A children's holiday is always a very significant event. But, in addition to positive emotions, a lot of troubles are connected with the children's holiday. And one of the most important and actual problems is the menu for the children's holiday. It is very important to carefully think through all the nuances - the dishes themselves, and their design. After all, the children's menu is largely different from the adult - salad "olivier" will not be the best solution. For kids, do not prepare a large number of heavy fatty foods. In principle, even hotter definitely will be superfluous. Light snacks, salads and dessert - perhaps, this is all that should be on the children's table. The menu for the children's holiday is quite specific. Below you will find some recipes for dishes that are sure to please your little guests.
Sandwiches for children
Excellent light snacks can besandwiches. And then it is very important to properly design them - because children's appetite in many ways depends on the child's perception of the dish. Therefore, my mother should show imagination. And we will help her in this. Sandwich "Clown" For the preparation of one sandwich you will need simple ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toast
- ½ salted cucumber
- 1 slice of bell pepper
- 1 slice of boiled sausage
- 1 small piece of carrot
- 1 olive and 1 olive
- 1 boiled egg
Bread should be slightly dried - either intoaster, or in the oven. Put bread on the sausage. From red Bulgarian pepper cut out smiling lips, and from egg whites - teeth. Place them on the bottom of the boiled sausage, imitating a smile. From olives and olives make eyebrows and eyes. From the yellow bell pepper make the hair, and from the salted cucumber - bow. And do not forget about the spout - it must be made from carrots. A merry sandwich is ready! Sandwich "Tort" In the event that you celebrate the birthday of the baby, you can cook sandwiches in the form of a cake. They are prepared easily, and quickly enough. You will need the following ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toast
- 1 slice of sausage
- 1 slice of any hard cheese
- 1 strip of red and 1 strip of yellow pepper
- ½ salted cucumber
- 1 crab stick
- ½ briquettes of processed cheese
A slice of bread is plentifully smeared with melted cheese. Of the remaining ingredients, prepare slabs of the same length of width: one green - from a salted cucumber, two - from hard cheese, two - from a sausage. Lay them on a slice of bread crosswise, in the shape of a cake. From red pepper cut a candle, and from yellow - a flame of this most candle. Sandwich "House" And another version of festive sandwiches - "The Lodge". To prepare it you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 slice of bread for toast
- 10 grams of butter
- 1 crab stick
- 1 slice of hard cheese
- Strip of yellow bell pepper
- ½ salted cucumber
- 1 slice of boiled sausage
Spread butter on the bread. From the crab stick make the foundation of the house, and from the boiled sausage - the house itself. Do not forget to cut out the groove under the window, and the window itself - from the salted cucumber. Roof cut out of cheese, and from yellow pepper - a pipe. Make a window on the roof of the olive, and the smoke from the pipe - from the olive. Your house is ready!
Salads for children
The menu for a children's party should includea variety of salads. In principle, a lot of salads can be cooked for adults and children alike. But remember that the children's digestive tract works a little differently than an adult. First, pay attention to the salad dressing - give up mayonnaise and other fatty sauces. And oil is preferably used olive, and not sunflower. Also remember that children's food should not only be tasty, but also useful. Therefore, try to choose for salads only natural ingredients - fruits and vegetables. Below we offer you several options for a salad for the festive menu. Experiment and you will make the most delicious salad! Beet Salad To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients (in two portions):
- 2 small beets
- 6 walnuts
- 2 prunes
- 3 tablespoons sour cream
Boil the beets in the skins until it is ready -approximately 2 hours. While the beets are being cooked, pour prunes with boiling water and prunes and raisins, leave for one hour. After the beet is ready, peel it and peel it on a fine grater. While the beets will cool down, carefully grind the walnuts - you can use a coffee grinder. Mix beetroot and walnuts, season with sour cream and mix again. In order to interest children, the salad must be properly served. You can put it in the form of a heart, framing it with raisins. And you can - in the form of muzzle, where the eyes are from prunes, and the mouth and nose - from raisins.
Cakes for children's holiday
A festive cakedoes without a cake? And buying cakes for factory production is undesirable - it can be too fat, and sometimes even low-quality. Therefore it is much more reasonable to prepare it yourself. It's not at all difficult to do it - even a very experienced mother will cope with this task. For the cake that we offer you to cook, you will need the following ingredients:
- 400 grams of any shortbread cookie
- 250 grams of any fat-free cottage cheese
- 150 grams of sour cream
- 0, 5 cups of sugar
- 100 grams of milk
- 1 apple
How to whip the cottage cheese and sour cream, addingpreliminarily there sugar. Dampen the milk cookies and place it on a dish in one layer. Lubricate it with whipped curd, then cover another layer of cookies and grease again with cottage cheese. Grind one cookie, sprinkle the top layer and decorate with a finely chopped apple. The cake is ready! Fruit cake There is another very delicious cake that almost all children like. To make it, you need the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of wheat flour
- 200 grams of granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 shortbread cookie
- 1 peach
Carefully separate the yolks from the proteins. Pound the yolks with sugar and pour the previously sieved flour. Proteins should be beaten with a mixer, adding a few spoons of sugar. After the proteins acquire the consistency of steep foam, they must be mixed with a mixture of yolk and flour. Lubricate the baking dish with sunflower oil, place the dough into it and place it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake the biscuit for about 20 minutes. During baking, it is strictly forbidden to open the oven - otherwise the cake will strongly settle. While the biscuit is baked, cook the cream. For him you will need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of sour cream
- 1 cup of sugar
- Confectionery powder
- The fourth part of a teaspoon of gelatin
With a mixer, carefully beat the sour cream withsugar. Gelatin pre-pour 100 grams of hot water and leave to cool. After the gelatin has cooled, mix it with sour cream and place it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Cut the biscuit in half. By the way, it's much more convenient to cut a sponge cake with a kapron thread, and not a knife - the halves turn out to be perfectly even. Spread the cakes with the resulting cream. Chop the cookies into a crumb and sprinkle on the sides and top. Peaches cut into small pieces and decorate from above. This cake is recommended to cook the day before - the cake should stand in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. In principle, in this case, you can experiment - the cream can be anything. You can whip egg whites with sugar, you can lubricate with yogurt or sweet cottage cheese. But remember that you should not use fruit syrups, chocolate and cocoa to make a cake. These components can cause an allergic reaction in very many children. By the way, making a children's menu for the holiday, it would be nice to have a preliminary talk with the parents of the young guests. It is important to learn not only the taste preferences of children, but possible limitations. After all, in young children, an allergic reaction can manifest itself on almost any product. Therefore it is very important to completely exclude them. After all, for sure the brigade "ambulance" is not included in the scenario of your holiday? Of course, we offered your attention only a small part of all the dishes that can be prepared for a festive table for children. The most important thing that mom will need is time, desire and imagination. Do not forget about the entertainment program and, of course, the camera. And your holiday will be the most unforgettable, not only for children, but also for adults! We advise you to read: