Under the Rainbow.

Ingredients

• 3 x punnet s of strawberries - Halved
• 3 mandarins - peeled and segmented
• 100 g fresh pineapple - peeled and chopped
• 1 kilo grapes - washed
• 2 apple that have deep red skins - Cored and chopped
• 100 grams - white mini marshmallows[ Koshar marshmallow brands are available]
•  1 to 2 bananas - peeled and sliced 

Preparation

1. Prepare the board that the rainbow is to be presented on.
2. Working from the outside inwards lay out  2 rows of the halved strawberries in an arch shape.
3. The place the mandarins, pineapple pieces, grapes and apples down in that order.
4. To finish off place the banana pieces in one serving bowl and mini marshmallows in another.
5. place these serving bowls at the base of the rainbow.

As part of a 'Rainbow theme'  this makes a great group fundraiser.  Especial when the 'Rainbow' theme involves interaction between the consumer the chosen piece of fruit and marshmallow for sale. Fondues are really good as an accessory to this fresh and healthy food.   If using the  fondue fundraising idea have available both a clean tooth picks or fondue utensils as well as a dirt utensil disposal area.

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Shark Head

Found this watermelon Shark Head on Google + and just had to try it out.  Made a few watermelon pops with the remainder of the second half of this water melon.

Ingredients

• 1 watermelon.
• 2 olives
• 1/4 of two packets of gum lollies [we used ones shapes as people and another shaped as fish.]

Method

1. Prepare the working area.
2. Mark the middle length, on one side, of the water melon. [Mark A]
3. Now on the other side mark up to 5cm [2in] below the first mark. [Mark B]
4. Between these two points cut straight between. 
5. Place aside the second half of the watermelon for later use.
6. Sit in place the 'head ' on a board.
7. Note where natural the tip of the watermelon is [Mark C]. It is this point that is the top gum area of the sharks mouth which will be marked for cutting after the eyes and before the fin.
8.  From the tip [Mark C] to [Mark A] note half way down. It is at this level that the eyes slots will be cut [approx 1/4 diameter measurement from the mid top to bottom mid way line. Between Mark C and Mark A.]
9.  Tracking a line on both sides from that would be level with the eyes on both sides to half way between the Mark A , Mark C and Mark B.  These two side line points are the join between the top and bottom lips. Refer to diagram inserted to work out where the top and bottom lip will be positioned at the front of the face.
10. Within these lines peel away the external green out layer of skin. 
11. Chop out the inner red watermelon into chunks as these are taken out. 
12. The little bits put aside for a different recipe. 
13. Cut out the teeth.
14. Cut a slot up the mid line.
15. Out of the second half of the watermelon cut a wedge like fin.  Insert the wedge into the slot.
16. The eyes are held into the eye slot by tooth picks.
17. As you put each layer of chilled watermelon pieces back into the large watermelon wedges into the head add a few lollies.
1. Adding the lollies is best done just before the head is served up.
18. Place more watermelon chunks and lollies around the plate the head is coming out of.

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Chocolate nut spread spider cupcakes

Through Google + I came across this picture. Children love to create and eat.  So while learning about nature, our environment or even holding different parties and celebrations such as Halloween or trick and treat times making these Chocolate Nut spread spider cupcakes is a treat treat.

Ingredients

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix
• 375 g [12 oz] bag of choc chips
• 1 tsp cutter 
• 1 bag pretzels,
• 1 jar of chocolate nut spread - use your favourite.
• chocolate sprinkles
• red hot cake decorating marzipan [Smarties or M&M's are okay too]
• 2 cups Cocoa Puffs

Method

1. Prepare the work bench area.
2. Make the 24 cup cakes and let them cool.
3. While the cupcakes are cooling place a cover over another cooling rack [covered in waxed paper].
4. Melt the chocolate  [either in double boiler method of microwave in a bowl for 30 seconds each burst until the chocolate is melted.
5. Into the chocolate put the pretzels.
1. Cover the pretzels well
2. Remove pretzels and place on cooling rack.
3. Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.
4. Refrigerate these legs!
6. When both the legs and the cupcakes are cool insert the legs into the cupcake.
1. 4 on each side.
7. Spoon 1/2 tsp of the Chocolate Nut spread onto the top of the cup cake.
1. Chocolate or caramel frosting will do.
8. Add red two eyes.
9. Now add the cocoa puffs on the body

