What to cook for your child’s birthday, festive table menu

Organizing a party for a child is not an easy task! In order for all the kids to like the dishes you prepare, you need to try really hard! They should be bright, healthy, satisfying, easy to eat and attractive. Children love toys, so you will have to try to decorate the children's table accordingly. And don't forget to think about entertainment! So, what should you prepare for your child’s birthday?

Menu for a child's birthday

The menu for a child’s birthday should be compiled in accordance with the age of the guests you expect. From my own experience I know that children love familiar dishes, simple ones, and do not like to try new things. Beforehand, ask the parents of your little guests if they are allergic to any foods. At the same time, find out your food preferences.

What should not be placed on a children's table:

Do not put too salty, fatty, spicy or canned foods on the children's table. Avoid fried foods, smoked sausage and snacks with lots of mayonnaise, pepper, and garlic.
Don't experiment with new salads . Remember that children prefer traditional dishes with simple and familiar ingredients, but it’s worth trying with the design of these salads.
Do not serve the usual dishes that you eat every day on the holiday table. Soups for a children's party are not the best choice. The festive table should be different from the daily one and create a mood!
You still shouldn’t choose fish for a children’s holiday table. Not all kids love fish. When cleaning and cutting fish, you can leave a few unnoticed bones that kids can choke on.

What to cook for your child's birthday? It is better to prepare a delicious hot dish, choosing the main product according to age. The best choice would be chicken. Usually all kids love chicken. For children after one year old, you can prepare a variety of meatballs, kebabs, and casseroles using chicken. A good alternative would be turkey and rabbit .

Recipes for the holiday table for children

Chicken skewers on skewers in the oven

Both miniature metal and wood skewers can be used as skewers.
Wooden skewers need to be soaked in water for several hours to prevent them from burning in the oven. You will need:

Chicken fillet – 0.5 kg;
Salt 10 g.
Onion – 1 pc. (large)
Garlic - 0.5 tsp;
Black pepper - to taste;
Lemon juice - a little.

Cooking method:

The meat is thoroughly washed, cleaned of pieces of fat and films, and cut into small pieces.
The marinade is made as follows: punch an onion in a blender, add salt, garlic, pepper and lemon juice to it, mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Place chicken pieces into the marinade and stir thoroughly so that all the meat is evenly covered with a thin layer of the mixture. The resulting preparation is sent to the refrigerator for 12 hours to infuse.
The oven is heated to 200 degrees. The marinated fillet is threaded onto skewers and placed on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Bake for at least 20 minutes, turning the skewers periodically to obtain an even crust. Serve hot.
Serve the kebabs with multi-colored puree, chopped fresh cucumbers or halved cherry tomatoes.

Nuggets
You will need:

vegetable oil - 500 ml.
chicken fillet - 750 gr.
premium flour - 70 gr.
breading (crumbs) - 160 gr.
salt - 15 gr.
ground pepper (black) - on the tip of a knife
granulated garlic - 5 pinches
chicken egg - 3 pcs.

Cooking method:

Wash and dry the chicken fillet. Cut it into nugget-like pieces.
In a deep bowl, beat the eggs with a fork until smooth.
Prepare the breading mixture: mix flour with dried (granulated) garlic, pepper, salt and other favorite seasonings.
Dip each piece of chicken first into the raw egg and then into the breading mixture.
Place the prepared nuggets on a baking sheet and freeze in the freezer.
Shake off excess breading from frozen nuggets and fry in heated vegetable oil without defrosting.
There should be a lot of oil in the pan so that it covers every piece. Make sure that the oil does not burn, but simmers slightly over medium heat.
Place the browned nuggets on a paper towel.

Hedgehogs in the oven

You will need:

Minced meat – 1 kg
Rice - 1 tbsp
Onion - 4 pcs. (2 onions for minced meat, 2 for sauce)
Egg - 1 pc.
Boiled chilled water - 1/2 tbsp
Salt, pepper - to taste
Butter - 3-4 tbsp.
Carrots - 3 pcs.
Garlic - 2 teeth.
Tomato paste - 5 tbsp.
Flour - 3 tbsp.
Chicken broth - 5 tbsp.
Heavy cream - 1/2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Turn on the oven to heat up to 200 degrees.
Rinse the rice with boiling water. In a large bowl, combine ingredients for cooking hedgehogs: minced meat, rice, two finely chopped onions, egg, water, salt and pepper. Mix the minced meat well with your hands. Leave some rice to decorate the hedgehogs.
Place hedgehogs in a baking dish. You need to sculpt them with wet hands. Each hedgehog takes about two tablespoons of minced meat. Try to stick more rice on top - these will be “needles”. The nose and eyes are like peppercorns.
Let's prepare the sauce. Melt butter in a frying pan. Fry diced onion (two onions) until soft, add salt and pepper.
Peel the carrots, rinse and grate. Add to onions.
Add garlic, pressed through a press, tomato paste to the vegetables and add flour. Fry while stirring.
Then add some of the chicken broth. Stir. Gradually add all the broth.
After 15 minutes, remove from heat and add cream. Stir and taste the sauce. If necessary, add salt and pepper.
Pour the sauce over the hedgehogs. Cover the shape with the hedgehogs with foil and bake for 40-50 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.

