EASY Christmas food's for kids

School hoilday's start here thursday and I thought I could start making some making some easy Christmas stuff with the kids.
By easy what I mean is no more then 5 ingredients and super easy instructions so the kids can make them with minimal supervision (so they feel like they've made them, themselves) and most of all they need to be FUN!!!!

At kinder last week someone made mini puddings...OMG they looked fantastic and were super easy.

1 packet of thos chocotale coats marshmellow biscuits
white chocolate which was melted and then placed over the top of the biscuit
finished of (whilts white chocolate was still liquidy) with a spearmint leaf and a jaffs

Does anyone have any to share???

shortbread
gingerbread men

and how do we make them babe :p

Depends, can your kids use the oven/stove unsupervised? (to melt chocolate/bake biscuits etc?) Then I would have some ideas for you...

I would be there to help with those of course :)

Was just thinking easy stuff so the little kids could get involved aswell

what about cheese straws? puff pastry or bread dough, sprinkled with cheese, cut into strips and baked

what about fruit kebabs? You cut up the fruit for them and let them thread the fruit onto paddle pop sticks. Looks great and super easy!

:nana: bit of this and a bit of that :lol:

how about spiders, you know the ones with icecream and softdrink

We made Christmas star trees yesterday with our kids ... [link removed for privacy reasons. PM me if you want the link :)]

I made the dough but the kids cut out the stars and I put royal icing into a small sauce bottle for them each and they 'glued' them together. My advice would be - don't aim for anything too big as it was performing great feats of gravity defience by the end just to stay upright. They make great gifts when they are done for other people.

Super easy Christmas puddings -

Crumble up a cheap christmas cake and mix with a little lemonade (just enough to make it wet enough to hold together when you roll them)
Roll into little balls and put in fridge for a little while.
Melt white chocolate to go on the top of them and decorate with red and green lollies to look like holly.

I make these almost every year to take places (if it is for adults add some brandy with the lemonade!)

how about those biscuits that have the middle cut out and you make them look like stain glass windows

how abput xmas balls

if you were to cut up the ingredients then the kids call all do the rollling

2x peppermint crisp bars chopped
2x cherry ripe bars chopped
2 packs of choc ripple bickies crushed
tin of condensed milk

mix the lot roll into balls and into coconut I did it in coconut and 100/1000's ths year :)

Oooh Rach, they sound nice!

These are all from TASTE

Christmas ice
Ingredients
300g (3 1/2 cups) desiccated coconut
300g (2 cups) pure icing sugar, sifted
Pinch of cream of tartar
1 x 390g can sweetened condensed milk
Red liquid food colouring
Green liquid food colouring

Method
Line the base and sides of a 19cm (base measurement) square cake pan with non-stick baking paper, allowing the sides to overhang.

Combine coconut, sugar and cream of tartar in a bowl. Stir in condensed milk. Divide among 2 bowls. Add a few drops of red food colouring to 1 bowl and stir to combine. Press into the prepared pan. Stir a few drops of green food colouring into remaining portion. Press over the base. Smooth the surface. Cover and place in the fridge for 1 hour or until set.

Use the overhanging baking paper to lift the slice from the pan. Use a sharp knife to cut the slice into 32 pieces.

Notes

Make it ahead: Make this up to 2 days ahead. Store in an airtight container.

Christmas crackle
Ingredients
70g (2 cups) rice bubbles
100g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
45g (1/2 cup) desiccated coconut
2/3 cup Sunbeam Mixed Fruit
125g copha
95g (1/2 cup) choc bits

Method
Combine the rice bubbles, sugar, coconut and mixed fruit in a large bowl.

Place copha in a saucepan over medium heat until melted. Add copha and choc bits to rice-bubbles mixture and stir to combine.

Spoon mixture into 16 patty pans lined with paper cases. Place in the fridge to set.

Christmas bonbons
Ingredients (serves 8)
8 cardboard cylinders (toilet rolls are ideal)
Mixed lollies, to fill each bonbon
4 sheets green metallic crepe paper
8 self-adhesive labels
16 tinsel pipe cleaners

Method
Fill cardboard cylinders with lollies. Cut crepe paper sheets in half. Wrap 1 piece of paper around each cylinder. Trim the ends to 5cm and twist to enclose lollies.

Write the names of guests on labels and attach to the cylinders. Tie pipe cleaners around bonbons to decorate.

Christmas balls
Ingredients
4 cups desiccated coconut
395g can sweetened condensed milk
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
1/2 cup (100g) red glace cherries, finely chopped

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.

Combine coconut, milk and lemon rind in a bowl. Add cherries. Stir until coconut mixture turns pink. Using 1 level tablespoon mixture at a time, roll mixture into 40 balls. Place balls, 3cm apart, on prepared trays.

