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: 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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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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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: 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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Age: 10+

What You’ll Need:

• 1/2 cup of butter (loosely packed)
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• 5 cups rice bubbles

Method:

Place butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan bring to the boil and then cook on low for 7 minutes. Stir constantly to ensure mixture doesn’t burn. Place rice bubbles in a mixing bowl, and pour the honey mixture over them. Combine quickly. Press mixture into a well greased cake slice tin and cut while hot.

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