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Fruit cream pie bites

This recipe is so easily adapted that I love making it. Found originally from several different sites.
Ingredients

• 1 x batch of sugar cookie dough
• 1 instant vanilla pudding mix 
• 2 x cups milk
• Dash of Cinnamon
• 4 oz cream cheese
• Any fruit you like
• Whipped Cream

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190 Deg C [375 Deg F].
2. Prepare the work area.
3. Mix up the instant pudding mix.  
4. Set aside in refrigerator.
5. Spray the small cup cake baking tins.
6. Cut circles into the rolled out dough.
7. Place these circles into cup cake tins.
8. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes.
1. Til golden drown.
9. If needed push the cookie dough back into the cup cake mould.
10. take out of tins carefully.
11. Cool thoroughly.
12. Now soften the cream cheese.
13. Slowly whisk the cream cheese into the instant pudding mix.
14. Add the cinnamon.
15. Told in the fruit.
16. Spoon mix into the cooled cakes.
17. Top with whipped cream. 

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Cream Cheese Sugar biscuits

Poka Dot sure had a great idea with this recipe.

Ingredients as per a ready made cookie dough.
 Try these ones

• Cream Cheese Sugar Dough
• Ginger Bread
• The base mix for Watermelon cookies

For the decoration use the following

• A few different food colourings.
• The caramel cream frosting
• Plain frosting
• Fudge Frosting
• Butter frosting

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Martian Ears

Instructions

• Refrigerated biscuit dough
• Melted butter or a butter spray.
• Sugae 
• Cinnamon

Method

1. Use the  refrigerated Green Mint Biscuit biscuit dough log.
2. Slice to 7 mm depth.
3. Flatten the biscuit dough in your palm.\Gently place the cupped shape biscuit on aluminium foil.
4. Shape the biscuit to resemble an aliens ear.
5. Spray [or brush] butter on top of it.
6. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.
7. Place in oven at 190 deg C [375 Deg F] 
8. Cook until dry looking but just turning brown.

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Edible Trees

Yes this is a Christmas tree.  We have similar with fairy floss as mist around the trees that hangs off the branches [pretzels].

Ingredients:

• Make  a green frosting  of at least 200 g in quantity.
• or use 1 can per six cones.
• Add a few drops of green food dye.
• frost the bottom of the cone to the plate.
• With the tips of your fingers holding down the cone to the plate ice the 'tree'.
• Decorate with what ever is a hand or desired.

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Make your own butter

Ingredients

• 500 mls heavy cream

Method

• Prepare your work area.
• Pour the cream into a container that has a seal-able lid.
• Shake the jar of cream until the mixture turns to butter.
• Since this precess takes a lot of shaking a small, very clean, metal ball may be added.
• be sure to take the ball out before serving or using the butter.
• A small dash of salt may be added.

For garlic or other herb butters it is best to place the herbs in once the butter has 'started turning'.

Refrigerate.

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Banana Boats

Ingredients

• 1 banana per person
• 2 x mini marshmallows
• Food dye- blue and red
• Frosting                                                                       
• Animal biscuits
• 50 ml Whipped cream
• 1/3rd of pretzel 
• Triangular piece of cheese slice

Method

1. Prepare the work area.
2. Mix a drop of blue into the frosting.
3. Coat the plate or serving tray with the blue frosting.
4. With a toothpick place a small amount of blue food dye into the whipped cream.
5. Waves can be 'made' out of combining frosting and part of the whipped cream together.
1. Top the waves off with white wave tops.
6. Where the 'boat' will be cutting through the water outwards place the whipped blue cream as sea spray.
7. Peel banana.
8. Cut the curved part of the banana off so that the banana will sit flat on a plate.
9. Once on the plate cut the middle section to form a slight elongated V shape.
10. With the tip of a tooth pick carefully paint on faces  [eyes, nose and mouth] to the mini marshmallows.
11. Set the marshmallows in the middle of the boat.
12. Add animal crackers by adding a touch of nut butter or frosting to the bottom of each cracker.
13. At the vertical end of the cheese triangle make a couple of slits.
14. thread the 1/3 pretzel stick through.  
15. Stick the 'flag' into the end tip of the banana.