Potato strips baked in the oven.

These delicious potatoes can compete with French fries in taste, and in terms of preservation of nutrients, benefits to the body, simplicity and speed of preparation, they will exceed several times.
Such food brings not only benefits to the body, but also a lot of pleasure and a good mood. You will need:

Potatoes – 5 pcs.
Whites – 3 chicken eggs
Salt, spices to taste

Cooking method:

Separate the whites, salt, add spices to taste (you can add nutmeg, or suneli hops, or granulated garlic)
Cut the potatoes into cubes (approximately 1 cm wide, the length of the potato).
Mix potato cubes with whipped egg white.
Place the cubes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper greased with vegetable oil.
Preheat the oven to 180-190ºC and bake for 20 minutes until a beautiful golden color.

Colored puree

Children will really like multi-colored mashed potatoes.
It's not at all difficult to make. The most pleasant-tasting puree is green, with the addition of spinach. When the potatoes are cooked, pour the spinach (fresh or frozen) with water from these potatoes, and after one minute, beat with a blender. Pour the spinach mixture into the drained potatoes, add oil and mash.

It will be tasty and bright with freshly squeezed carrot juice. The color will depend on the amount of juice added - from yellow to orange.

To make the puree pink or burgundy, you will need beet juice.

But we do not recommend using store-bought food colorings for children’s tables! You can read the recipe for making puree here.

Salad for a children's party

A salad for a children's party should not only be tasty, but also healthy and attractive. For children's salads, it is better to use mayonnaise with milk and without eggs. You can do it yourself in a few minutes. You can watch the recipe for this mayonnaise in the video below.

Mayonnaise with milk, without eggs

Salad "Mice"

You will need:

Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
Quail eggs – 5 pcs.
Canned pineapples – 5 pcs.
Cheese – 200 g.
Garlic – 3 cloves.
Mayonnaise (with milk without eggs)

Cooking method:

Cook chicken and quail eggs. We leave quail eggs for mice (5 pcs.).
Grate the whites of 3 chicken eggs and place them on a dish. Lubricate with mayonnaise with milk.
Cut pineapples into cubes. Place the whites on top. Lubricate with mayonnaise with milk.
We push the salad to the sides, as if mice had eaten one slice.
Grate the cheese and squeeze out the garlic. Mix and spread on pineapples. Mayonnaise with milk.
Grate the yolks. This is the top layer. There is no need to lubricate with mayonnaise.
We take our eggs for the mice. Cut a piece lengthwise. Using a knife, we cut out a place for the eyes, ears, and nose. We insert buckwheat grains for the eyes, black peppercorns for the nose, and cheese for the ears and tail. “Release” the mice for the salad.

Salad “Favorite”

On the holiday table it looks appetizing and childishly cute.

You will need:

Chicken breast (boiled and smoked) – 200 g.
Beetroot (boiled) – 200 g.
Eggs – 4 pcs.
Cheese – 200 g.
Prunes – 50 g.
Mayonnaise with milk.
Garlic – 2 pcs.
Pomegranate for decoration.

Preparation:

Cut the chicken breast into cubes.
Boil the eggs and grate them.
Boil the beets and grate them.
We form a heart out of it. Salt and lightly grease with mayonnaise. Place chopped garlic on top.
Next is a layer of prunes (finely chopped) and a layer of chicken. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise.
Place a layer of grated eggs and mayonnaise on the chicken and grate cheese on top.
Decorate the salad with pomegranate seeds. Let it soak.

Pumpkin salad

You will need:

Pumpkin, apple, melon - in equal proportions
Honey – 1 tbsp.
Lemon – ½ part
Pine nuts – 50 gr.

