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
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!
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.
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 ). 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 )
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!! 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.
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 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!
EASY Christmas food's for kids
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Aww poor Olive!
). Super easy. And quick! And when you put them in a cello bag and add a nice ribbon, they make a great present, too! 
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