You’ll Need (for 4):
- 2 bananas
- 10½ oz dark chocolate
- 12 orange M&M’s
- white chocolate
Here’s How:
1. First, cut the bananas in half. Next, dip the tip, front and lower part of the banana into the dark chocolate.
2. Place an M&M onto the banana to create the penguins beak. Then use two more for its feet.
3. To finish, use the white chocolate to create the eyes and add a couple of dark chocolate pupils.
Find the recipe for the frozen version on a stick here.
2. Babybel Ladybugs
You’ll Need (for 4):
- 4 Babybel cheese wheels
- black olives
- mayonnaise
Here’s How:
1. Open the cheese’s wax packaging, but don’t remove it. It just needs to be slightly spread apart.
2. Cut the olives into small pieces that can be used as the spots on the wax packaging.
3. Use the top half of the olive as the ladybug’s head and use two small dabs of mayonnaise as the eyes.
3. Fruit Peacock
You’ll Need:
- 1 pear
- 1 carrot
- dark chocolate
- white chocolate
For the skewers:
- strawberries
- bananas
- black grapes
- white grapes
- raspberries
Here’s How:
1. On one side of the pear, cut vertically through the round part of the fruit (the “stomach”) and place the remaining larger part of the fruit on a plate.
2. Poke the different fruits through the skewers and insert into the pear, forming a semi-circle.
3. Cut two feet and a beak out of the carrot and place them on the peacock.
4. Give the bird a set of eyes using the white and dark chocolate.
4. Hot “Dogs”
You’ll Need (for 3):
- olives
- egg yolk
- mustard
- 3 small hot dogs
For the dough:
- 12½ oz flour
- 5 fl oz warm milk
- 1½ tsp dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ oz butter at room temperature
- 1 egg
Here’s How:
1. Knead together all of the ingredients for the dough and leave it to prove for one hour.
2. Split the dough into three thick, round pieces and make two cuts into each one.
3. Cut the olives to make the dog’s eyes and nose and press them into the dough.
4. Brush egg yolk onto the buns and bake them at 450°F in a convection oven for 12 minutes.
5. Cut a mouth into your hot dog buns. To finish, spread on some mustard and place a hot dog inside.
Fun and tasty. In fact, it’s going to be quite hard to not play with your food! You can find some more kid’s birthday party snack ideas here.