Cooking method:

Peel and seed the apple, also peel the pumpkin, cut everything into small cubes.
Also cut the melon pulp into cubes.
Mix the ingredients and season with lemon juice and honey.
Decorate with nuts, lightly fried in a dry frying pan.

Salad "Penguin"

You will need:

Boiled veal – 200 gr.
Eggs – 3 pcs.
Canned cucumbers – 2 pcs.
Potatoes – 2 pcs.
Carrots – 1 pc.
Olives – 1 b.
Mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

Pre-boil vegetables and eggs.
Grate potatoes and carrots.
Cut the meat into small cubes.
Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs and grate them.
We spread the salad in the shape of a penguin. Layers: potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, yolk, meat, protein. Lubricate each layer with mayonnaise and milk. Garnish with olives and carrots (optional).

Where to spend it?

There are many options for where to host a child's birthday party. It all depends on the wishes of the child himself, his hobbies, preferences, and, of course, the capabilities of the parents.

A holiday organized at home always entails more trouble. You need to take care of the design of the premises where children will have fun and think in detail about how the festive table will be decorated

It is important to take care of the holiday menu, the dishes of which will have to be prepared at home, or some of them can be entrusted to the preparation of professionals. Another important, and perhaps the most important moment at a children's birthday party is entertainment.

You need to plan in advance how the holiday will take place, what the children will do, what games to play with them, what competitions to hold, how to make sure that absolutely everyone has a good and fun time and no one gets bored.

Celebrating a birthday in a cafe will provide less hassle. You just need to decide on the menu and choose an establishment where they have an idea of how to prepare children's dishes. It will just be boring for children to sit at cafe tables. Therefore, in this case, you need to take care of the cultural and entertainment program. Maybe it will be a disco interspersed with games, competitions and cheerful congratulations, which will be prepared by each of the participants in the celebration. Funny clowns, cartoon and fairy tale characters would also be appropriate in the cafe.

Children's play centers can be a good alternative to cafes. Recently, this is where parents prefer to collect their children. Such centers are very convenient because children can spend time in a very fun and varied way. The playgrounds are equipped so that children, even if they fall, will not be injured; there are soft surfaces everywhere. In addition, space has been allocated for attractions and interactive corners; many children's institutions have slot machines and televisions.

In such places, tables must be installed that can accommodate several cheerful companies. In addition, there are animators almost everywhere who have entertainment programs ready for every taste, and if you wish, you can come up with something of your own.

Another successful establishment for such an event could be a rollerblade, but provided that it is a modern room, equipped according to all technical standards, next to which there is a cafe. If all the children know how to roller skate, they will have a wonderful time, and some can be taught, which will also be interesting.

If the child was born in the summer, then the range of venues for the celebration expands significantly. Summer gives you the opportunity to go on a picnic, organizing a birthday party in nature or in the country. It will not only be a pleasant pastime, but also useful. It will be somewhat more comfortable at the dacha for the reason that you can organize a picnic there on the lawn near the house, fry kebabs, sausages, and other delicacies. There is an opportunity to play outdoor games, and if it suddenly starts to rain or, conversely, the sun mercilessly scorches, you can take refuge in the house.

A picnic with a trip to nature is a troublesome, but exciting task. It is necessary to deliver children to the venue of the event, set up places where they will congratulate the birthday boy and celebrate his birthday. It would be better if canopies were built, under which it would be more comfortable to be in the hot sun. It’s convenient to play a wide variety of games in nature; there’s plenty of room to spread out. The main thing is to find organizers who will do all this with the children.

It is more convenient to celebrate the holiday in those places where there are specially equipped gazebos or houses for this, and there are bathrooms on the territory. It all depends on the parents, on whose shoulders the correct organization of the holiday falls.

Dessert for a child

Dessert for a child is very important! Especially for a children's party! Of course, you can buy it in a store - now the shelves are replete with various desserts. But will this sweetness be healthy for the child? Definitely no! Store-bought sweets contain preservatives to preserve the product and artificial substitutes for natural products to reduce the price, and dyes to make them brighter and more attractive. Feed your beloved child with all this “good”? And even an adult might not be happy from such “yummy” food!

Something needs to be done! In our childhood, we made all the sweets ourselves, at home, with our mother! Remember how delicious it was! And the products are the simplest!

Cake "Ice cream"

For the test:

1 pack of butter
250 g sour cream
a pinch of salt
flour - a little more than 3 tbsp.

For cream:

milk - 1 l
semolina - 4 tbsp. heaped spoons
2 cups sugar
200 g butter
200-300 g dried apricots
vanillin

Cooking time: 1.5-2 hours plus 3 hours in the refrigerator.

