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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Sweet Sensations

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Its red!

Ingredients

4 beets 330 gram (about 3/4 pound), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
1 pound rigatoni pasta
5 cups baby spinach (about 8 ounces)
1 cup ricotta cheese
Grated peel from 1 lemon, plus 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 450°.
2. On a foil-lined baking sheet, toss the beets with 1 tablespoon olive oil; season with salt and pepper. Wrap tightly with foil and roast for 15 minutes.
3. Unwrap, then arrange the beets in a single layer.
4. In a small bowl, toss the onion with 1 tablespoon olive oil and season with salt and pepper; arrange on the baking sheet. Roast, tossing halfway through, until tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
5. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the rigatoni and cook until al dente.
6. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup pasta cooking water. Return the pasta to the pot and toss with the spinach.
7. In a bowl, whisk the ricotta, reserved pasta water, lemon peel, lemon juice and the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add to the pasta along with the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper; toss.

Serves 4.

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Hairball Salad with Saliva Dressing

Ingredients:

• 1 lg Ripe avocado
• 2 c Alfalfa sprouts
• 5 lg To 6 carrots, washed peeled and grated
• Italian dressing

Tools:

• Paring knife
• Spoon
• Mixing bowl
• Fork
• Carrot peeler
• Grater
• 4 Salad bowls

Method

1. With an adults help, cut avocado in half. Use a spoon to scoop out the pit.
2. Scoop avocado out of the shell and put in the bowl. Add sprouts to the avocado meat. Mash with a fork. It is ok to leave some lumps. 
3. Set the mixture aside.
4. Divide the grated carrots among the four salad bowls.
5. Using your clean fingers and a spoon, make walnut size hairballs from the avocado mixture and arrange them on top of the grated carrots. 
6. Pour Italian "saliva" dressing over hairballs and serve. 
7. Serves 4 cat fanciers.

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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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