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 Ovation® Milk Pumpkin Spice Break-A-Part to make Pumpkin Ganache Brownies!
I would like to use the White Heart Sweet Shapes to decorate cupcakes for my son.
I like all the little sprinkles, crumbles, and sixlets because they would be great for decorating cupcakes.
The Sixlets..they come in all the great fall colors
Sixlets all the way!
Such as sweet prize.
I like the Sixlets because they are so small and with lots of color!
I love this recipe idea, my kids would have lots of fun!
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would use the Niagara Foiled Solid Jack-O-Lantern Disks because they have cute faces
I’d like to try the Ovation pumpkin spice break apart with apple cidar and as a centerpiece.
I like their Sixlets! Those are my favorite.
I like the Niagra chocolates & the sixlets
I would get the “Foiled Milk Peanut Butter Filled Santas” to use in cookie trays.
I would like to try the Witch’s Brew pack. I like it because there is an assortment of candies.
I would love to use the Autumn Mix Pearls in my Autumn decorating. They are beautiful colours & I feel they would accentuate all my autumn cupcakes & centerpieces.
I love the Niagra Chocolate because chocolate is my favorite candy!
I’d put the Ovation Milk Orange Break Aparts in with fall foliage on a mantle or centerpiece. It would work with the color scheme and add a little sparkle.
There are dinosaur tracks near where I live, and my family loves to stop there and explore every fall after going apple-picking at a local orchard. So for me, dinosaurs and fall are linked in my memories. I know they’re technically not autumn-themed, but I love SweetWorks’ dinosaur eggs! (Link: sweetworks.net/4-75-oz-milk-chocolate-dinosaur-surprise-egg/) They’d be a perfect addition to the fall traditions in my house.
That’s so interesting Mollie. I loved to do a blog post on that day complete with photos. The Chief Blonde
The Ovation® Milk Pumpkin Spice Break-A-Part would be festive on my table.
Thanks for the contest.
I would use the autumn mix pearls because they are so versatile. I love that they look so festive and work for Halloween and thanksgiving.