Sweet dishes for birthdays. Photo gallery “Birthday Cakes for Children”

As a rule, a children's holiday involves fun outdoor games, sometimes with the participation of an animator or a clown, and, of course, the favorite dessert table for all children. And this means an abundance of sweets: ice cream, cream or soufflé, pastries, cakes and drinks (both carbonated and plain). Sometimes served light fruit salads and interesting (children's) sandwiches.

Children who are excited about the game can be served the same drinks as adults - juleps, cobblers, frappes, fizzy drinks and other cocktails. But, of course, only non-alcoholic ones. And, of course, you can’t do without delicious desserts. Making them at home is not at all difficult. In this article you will find simple recipes delicious desserts and cocktails for children of any age.

Dessert

Fruit treat

Ingredients:

Ice cream 2 different varieties(or more).

Whipped cream – 20 g

A pineapple

Cherries

For those who prefer ice cream instead of drinks, offer a pineapple treat. We put two different types of ice cream into the outlet. Fill the space between them with whipped cream (20 g). Place pineapple slices on top of the ice cream. Each serving of ice cream should be decorated with a whipped cream flower and 2 cherries.

Citrus mousse

Jelly dishes are no less loved by children. I suggest trying the citrus mousse.

Ingredients:

Gelatin – 4 g

Orange – 1 pc.

Lemon – 1 pc.

Sugar

Soak 4 g gelatin in cold boiled water(half a glass) for 30 minutes. Place the swollen gelatin on a sieve. Cut the zest from half an orange and a quarter of a lemon and place it in boiling water. Add 40 g here granulated sugar and gelatin. Boil lightly, stir and remove from heat. After the jelly has cooled to room temperature, pour into it the juice squeezed from lemon and orange. Beat the resulting mass into a fluffy foam and place it in a bowl. Place the mousse in the refrigerator to harden.

Pears baked with honey

Very refined and delicious dessert for children festive table– pears baked with honey.

Ingredients:

Pears – 2 pcs.

Honey - 1.5 tbsp. spoons

Ginger

Walnuts

One and a half tbsp. mix spoons of honey with one pinch of ginger and half a tablespoon of chopped walnuts. Wash 2 large pears, peel and core. Then dip the fruit in the honey mixture, place it on a baking sheet and bake in the oven.

Banana salad

Banana salad will help strengthen your kids' strength (the recipe is for 1 serving).

Ingredients:

Banana – 1 pc.

Nuts – 0.5 tbsp. spoons

Chocolate syrup or cream – 20 g

1 banana, peeled and cut lengthwise. Sprinkle banana halves with chopped nuts (0.5 tbsp). Whisk the cream (20 g) well and apply it in an intricate pattern to the banana halves. You can use chocolate syrup instead of cream.

Original banana dessert

From of this fruit You can prepare another original banana dessert.

Ingredients:

Bananas – 200 g

Cocoa powder – 5 g

Cream – 50 g

Nuts – 1 tbsp. spoons

Sugar – 2 tbsp. spoons

Peel 200 g bananas and cut into pieces. 2 tbsp. Mix spoons of granulated sugar with 5 g of cocoa powder. Dip banana pieces in this mixture and place them in a vase. Whip 50 g of cream and decorate bananas with it. Sprinkle chopped nuts (1 tablespoon) on top and serve.

Assorted fruit salad

The kids will also be pleased with the assorted fruit salad.

Ingredients:

Orange – 1 pc.

Seedless grapes – 100 g

Kiwi – 2 pcs.

Banana – 1 pc.

Orange syrup – 100 ml

Pomegranate - 1 pc.

Peel the orange and cut into thin slices. Cut seedless green grapes (100 g) in half. Peel the kiwi and cut into slices. Cut the peeled banana into pieces. Mix everything in a salad bowl, pour over orange syrup(100 ml) and decorate with pomegranate seeds. (100 g).

Dessert “Strawberry curd”

Strawberries with cottage cheese are also filling and tasty.