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Heart felt apple pies

Ingredients

• 4 pastry sheets
• 1 x 400g can of apple pieces [for cooking]
• Dash of cinnamon or nutmeg mixed with a little sugar.
• a little milk or water.

Method

1. Prepare the work area first.
2. Preheat the oven to 220 Deg C [ 425 deg F].
3. Spray the baking sheet or cooking tray.
4. Mix the cinnamon / nutmeg and sugar into the apple mix.
5. For each apple pie two pieces of heart shaped pastry cut out are used.
6. On the base one place 1 to 2 tbsp of apple mix.
7. around the edges run a finger that has the milk or water on it slightly dampening the outside edge.
8. place the upper pastry over the top of the apple.
9. Press the edges of the top and bottom pastry pieces together.
10. Use a fork to crinkle press the edges together  as well as to make a couple of holes in the top.
1. allows the steam to escape.
11. Bake for 10 to fifteen minutes - or until golden brown.
12. Allow to cool before biting into these pies.

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Marshmallow ant

Ingredients

• 3 large marshmallows
• Nut spread [peanut butter, cashew butter...]
• or a small dab of frosting
• 2 raisins or M & M's.
• 4 pretzel sticks - broken into thirds.

Method

1. Using three [per side] of the broken pieces of stick stab these into the body part of one marshmallow.
2. On a head part place an antennae and a jaw both sides of the face marshmallow.
3. Link the head to the body and the body to the tail of the ant.
4. With nut spread or frosting dab to either the raisins or the M & M's to the head marshmallow.

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Coloured cottage cheese and fruit.

Ingredients

• Low fat cottage cheese.
• Food colouring
• Fresh fruit depending on the theme
• Valentines day , Mothers Day or fathers day - strawberries, boysenberries, raspberries, watermelon.
• Summer days - rockmelon, apples, oranges, strawberries, elderberries. kiwi fruit, banana passionfruit....

Method

1. Tint the cottage cheese with a few drops of colouring. 
2. Place into a serving bowl.
3. Add a container of 1/2 size pretzel sticks.
4. Chunk cut the fruit.
5. Add around these two containers.
6. Serve with serviettes near by.
7. Use the pretzel stick to pick up the fruit.

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Little Butterfly Cup Cakes.

Ingredients

• 12  pre-made cup cakes [choose your flavour].
• Pink frosting
• Hundreds and thousands.
• 24 marzipan heart shapes.
• 24 antennae
• 12 gum drop sweets

Method

1. Prepare your work area first.
2. Frost the cupcakes.
3. Place the hearts in position for the wings.
4. Add antennae's.
5. Pop into the middle of the heart the Gum Drop.
6. Sprinkle with a little of the Hundreds and thousands.

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Heart Necklace Valentine Cookies.

Add a string or bow and there
 you have an edible bracelet.

makes about 30 heart shapes.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter - softened / margarine.
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla exxence
• 1 tbsp lemon zest
•  2   1/2 cups self raising flour -sifted.
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 drops of red food colouring or beetroot juice.
•  70 gr [2  1/4 oz] candy sprinkles [ cake decorating marzipan decorations]
• 60 red licorice pieces - in vines for tying.

