Autumn Treats that Kids can Make!
Crunch, Crunch, Chrunch. It’s time for autumn and you know what that means. Now is the season for fall cider mills, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and tailgating with friends. Fun times can be had with the kids (or you) making a special treat, so when SweetWorks sent me a selection of their autumn decorative candies, I knew that it was time to make some food crafts for kids!
The kids and grandkids will love making this one. Only the smallest children will need your guidance and the bigger kids can have at it and create these gorgeous Autumn Trifles in a matter of minutes. This would be a great kids food craft for school, church groups, scouts or for just some at home fun.
Just so you know, a trifle is an English dessert dish. It is usually made from thick (or often solidified) custard, diced fruit interwoven with sponge fingers or more delicate sponge cake thin layer (soaked in sherry or other fortified wine which name precedes the word ‘trifle’ when describing it) and/or fruit juice/syrup (fruit trifle) and almost always topped with whipped cream. In this case, being a food craft for kids, I obviously did not include any alcohol (but you could for an adult version).
Left to Right: Cookies and Cream Autumn Trifle (made from Little Debbie’s Cookie and Cream Cakes and Sweetworks Autumn Mix Sixlets and Pearls), Orange Snowball Autumn Trifle (made from Hostess Orange Snowballs and Sweetworks Autumn Mix Sixlets and Pearls), Chocolate Autumn Trifle (made from soft chocolate cookies and Sweetworks Autumn Mix Sixlets and Pearls
I created 3 Autumn Trifle versions from the recipe below.
- Cake-like layering ingredients like brownies, snowballs, soft cookies. Homemade or store bought
- Sweetworks Candies (sixlets and pearls in autumn colors) or frosting or ice cream to go between cake layers. It's fun to have an assortment for a variety of trifles.
- Whip cream or frosting or syrups to add interest to the top
- Trifle containers: you can use individual trifle cups or clear short glasses or ½ pint mason jars
- Start with your cake-like ingredients. Cut to size of your container and layer one in. It's even okay to cut the cake a bit big and smoosh it in for extra gooyness.
- Layer with Candies
- Repeat steps 1&2 once or twice depending on height of container
- Top with a dollop of frosting/whip cream, chocolate sauce, and some more Sweetworks candy
- Your imagination is your limit with this recipe.
The Sweetworks candies are so beautiful and colorful, a little goes a long way. They are just the right highlight on just about any dessert you make. In big quantities they make an amazing display for any holiday. SweetWorks manufactures and distributes upscale gum, candy and chocolate. Whatever you may be looking for, SweetWorks has it!
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I’d use the Foiled Solid Milk Jack-O-Lantern Discs. They would look great scattered around the table for our Halloween party! You could even glue them to a door wreath. 🙂 Thanks.
I like the bloody skulls and orange and black bones. I could make some cute things with those candies.
The Jackolanterns are cool so re the fall colored sixlets
I would like the foiled solid milk Halloween balls, it would look great in my candy dish and go with the Halloween decorations.
I’d love to use some sixlets as Fall cupcake toppers! I could make designs out of them! =)
sixlets because they are very versatile.
I would like to use the Foiled Solid Milk Jack-O-Lantern Discs in a table centerpiece because they are cute pumpkins that could add a nice orange touch, plus, be treats for any guests 🙂
We all need the sweet in our lives to ward off the depressive things that have happened during the day
I would use the Foiled Solid Milk Jack-O-Lantern Discs for Halloween! They’re cute and look really tasty, too!
I think the foil Jack-O-Lanterns would be cute for Halloween.
I would use Sixlets the most I think. They just scream fall colors and that would be great for any Fall goodies!
Sixlets because they are colorful
The Foiled Solid Milk Footballs would be magnificent as part of a dessert for a Sunday feast.
I would like the Chocolate Turkeys!! They would look good on the Thanksgiving Table!!
I would love the orange and black skulls candy-it would look awesome in my orange candy bowl, especially at halloween.
I don’t know they all look great!!
I would use the solid foiled milk orange balls and the Halloween mix sixlets for decorating. They would great in a vase or candy bowl until they’re eaten throughout the holidays.
I would use the Sixlets in the Harvest colors. My family loves these and they would look nice in a candy dish.
I’d like to use Sixlets because they would bring back fond childhood memories.
Decorating with candy isn’t something I would have thought of, but the Autumn Mix Sixlets and Pearls are so pretty I can see the appeal. I’d use them in a covered jar, though, so I could still eat them when I’ve had enough of admiring them. 🙂