Ingredients:

Strawberries – 100 g

Cottage cheese – 80 g

Milk – 30 ml

Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon

Sugar

Place strawberries (100 g) washed in cold boiled water in a colander to drain. Place half the berries on a deep plate and sprinkle lightly with sugar.
Grind 80 g of cottage cheese with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, 30 ml milk and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Spread the resulting fluffy mass over the strawberries. Decorate the top of the cottage cheese with the second half of the berries. Serve the dish chilled.

Beverages

Fruit frappe

Treat the kids to a fruit frappe.

Ingredients:

Fruit juice with pulp – 40 ml

Milk – 30 ml

Ice cream – 80 g

Syrup – 1 teaspoon

40 ml any fruit juice The pulp should be mixed with 30 ml of milk. Add this mixture to ice cream (80 g) and beat well. Add 1 teaspoon of syrup (to your taste), mix well again and pour into a glass.

Julep

Ingredients:

Milk – 90 ml

Cottage cheese – 40 g

Egg yolk - 1 pc.

Mint

Sugar – 2 teaspoons

90 ml chilled milk, 40 g cottage cheese and 1 egg yolk shake in a shaker until homogeneous mass. Pour the drink into a glass, in which you first need to grind 3 shoots of fresh mint with 2 teaspoons of granulated sugar. Decorate the julep with mint leaves. You can put slices canned apricot. But you shouldn’t add ice to prevent a hot baby from getting a sore throat.

Cocktail "Bambi"

Ingredients:

Creamy ice cream – 1 tbsp. spoon

Orange juice – 100 g

Pitted cherries

Sparkling water – 50 ml

Make your child’s holiday beautiful - for his birthday, decorate a room, a photo zone, a chair, a festive table, sweet table and candy - bar.

To make your child’s birthday look like a beautiful fairy tale, learn how to make decorations for the room, birthday table, photo zone, and high chair with your own hands.

Decoration for a children's birthday party for a child aged 1 - 7 years - festive table: photo ideas

Well, what would a birthday be without a festive table? Wherever your child’s party takes place, at home, in a playroom or cafe, you need to think over a menu that will include healthy, tasty and beautiful dishes. But sometimes this is not enough to seat the overplayed birthday boy and his guests at the table and persuade them to eat. The table itself needs to be beautifully decorated and made attractive for kids.

IMPORTANT: On the Internet and in newspapers you can find advertisements for entrepreneurs who are engaged in the decoration of children's tables. Look for ideas in their portfolio if your own imagination is lacking.

It is unlikely that children will want to play aristocrats; they will not appreciate a snow-white tablecloth and expensive china. Color their holiday with bright colors!
To begin, choose a theme for the holiday. Flowers, butterflies, princesses - for girls, cars, pirates, dinosaurs - for boys. If your child has a favorite cartoon, why not use it as the basis for a themed birthday party?

Think about what you will focus on - the tablecloth or the dishes. There is a rule - choose a plain tablecloth for bright dishes. And, conversely, if the emphasis is on a bright tablecloth with a child’s drawing, it is better to take monochromatic dishes so that they do not get lost on the table. In the photo you can see that the table setting also looks good, where the tablecloth and dishes complement each other in design and style.

If you haven't found a tablecloth that suits your style, decorate the one you have with confetti and streamers. Just make sure that these decorations don’t get into children’s food plates.
The main character of the celebration is undoubtedly the birthday boy. But pay attention to all his little guests. Think about their seating arrangement. It will be very good if you mark the place for each child with a banquet card. If the children cannot read yet, put their photos on the cards rather than their names. Leave a sweet compliment or a small souvenir near each place; your guests will be delighted. Also give each little guest a birthday cap.

Also choose napkins to match your style, but don’t just lay them out near the plates or put them in cups. Master the technique of origami or figure folding, and make figures from them.

You should not decorate the children's table with fresh flowers in vases. These are kids, anything can happen. Spilled water, a scattered bouquet, broken glass will darken the holiday. Think of a better way to decorate the table with balloons.

