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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The bugs that bite

Ingredients

• Snow balls
• 1 lollipop
• two licorice twist sticks.
• 2 mini M&Ms
• Dab of white icing

Method

1. Set out the plate the Love Bugs are going to go on first.
2. Mix up the icing sugar.
3. Cut the licorice twists in half.
4. Place the twist sticks into the Marshmallow puffs.  Two per puff.
5. Unwrap the lolly pop and vertically place the stick end into the head area -like it is an antenna.
6. With a careful hand cover the back of the M&M [eyes] with some icing sugar mix.  Now place the eyes onto the marshmallow.

There you have a rather fetching Love Bug for Valentines day.  However different colours of coconut and the same bug can take on a Halloween look even.

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Peanut Butter Caterpillars

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Note: Where peanut butter is used in these recipes for "gluing" edible body parts together, frostings may be used as a substitution for those children who are sensitive to or allergic to nuts.

• bananas
• peanut butter
• grapes
• chow mein noodles

1. Peel and slice a banana.
2.  Join the slices together by "gluing" them with peanut butter. 
3. Carefully poke two chow mein noodles (or break a pretzel stick in half to make two pieces) through the top of the grape.
4.  Use more peanut butter to attach the head (grape) to the front of the body, with antennae (chow mein noodles) pointing up.

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