If you’re looking for delicious recipes to make with your children this Christmas, try out these three for a fun afternoon in the kitchen!
1. Christmas Snowballs
Ingredients
- 2 oz or 55g dessicated coconut
- 2 oz or 55g drinking chocolate or cocoa powder
- 2 oz or 55g butter (or even coconut oil)
- ½ tin condensed milk (7oz/200g approx.)
- 14 digestive biscuits/graham crackers (7oz/200g approx.)
- 1 packet marshmallows (you won’t need them all!)
- fine coconut, for coating
Instructions
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- Melt the butter and mix with the crushed digestives, drinking chocolate, coconut and condensed milk.
- Use this mixture to cover a marshmallow, rolling each into a neat round ball. If your hands are damp while you do this, it makes things a lot easier. Also try not to have too much biscuit mixture around the outside – you really want a much greater ratio of marshmallow to biscuit mix!
- Toss the covered marshmallows in coconut to cover and place in the fridge to set. And Enjoy!
2. Easy Christmas Rocky Road
Ingredients
- 100g mini gingerbread cookies (plus extra for topping)
- 100g red & green M&Ms (plus extra for topping)
- 50g mini marshmallows
- 3tbsp festive sprinkles (plus extra for topping)
- 520g white chocolate, melted
Instructions
- Line an 8″ baking tray with baking paper.
- Add all the ingredients to a bowl and mix them together.
- Pour the mix into your baking tray and level it out.
- Top with some mini gingerbread cookies, red & green M&Ms and festive sprinkles.
- Refrigerate for 1-2 hours. Enjoy!
3. Christmas Bark
Ingredients
- 2 white chocolate bars
- 2 dark chocolate bars
- 2 milk chocolate bars
- Red and green M&Ms
- White chocolate chips
- Crushed candy canes (or other sweets of choice)
- Multi-coloured sprinkles
- Mini pretzels
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place 6 chocolate bars (white chocolate, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate) in a flat, even layer.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes on the centre rack of the oven on a very low heat.
- Swirl the chocolate bars together with a chopstick or skewer until you can no longer see the original lines from the bars.
- Decorate the bark.
- If you’re in a hurry, you can freeze the bark for 30 minutes or refrigerate for an hour. Letting it harden at room temperature will prevent condensation.
- Break the bark into pieces and enjoy!