Method

1. Cream 1 cup butter  and 3/4 cup white sugar together.
2. Blend in the egg, 1 tsp vanilla essence and lemon zest.
3. Sift together 2  1/2 cups of self raising flour and baking powder into another bowl.
4. Add to the creamed mixture and blend well.
5. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
6. Prepare the work bench area.
7. Preheat the oven to 190 deg C [375 deg F]
8. Lightly flour the rolling area.
9. Roll out the dough to7mm [1/4 in]
1. Note if the weather is extremely hot when making these Valentine Cookies then take from the fridge 1/3rd of the dough at a time.
10. With the heart shaped dough cutters flour them lightly before using them to cut.
1. You'll need both a 2.5 and a 5 cm [1 and 2 inch] cutter.
11. Cut out the dough.
12. Place cut out dough on a paper lined tray.
13. Use a straw to press a ring in the top of the heart shape.
14. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes.  
15. Cool on wire rack.

Now for the decorating

1. Stir in the colouring .
2. On the cool cookies spread the frosting.
3. Decorate the top of the frosting
4. Use a toothpick to dislodge the 'hole'.
5. Thread the licorice into the hole and tie.

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Chocolate Frosted Marshmallows

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 60 gr [2 oz] unsweetened cooking chocolate.
• 1 egg
•  1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1  1/2 cups self raising [all purpose] flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 500 g [16 oz] large marshmallows.

Method

1. create a safe work area.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 deg C [350 Deg F].
3. Spray or grease the baking paper.
4. Melt butter and chocolate in a small pan over a very low heat.
5. Stir these together until blended.
6. Remove from heat. and allow to cool.
7. In a large bowl beat the egg, brown sugar, vanilla and baking soda until light and fluffy.
8. Blend in the chocolate mixture. and flour until this mix is smooth.
9. Now slowly beat in the milk.
1. The dough is ready when it is light and batter like.
10. Using a tsp drop dough onto the baking paper 5cm [2 inch] apart.
11. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until firm in the centre.
12. Cut marshmallows in half. Immediately place halved marshmallow, cut side down onto each baked biscuit.
13. Return to oven for 1 min until the marshmallow is warm enough to stick to the biscuit.
14. Cool.
15. Frost with your choice of frosting.

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Apple Smiles

Ingredients

• 5 medium red or green apples - cut into wedges
• squeeze of a lemon
• Peanut butter or other nut butter of your choice.
• 315 g [10 oz] bag of mini-marshmallows.

Method

1. Prepare work bench.
2. Cut the apple into wedges.
1. remove the pipes.
2. Place the sides of the apple into a little lemon juice.
3. Spread the nut butter on to one side of each wedge.
4. Position the mini- marshmallows around the outside edge.
5. Top the mouth with the other apple wedge.
6. Press the skinny inside pieces of the apple together.

Normally an interesting natural snack. If you are going to use these smiles during Halloween the conside addin strawberry topping as fake blood.

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Upside down Ugly cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups mini-marshmallows
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 chocolate cake mix
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 cups hot water

Method

1. Prepare work space.
2. Preheat oven to 180 deg C [350 deg F].
3. Mix up the cake mix to the box instructions.
1. or make a basic chocolate cake mix.
4. Now put in the Marshmallows, brown sugar, cocoa and water into a separate bowl.
5. Pour into a greased 23 cm x 33 cm [ 9inch x 13 inch] pan.
6. Spoon cake mix on top of the marshmallow mixture.
7. Do not mix the mixes together.
8. Bake for 45 minutes.
9. Cool.
10. Flip over the tin.  Take care as the marshmallow mix will probably run.

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Chocolate Marshmallow Slices

Ingrediants

• 1/2 cup butter margarine
• 1 pk. [375 g or 12 oz] chocolate buds [roughly 2 cups]
• 1 pkt miniature marshmallows [330 g or 10 .5 oz] - coloured or plain.
•  1 cup finely chopped nuts
• Additional nuts

Methods

1. melt the butter and chocolate buds over a low heat.
2. Stir constantly until blended.
3. remove from the heat.
4. Cool 5 minutes.
5. Stir in the Marshmallows and 1 cup of chopped nuts.
1. Do not allow the marshmallows to melt.
6. Tip the mix out onto waxed paper.
7. Form 2 rolls [ careful this is hot]
8. Wrap in foil.
9. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
10. Remove from fridge and coat with with extra nuts.
11. Cut rolls into 1 cm slices.