Cooking method:

Grind the softened butter with 3 cups. flour, add a pinch of salt, 250 g. sour cream. Knead a soft dough that does not stick to your hands.
Divide the dough into 6 parts, roll them out. Bake each cake in the oven for 10 minutes, break into pieces.
Boil 4 tbsp in 1 liter of milk. spoons of semolina. Leave to cool.
Pour boiling water over the dried apricots, then drain the water, remove excess water with a paper towel, finely chop (you can put it through a meat grinder).
Beat the softened butter with a mixer with a glass of sugar and vanilla. Continuing to beat, add semolina and the rest of the sugar. Add dried apricots, then broken pieces of cake. Let the pieces soak. Give it the desired shape. Place in the refrigerator for 3 hours. Decorate as desired.

By the way, the video recipe for the cake below is perfect for a children's party. Your task is to buy good quality ingredients for the cake, so that there is no doubt that everything is natural!

Snickers cake VIDEO

Sandwiches

The main emphasis is on small sandwiches (canapés). They can consist of a wide variety of products, including fruit. The main requirement is miniature size (so that one such sandwich can be completely put into the mouth in one sitting).

Find out how to make delicious and fun sandwiches for your child's birthday

Herring canapé

Grocery list:

Pickled herring or other fish (you can take red)
Black bread
Butter
Dill
Bell pepper

Cooking technique:

1) Finely chop the dill, then pour it into the heated butter and stir.

2) Cut the bread into small pieces and spread them with a thin layer of butter.

3) Place a piece of fish on top of the oil.

4) Cut the bell pepper into small pieces, place it on top of the sandwich and pierce it with a skewer.

Healthy sweets for children

Curd cheesecakes with honey, pancakes with curd filling, envelopes with cheese, envelopes with jam, marshmallows, marshmallows, marmalade, dried fruits.

If you show your imagination, you can continue the list. Homemade scones with nuts, biscotti, oatmeal bars with honey and nuts, cheesecakes (not fried, but baked in the oven), casseroles with apples.

All this can be prepared at home, using quality ingredients.

Baked apples with cottage cheese

This dish is very useful for a child as a healthy dessert.
Apples contain a lot of useful elements and are available all year round. The benefits of cottage cheese are invaluable in the formation of a strong musculoskeletal system of a child. You will need : apples, cottage cheese, honey (or sugar).

Method of preparation: wash the apples and remove the center containing the seeds. We try not to pierce the apple all the way through. We form a good notch. Place sweet cottage cheese into the resulting hole. Place in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes. As soon as the apple has become soft (you can check with a wooden skewer), the dish is ready. Serve to children when cooled.

Syrniki

You will need:

Cottage cheese – 500g
Semolina - 1/2 tbsp.
Eggs - 1 piece
Sugar - 2 tbsp.
Flour for deboning
Oil for frying
Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

Cooking method:

Combine cottage cheese, semolina, sugar, vanillin, eggs and mix the mass thoroughly. For the semolina to swell, you need to let the mass stand for 15-20 minutes.
Next, with wet hands we form balls and sausages (for the ears), roll them in flour, flatten them and place them in heated oil in a frying pan. Fry on both sides until slightly golden brown.
Place the finished cheesecakes on a paper towel to absorb excess oil. Monitor the heating of the oil - it should be well heated, but not “burn”. Therefore, the fire is in the middle position after the oil boils. Serve warm or cooled in the form of bunnies with sour cream and honey.

Baked pumpkin

You will need:

pumpkin and sugar

Cooking method:

Cut the vegetable into pieces along with the skin, but without seeds,
The baking sheet can be covered with parchment or foil.
Sprinkle each piece, dip in granulated sugar and place on a sheet in the oven.
As a sugar-free option, you can dip a piece in honey.

Harmful sweets for children
Caramels, lollipops, chocolate candies with fillings, popsicles, chewing gum, cakes, shelf-stable cupcakes, store-bought cakes, sweet soda and other store-bought sweets!

How to turn a meal into a fun celebration

Most children get excited about the opportunity to dip their snacks in some tasty sauce. To avoid getting the table dirty, use a large, deep bowl containing a small amount of sauce. If the snack is vegetable, then you can use hummus; if it is fruit, you can use yogurt or honey.

Another distinguishing feature of snacks for children is size. They should be significantly smaller than their adult counterparts. For example, instead of regular sandwiches, you can make mini sandwiches. Not only will it be convenient to hold them in your hands, but it will also be much easier to bite into such a snack. A large sandwich in small hands will simply fall apart.

