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!
Visit all our Sweetworks Holiday Decorating Posts HERE!
Can’t Wait to Win it?
Buy these fabulous Sweetworks Autumn candies used to decorate these Autumn food crafts at SweetWorks. Get social with SweetWorks on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
This is a Fashionista Event and a promotional item was provided to me by Sweetworks. Hosts for this event are Still Blonde after all these Years and ModlyChic.





I think the Halloween Mix Sixlets® (2lb Bag) would be perfect for my Halloween baking decorating.
OMG, Sixlets! I loved these as a kid!
I would like to try the mint ovation chocolate sticks as stirrers for warm milk or hot chocolates-
Boulders Solid Color Jawbreakers are one of my favorites. These have great color for candy dishes. And I like Jawbreakers because I can’t chew through them like Lollipops.
I would use the Ovation Break-A-Part oranges because they are so delicious!
I love the Niagara chocolate turkeys!
I would decorate with the Orange & Black Skulls candy. They would look perfect in glass canisters on my counter!
I went to the website and I really liked the following candies – Mint Ovation® Sticks (3.5 oz); Foiled Solid Milk Yellow Hearts; Halloween Mix Sixlets® Basically I love the package that you have in the giveaway! I want fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving colors! Thanks so much for asking! Michele 🙂
I would like to use Niagara caramel chocolate bars broken up in pieces in my Autumn Decorating because the rich color of caramel reminds me of autumn.
I’d like to use the Oakleaf Orange & Black Skulls!
They are so cute and I love Halloween skulls!
Wed’ probably like the spooky eyes. We have two grandkids, my self, and a son in law all with birthdays close to Halloween and it would be fun to decorate cakes or even a large ‘cookie cake” with some of these decorations!
I would love the Chocolate Toolkit. It would be a great accessory for my son to build a gingerbread house.
I would use Sixlets!!
I would like the Milk Chocolate Bear Pops!
the foiled wrapped halloween chocolate balls because it is chocolate of course
I love the Sixlets because they are easy to use as decorations and because they bring back fond memories.
I would use the autumn mix pearls in my fall holiday decorating.
I would decorate a cake with the sixlets!
I would use the foil turkeys as part of the table setting for the holidays, they are so cute.
The Foiled Solid Milk Halloween Balls, cause it is almost Halloween & they are so cute