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Marshmallow Dip Sticks

Ingredients

Easy to make... fast to eat.

• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 cup peanut butter, cashew butter or other nut spread
• 300 g [10 oz] bag marshmallows
• chocolate sprinkles
• pretzel sticks
• waxed paper

Method

1. Set up the work bench.
1. If thee are a team of smaller helpers then set the bowls of pretzels, marshmallows, nut paste, melted chocolate and sprinkles far enough apart for ease of movement between each person. 
1. By the way with helpers forget the waxed paper.
2. Insert pretzel sticks into the marshmallows.
1. about 3/4 down into the Marshmallow.
3. Dip the top of the Marshmallow into the nut butter.
4. Set aside on the waxed paper.
5. Melt the Chocolate chips in a microwave, stove top or double boiler.
6. Dip peanut butter end of the marshmallow into the chocolate.
7. Immediately dip the chocolate end into chocolate sprinkles.
8. Place on waxed paper.

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Spider Bites

Cute as this spider is eating him could be a culinary transformation.

Ingredients

Per person

• 1 x mini Babybel cheese.
• 4 small Pretzel Sticks
• 2 raisins

Method.

1. Unwrap all the cheeses.
2. Make two tiny slits in the top of the Cheese's.
3. Place one of the 2 allocated raisins in each slit.
4. Now halve the pretzels sticks.
5. Place 4 of these halves along each side of the Babybel cheese.

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Dirt cup and friends

Ingredients

• 2 cups of cold milk
• 1 pack [4 serving size] of instant pudding that is chocolate flavour.]3  and a half [ 8 oz or 250g] whipped topping, thawed.
• 1 pack plain Marie Biscuits [500g or 16 oz] - May also be chocolate biscuits if desired.
• Gummy worms, insects, snakes

Method

1. Set up the work bench area.
2. Make the instant pudding by beating the milk and the pudding mix together.
3. Let the pudding stand for five minutes in the fridge.
4. With a rubber scraper very gently stir whipped topping and 1/2 of the crushed biscuits into the instant pudding mix.
5. Place 1 tsp of the remaining crushed cookies into the bottom of one of the 8 cups.
6. Fill the cups up to 3/4 full with the instant pudding mix.
7. Now use the rest of the crushed cookies /biscuits to fill up the cups.
8. Add the gummy worms as a decoration.
9. Place the cups into the refrigerator so that the dirt cups are thoroughly chilled - for 1 hour.

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Heart in the hole eggs and toast

Simple to do but much appreciated.

Sometimes its having a combination of creatively and desperation that enables really simple ideas to come forward.  The amount of team work is levelled at the child's ability level.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp butter or margarine.
• 1 slice of bread
• 1 egg.

Method

1. Prepare the work area.
2. Using a 8 cm [3 inch] heart shaped cutter cut out a heart in the slice of bread.
1. Centre usually works best.
3. Crack an egg into a small cup and set this aside.
4. Heat the butter or margarine in a fry pan.
5. Place both pieces of the bread into the fry pan.
6. Cook about two minutes on the first of the sides.
7. Turn both pieces over.
8. Place the egg into the heart shaped hole .
9. Some people like their eggs over easy. If this is the case for you then add the egg when you are cooking the flip side of the bread.  Should you want the egg cooked thoroughly then add the egg when you are cooking the first side.  Choice is yours.
10. I like to present this with the cut out shape on top of the heart shaped egg.

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Cake Pops

These looked so cool that I just had to try making them.

Yes they do taste good too.