It is also worth remembering that it is important to provide fun for children. A unique children's sandwich bar would be a great idea. To do this, place various healthy and tasty ingredients on the table on separate boards. It can be cheese or crunchy vegetables, the main thing is to create a colorful variety. Use bright and juicy products! Place pieces of toasted bread nearby, and finally, shapes for curly cutting.

They do not have sharp edges or knives, so are safe for children. Using them, they can press bread into a geometric shape, a heart or a person, place ingredients on top that will attract their attention, and voila! - your own sandwich. So before eating it, the child has already had a lot of fun.

Nowadays cooking courses for children are especially popular. Cooking is fun, interesting and useful! When organizing a children's party, you can first conduct an entertaining master class on making mini-pizzas. This is a more involved process than assembling a sandwich yourself, but at the same time more fun. Present it all as a fun game where simple ingredients go a long way to become delicious food.

However, it is worth remembering that it is better to leave the chopping of ingredients to adults. So pre-cut everything and place it in portions on plates for each child. In addition, you need special kitchen utensils, for example, a small rolling pin that will be convenient to hold in a child’s hand. When everything is prepared and laid out in front of the little “cooks,” you can safely begin the master class. Let the children work with the dough a little, lay out the ingredients, spread the sauce on the dough and, finally, put their “works” on a separate table. Then you'll pop their mini pizzas into the oven. Then you can determine the best pizzas and give a comic culinary cup.

Canapes for children's birthday

Photo

In order for canapés to attract a child's eye, they must definitely look like funny toys.
Therefore, think about what (very fresh and healthy) they will consist of. A variety of canapes made from fruit, cheese and lean meat are perfect. And of course, dream up the decor and image of your “work”! All kids will appreciate the idea and a variety of small sandwiches with vegetables and chicken will be sorted out instantly.

You can decorate a boiled egg by making a sail from a thin slice of meat. Cherry tomatoes will help you turn a banal sandwich with liver pate into a ladybug or a flower. Kids will certainly appreciate the variety of snacks.

Sandwiches "Ladybug"

You will need:

Sliced loaf – 1 pack.
Liver pate (it is better to use homemade) – 200 gr.
Bunch of green lettuce
Cherry tomatoes – 500 gr.
Olives – 1 jar

Cooking method:

Place the loaf on a baking sheet and bake lightly (until lightly crusted)
Spread the pate onto a piece of loaf, in a layer of about 0.5 cm.
Place a lettuce leaf on each piece.
Cut the cherry tomato in half, make a cut into quarters on one side to create the appearance of slightly open ladybug wings.
Cut out the heads from the olives.
Eyes and specks on the wings can be made using sour cream and a toothpick.

Charming ladybugs will delight little guests with their taste and beauty!

Appetizer “Mushrooms on skewers”

You will need:

Cherry tomatoes – 10 pcs.
Quail eggs – 10 pcs.
Hard cheese – 100 gr.
Sour cream – 2-3 tbsp. spoons
A small bunch of parsley

Preparation:

Boil the eggs, cut off the top of the egg so that you can remove the yolk.
Grind the yolks with a fork in a bowl, add sour cream and finely grated cheese.
Mix everything thoroughly, adding a little salt.
Fill with the resulting mixture.
Cut the cherry tomatoes into 2 parts, remove the juice and part of the pulp. So that the tomato can be put on the egg like a hat.
Thread it onto a skewer in the shape of a mushroom. Decorate with a sprig of parsley.
This charming snack will appeal to children and adults alike.

Puff pastry snacks for a buffet table, recipes with photos

Baskets with minced meat and mushrooms

minced meat - 400 grams;
fresh mushrooms - 600 grams;
onions - 4 pieces;
low-fat sour cream (10-15%) – 200 grams;
puff pastry without yeast (1 package) - 500 grams;
cheese (hard) - 300 grams;
vegetable oil for frying.

Wash the mushrooms and remove dirt.

Let's cut it.

We clean and wash the onions.

Chop the onion.

Fry the mushrooms, they will give a lot of juice, when it boils away, add the chopped onion

Add sour cream.

Pizza for kids

Children of any age love pizza. You can prepare it easily at home. Pizza can be made with different toppings. It cooks quickly and is sure to please the kids. If you want to surprise and delight the kids even more, prepare small mini-pizzas with different toppings. Garnish the pizza with original slices of olives and cherry tomatoes. You will definitely like this dish. Interesting decoration of dishes for a children's holiday table is extremely important.

