Trying to think of a cool idea to send to send with my first grade boy to school in a few weeks when they have their Christmas party. Last year I made a 3D tree but those are a pain to cut and serve.

I'm looking for something that is not HUGE or overly rich because my son has to eat it too! haha. However I want something really unique to make my son proud of his mommy (which he already is but you know...haha). I'm thinking about making individual treats this year so.... any ideas?

I thought about using the mini wonder molds as individual trees but that ends up being FAR too much icing for kids... so any ideas for something without so much icing? I'm open to anything...cupcakes, cookies, candy treats...whatever. If all else fails I guess I can make the decorated cookies, I am doing that anyway for some other gifts. But technically you can buy those at the store, so....

Thanks!

I was thinking about cookies since the kids are young. How about 3D cookies? Williams-Sonoma has 3D snowman, 3D tree, and 3D reindeer & sleigh cookie cutters. In their location in NYC (Chelsea) my sister says they're having a big sale. I don't think that their catalog cutters are not on sale though.

Happy Holidays to you!!

I did these Christmas Mice last year, and they were a HUGE hit. Very easy to do - white chocolate covered oreo's (or you can use regualar ones) Hershey's kisses, maraschino cherries and almond slivers.

3D cookies sound fun....and oooh those mice are really cute! Wow..... hmmm....

I love the mice!!!!!!! I will have to do that.

Last year I did a project with my daughter's kindergarten class. Sooo easy and cute (no pics though sorry). It was little bears that I made out of cheapo canned biscuits (the plain store brand). You use half for the body 1/4 for the head and pieces for the ears, feet, and hands. Roll each of the pieces in cinnamon sugar then put them together on a cookie sheet. Pinch a little so they'll stick. Bake em and decorate them kinda like gingerbread men. We used red hots licorice, icing....all kinds of cute things. And the kids tore them up!

If you do go with cookies, here's an idea: cut out some of the middle, and fill it with chocolate after it's baked. Kinda like the stained glass effect, but with chocolate instead of candy (and you can't see through it ). I saw a picture of a bell cookie with a little bell shape cut out of the middle, and filled with chocolate. It's a nice detail with a lot of potential. I'm definitely gonna try and put a spin on this one!

last year I made rice crispy snowman treats. Just make a batch of rice crispie treats in a rec. pan. Slice into small rectangles and stick popsickle stick into bottom. Then I melted vanilla almond bark and dipped them. Then I drew on a face ( black eyes and smile, orange carrot nose) with frosting. Really turned out cute, I think I will do them again this year.

Today I saw a post about MM Snowmen on a stick, they were very very cute, I wish I could find you the link but since the search is down I don't know how to do it any other way. But they were 3 marshamallows on a stick with the hands and face piped with royal. I think they where also dipped in candy melts. HTH! I'll post the link if I find it! Good luck!

They looked kind of like this one here....

http://static.flickr.com/9/75238876_2ecfc18610_m.jpg

How about a cupcake cake? Everyone always thinks those things are so cool! I just made one using the mini baking cups - it was for 50 kindergarteners. It was a big hit!

Here is the link to the post I was talking about.... HTH
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=53490&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

I love the snowmen, maybe I'll go with that....

Go under galleries and see the Santa Cocoa Cones. Too cute!

Lu

I found out today that the teacher just sent home requests for what the parents are to bring and she wrote down "cupcakes" for me...

What do you think, a tiny snowman scene on each cupcake? Maybe make a little tree on a pretzel stick..."snow" including the Wilton edible glitter, and a little snowman??? Or maybe just a pretzel stick tree on each one, decorated and iced to look snowy?

How about Christmas Tree ice cream cone cake? Here's the simple instruction:

1. Get regular kids' ice cream cone (it'll be a tree bark)
2. Place it upright on muffin pan.
3. Pour cake batter (in the cone) half way to the top.
4. Bake it in oven per cake mix's direction.
5. Let it cool.
6. Use star cake decorating tip #28, #35, or similar for green icing, like I did in that pic below.
7. Use any kinds of sprinkles for tree's ornament and any other stuff you want to put it on, like bubble gum and shape it like a star for top of tree.

Kids loved it last year.

Last year I did reindeer cupcakes for my daughter's class. I just made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting & bought pretzels, M&M's, and gumdrops for the decorations. You break a pretzel in half, and the kids stick two halves on the top for antlers, then use the M&M's for eyes and mouth, and a gumdrop (red, of course!) for the nose. It was easy for me because there wasn't any decorating on my part, and the kids loved to do their own.

-Lisa

re ears...

cut snips from large marshmallows?

little pieces of fondant?

Or take a mini marshmellow (for the mouse ears) and "smash" it between your fingers to flatten it out about ear size. I think that would work and be super easy too.

What about those butter cookies or mini oreos for the ears of the mice that would be cute too. I love the cupcake cones - My daughter's class may get those. Great ideas

If we do it we have to go to Smart and final and buy packaging to look store bought.... uggh.

I was thinking of rice crispy treats molded for snowmen and iced and little stuff for buttons, nose, etc. Wilton teacher suggested a hat made of a marshmallow painted with black icing thinned with vodka. I wouldn't worry about it specifically being a cupcake. What about a cupcake igloo and some sort of penguin.... (not sure how to make) ...Happy Feet is real big with the kids now....

Actually teacher said the black marshmallow hats not that cool to eat so would probably be too messy... also the vodka thing....LOL! Perhaps a different way to tint the marshmallow hat...

I would go for the cupcake cake and do a fantastic winter scene on it

how about cupcakes with light blue icing, a white snowflake piped in buttercream or maybe fondant "snowballs " dusted with edible glitter? simpler than a whole christmas scene. that would take alot of time, and although the kids would love it, they devour them too fast to notice how much time you put into them.

I like the snowmen cupcakes ad on top of cc page. Could use a white chocolate dipped marshmallow on its side for rounded look, sock hat made out of candy clay, if you were afraid the marshmallow would fall off of frosted cupcakes, you could use a pretzel to impale the marshmallow and stick into the cupcake.

the holiday cake decor ad. here on cc.

Yesterday we had an early Christmas Party at my daughter's school. I made three Cupcake cakes...Santa, a Christmas tree and a wreath with snowflakes.
The kids loved them, and it was convenient to serve.
If you would like to see them, they're in my photos.
Karen