Ingredients

• Cake - pre-made, cold and crumbled.
• frosting
• Almond Meal

For the candy coating

• Chocolate buttons or Candy Melts
• Vegetable oil or a little margarine / butter

Method

1. Prepare your work bench area.
2. Place the crumbled cake mix into a bowl.
3. Add the frosting into the bowl. 
1.  A little at a time until the cake mix binds together.
4. Add only a little Almond Meal if the mix actually becomes to wet.
5. Make the mix into balls.
6. Lay each ball onto a a lined baking tray.
7. Refrigerate for 2 hours 
1. or freeze for 30 minutes.
8. Melt the chocolate drops and a little of the oil 
1. [I used butter]
9. Onto the lollipop stick place an amount of chocolate and stick it into the balls
1. About 3/4 of the way into the cake balls.
10. Return to the refrigerator for another hour 
1. Freezer 15 minutes.
11. Take all the balls out and cover them with the warmed chocolate mix.
12. Stand back onto the tray and cool for  another hour.

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Gingerbread Valentines

To make these Gingerbread Valentines use the already prepare dough to the point of cutting the shapes out.

Ingredients

• Template pattern of each child's hand.
• 1 pack of red hot candies
• Cake decorating silver or gold balls
• M & Ms

Method

1. Place the paper hands on the dough.
2. Cut around the template hand print.
3. Place the greased cookie sheet on the baking tray.
4. Let the children decorate their own hands
1. say the red hot candies for the finger nails, silver balls for the rings, M & Ms for bigger decrative jewels.
5. Bake at 190 deg C [375 deg F] for 6 to 8 minutes.
6. Cool on wire rack.

This recipe makes about 14 small Gingerbread Valentine hands 

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Valentines Kisses

Makes 4 to 6

Ingredients

• 6 cups Rice Bubbles
• 1 pk 250gr marshmallows
• 3 tbs Margarine
• Vegetable cooking spray

Method

1. Prepare the work area.
2. Follow a Rice Bubble Treats recipe.
1. The Rice Bubble Treats made with Marshmallows recipe until step number seven [7]
3. Cool the mixture down until it is warm enough to handle.
4. Meanwhile spray the inside of your funnels.
5. Break off some of the main Rice Bubble Mix.
6. Mold the mix into the inside of the funnel. 
7. Slide out of the funnel [keep the ^ shape] onto the waxed paper..
8. Respray the funnel if needed and repeat the shaping process.
9. Cool the shaped Rice Bubble treat completely.
10. Meanwhile get the children to write a simple I love you message for Valentines Day, or a Happy Birthday, or even Happy Mothers Day message
11. Wrap as a gift in Aluminium foil.

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Cracker Pizzas

Thanks to Jackson we have very mini pizzas

Ingredients

• Crackers
• Pizza sauce
• Vegemite
• Mozerella
• Oregano
• Feta Cheese

Method

1. Lay the crackers out on a tray.
2. Spread either the pizza sauce or the Vegemite on top of each cracker.
3. Place a piece of cheese on each cracker.
4. Add Oregano.
5. Cook under 190 deg C [350 deg F]

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Cut out the heart shape

Simple, quick and easy.  

Yes it is as simple as this.

Use a small paring knife and cut out the heart shape to the desired size that you want to use in a Valentine or Mothers Day fruit salad.

Give the apple base to the children to finish off eating.



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Watermelon cookies

This one is the watermelon.
Other colours for other fruits

Ingredients

• 2 cups of self raising flour [all purpose]
• 1 and a 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 3 drop of red food colouring or beetroot juice

Method

1. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt into a small bowl.
2. Beat the butter and shortening until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually add the sugar while beating this well in.
4. Stir in the egg, milk and vanilla.
5. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture.
6. Mix well.
7. Add a small amount of either food colouring or beetroot juice.
8. Beat til blended.
9. Shape the dough into a ball.
10. Cover.
11. Chill for three hours.
12. Preheat over to 190 deg C [375 Deg F]
13. Divide the dough in half keeping one portion in the fridge.
14. Roll the first portion out to 5 mm [1/4 inch].
1. Use a lightly floured board or the mixture becomes unusable.
15. Cut the dough with 8 cm [3 inch] round cookie cutter. 
1. then cut each circular piece in half.
16. Place on ungreased cooking sheet.
17. Press several chocolate chips into each cookie.  
18. Repeat the process.
19. When cooked and cooled then ice or add the frosting by dipping the outside of the circular edge into the frosting and move it around to the other edge.
20. Place the watermelon biscuit on a baking sheet until frosting is hard.