Pizza recipe VIDEO

Decorating children's dishes
If your baby is fascinated by some cartoon or movie character, you can choose a themed design for the dishes. Various food decorations in the form of animals, flowers, and hearts are perfect for girls. You can prepare a salad in the shape of a tiger or lion's face.

An excellent option would be the “Turtle” or “Hedgehog” salad. They look delicious on the table, delighting the kids.

Fruits will also be popular as dessert. Fruits can also be served in different variations. Fruits can be decorated in an original way.

Coconut miracle

Agree that homemade sweets are much tastier than store-bought ones, especially if you make them with cream filling and coconut sprinkles.
The taste of these sweets will be very delicate, and such a dessert will be appreciated not only by the friends of the birthday boy, but also by their parents. Among the treats for a child’s birthday, such sweets will definitely not get lost! To prepare, take:

250 g mascarpone
150 g condensed milk
100 g white chocolate
almonds - as many as you want
100 g coconut flakes
25 ml milk
40 g waffles

Melt the chocolate mixed with milk in a water bath. Separately, beat the mascarpone with condensed milk and combine with chocolate, and then beat well again with a mixer. When the mass becomes homogeneous, put it in the refrigerator to harden, and at this time grind the waffles in a blender. Pour the wafer crumbs into the frozen cheese cream, form into balls and place the almonds inside. Roll the candies in coconut flakes and cool them.

It will be impossible to tear little sweet tooths away from this delicacy, so this dessert must be on the children's holiday table!

Drinks for children

Self-prepared fruit juices, compotes, jelly, fruit drinks, teas, cocoa, cocktails and smoothies will be useful for the child. Use a little imagination by decorating the drink when serving, and your child will happily accept your offering!

Frozen berry juice

Frozen berries perfectly preserve vitamins and beneficial microelements.
They are usually used to make compotes, quick jams, or used as a filling in various baked goods. The recipe for fruit drink made from frozen berries is also popular and loved; when preparing it, a mixture of berries or one type is used. You will need:

Three types of berry fruits: chokeberry, lingonberry and cranberry - 1 tbsp each. every
Filtered water (according to the number of berries) – 1.5 l
Sugar – ½ tbsp.

Cooking method:

The juice is squeezed out of the berries and left in a glass container in the refrigerator.
The juices are boiled in water, a little sugar is added to taste (you can do without it), filtered and mixed with the previously squeezed juice.
The fruit drink comes out rich in taste, moderately sweet, with a pleasant sourness.

Lingonberry juice
You will need:

2 stacks lingonberries,
1 liter of water,
½ cup Sahara.

Preparation:

Sort the lingonberries, wash, mash and squeeze out the juice. Pour it into a glass jar, cover with a lid and place in a cool place.
Pour the pomace into 1 liter of hot water, put on the fire and bring to a boil. Then remove from heat and strain. Cool the broth a little, mix with juice, add sugar and stir.
You can adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe to your taste; if you want a sweeter drink, take up to 200 grams of sand; if it’s less sweet, reduce it to 100 grams.

Banana milkshake

This interesting homemade drink turns out to be so tasty that even little picky people who don’t like milk won’t refuse it.
You will need:

Ice cream (high-quality, without fillers) – 100 g
Ripe large banana – 1 pc.
Milk (baby or boiled, cooled) - 100 ml

Method of preparation: all components, including peeled and chopped banana, are combined in a deep container and processed using an immersion blender. The finished milk drink is poured into glasses and served to children.

Smoothie

A sea of vitamins, no preservatives, dyes or artificial sweeteners - what’s not an ideal dessert option for any child? The smoothie recipes for children that we will master today are such a “yummy” - with the maximum content of nutrients, they do not harm the body. In addition, absolutely everyone likes them very much, due to the presence of a huge number of options and the possibility of improvisation.

Smoothie with oatmeal

You will need:

150 ml of natural yogurt (or kefir, or milk);
2 tbsp. oatmeal;
100 g raspberries;
30 grams of nuts;
1 tsp honey

Method of preparation: pour oatmeal with yogurt (kefir or milk) and leave for several hours. When sufficiently soaked, place in a blender bowl, add raspberries, nuts and honey. Beat everything until smooth. If you cook with milk, the smoothie can even be served warm. But you will need 1 spoon more oatmeal to achieve the desired consistency. Serve the finished smoothie in a mug, garnish with raspberries and nuts.

