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: 2+

What You’ll Need:

• 1 packet vanilla cake mix
• Food colouring (3 colours)

Method:

This is a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon with your toddler. Take one packet of vanilla cake mix and prepare as per the instructions. Divide the mixture into 3 bowls. Add a few drops of different coloured food colouring to each bowl and let your toddler mix the colours in.

When your toddler has finished mixing. Let them spoon the mixture in any sequence they like into a greased cake tin. They’ll be delighted by the muddle of colours they are creating.

Bake the cake as per the packet instructions.

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Ages: 5+

What You’ll Need:

• 100g of melted butter
• 1 packet of malt biscuits
• 1/2 a tin of condensed milk
• 1 pack of fruit puffs, marshmellows or eskimos - cut up into bits
• Dried coconut

Method:

Crush biscuits very finely. Chop up the lollies. Combine with half a tin condensed milk and mix well. Roll the mixture into a log and roll it in the coconut.

Place it in the fridge and cut into slices when hard.

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Age: 10 year +

What You’ll Need:

• 1 cup sugar
• ¾ cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup mashed bananas
• 1¾ cup oats
• 1½ cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon baking soda

Method
Preheat oven to 180° C and grease a cooking tray.

Cream together the butter, sugar and egg. It will become light and fluffy. Stir in the mashed bananas and the oats. Combine the remaining dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Blend the mixture well.

Use a teaspoon and measure out the cookie dough onto the greased tray. One teaspoon makes one cookie.

Bake for 15-20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before serving.

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Ages: 8+ (With assistence/supervision)

What You’ll Need:

• 3 Mars Bars
• 6-7 handfuls of cornflakes/rice bubbles

Method:

Melt the 3 Mars Bars in a bowl over boiling water, you’ll need to stir continuously until melted. Add the cornflakes or rices to the chocolate and mix together. Add more cornflakes if needed. Spoon mixture into a muffin tray and leave in the refrigerator until they are hard.

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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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Age: 8+

What You’ll Need:

• 125g butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Method:

Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until creamy and smooth. Sift in flour, baking soda and salt. Beat well. Roll mixture into a a long roll about 6cm wide and 30cm long. Wrap the roll in baking paper and place in the fridge for a minimum of two hours.

When ready - heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.

Use a shape knife to slice cookies off the roll and place them evenly on a greased baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes.

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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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