Bake, swapping trays halfway, for 12 to 15 minutes or until balls are lightly browned. Cool on trays. Serve.

a favourite and very simple one here is decorating arrowroot biscuits, just make up some icing and let the kids decorate with lollies, dried fruit, sprinkles etc

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what about cheese straws? puff pastry or bread dough, sprinkled with cheese, cut into strips and baked

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NOw that sounds EASY :dance: and something the kids would love to do

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what about fruit kebabs? You cut up the fruit for them and let them thread the fruit onto paddle pop sticks. Looks great and super easy!

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not something W would enjoy or like as he doesnt eat fruit but thanks chicky

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how about spiders, you know the ones with icecream and softdrink

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I could use lime soda or raseberry to make it christmassy...thanks babe :dance:

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We made Christmas star trees yesterday with our kids ... Adventures in the Ville: The 13th Day of Advent

I made the dough but the kids cut out the stars and I put royal icing into a small sauce bottle for them each and they 'glued' them together. My advice would be - don't aim for anything too big as it was performing great feats of gravity defience by the end just to stay upright. They make great gifts when they are done for other people.

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THANK YOU!!!!! man they willl LOVE doing this!!!!

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Super easy Christmas puddings -

Crumble up a cheap christmas cake and mix with a little lemonade (just enough to make it wet enough to hold together when you roll them)
Roll into little balls and put in fridge for a little while.
Melt white chocolate to go on the top of them and decorate with red and green lollies to look like holly.

I make these almost every year to take places (if it is for adults add some brandy with the lemonade!)

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OH they sound good, but Ive already got it covered (see opening post by me) thanks so much anyway

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how abput xmas balls

if you were to cut up the ingredients then the kids call all do the rollling

2x peppermint crisp bars chopped
2x cherry ripe bars chopped
2 packs of choc ripple bickies crushed
tin of condensed milk

mix the lot roll into balls and into coconut I did it in coconut and 100/1000's ths year :)

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NOw thats what Im talking about!!! EASY and yummy!!!
thanks chicken...they will love them

thanks everyone..you all rock

ETA - Olive - they're ment to be easy so kids can make them babe :) there are a few to many ingredients in some of them for poor W to do...would cause a hell of alot more stress then what their worth but thank you anyway

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Oooh Rach, they sound nice!

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oh they are Jack loves them their his rum balls :lol: well thats what he calls them cause if they are just in coconut they look just like rum balls

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NOw thats what Im talking about!!! EASY and yummy!!!
thanks chicken...they will love them

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they will :)

sorry darl..

maybe you can premix the dry ingrediant together so they only have to mix in the wet stuff

Olive hun..sorry but what's the point of it if I have to do that?
Its ment to be easy all round ;)

:cry: sorry

:rofl: Aww poor Olive!

Maz don't know how you'd go with W not liking fruit, but banana icy poles? So cut a banana in half, stick on a paddle pop stick, and cover in melted choc, then stick on lollies, or sprinkles, and into the freezer! Yum and sooo easy!

Just me - those star trees your kids made are awesome!!! we will definatley try that this year! thanks!

Rach - ooooh that sounds great too thanks! will try them too!


Julia made mini Xmas tree's at Kinder:

what you need: icecream cones
any lollies like licorice all sorts, cherry ripe, peppermint crisps, mini marshmellows, mini m&ms or smarties etc that can be the tree decorations
Royal icing and green colouring

mix the royal icing and green colouring to make tree colour
put the lollies into bowls for the kids
give them each a icecream cone and put upside down
Use a spoon or plastic knife to put the icing on the cone (the upside down Xmas tree)
Then they can add the lollies at Xmas decorations for the tree!

Julia loved this!!!

We made christmas cookies yesterday.......and they are so yum I can't stop eating them - there goes my pre-christmas diet grrrrr.

Cream 90g unsalted butter (I used salted meh, no difference) & 100g caster sugar, then add 1 egg. fold in 200g sifted SR Flour & 1/4t ground ginger. Knead gently until soft dough is formed, cover in plastic wrap & place in fridge for 30mins. Roll out & cut into christmas shapes, cook for 8 - 12 minutes. You can ice them if you want.

You will need to help with creaming butter & sugar but my DS1 loves watching me do this & I did have to explain it would need to be left in the fridge for a little bit. But with a spoon to lick he soon got over that. They were super easy and just so yummy.

Kidspot has some great kids cooking for Xmas recipes

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Im not sure how to link it properly so if someone can help that would be fab.