Children love to drink from straws. Find and buy some beautiful and original ones that resonate with the theme of your holiday. If there are none, you can buy the most ordinary ones and decorate them with your own hands. By the way, the same decorations can be on skewers for canapés.

Change the labels on children's drinks. Do it yourself or download ready-made templates labels with a photo of the birthday boy and wishes for him.

IMPORTANT: You will need to work on the themed decoration of the festive table for the little birthday boy. Find ready-made templates for caps, flags, labels, cup stickers, and banquet cards. Process them in Photoshop or another editor and print them at your nearest printing house.

Decorating a sweet table for a children's birthday: photo ideas

Game rooms and entertainment centers do not always have large tables, where children can have a full holiday lunch or dinner. But you can always organize a small sweet table.

1. Decorate the table itself, decorate it with balls and flags.
2. Place sweet treats on the table - cookies and candies in boxes and bright vases, portioned cupcakes, pastries, juices in portioned boxes (the labels on them, again, can be changed) or bright cups with straws. Great idea– serve cupcakes and pastries with edible drawings or inscriptions.
3. Place a separate stack of plastic plates so that each child can help themselves.
4. Don't forget about napkins either. Place them in a stack or place them in a glass.
5. If there is a cake on the dessert table, cut it into pieces in advance, and have an adult help the little guests put these pieces on their plates.

IMPORTANT: You can serve cookies with wishes to children on a sweet table. Or riddles or tasks that will start the next fun competition.

VIDEO: Sweet table for children's birthday. Disney Holiday

Decorating children's dishes for a child's birthday: photo ideas

Take the time to decorate the dishes that you will serve at your children's birthday party. You can borrow design ideas from the photo below.

Children love sandwiches very much. Use the search on the main page of our website to read articles on how to beautifully prepare canapés with chicken, vegetables and seafood for them.

Decorating a candy bar for a child’s birthday 1 – 7 years old: photo ideas

It is very fashionable to organize a candy bar for a children’s birthday - a table with big amount vases, jars and plates with different sizes of sweets. Bright and tasty! The main thing is that children do not overeat.

IMPORTANT: The Candy bar, like the sweet table, should be located at such a height that children can easily reach treats. They cannot be allowed to stretch, knocking over the dishes with sweets in front.

Decorate the area behind the candy bar with balloons, flags, and posters. Then the place for refreshments will simultaneously become a photo zone.

VIDEO: Candy Bar - “Princesses”

Cake decoration for a children's birthday party for a child aged 1 – 7 years: photo ideas

A birthday without a cake is not the same, both adults and children will agree. A children's birthday cake should be special, because it is a delicacy that kids look forward to and will receive as a reward for participating in competitions and games. And the birthday boy must make a wish while blowing out the candles.

1. The simplest and most standard decision you can make is to buy ready cake, yoghurt, Napoleon, Honey cake, Smetannik, Day and Night, etc., and with it - candles in the amount of how old the child turns. Or one candle in the form of a number. They are now very beautiful, with an unusual design.
2. In recent years, cakes have been made to order by pastry shops and artisans at home. Some of them are so beautiful that it’s even a pity to eat them. You can order the cake filling and design in advance.
3. If you bake yourself, you often spoil your family delicious cakes, try your best for your birthday boy! Please note that you will need to set aside a whole day to prepare a real confectionery masterpiece.

IMPORTANT: You can bake a sponge cake unusual shape, for example, in the form of a number. You will need to cut the cakes and lay them out as shown in the picture.

Don't make a cake with layers of shortcrust pastry for children under 3 years old. Toddlers may choke on crumbs. Biscuit is the most suitable solution. The cream should be natural and not too greasy.
You can make decorations for a children's cake from:

• glaze (icing)
• cream
• chocolate
• marzipan
• mastics

Watch master classes on making inscriptions and cake figurines. Also, in many confectionery stores you can buy ready-made figurines made from chocolate, marzipan and mastic. But can you be sure that they are absolutely safe?

Themes for decorating a birthday cake for a child can be:

• number (how old the child turns)
• child’s favorite cartoon (film, fairy tale, game)
• child’s hobbies (flowers, animals, roller skates, football, ballet, etc.)

