Ho, Ho, Ho, Christmas is almost here! With the
festive season around the corner, why not keep the Christmas spirit alive with
some tasty yet healthy DIY Christmas recipes for kids? These treats will
neither be like the repetitive Christmas meals nor will they be filled with
unhealthy sweets.
In fact, you can indulge your kids in
preparing these recipes and spend quality time with them, too!
6 tasty Christmas
recipes for kids
Whether
it’s Christmas cookie recipes, desserts, or breakfast meal ideas, kids always
look forward to relish appealing, and mouth-watering delights. Without
further delay, let’s check out these 6 simple yet tasty Xmas treats for your
kids!
Snowmen banana pancake
Try out this delightful breakfast to kickstart
your Christmas cooking with kids.
Ingredients
Buttermilk pancake mix ( 1cup)
Water (3/4 cup)
Mashed ripe banana (1/3 cup)
Confectioners’ sugar (1 teaspoon)
Pretzel sticks, bananas sliced in half/dried
cranberries, and chocolate chip cookies
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| Easy Christmas Recipe for Kids! |
How to prepare:
Mix the first four ingredients for the batter.
In a hot pan, pour half a cup of the batter to
make three circles for a snowman. Flip it when bubbles start forming and cook
it till the other side turns golden brown
Add pretzels and desired toppings to the
snowmen and garnish with confectioners’ sugar
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Grinch eggs and hot
chocolate snowmen
If you are looking for some easy Christmas
cooking, try this super-simple breakfast recipe.
Ingredients
Spinach (a handful)
Eggs (6)
Strawberries (a handful
Marshmallows (a handful)
Toothpick
Green food color (optional)
How to prepare:
Mix the eggs and spinach in a blender. For a
more vibrant green, you can use food color. Garnish with strawberries.
Arrange three marshmallow cubes over your hot
chocolate and use your preferred food color for the buttons, eyes, and mouth.
Add a strawberry nose and toothpicks for your hands, and your breakfast meal is
ready!
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Strawberry and Cream
Santas
Christmas can never be complete without this
treat. This is one of those easiest Christmas recipes for kids who want to try out their whipping skills.
Ingredients
Thickened cream (150 ml)
Vanilla essence (1/2 teaspoon)
Caster sugar (2 teaspoons)
Strawberries (2 punnets)
Chocolate icing pen (1)
How to prepare:
Pour the cream, sugar, and vanilla into a bowl
and whip them up together till it becomes a little stiff. Now, keep the mixture
in a piping bag and cut off the edge.
Slice each of the strawberries into two pieces
after washing and drying them. Make sure you slice it halfway up. Also, cut off
the stalks for later use.
Spread some icing from the bag onto the
strawberry. Cover it with the stalk like a cap, and then, put on some more
icing. You can use the chocolate pen to make the Santa eyes.
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Gingerbread Ice-cream
Sandwich
This is one of the best kid-friendly
recipes that you can make with them this Christmas. This is not only easy,
but also challenging. However, children will surely love cutting out the
shapes.
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| Gingerbread cookies |
Ingredients
Gingerbread man biscuit dough
Vanilla ice-cream
Gingerbread man Cookie cutter (12 cm)
White icing/ your favorite toppings for
decorating
M&Ms
How to prepare:
Keep
the ice cream frozen overnight in a Swiss roll pan.
For the gingerbread dough, add flour, egg,
baking soda, butter, molasses, brown sugar, and heavy cream together in a bowl.
After flattening the dough, use the cookie
cutter to cut it into gingerbread men and bake it for 8-10 minutes.
Add the cut ice cream in the middle. Decorate
it with icing and gems or M&Ms or any of your favorite toppings for buttons
and eyes.
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Chocolate reindeer
cookies
What is Christmas without those traditional
reindeer Christmas cookie recipes for kids, right?
Ingredients
Candy coating (Dark chocolate/white)
Reindeer-shaped cookies
Mini sized Marshmallows
Icing to decorate
M&Ms
Miniature pretzels
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| Reindeer Cookies |
How to prepare:
Melt the candy coating till it becomes smooth.
You can use brown or any other color. Now, dip the cookies in it.
Use mini pretzels for the antlers. Mini
marshmallows with a dash of brown or white icing in the middle can be used for
the eyes and pupils. Make the mouth as well with icing.
Banana
snowmen and penguins
This easy Christmas recipe
is so simple and cute, that kids would love making and eating it too.
Ingredients
2 to 3 bananas
1 carrot
Raisins
Strawberries
Pretzel sticks
Wooden skewers
Melted chocolate (2
squares)
A few toothpicks
How
to prepare:
Slice the strawberries
vertically and add one half for each of the snowmen’s half. Cut the carrots
into thin triangle slices.
Make the snowman by
slicing a banana into three thick pieces. Use the sliced strawberry for the
snowman’s cap. The eyes and mouths of snowmen can be drawn with a toothpick
coated with melted chocolate. Stick the pretzels on the sides and add the
carrot slices for the nose. Use the raisins for the buttons. Put everything
together on a skewer.
For the penguins, cut
a banana into two halves. Dip each half into the melted chocolate so that the
bottom top portion is still white Stick two white chocolate chips for the eyes
and add a small blob of melted chocolate in the middle.
Use half of the
chocolate smarties/gems for the nose. Thereafter, use two more halves dipped in melted
chocolate for the legs. Isn’t it an easy Christmas food recipe for the whole family?
So what are you waiting for? Make this Christmas Eve special by making these simple DIY Christmas recipes for children.
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