If you’re heading to a kids Christmas party and you need to bring a plate, have some fun with the kids in the kitchen by making these cute Christmas party nibbles.
Reindeer Cake Pops
You’ll Need:
- 150g chocolate cake
- 25g soft butter
- 50g icing sugar
- 25g plain chocolate
- 100g milk chocolate
- Small pretzels, broken into large ‘antler’ shape pieces
- 8 small jelly sweets, red chocolate beans or Smarties
- 2 tbsp royal icing coloured black or purchased black writing icing
Equipment
- 8 cake pop sticks and a polystyrene block to stand up the cake pops
Method:
- Crumble the cake into fine crumbs using your hands or in a food processor. Put into a bowl. In another bowl, beat together the butter and icing sugar until creamy.
- Melt the plain chocolate in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Add the melted chocolate to the butter mixture and combine well. Add this to the cake crumbs and mix thoroughly using your hands, until it sticks together. Divide the mixture into eight and shape each one into a smooth ball. Insert a cake pop stick, place on a tray lined with baking parchment and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Take a cake pop and dip in the chocolate. Shake gently until the excess has drained off. Push into a polystyrene block.
- Make two holes in the top of the head and insert a pretzel ‘antler’ in each one. Press a sweetie nose onto the front and hold for a few seconds until attached. Repeat with all the other cake pops. Leave to set for about 20 mins and then using black icing, pipe on eyes and a mouth.
Recipe: BBC Good Food
Melting Snowman Biscuits
You’ll Need:
- 200g fondant icing sugar
- 6 white marshmallows
- 6 large cookies
- 24 mini chocolate beans
- 6 pretzel sticks
- Tube black writing icing
Method:
- Put the icing sugar into a bowl and add cold water a teaspoon at a time until the mixture is runny but thick enough to coat a spoon.
- Ask an adult to snip the marshmallows in half using wetted scissors.
- Spoon a little icing onto each cookie and attach half a marshmallow. Using a little icing, stick the other half on top at an angle. Drizzle a little more icing onto the cookie to make melting snow.
- Break the pretzel sticks in half and place on the cookie for arms. Stick orange chocolate beans on for the noses. Stick three chocolate beans on each cookie to represent buttons.
- Using the writing icing, pipe small blobs for the eyes and mouth. Leave to set.
Recipe: BBC Good Food
Christmas Tree Brownies
You’ll Need:
- 1 box Brownie Mix
- 1 tub white vanilla icing
- Green food colouring
- Small round sprinkles
- Small star sprinkles
- Candy canes
Method:
- Line an 8″x8″ baking pan with aluminium foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Prepare the brownie mix according to the package directions and bake as directed. Allow brownies to completely cool, approximately 1.5 hours.
- Remove the brownies from the pan, and cut into triangles. (Cut in three rows, then cut in alternating diagonals, as in the photo shown above).
- Unwrap the candy canes, and use a sharp knife to gently cut/break the candy canes into 1.5″ long pieces. Press the sharper end of the candy cane into the bottom of the brownie triangles.
- Spoon out approximately ½ of the tub of icing into a bowl. Add green food colouring until you’re happy with the colour. Spoon the green icing into a zip lock bag.
- Seal the bag and cut off a small corner of the bag with sharp scissors.
- Starting at the top of the brownie triangles, gently squeeze out the icing in a curvy zigzag as you go down the tree. Add your favourite sprinkles and a small star sprinkle at the top.
Recipe: One Little Project
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