If you arrange themed party As part of a child's birthday, the cake must correspond to the general concept of the holiday.

DIY personalized garland for a boy’s birthday: templates, photos

It’s easy to make a garland with which you will decorate a room for a child’s birthday. It may look like:

• multi-colored flags with the name of the birthday boy and the words “Congratulations!” or “Happy Birthday!”
• a train with carriages “carrying” numbers, letters or photographs of the birthday boy
• circles
• hearts
• cars, airplanes, hearts, etc.

You can download ready-made flag templates for the garland. For example, for a boy, with Minions.

Also try to make a garland yourself using Photoshop, Power Point or another editor.

DIY personalized garland for a girl’s birthday: templates, photos

You can make a delicate garland for a girl’s birthday in the same way as for a boy. Choose a picture - with girly cartoons, princesses, flowers, etc.

Or take up handicrafts. Prepare:

• wrapping paper in several colors
• colorful paper molds for cupcakes or corrugated paper
• colored paper
• pencil
• ruler
• scissors

1. From wrapping paper, cut out rectangles equal to the number of flags on the garland.
2. Cut out these rectangles and fold them in half. Glue the halves together, trim their edges to make the flags the desired shape.
3. Make circles from crepe paper or muffin tins. By the way, you can use the same rectangles from wrapping paper for them. Just fold them like an accordion and glue them into circles.
4. Cut out circles from colored paper. Also make letters from colored paper.
5. Glue the corrugated circles to the flags in the center, to them - colored circles, to these circles - letters.
6. Assemble the garland by hanging the flags on a strong colored thread or braid and attach it in the right place on the wall.

VIDEO: Birthday stretching garland: master class

Decorating a photo zone for a child’s birthday: photo ideas

Previously, photo zones were done for weddings. But I would like to leave memories in the form of unusual, bright photographs from other special events, for example, children's day birth.

IMPORTANT: If you have at least 3,500 rubles, you can order a photo zone according to your taste from a company that organizes holidays.

Doing it yourself will definitely be cheaper. And also with great love for the little birthday boy.
Elements of your photo zone can be:

1. Decorative fence. You can paint and decorate a section of several boards at your discretion. Such fences with clouds, flowers, trees look especially impressive in nature.
2. Banner. Another idea for a photo zone background. It can be made from fabric (sew on the same fake clouds, stars, flowers, insects, etc.) or from paper. Decorate a huge paper poster with photos of the baby, inscriptions, paper flowers, garlands on threads, etc.
3. Arch. For a child, make it from multi-colored balloons.
4. Balloons. Children's favorite figurines, helium balloons on strings, and numbers made from balloons are suitable.
5. Number. It can be made not only from balls, but also from paper, ribbons, napkins, disks, etc.
6. Models of gifts. Or real gifts in boxes wrapped in bright paper with bows and ribbons or gift bags.
7. Kids toys. For example, a huge teddy bear.

VIDEO: How to make a simple photo zone for a children's birthday?

Decorating a high chair for a child's birthday: photo ideas

When your baby turns 1 year old, his high chair can be turned into a real throne! Has it ever occurred to you that a chair can be decorated? Look, it looks amazing in the photo!
Decorate the tabletop of the high chair with a banner with the number “1”, the inscription “one” or the baby’s name.

Make a garland of small balloons.

Garlands made from ribbon tassels and paper flowers also look impressive.

If a girl is celebrating her birthday, the chair can be decorated with tulle ribbons. The decor is made according to the principle of a tutu skirt. Read the article ““ to understand the technology.

The decoration of the high chair can also be themed.

Decoration for children's birthday made of fruits

Useful fruit desserts It also needs to be presented beautifully for children. Experience shows that they fly away with a bang:

• fruit and berry slices, laid out figuratively
• fruit figurines (food art)
• fruit and berry skewers
• fruit and berry canapés
• fruits and berries in tartlets

You can make a number decoration for your child’s birthday using the ideas from the article “”

Number for a child's birthday.