Fruit smoothie

Almond milk – 500 ml
Dried apricots - ½ cup
Raisins - 1/2 cup
Prunes - ¼ cup
Oat flakes - 5 tbsp. l.
Liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

Wash dried fruits thoroughly with running water and pour boiling water over them. Then pour a glass of hot water over them and leave for a while until the fruits become soft.
Pour the softened dried fruits, oatmeal and honey into the blender bowl, pour the milk into it and bring until smooth.
Pour the cocktail into a beautiful glass and serve.

Natalia

Author

Birthday is a holiday of childhood! Every person, adult and child, remembers unforgettably bright children's birthdays! Give your child joy! In addition to the festive table, do not forget to think about entertainment. If you collect and prepare the costumes of fairy-tale characters in advance, children will be happy to create a theater even from ordinary games: chase and hide-and-seek! Health to you and your loved ones!

Children's menu from 3 to 5 years

Third birthday

Homemade Chocolate

Nowadays you can’t surprise children with chocolate, unless it’s homemade, made with warmth and love.

To make homemade chocolate you will need:

250 grams of granulated sugar
100 ml whole milk
vanillin - on the tip of a knife
130 g quality butter
300 grams of milk powder
5 spoons cocoa (gold label)
Instead of granulated sugar and milk, you can take baby powdered milk formula

Preparation:

Boil milk with vanilla and granulated sugar over low heat, add butter
After the butter has completely dissolved, slowly add cocoa and milk powder mixture, stirring constantly
Boil the mixture for 10 - 15 minutes over low heat with constant stirring
After the mixture thickens, slowly pour it onto a flat plate in a thin layer (the bottom of the plate should be moistened with cold water)
Cut the cooled chocolate into pieces of arbitrary shape
When cooking, you can add dried apricots, ground peanuts, hazelnuts, raisins

Faberge eggs

This dish can become the highlight of the program at a children's party.

To prepare this original dish, we need a whole, intact eggshell. Using a knife, make a neat hole in the shell.

We will need:

one pack of gelatin
glass of sugar
fruits

Preparation:

Pour gelatin with sugar into water (half a liter). Mix thoroughly until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Place on low heat and stir constantly, but do not boil. Strain the hot but not boiling chewing mixture through a nylon. Place a cherry, strawberry or currant sprig into the prepared eggshell. Carefully pour in the hot jelly, cool to room temperature. Place in the refrigerator to harden. After four hours, when the jelly has completely hardened, we begin to clean the shell

Gelatin eggs with a berry inside will attract the attention of all children without exception.

Cocoa balls

Cocoa balls on a stick

Products:

250 g biscuits
100 grams of nut kernels
150 g sugar
2 tablespoons apricot jam
30 g cocoa powder
60 g powdered sugar

Preparation:

Grind the cookies, add jam, sugar and mix thoroughly
Form balls from the resulting mass and roll them in a mixture of cocoa and powdered sugar.

Fruit and berry desserts

To ensure a successful program, provide children with fruit, snacks, and drinks before competitions, and provide hot food and dessert on the table after the program ends.

Fruit and berry desserts are an integral attribute of children's parties.

To prepare this dessert we will need:

6 egg yolks
0.5 l sour cream
zest of one lemon
cherries, canned in their own juice – 1 kg
vanillin on the tip of a knife

Preparation:

Grind 6 yolks with one glass of sugar, add 0.5 liters of sour cream, the zest of one lemon, 1 kg of pitted cherries canned in their own juice and a little vanillin
Beat thoroughly with a whisk, place in molds, and place in the freezer for 10-12 hours
Before serving, decorate with fruit

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Carving, or fabulous edible decor

Carving would be nowhere more appropriate than at a children's party. Carving is nothing more than the art of artistic cutting of vegetables. If you try, you can even cut a full-fledged eagle owl from a watermelon!

The simplest option for beginners is an apple swan. In any case, an animal figurine or a man made of vegetables and fruits will certainly interest children.

Here are some fun recipes for a children's party:

