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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In my autumn decorating I’d love to use the Coral Shimmer Sixlets because not only do myself and my children LOVE sixlets, they are also a beautiful color and would add a shimmer and shine to my decorations! I’d also love to use Foiled Solid Milk Orange Balls and Gold Balls because they are the perfect Fall colors and would go with my current decorations, just adding a new element!! Thank you so much for this giveaway.. if I win I think I might actually be able to talk my 3 children (they are 12, 5, and 2!) into helping me decorate this year 😉
I like the sixlets laydown bag from SweetWorks. First, this is one of my granddaughters favorite candies…I have clear glass containers to put all around the house with lids. I’d fill them and put them upstairs and downstairs, guest room and bathrooms, for special treats anytime this fall season.
Sixlets to make pretty fall leaves.
I’d like to use the Green & White Spearmint Candy Crumble™ Jar because they have a minty flavor
I would like to use the Autumn Mix Pearls to decorate cupcakes
The orange peel gum balls are perfect
I like Sixlets and they have a Halloween Mix Sixlets….great for decoration on the table or to use in baking.
I WOULD USE FALL COLORED SIXLETS BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE CANDIES.
I like this Niagara Chocolates®
because i love choclate
I like to decorate with Sixlets because they a re so colorful and can be used so many ways.
I would like to use Niagara Chocolates because I love chocolate everyone loves it.
I would use the orange and gold foiled solid milk balls in a fall centerpiece.
I would use the sixlets, love the looks of them on cakes, cupcakes and now I will try them on deserts for kids.
These because they are my fave candy! sweetworks.net/halloween-mix-sixlets-2lb-bag/
I would use the Ovation® Milk Pumpkin Spice Break-A-Part for Autumn decorating, because the pumpkin spice is perfect for Autumn.
I’d like to use the Foiled Solid Milk Crisp Halloween Balls because I love crispy chocolate
I like the orange sixlets for cup cakes or maybe just in a jar.
We would like to have the Autumn Mix Pearls so we can use them to do pumpkins and turkeys with the grandkids. I know they are going to love it.
I would like to use Sweetwork’s Halloween Mix Sixlets® so I could put them on top of the Halloween themed cake I plan on making for my family on Halloween night! They would be the perfect accent to my cake!
I enjoy it all, but love the huge jawbreakers with gum centers, keeps the kids busy for a long time