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Cholados (Colombian Snow Cones or Shaved Ice with Fruit)

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  • Prep Time: 0 hours
  • Cook Time: 0 hours
  • Total Time: 0 hours
  • Yield: 4 1x

Ingredients

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The fruits listed below are just suggestions, you can use your favorite fruit like guanábana or soursop, passion fruit, lulo, papaya, pineapple, shredded coconut, etc.)

  • 15 medium strawberries, hulled and cut into small pieces
  • 1 tsp white sugar
  • 2 bananas, cut into small pieces
  • 1 mango, cut into small pieces
  • 2 kiwis, cut into small pieces
  • Ice Cubes (approx. 2 cups per glass/plastic cup)
  • Snow cone syrup of any flavor (cherry, passion fruit, lime), to taste
  • Sweetened condensed milk, to taste
  • 4 vanilla wafers
  • 4 mango slices
  • 4 apple slices

Instructions

  1. Place the strawberry pieces in a small container and add the sugar. Mix well and let macerate while you cut the rest of the fruit into pieces and crush the ice.
  2. Crush the ice cubes in a food processor or blender.
  3. Cover the inside of a plastic cup with sweetened condensed milk.
  4. Fill each cup with ice to about ¾ full.
  5. Add the snow cone syrups over the ice.
  6. Finish filling up each cup with ¼ of the amount of each fruit.
  7. Cover the fruit with more sweetened condensed milk.
  8. Decorate each cup with the mango and apple slices, vanilla wafers, and add straws and spoons to each one. Serve immediately.