An element of the photo zone or simply a room decoration will be a poster with a photo of the birthday boy, his significant dates, interesting facts and wishes. If you want to make one, you might be interested in the following articles:

1. « « Poster for a children's birthday, made according to a template. VIDEO: How to decorate a children's birthday? DIY number made from napkins and cardboard

But also an experienced adult mother of two children. My son is 8, my daughter is 18, and during all this time I have held many, many children’s parties at home.

I always cooked it myself, I share my experience.

Main principles

It's beautiful, but fast

One of the main mistakes of many mothers is choosing beautiful and complex canapés and sandwiches with a bunch of small details (ears, eyes, noses) that cannot be made the day before the holiday, and for which there is almost never enough time before the guests arrive. Everything looks cool in pictures on the Internet, but it’s incredibly difficult to replicate it with an inexperienced hand. For example, make one sandwich and put it on the plate. Children can put the eyes on their own sandwich.

It takes a very long time to make these penguins from olives, carrots and cheese. I checked!

It's common

Don't even argue. I had the opportunity to make sure that children did not like the new experimental salads. They are generally alarmed by a mixture of 3 or more products. Of course, you can cook something original; adult guests will eat it if necessary, but you must have “guests” chicken cutlets, purees, baked goods with the usual fillings, etc. You can show your imagination when serving all these dishes.

It's not harmful

The Internet is full of battles in the comments of parents with different opinions. Some people think that it’s not scary to offer pizza, fries and hamburgers once a year, flavored with mayonnaise and ketchup. Others insist that food should not be harmful on any day of the year. Endless debate, I don't interfere. You should definitely avoid foods that are too fatty, salty, fried (in case one of your guests has pancreatic problems), soda, and other drinks with aggressive dyes.

Age appropriate

This, I think, is understandable. Even now, the article is read by parents of two- and ten-year-old children. Naturally, there are restrictions for each age. If guests from 2 to 10 years old gather for the holiday (this often happens at family events), it is better to prepare several options for dishes.

This can be eaten carefully

Yes, this is a problem. Children come to the holiday in lush snow-white lace or simply in expensive fashionable clothes. A drop of red juice or ketchup, smeared blue cream on a cake, berry stains, etc. often spoil all this beauty forever.

Lots of drinking water

Many children can only drink water. The sweet, sweet juice you prepared may make you even more thirsty. Be sure to label small bottles of water with different bright labels so that everyone knows “their water.” After an active gaming program you want to drink a lot, make a sufficient supply.

Three rounds

Children don't like feasts. Most guests eat little and quickly. Let there be 2-3 approaches for 5-10 minutes. While the guests were getting ready, we had light snacks, then we played. Hot dish, more fun. Cake, have a nice evening everyone, goodbye. On home holiday You can allow such gastronomic breaks; no animator will rush you.

Constructor “Assemble canapes”

This is mine too personal experience. Somehow I saw enough of beautiful and delicious canapés, I decided to make 5 types of 20 pieces for the children. The result was disastrous. My whole idea with a combination of cheeses, berries, grapes, ham with vegetables and fish with lemon failed.

Comments poured in: “I don’t eat bell peppers,” “Ugh, unhook the fish, I just want an olive,” “I’ll have blueberries, but I won’t have cheese,” etc. The adults then finished eating this disassembled “battlefield” with canapés.

I took the experience into account and next time offered empty skewers and small bowls with olives, cheese, slices of cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper, lemon, slices of ham, chicken fillet, lettuce leaves and sprigs of herbs. More squares of white and black bread (3x3 cm).

It was a hit! You could fold your own canapé and give it to him unusual name. Teach children to skewer foods so as not to touch their hands on shared plates.

Main course

It’s difficult to write all the recipes here; I’ll give you a couple of ideas from my own experience.

