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 would use the Autumn Mix Pearls – the colors are beautiful, and they would be beautiful on cakes, cupcakes and even atop waffles and pancakes.
I love the Foiled Solid Milk Jack-O-Lantern Discs! They are so adorable! 🙂
the chocolate turkeys would be great for the place settings.
I would layer the Shimmer Gold Gumballs, Shimmer Gold Sixlets, Autumn Mix Pearls, Autumn Mix Sixlets and the Orange Gumballs in a tall clear glass container for a fun Harvest Decoration.
It’s time to turn my coffee bar setup into the warm stuff again (I’ve been drinking cold brew during the summer). The orange Ovation sticks would be great to use to stir my hot drinks – I could put them in a clear heavy glass…..and I would love to have a shallow dish of orange and black foil covered chocolates on the bar as well. Fall colors are great!
I’d use lime green sixlets to make a Frankenstein candy craft.
I would like to use the orange peel stixlets because they would go great with Halloween cake decorating.
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I’m obsessed with all things candy cane flavored, themed, anything!!! I use it EVERYWHERE. And I start decorating with it early, because its “wintery” !
I would choose the sixlets for their colors.
Sunshine Yellow and Orange Peel Sixlets, because those say autumn color to me!
The foil turkeys and Halloween colored foil balls would look good in my display.
Thanks for the sweet sweep.
I’d use the shimmer gold and shimmer orange sixlets and the autumn mix pearls, because they just scream Autumn!!
I would like the Foiled Solid Milk Jack-O-Lantern Discs because they’d be great for Halloween (and they’re delicious!).
Just like the sixlets!!! Mmmm. The Chief Blonde (who loves ya baby!)
I would love to try the Ovation brand products because I love the break apart oranges. What on earth is more fall than the color of orange?
I would like to use the harvest sixlets because they are so versatile and the colors are perfect.
I would use the Sixlets because I like the colors and they would look nice as a part of a centerpiece.
My kids love Nerds and Sixlets. They are great for decorating on cupcakes or cakes. I love some of the ideas you have.
I would put the Halloween balls in fun “Potion” bottle for display… and eating of course 🙂 I would also make Halloween sundaes with my hubby and son using the Halloween Mix Sixlets and Chocolate/Caramel sauce!! Yummo!!