Ok, don't know how "Christmas-y" this is, but when I was little I used to LOVE to make "chocolate crunchies"!
You need:

500g chocolate (I use half dark, half milk chocolate)
25g coconut fat (next to the butter in the supermarket, I think it's called Copha?)
1/2 tbs vanilla sugar
200g Cornflakes (plain ones, not the sugar coated ones)

That's it! Just melt the chocolate together with the coconut fat and vanilla sugar, let it cool a little (chocolate still has to be runny, but you don't want the little ones burning themselves!) and then add cornflakes. Stir, then put little "piles" on baking paper. Let cool. DONE! Soooo yummy!!! You can also add nuts or mini marshmallows or whatever (more rocky road like then :think:). Super easy. And quick! And when you put them in a cello bag and add a nice ribbon, they make a great present, too! ;)

Other than that I loved decorating Christmas cookies (and mixing the ingredients, and rolling the dough lol)
It's actually really easy to make the dough.
You need
60g Butter (normal salted one)
125g sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp grated lemon peel (or just use lemon essence like I do :D)
250g plain flour + 1tsp baking powder (or just use self-raining flour)

Beat butter, eggs, sugar until fluffy, then add the rest. Done! (Told you it was easy!) Then roll out on a floured surface and use some Christmas cookie cutters to cut out the desired shapes. Put them on baking paper and bake at 180C until golden (maybe 10min? can't remember!) . Let them cool before decorating. THE BEST PART!! :D use coloured icing to coat the cookies and/or use writing icing (or whatever it is called) for details. Anything goes. Mini M&M's, cashous, sprinkles, grated coconut (makes a great Santa Clause beard or great angel wings!) etc etc

Little tip: If the dough is too soft and and the shapes fall apart, this is because the butter is too warm (Christmas is TOTALLY in the wrong season in Australia - it's too bloody hot for baking), you could put the dough in the fridge for a while (as if, who's got the patience?) or just add more flour to make the dough firmer ;) That's what I do.

Have fun!!!

white-choc chunky shortbread

250g butter
1 cup pure icing sugar
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup rice flour
180g white chocolate

1. preheat oven to 160° or 140° (fan). Lightly grease a 12cm x 35cm pan.
2. Place all ingredients, except chocolate, in a food processor. Process until mixture is combind and forms a ball around blade. Turn onto a lightly floured surface, scatter over chocolate and lightly kneaded to form a dough.
3. Press dough into prepared pan. Score into 9 fingrs and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until lightly golden. Cool completely in pan. Cut into pieces to serve.

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Shortbread wreath biscuits:

125g Butter, softened
2/3 cup pure icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
2 cups plain flour
500g pkt prepared white icing
green food colouring
red mini M&M's

1. Preheat oven to 180° or 160° (fan) and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Using electric beaters, beat butter and icing sugar until light and creamy. Add vanilla essence and egg, and beat until combined.
3. Mix in flour with a spoon until evenly combined, then gather dough into a ball. Turn onto a sheet of baking paper and roll out to about 7mm thick. Use an 8.5cm round shaped cutter to cut out biscuits, and place of prepraed trays. Cut 3.5cm rounds from teh centre of each biscuit and add centres to dough scraps. Gently reroll dough and cut more biscuits.
4. Bake for 15 minutes, or until lightly golden, swapping trays halfway through cooking. Cool on trays for 5 minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.
5. Knead icing until pliable, then roll out roughly. Drop about 30 drops of green food colouring on the icing and knead until evenly incorporated. Lightly dust the work surface with icing sugar and roll out cicing to about 2mm thick. Use a leaf-shaped cutter to cut out leaves.
6. Arrange leaves over the biscuits so each one looks like a wreath. Press M&M's on the leaves. Set aside for 30 minutes to allow icing to harden.

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Courtesy of Coles Christmas magazine 2010 :)

Love it maz! Royale puds as we call em are made every year by our kids! When they get older you can get more adventurous with them and make them out of plum pudding. You blitz the pudding to crumb it and add about a cup of chocolate frosting. If you want to cheat use Betty crocker frosting. Then you mix it together and make truffle size balls and flatten one side on a flat surface to get the pudding shape. Then pipe on the leaves and berries with royal icing. They are yummy! To get extra fancy put Lollypop sticks in them and dip in chocolate (bakerella style) and you've got pudding pops! They make great teacher pressies. And you can decorate some a box with styrofoam in it and display them that way at Xmas. Stained glass sugar cookies are good as well as the gingerbread star tree (made from gingerbread stars stacked and iced together) are also fun.

Annnnnnd any baking is easy for kids so long as you have patience :p it's also a great way to teach maths even when they are little. DS can barely write his name but knows what 1/2 cup is lol!