Chicken skewers (cooked in a frying pan or in the oven)

This is my go-to dish. Many parents complain, but do not have time to try the kebabs themselves, since the children quickly eat everything. They are made first in a frying pan, then 30 minutes before serving - in the oven. It’s convenient for mom, since she doesn’t have to stand at the stove when guests gather, and preparations can be made in advance. Gentle marinade - sour cream, olive oil, lemon

Defrost the dough square. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces, beat it thinly, add salt and lightly pepper. We wrap a block of cheese in some pieces (this is for piglets), and put prunes in other chops.

Now we roll up those that with cheese, and the ball - with filling from prunes. If you are worried that not all children will like prunes, make them only with cheese.

Roll out slightly puff pastry, cut into squares and wrap the meat tubes in it. We sculpt the ears and nose and tail separately and attach them to the “carcass”.

Roll out the other part of the puff pastry and cut into thin strips. We wind on meat balls so that you get a ball.

Place them together on a baking sheet and brush generously with egg yolk. 45-50 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees (can be reduced to 180 at the end). What sweethearts... :)

Chicken cutlet balls

I used to make all sorts of hedgehog mice out of them using pieces different products. Then I got tired of it, I started sticking bright pictures on sticks (they are called “cupcake decorations”) based on the holiday theme or ordinary skewers. You can easily find Disney princesses, pirates, and all sorts of different super heroes. I had to print out Sherlock Holmes and attach it to toothpicks myself, but this can be done in advance.

My recipe: fry 2 onions in sunflower oil, combine with 1 kg of chicken fillet, add 100 g of soaked bread to 100 g of milk. Salt and pepper, put the minced meat in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Fry the balls for high fire until a crust forms, then finish cooking in the oven for another 30 minutes.

Build your own hamburger with homemade patty

Holding a children's party on your own is incredibly difficult, so I personally rejoice at every way to entertain restless guests.

A five-minute master class on assembling a hamburger with your homemade round cutlet will definitely appeal. Here again it’s easy to cut off the whims “I don’t like tomatoes, pickles, onions, lettuce, cheese.” Let them do what they love. From buns and cutlets. Or vice versa, only with tomatoes and cheese)).

I buy ready-made (small) sesame buns; I don’t offer sauce and mayonnaise to little ones.

Small pies with different fillings

Same good idea, but it’s better to make pies baked, not fried. The size of the pies is “one tooth”. My guests, even the most capricious ones, gladly agree to a pie with potatoes and a pie with meat. Experiments with salted cottage cheese and greens, cabbage and fish pies are successful with parents, but children do not like them.

Don’t be lazy to make the pies different shapes to appearance it was possible to distinguish what kind of filling the “flying saucer” or “boomerang” had.

I always make pancakes too. I suggest adults wrap salmon or caviar; kids eat it with sour cream.

Fruits and berries

Cups with berries

This is usually placed on a table with sweets (there is no Russian name, we borrow the English candy bar). Just plastic or cardboard cups with a mixture of washed berries. It is better, of course, not to give it to children under 5 years old, they will get dirty.

Just place them before the start of the holiday, as this is the first thing children grab. Everyone likes small individual portions beautiful berries, no strength to hold on. Let them eat something hot first!

Fruit hedgehogs

With this name and this example, I call for a simple culinary master class. Everyone always gets a hedgehog, you can even take it home for your mother in a small gift bag. You don’t have to eat right away, just use fun at the moment when you need to pacify overexcited guests.

Sweets

There is no consensus here either. Of course, for everyone beautiful photos children's birthdays - mind-blowing cakes with fondant to order. They are not only beautiful, but also tasty, with natural dyes, With low-fat yogurt instead of cream, etc.

My ideas are for ardent opponents of such cakes. And in general, any products with cream at children's parties.

Casserole with sour cream

Naturally, it is prepared for very young guests (2-3 years old). Instead of cake layers there are layers of casserole. Cream - fresh sour cream with sugar. Decorations: fresh berries and colored sprinkles.

Meringue

It’s safe and can be prepared in advance. There are few secrets there: cold whites, into which not a single drop of yolk has fallen, whisk mixer at medium speed (it won’t work with a blender), add sugar gradually. Beat the whites into a strong foam (4 egg whites, 1 cup sugar), place on oiled paper with a spoon or pastry bag, bake for 1.5-2 hours at a temperature of 100 degrees. The oven must be turned on in advance. You can tint part of the protein beet juice or natural dyes in bags.

