Children's festival - always a very important event. But, in addition to positive emotions, a children's holiday due a large amount of hassle. And one of the most important and urgent problems - the menu for a children's holiday. It is important to carefully consider all the details - and do dishes, and their clearance. After all, children's menu is largely different from an adult - a salad "Olivier" will not be the best solution.
For kids it is not necessary to prepare a large number of heavy fatty foods. In principle, even hotter definitely be superfluous. Light snacks, salads and desserts - perhaps that is all that should be on the children's table. Menu for children's holiday quite specific. Below you will find some recipes that are sure will please your little guests.
Sandwiches for children
Excellent snacks can be sandwiches. And it is very important to properly arrange them - because children's appetite is largely dependent on the child's perception dishes. So my mother is to show imagination. And we'll help her with that.
Sandwich "Clown"
To prepare a sandwich, you will need simple ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toasting
- ½ pickle
- 1 slice of bell pepper
- 1 slice of sausage
- 1 small piece of carrot
- 1 Olives and olive 1
- 1 boiled egg
The bread should be lightly dry - or in a toaster or in the oven. Bread put sausage. From red bell pepper, cut lips smiling, and egg white - teeth. Put them on the bottom of sausage, imitating a smile. From olives do eyebrows and eyes. Yellow bell pepper hair do, but because of pickles - a bow. And do not forget the tip - it must be made from carrots. Funny sandwich is ready!
Sandwich "Cake"
In the event that you are celebrating the birthday of the baby, you can prepare sandwiches in the form of cake. They are prepared easy, and fast enough. You'll need the following ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toasting
- 1 slice of sausage
- 1 piece of any hard cheese
- 1 strip of red and yellow peppers 1 strip
- ½ pickle
- 1 crab sticks
- ½ briquette cheese
A piece of bread generously smear cream cheese. From the remaining ingredients prepare the wedges of the same length width: one green - from pickles, two - of hard cheese, two - from sausages. Put them on a piece of bread spread with a cross in the form of a cake. Red pepper cut candle and yellow - the flame of the candle itself.
Sandwich "House"
Another option festive sandwiches - "House." To make it, you need the following ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toasting
- 10 grams butter
- 1 crab sticks
- 1 slice of cheese
- A strip of yellow bell pepper
- ½ pickle
- 1 slice of sausage
Spread on bread butter. From crab sticks make the foundation of the house, and from the sausage - himself a house. Do not forget to cut out recess under the window, and the window itself - of pickles. The roof was cut cheese and yellow pepper - pipe. Window on the roof is made of olives, and the smoke from the chimney - black olives. Your house is ready!
Salads for children
Menu for children's holiday should include a variety of salads. In principle, many salads can be prepared for both adults and children. But remember that children's digestive system works a little differently than an adult. First, pay attention to the salads - refuse mayonnaise and other fatty sauces. And olive oil is preferable to use, instead of sunflower oil.
Also remember that the baby food should be not only delicious, but also useful. So try to choose for salads only natural ingredients - fruit and vegetables. Below we offer several options for the festive salad menu. Experiment and you will cook the most delicious salad!
Beet salad
To make it, you need the following ingredients (for two servings):
- 2 beet Small
- 6 walnuts
- 2 prunes
- 3 tablespoons sour cream
Boil the beets in their skins until cooked - about 2 hours. While beets cooked, pour boiling water prunes and raisins, leave for an hour. Once the beets is ready, clean it from skin and rub on a small grater. While beets will cool down, carefully chop the walnuts - may be using the grinder.
Mix beets and walnuts, season with sour cream and mix again. In order to interest children, salad must correctly apply. You can put it in the form of a heart, framed him raisins. And you can - in the form of attractive faces where the eyes will prune, and the mouth and nose - raisins.
Cakes for children's holiday
Birthday cake
What a children's holiday complete without cake? And buy the kids cakes factory production is not desirable - it may be too bold, and at times of poor quality. It makes more sense to cook it yourself. Make it is not difficult - to cope with this task, even not very experienced mother. For the cake, which we offer to cook, you need the following ingredients:
- 400 grams of any shortcake
- 250 gram of any fat-free yogurt
- 150 grams of sour cream
- 0, 5 cups sugar
- 100 grams of milk
- 1 apple
As whip cottage cheese and sour cream, adding sugar to the pre. Dampen a milk biscuits and place it on the dish in a single layer. Grease it with whipped cream cheese, then cover with another layer of biscuits and cheese grease again. Chop one cookie, sprinkle it the top layer and garnish with finely chopped apple. Cake is ready!
Fruit Cake
There is another very tasty cake that like almost all children. To cook it you need the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of wheat flour
- 200 grams of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 shortbread
- 1 peach
Carefully separate the yolks from the whites. Mash the yolks with sugar and sprinkle in a pre-sifted flour. Protein is also necessary to whip using a mixer, adding a few spoonfuls of sugar. After the proteins acquire consistency steep foam, they should be mixed with a mixture of egg yolk and flour.
Sunflower oil Grease a baking dish, put it in the dough and place in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake the cake for about 20 minutes is necessary. During baking is strictly forbidden to open the oven - otherwise the cake will settle much.
While the cake is baked, prepare the cream. For him, you will need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of sour cream
- 1 cup of sugar
- Confectionery powder
- A quarter of a teaspoon of gelatin
Using a mixer, beat the cream thoroughly with sugar. Gelatin pre pour 100 grams of hot water and leave to cool. After the gelatin is cool, mix it with cream and put for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
Ready cake cut in half. By the way, it is much easier to cut the cake using a cord yarn, not a knife - half turn perfectly aligned. Promazhte get the cream cakes. Crush the cookies into crumbs, and sprinkle on the sides and top. Peaches cut into small pieces and garnish the top. This cake is recommended to cook the day before - the cake has to stand in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours.
In principle, in this case it is possible to experiment - cream may be any. You can beat the egg whites with the sugar, you can lubricate the yogurt or sour curd. But remember that you should not be used to prepare a cake, fruit syrups, chocolate and cocoa. These components have a lot of children can cause allergic reactions.
By the way, making the children's menu for the holiday, it would be nice to talk with the parents beforehand younger guests. It is important to know not only the taste preferences of the children, but possible limitations. For young children allergic reaction can occur on almost any product. Therefore it is very important to completely eliminate them. After all, surely brigade "first aid" is not included in the script of your holiday?
Of course, we offer you only a small part of all the dishes that can be prepared in a festive table for children. Most importantly, you will need a mom - this time, desire and fantasy. Do not forget about entertainment and, of course, a camera. And your holiday will be the most memorable, not only for children but also for adults!