Stuffed eggs can be decorated with “bees”. To begin, prepare a classic appetizer with any filling that is suitable for the children's menu. Then cut the olives and olives in half lengthwise. They came out like “boats”, which are now cut into half rings. Place thinly sliced cucumber wings on top of the egg, then alternately a yellow olive semicircle and a black olive.
Goldfish cutlet. First, steam light, non-greasy cutlets. At the same time, try to make the cutlet flat and oval. Then place the canned corn kernels on top and cut out the tail and fins from the yellow pepper. Finally, cut a circle out of the olive and make an eye out of it.
Vegetables open up a lot of possibilities for creative presentation. Surely you've seen ideas for cooking scrambled eggs in a circle of bell peppers? The same tricks can be done with other vegetables, cutting out the necessary shapes. For example, combining a piece of firm carrot and Korean shredded carrot can produce octopus. Vegetable slices can be used to make almost anything, from fish scales to an edible football field.
Use culinary cutters to cut out stars and hearts from fruit. For example, there are a lot of ideas related to watermelon. Its pulp holds its shape amazingly, so you can cut out watermelon stars, add a few more ingredients, and stick all this beauty on a skewer. You can also add marmalade, marshmallows and cheese to fruit canapes.
Jelly is delicious and fun. You can make the jelly directly in the orange halves and then cut them into slices. You can also serve fruit salad in orange halves. To make jelly, use agar-agar. The main thing is not to forget that with agar-agar the jelly hardens very quickly.
Curd desserts are very tasty, sweet and healthy at the same time. Use your favorite recipes for cottage cheese desserts with fruits or sweet sauces. If the recipe contains agar-agar, then such a dessert will hold its shape perfectly.
Mini cakes on a stick and cake pops are a 100% winning option. The main thing is that they do not have too much sugar. Otherwise, feel free to experiment with sprinkles and other edible decorations.

To summarize, there are several tips that will help in organizing a children's party:

Decorating “the head of everything.” This is the time to show your culinary imagination. The more interesting and funny the snack looks, the better. Use images of popular children's characters or play on themes that are familiar to them.
Use mostly healthy foods . Children are not characterized by moderation in food. Accordingly, it is necessary to prepare something that is safe to eat in large quantities. This does not mean a complete rejection of less healthy foods. It’s just that cupcakes, for example, are better served in portions for each child than to place them on a common buffet.
Convenience of the snack is extremely important. Usually children play, grab onto everything, and then immediately run to the table. It will be extremely difficult to control the cleanliness of their hands during the party. So serve appetizers, for example, on sticks or skewers. Then the likelihood that the child will get dirty and continue to dirty everything around him is much less.
Everything must be the appropriate size . This advice applies not only to food, but also to dishes, furniture, etc. Lower tables, smaller cutlery, etc.
Colorful! We should also have a riot of flowers. Use bright colors and natural dyes. Fruit jelly can add brightness to a delicious cheesecake, while heaping fruit can add interest to panna cotta or pudding.
Finally, avoid foods that are “difficult” to eat. For example, fish dishes where there may be bones.
Before you start creating a menu, familiarize yourself with the nutritional requirements of children of a certain age group.

How to make a snack beautiful and interesting

Children have always loved sweets, and, accordingly, there are a huge number of sweet snacks that they simply adore. The most classic option is ice cream. However, there is no need to buy store-bought ice cream to please your children. On hot summer days, any frozen snack will please them.

You can make frozen bananas in chocolate on a stick, or frozen fruit in juice. Use fun shapes you can find at kitchenware stores. What about frozen people or animals? In addition, you can experiment with chopsticks, use disposable spoons, etc. The main thing is not to forget about safety and convenience. Sweets should be in moderation, so it is better to give such desserts to children in portions.

Food coloring will make most dishes much more attractive to children's eyes. High-quality dyes are safe in small doses, so the main thing is to carefully read the composition and instructions. Add coloring to the frosting and boldly decorate cupcakes, cupcakes and brownies with red, pink and green. You can always allow your child some sweets. The main thing is to know when to stop.

A key factor in a snack's appeal to children is its appearance. So you'll have to use your imagination. For example, you can make boats from a piece of cheese and an apple slice. Place such a snack on a blue plate, and a real ship will emerge, plowing the sea!

There are plenty of fun ways to play up traditional “grown-up” snacks. Just add eyes made of berries, ears made of cheese triangles and a small tail drawn with sauce. Such “mice” can be placed around any individual ingredient, for example, pieces of cheese. A full-fledged culinary skit will be released.

Skewers are the head of everything

Snacks on skewers are, of course, a leader among both adult and children's cooking. They are easy to eat and always look very impressive. By choosing ingredients that contrast in color and shape, you can achieve a truly beautiful snack that will definitely attract curious children.

The main thing is to pre-treat the skewers, if they are wooden, so that children do not prick themselves with them. There are many ways to beautifully serve this appetizer. You can fill jars or a bowl with colorfully colored peas and stick skewers into them. By adding a few lettuce leaves, you can get a real garden where snacks from vegetables, fruits, etc. “grow”. Sweet snacks can be stuck into a large piece of fruit, such as watermelon.