A serious event for every housewife - to receive guests and fully provide ceremonial meal, cozy atmosphere and entertainment program. And the most important thing is to celebrate children’s birthdays at home, and today we offer a sweet table as a simplified solution for all mothers and grandmothers. After all, desserts are the most anticipated dish for young guests, and a meal entirely dedicated to sweets will not leave any child behind.

Another review article for celebrating a children's birthday includes not the most traditional sweets and portioned baking options.

Of course, no one can deny the unique charm of the classic sweet table favorites. Potato and custard cakes, wafer rolls, “Grated” and apple pies, “Napoleon” and “Kyiv” cakes. Glorious age-old recipes will delight many generations of children.

However, today we are focusing on simple sweet recipes with convenient buffet serving.

Fruits: simple techniques for beautiful presentation

How to Serve Desserts That Don't Require Cutlery

Subtleties of serving for serving Cake Pops ov and sweet fruit canapés are described in the section of the same name.

Ingredients for sweet and fruit canapés

All types of seasonal fruits, hard cheese, nuts, marmalade, marshmallows. And don't forget about figured cutting, including cookie cutters and a teaspoon of apple, pear, watermelon and cantaloupe pulp.

Win-win options for fruit canapés:

• Cube hard cheese, pears, berry marmalade, a small slice of orange.
• Fruit cubes, wrapped as if in a sail, in a thin slice Dutch cheese and a mint leaf.
• Different varieties of marmalade, alternating with slices of lemon or orange.
• Berry canapés: one at a time whole berry raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries. You can thread it alternating with squares of cheese or into a long strip of hard cheese, like beads in a ribbon.

• Cheese cube, boiled carrot cube, greased sugar syrup or honey, half a walnut and a grape.
• Circle sweet and sour apple, a cube of cheese, a slice of lemon and an olive.
• Marshmallows, berries, half a walnut.

Any of the fruit pieces can be dipped in melted chocolate - white or black. And in what combination to string your chocolate neighbor is a matter of personal taste.

Sliced ​​fruit in a watermelon or citrus bowl

Canapes are convenient and beautiful. But you can do it differently and no less effectively. Offer children forks and the freedom to choose from a large selection of fruit slices seasonal fruits and vegetables.

When serving, use natural containers - a bowl made from watermelon and melon peels, bowls made from grapefruit halves and large oranges, from which the pulp has been extracted.

Fruit and milk jelly

Multilayer rainbow jelly, clear jelly with whole berries and pieces of fruit, jelly cakes, often with a layer of curd - all this pleases children much more than adults. Especially if the beauty is served in portions.

To do this, you need to freeze the jelly in separate molds or regular bowls.

Or enclose jelly in a slice citrus fruit. The second idea will definitely captivate children at a birthday party and make your sweet table unforgettable!

Currant jelly in lemon peel

We will need

• 3 medium sized lemons
• 200 grams of red currants,
• 20 g edible gelatin,
• 100 ml water,
• 60 grams of sugar,
• 1 tsp. vanilla sugar.

Preparation

1. Soak the gelatin.
2. Cut the lemons in half, using a spoon to remove all the pulp without breaking the peel. Squeeze the juice from the pulp of 2 lemons.
3. Rub the currants through a sieve, squeezing out the juice.
4. Combine water, currant and lemon juice.
5. Add regular and vanilla sugar and bring the liquid to a boil.
6. Completely dissolve the gelatin and add it to the currant liquid.

Pour hot into bowls of lemon halves and let cool, then put in the refrigerator. When the jelly has completely set, cut the lemon halves into 2 parts. Amazing “currant lemon” - ready to serve!

Other colorful combinations for baby jelly: lime peel with milk or raspberry jelly. Orange - with kiwi jelly. Grapefruit - with blueberry or blackcurrant jelly.

