Beautiful Budgeting Basics : A Teddy Bears Picnic

Friday 11 October 2013

A Teddy Bears Picnic - Cooking With Mum

Cooking With Mum - Basic Cooking For Children With Mum's Supervision

Nothing beats helping Mum in the kitchen and being able to give a treat to Dad when he gets home with the delicious home baking that you yourself have prepared.

Its just a magic feeling, and memories like this will already be remembered as cherished times with your Mum.

My nieces love to cook when they come to my place,
And last holidays we had a baking day, where they cooked and got to take home to Mum & Dad all their hard work, here is a shot of one of them cooking away

So lets plan a teddy bears picnic

Honey Rice Bubble Slice

Ingredients:

125g Butter
125g Sugar
2TB Honey

Method:

Bring to boil and boil for 5 minutes.
Add 4 cups rice bubbles, stir well.
Press into sponge roll tin.
Cut while warm.

Cupcakes A Plenty

Ingredients:

200 grams flour
150 grams caster sugar
125 grams butter
125 ml milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 large eggs
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and place 12 cupcake cups in a muffin tray.
Combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater until smooth,for about 2-3 minutes.
Divide the batter between the cupcake cups and bake for 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool.

And fantastically ice, be creative

Popcorn Balls

Ingredients

5 tablespoonsvegetable oil

2 1/2 cup sun popped popcorn

1/4 cup butter

1 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method

Add 1 tablespoon of the oil to a 4 quart saucepan, and heat over high heat. When oil is hot, add 1/2 cup of popping corn. Keep pan moving constantly.

When corn stops popping, remove from heat.

Place popped corn in oven to keep warm.

Repeat until all corn has been popped. Set aside.

In a medium saucepan with a candy thermometer inserted, combine butter, sugar, and corn syrup. Stir well and bring to boiling over medium heat.

Stir in condensed milk; simmer, stirring constantly, until thermometer reads 238 degrees F (114 degrees C).

Stir in vanilla.

Pour caramel over popped corn and stir to coat.

Butter hands lightly; shape popcorn into balls about 3 1/2 inches in diameter.

Coloured Pancakes and Fruit Kebabs

Now who wouldn't want to eat that

Ingredients:

Depending how your feeling, instant pancake mix might be the way to go, so I'm using that as a guide

2 cups of Pancake Mix
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Food Colouring red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple colour
Red fruit: raspberries or strawberries
Orange fruit: oranges pineapple
Yellow fruit: or bananas kiwis
Green fruit: or green grapes
Blue fruit: blueberries
Purple fruit: grapes or blackberries
6 inch bamboo skewers

Method:

Choose one fruit for each colour of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Cut fruit into one inch cubes. String one fruit from each colour onto the skewer in rainbow order.
Repeat this until you have 12 fruit skewers.

In a small bowl, combine the Pancake mix, milk, and eggs until blended.

Separate mixture evenly into 6 small bowls (around 1/2 cup each).

Dye each bowl one of the colour's of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).

Cook pancakes by pouring 1/4 cup of batter onto a hot greased skillet or griddle.

This will make two pancakes of each colour.

Stack cooked pancakes in rainbow order and insert 6 fruit skewers into the pancakes creating a rainbow shape.

Serve with syrup.

Makes 2 stacks of complete rainbows with 2 fruit rainbows

Now to go about organising a Teddy Bears Picnic

First

Invite Your teddies and give them a name tag, so everyone knows who is who.
Pick 2 great books to read to them
You will need a big blanket
All the food you made
And friends- Invite Mum, Brothers, Sisters, Friends all to come ( Give them name tags to)
Have fun and take photos, so you can share your holiday photos when you go back to school, or better still post me a pic here, id love to see your picnic photos.