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Lollipop Valentines

Ingredints

Ours have never quite ended up looking
 like this before they were eaten.

• 12 ice block sticks [or craft sticks] - soaked for one hour before use in a bowl of cold water.
• 1/2 cup chocolate buds [brown / white or a combination of]
• 1/2 cup butter - softened.
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar [brown caster sugar]
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all purpose [self raising] flour.
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 28 grams [1 oz] white chocolate
• 1 egg white
• 1  1/4 cups icing sugar
• 3 drops red food colouring [ or beetroot juice]

Method

1. Over a low heat stir chocolate chips until melted and smooth;.  
1. Using a double boiler also is a good method.
2. Remove from heat - let cool.
3. In a large bowl beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
4. Beat in the egg.
5. Beat in the cooled chocolate.
6. Now slowly beat in the flour, cocoa powder and salt -until smooth.
7. Divide the dough in half.
8. Preheat the over to 190 Deg C [375 Deg F]
9. Grease two large waxed baking papers.
10. Between the two waxed baking sheets roll half the dough out to 0.7cm [1/8 inch].
11. Freeze the dough while it is still in the wax paper for 5 minutes.
12. Peal the top sheet of wax paper off.
13. Using heart shaped 7.5 cm [3 inch] cookies cutters press out as many as the dough will allow.
1. Repeat the procedure with the scraps of dough.
14. With 2.5 cm [1 inch] between them place half the amount of hearts out on a tray.
15. Drain the sticks and pat them dry.
16. Place each stick so that there is a handle of 6.5cm [2.5  inch] sticking out below the cookie dough. 
1. Gently press the stick down on the doughs surface.
17. Now place the other hearts on top of the first set of hearts..
1. press the edges gently down.
18. Bake 12 minutes until firm to touch.
1. cool on wire racks.

Making the covering 

1. Either use a double boiler or a heavy pot that disperses the heat for the next step.
2. Stir in the white chocolate until melted and smooth consistancy is reached.
1. If using two different coloured chocolates then use two different pots.
3. Remove from the heat.
4. Holding each lollipop by the handle dip the heart into the chocolate on both sides.
1. Let the excess drip back into the pan.
5. Place each lollipop onto a wax paper-lined baking sheet and let cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
1. until set.

Making the icing

1. Beat the egg white and icing sugar until this is very smooth.
2. Remove some of this main mix and place it into a small bowl.
1. Drop a drip of colouring into this section of the mixture.
3. Spoon icing into a decorating bag that has a writing tip attached to it.
4. Pipe out the patterns and words that you want to say.
5. Decorate with small cake decorating marzipan shapes.

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Pasta Hearts of Love

Ingredients

• Several packets of heart shaped pasta.
• Water as per instructions on the packet.
• A small dab of oil or margarine
• Parmesan Cheese - grated.

Method

1. Cook pasta as per the instructions on the packet.
2. Cool slightly.
3. Toss in the Parmessan Cheese.
4. Let the cheese melt.
5. Serve with a light salad.

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Roll ups as a message

Children are wonderfully creative.

When one thing is done and liked then another excuse will bring about the same recipe with a creative variation.  There are all sorts of add on included as one child follows the thought processes of another.

Ingredients

• Cream Cheese
• Jam or conserve [ Strawberry for Valentines day, Valentine day get apricot and Fathers day a dark red plum or boysenberry]
• 2 flat breads like a tortilla or a roll out and flattened piece of your normal bread. 

Method

1. Spread the cream cheese onto the bread.
2. Now spread a dollop of jam over the cream cheese spread.
3. Roll the bread up.
4. Enjoy the eating.

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Message on a biscuit

Simple steps great learning make.

Part of the fun with food is that the preparation  all about messages. Even young children enjoy making simple messages look creative when dealing with their emotions.

