Strawberry Eton Mess

A simple recipe that kids will have great fun making and even more fun eating the final result. A great treat but also a good way of getting your kids to eat some of their five a day in a yummy and fun way!

Ingredients:
1 Pack Strawberries
1 Pack Raspberries
150ml Double Cream
100ml Natural Yogurt
3 level tbsp caster sugar
Coloured Sugar Strands (For Serving)

Method:
1. Cut the strawberries into small pieces and put into a large mixing bowl.
2. Push the rasperries through a sieve with the back of a spoon into the mixing bowl (you can spoon in the seeds if you really want to)
3. Spoon the sugar into the bowl with the fruit and stir through.
4. Add the cream and yogurt and stir thoroughly until all well combined.
5. Serve in bowls and sprinkle sugar strands ontop.

Kids Polka Dot Cookies

These cookies are great fun to make with kids and are brilliant for lunch boxes! The two sugars are essential in this recipe to make it just right. These cookies keep for about a week. Makes over 18 cookies.

Ingredients:
9oz Brown Sugar
9oz White Sugar
10oz Marg. or butter
2 eggs
12oz Smarties
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
18oz plain flour

Method:


1. Mix Butter/Marg. together with sugar until creamy and fluffy.
2. Add the eggs and vanilla essence and mix well
3. Mix the bicarb. with salt and flour and add to the mix, stir to form a thick cookie dough.
3ii. You can now stir in the smarties, if you want them to stay whole but you are using a food mixer, have on a very low setting when adding them in. If you are doing them by hand, you are fine.
4. Take golf ball size amounts of the dough and place spread apart on a greased baking tray. You may have to do them in batches.
5. Bake for 12-13 mins or until golden brown in a pre-heated oven at 180°c
6. Place on a cooling rack to cool.
7. You can now serve in an air tight tin, but most of all, enjoy!

Submitted by jamjim10