Xmas food for Playgroup Xmas party ... Any suggestions ???

[sangie]

If you have Christmas moulds you could do christmas chocolates?

Red/green jelly cups (layer each colour)
Chocolate balls (decorate with red/green holly made out of lollies?)
Seasonal fruit - cherries, melon etc

When we were little my mum used to cut up carrot, celery, capsicum and serve with red beetroot dip at Christmas and called it 'reindeer food' lol.

[Kazbah]

fairy bread!

[AliBaby]

I once saw this at a christmas party for kids and thought it was the coolest idea!

Get a watermelon (not expensive) and cut it out like a basket. ie. so it looks like it has a handle (Little red riding hood type basket.

Then take out all the watermelon contents using a small icecream scoop or teaspoons to make little watermelon balls. Then put the watermelon balls back int he basket which is actually made from the watermelon skin! It might be a little time consuming but its creative and unique!

It looks fantastic and kids and adults love it.

[Nelle]

I think fruit too, just red/pink and green fruit - there's honey dew melon, strawberries, watermelon, grapes...

If you're wanting something healthy this is a good option I reckon, it's nice to present a bit of a balance, since there'll probably be some more unhealthy stuff there too.

Beware, it's not cheap though! I did fruit recently for playgroup and whoa! I came to understand the presence of chips a lot better.

[mrsmac]

Basic biscuit dough
Ingredients

* 150g unsalted butter, chopped (I just use normal butter)
* 1/2 cup caster sugar
* 3 tsps milk
* 1 tsp vanilla essence
* 1 egg
* 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour

Method
1 Process butter and sugar together until well combined. Add remaining ingredients and process until mixture just clings together.

2 Turn dough onto a floured surface and gently knead until smooth. Cover and refrigerate. Dough can be made up to 3 days ahead or frozen for up to 2 months. Stand dough at room temperature for 1 hour,to soften, before using.

[AnyDream]

Iced picture biscuits.

Grab a packet of arrowroots or similar, slap some coloured icing on them, and then using lollies and coloured icing tubes, draw little pictures. Red smarties for holly, you can get away with doing a single holly leaf. Or little triangular Christmas trees with some silver cachous for ornaments, little square parcels, etc. This usually takes a little while but it's always FUN and the kids LOVE them!!

[smiles4u]

MrsMac ... thanks so much for that ... i didn't have any xmas cookie cutters but i had number cookie cutters so i made numbers 2 & 5 cookies (as in 25th of Dec)

Marydean ... oh, what a brilliant idea ... i purchased Coles brand Arrowroot biscuit ($1.29 pkt ... though ALDI have them for 89c a pkt) ... i iced some with white, some with red & some with green icing ... then i stuck on top a jelly xmas lolly whilst the icing was soft (a bag of 24 of them from Coles for $4.98, ... has snowmen, santas, xmas trees, santa going down the chimney & cute teddies wearing a santa hat ... these lollies are sugared marshallow and they actually are really nice ... not cheap quality & easy to chew) ... Well, i was the HIT of the playgroup xmas party today as Mum's from everywhere asked me how i'd made them. Even a Home Ec teacher complimented on them ... I lined the slice tray with red cellophane, it truely looked FANTASTIC !!!

THANKS A MILLION TO ALL OF YOUR KIND REPLIES