Try these and see what I mean.

Ingredients
Per child you will need

• Either a Graham cracker or Marie biscuit.
• Pink icing or frosting [ white icing sugar or frosting with a little red added.  Little = very little]
• Little cake decoration balls.
• Alpha Bits or cake decoration hearts.

Method

1. Frost or ice the biscuits
2. Using the cake decoration balls write a message [try I love you, happy birthday, Merry Christmas or even be my Valentine]
3. Now decorate the edges with hearts or candle.  What ever the occasion warrants that you have the cake decoration bits for.

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Heart Shaped Candy Coated Heart.

Method

1. Coat a heart shaped cake tin with non - stick spray.
2. Sprinkle candy hearts all over the bottom.  
1. The small marzipan cake decorating ones are a good size.
3. Make the Rice Bubble biscuit mix. 
4. Add a very small amount of red food colouring to the mix in the beginning of the preparations.
5. While hot- tip from the cooking pan into the heart shaped cake pan.
6. Press the  Rice Bubble mix down with a cup - NOT your hands.
7. When set tip out of the heart shaped pan.

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Heart shaped pancakes

Ingredients

• Pancake mix- already made up and filled into a squeeze bottle.

Method

1. Heat the fry pan that the pancakes are to be cooked in.
2. When the butter or marge is sizzling then turn the squeeze bottle upside down and quickly direct the pancake mix into a heart shape.
3. Cook the heart shaped pancake. 
4. Turn the pancake over.
5. Once cooked carefully lift out of the pan and onto a plate.
6. Allow to cool.
7. Top with a squirt of canned whipped cream

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Heart Shaped Bread Bun

Method

1. Make a batch of bead dough.
2. Place it inside a greased heart shaped cake pan.
1. You may need to stretch the dough to actually fit into the cake pans 'corners'.
3. Bake according to the directions for the bread.
4. Once cooked, leave to sit in pan for a few minutes. 
5. Turn out of pan and let cool.
6. Slice the bread and place in the children's desired fillings.
1. Some suggestions: cold sliced meats, pickles, cheese slices, lettuce, grated carrots, hommas, dips and mayonnaises.  the list just goes on.
7. Serve this heart shaped sandwich with read fruits [apples, strawberries, raspberries] or with apple bugs.

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Asian Pear Pizza

This one is family sized.

Many people may think that a fruit pizza is a strange thing to have in a children's cooking area.  However one of the things with education and children is that children are usually more open to variations in recipes and food from different cultures than adults.  There fore when adults support what could be a healthy diet extra then children will follow suit.  Especially when that same recipe for a big family size pizza is made into child size portions from the beginning.  Making child size portions does take extra dough  though.


Ingredients

• Cover the work area first.
• One amount of pizza dough.
• 2 to 3 Asian Pears - cored and very thinly sliced. [better a more experienced knife handling person do this section] let the slices drain off for a short while.
• 120 gr [1/8 lb] of Pancetta (bacon) -cooked until crisp and drained on paper towels.
• 50 g [2 to 3 oz] of Gorgonzola cheese - crumbled.
• 90 g [ 4 oz] Mozarella cheese - shredded.
• freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220 deg C [425 deg F].
2. Roll out the dough into pieces that are child size. 
1.  I have found the best measurement was from the wrist to the large finger tip.  These may be square or round in shape.  Usually depends on how many children you are cooking for at one time.
3. Pre cook the dough so that the dough is not soggy when the children eat this pizza.
1. Cool this pizza base so that there is less heat for the children to work over.  Also cooler base has the actual oven heat melting the cheeses when placed into the oven again for cooking.
4. Starting from the outside work around the edges and towards the middle covering the Pizza shape with the slices of the Asian Pear.
5.  Since the Pancetta , as well as the Gorgonzola cheese, is relatively strong in flavour go easy on these as they are crumbled onto the top.
6. A sprinkling of shredded Mozarella will hold everything together.
7. bake until the centre has melted completely.
8. Remove from heat and cool.
9. Slice and enjoy 

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