Chocolate biscuit pudding - just chocolate, condensed milk and biscuits. Make in a pudding mould. When set pour melted white choc on and decorate with a sprig OG holly.
Choc compost - melt choc and pour into a silicone cake mould and then add a random mix of sweets - mini smarties, chopped crunchie, jelly beans, jelly tots, jelly babies...anything really. Great way to use up Halloween sweets. Super easy for any age to make. We get requests for this every year.
Candy cane lollies - arrange candy canes on a baking sheet so that each two form a heart. Put in oven for a few mins to soften and then carefully (it’s very hot) press a lollystick into bottom of each heart. Cool and fill with melted chocolate and sprinkle on crushed candy canes (freeze first before crushing)
Ginger bread house- ikea and tiger do good kits. If you crush up yellow or orange boiled sweets you can make windows. Line a baking sheet with parchment and fill the window spaces with crushed sweets. Then remove the gingerbread. Melt sweets in oven for a minute or two then carefully put the gingerbread back in position and leave to garden. Glue the house together with white choc which sets faster than icing and just cover the seams with icing.
If you have a silicone mould pipe or spoon in melted choc and shake on sprinkles. Easy to do with even smallest children and the silicone mould ensures a great looking result regardless of how messy they are.
Marshmallows dipped in white choc and dipped in sprinkles.
Gingerbread men and women are a must! And even nicer dipped in choc!
A basic cookie dough can be adapted to lots of different flavors. You can also make it in advance and freeze it.
Fondant decorations are really fun to make- it’s essentially edible play dough.
Not edible, but salt dough decorations are also very easy. A tip is to dry them for a couple of days before putting them in the oven so they don’t crack. If your dc are older instead of cookie cutter decorations you could