Ages:10+

What You’ll Need:

• 4 white marshmallows
• 4 pink marshmallows
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• a dash of salt
• 1/2 cup of hot water
• 2 1/2 cups of milk

Method:

Place cocoa, sugar and salt in a saucepan, add hot water and stir well. Heat on stove until boiling, stir constantly. Turn heat down, and add milk. Keep stirring while heating the milk - but don’t boil the milk. Once heated pour mixture into 4 mugs. Place one pink and one white marshmallow on top.

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Age: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• 4 tablesppons cream cheese
• 3 cups of icing sugar
• 1/2 cup of coconut
• 2 teaspoons milk
• 2 drops of vanilla essense
• 2 drops of red food coloring

Method: Grease a square tin. Beat cream cheese until smooth, add icing sugar and milk continuing to beat slowly. Beat in the vanilla and coconut - the mixture will become very stiff. Place half the mixture in the greased tin, mix the red food coloring in with the remaining mixture. Spread the pink half of the mixture over the top of the white half.

Chill the coconut ice in the fridge until firm and then cut into small squares.

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Age: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• 1 vanilla instant pudding
• 3 1/4 cups milk
• 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 punnet of strawberries
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Method:

Mix instant pudding, milk and vanilla in a bowl and beat for about a minute. Leave to cool in the fridge for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile wash, dry and hull the berries. Halve the strawberries and sprinkle with sugar. Take the sauce out of the fridge and beat again until smooth. Divide berries into 6 glasses, spoon in sauce and serve.

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Age: 12+

What You’ll Need:

• 1/2 cup of butter
• 5 apples
• 1 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of brown sugar
• a dash of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Grease a flat baking dish.

Melt butter in the microwave and set aside to cool. Peel, core and slice the apples and place them in the baking dish. Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add egg and the melted butter to the dry ingredients, mix well using a fork. Spread the mixture over the apples and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top.

Bake for 40 mins

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Age: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 500g cooking chocolate
• 1 tin Condensed Milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essense
• 1 cup of chopped almonds

Method:

Break up chocolate. Combine chocolate with condensed milk and vanilla essense in a saucepan. Place over another saucepan that is half filled with water. Heat the double saucepan and stir continuously as the mixture melts. Add the chopped almonds. Line a small slice tin with baking paper and pour in the fudge. Place in fridge until cool and then cut into bite sized pieces. Store in fridge.

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Ages: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• One tin of peach halves
• 1/4 of a cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 of a teaspoon of cinnamon
• 5 teaspoons of cornflakes
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• Vanilla ice cream

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celcius. Place peach halves with the cut side up in a baking dish. Pour peach juice into the bottom of the baking dish - not on top of the peaches.

Mix brown sugar and cinamon in a cup and sprinkle over the peaches. Place 1/2 a teaspoon of cornflakes on top of each peach. And top with a wee dot of butter.

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes. Serve with ice cream.

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Ages: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 1 cup of tinned apricots
• 1 cup of tinned peaches
• 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons of white sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla

Method:

Place 3cm of water into a large roasting pan. Place the roasting pan in the oven and set it to bake at 180 degrees celcius. Drain the peaches and apricots and place in a shallow baking dish. Sprinkle the brown sugar over the fruit. Place eggs, white sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat with a mixer. Pour the mixture over the top of the fruit. Set the baking dish into the roasting dish with the 3cm of water.

Bake for an hour.

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