hi Mel, just shared your brilliant frozen petit filous pic and link with an appreciative crowd over at Ideas for Little People’s facebook page. Love your blog and hopefully have a few other mums, who’ve not come across you yet, loving it too.
x Em from Ideas for Little People
Thanks a lot for sharing Em!
Sorry but I don’t know what petit filous is🤔 is it regular fruit yogurt? I would really like to try this recipe. Thanks.
It’s just a child’s fruit yoghurt, but you can use Greek yoghurt instead if you want! I have a few recipes for no churn ice cream on the blog, just type ice cream in the search bar 🙂