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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Recipe originally published in Wondertime magazine.
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