Fun recipes for kids

Gloria giraffe gobble-its

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 10-15 mins
Makes: 10-20 balls

Ingredients

• 180ml light honey

• 55g margarine

• 10ml cold water

• 330g icing sugar

• 50g marshmallows

• 220g plain popped popcorn

• Vegetable oil

Method

1| Put honey, margarine, water, sugar and marshmallows in a pan, and put over a medium heat.
2| Heat and stir until mixture comes to the boil. Put popcorn in a large bowl and pour over honey mixture, covering popcorn evenly. Cool slightly.
3| Grease hands with vegetable oil. Quickly shape mixture into golf ball-sized ‘goblets’ before it cools. Wrap in cling wrap and store at room temperature.

Alex’s choc crunch

Preparation time: 15 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins
Makes: 14-20 slices

Ingredients

• ½ cup sugar

• 1¼ cups plain flour

• ¾ cup dessicated coconut

• 2 cups cornflakes

• 2 Tbsp cocoa powder

• 200g butter, melted

• 1 cup icing sugar

• Extra 1 Tbsp cocoa powder

• Extra 1 Tbsp melted butter

• Dash of milk

Method

1| Preheat oven to 180°. Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl, then stir in butter.

2| Press mixture into a greased slice tin. Bake for 30 minutes.

3| Combine icing sugar and extra cocoa; stir in extra butter and milk till smooth. Ice slice while warm, chill in fridge and cut when cool.

Madagascar monkey martini

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking time: nil
Serves: 2

Ingredients

• Flavoured soft drink of your choice

• 4 scoops vanilla ice-cream

Method
1| Pour soft drink into each glass.

2| Divide ice-cream between 2 glasses and serve.