Cottage cheese and pineapple dessert

The beauty of this dessert is the ease of preparation and the availability of ingredients at any time of the year. Children will like it due to the possibility of serving it in portions and its resemblance to jelly.

Ingredients

• 400 g of cottage cheese,
• 200 grams of sour cream,
• Canned pineapples (about 1 can 600-800 ml),
• 500 ml pineapple juice,
• 25 g gelatin,
• ½ can of condensed milk,
• Vanillin and crushed seedless dried fruits - to taste.

The preparation is incredibly simple!

1. Soak the gelatin in pineapple juice for 1 hour, and then, as usual, dissolve it over low heat, without bringing it to a boil.
2. Beat cottage cheese, sour cream, condensed milk and vanillin in a blender.
3. Combine with cooled gelatin and add chopped pineapple cubes.

Pour into bowls and let harden completely in the refrigerator. We take the dessert out of the bowls before serving and serve in the form of hemispheres on contrasting saucers.

Curd "Stripe"

This light dessert takes a little more fuss than the previous one, but it looks more impressive. At the same time, all the advantages of portioned jelly dishes for a sweet table for a children's birthday are preserved.

Ingredients

• Low-fat cottage cheese - 250 g,
• Yogurt – 250 ml,
• Gelatin – 25 g,
• Cocoa powder – 4 tbsp.,
• Vanillin – ½ tsp,
• Milk – 50 ml,
• Honey or sugar - to taste.

Preparation

1. Soak gelatin in milk.
2. Mix it with cottage cheese, yogurt and honey and mix thoroughly (mixer, blender).
3. Divide the mixture in half and add cocoa powder to one part.
4. Place the mixture alternately in jelly molds or bowls so that the white and chocolate layers formed a striped dessert after hardening.

Cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour. We take the finished dessert out of the bowls and serve it in the form of hemispheres, which can be lightly sprinkled with grated dark chocolate or cut into portions.

Candies made from a mixture of dried fruits

Let's take walnuts and 2-3 types of dried fruits, soaked in water at room temperature and washed well. For example, prunes and dried apricots. Place the ingredients in a blender and grind to a viscous mass, to which you can add honey or sugar if desired.

To improve the consistency, you can add a spoonful of sour cream or soaked powdered milk(1 tbsp milk is poured with 2-3 tbsp water).

After wetting our hands with water, form balls from the mass and roll them in the simplest powders - milk powder, cocoa, coconut flakes, chopped nuts. Cool the sweets.

Serve on a tray with skewers or cocktail tubes inserted.

You can also use raisins and dates. It’s also convenient that the candies can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks, which means they can be made in advance.

Buckwheat candies “Baked truffle”

For tasty and healthy sweets, where a rare person can guess the leading component, we need the following ingredients:

• 200 grams of buckwheat flour,
• 200 ml yogurt,
• 1 tbsp sugar,
• 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder,
• 5 tbsp. prune puree,
• 3-5 whole prunes,
• 0.5 tsp soda,
• 5 tbsp. honey,
• Sesame – 2 tbsp.,
• Sunflower oil – 1 tbsp.

Preparation

1. Sifting buckwheat flour and combine dry ingredients.
2. Prune puree, sunflower oil and blend the yogurt in a blender until smooth.
3. Gradually add a mixture of dry ingredients to the twisted mass, 1-2 spoons at a time.
4. From the resulting dough we make flat cakes, in the middle of which we place some very finely chopped prunes.
5. Close the cakes and form into balls.
6. Bake the candies for 7-10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Decorate the finished candies with honey and sesame seeds. To do this, dip the candy in honey until half is immersed, take it out, turn it and again dip it halfway into the container with sesame seeds.

Sweet sausage

Long known, but not the most common recipe will allow us to diversify the list of convenient sweets. We will also be able to include slices sweet sausage in fruit canapés.

Ingredients

• Cookies “Jubilee” 500 gr.,
• Butter 200 gr.,
• Cocoa powder 2 tbsp,
• Sugar – 100 gr.,
• Milk 1 glass.

Preparation

1. Grind half the cookies into flour in a blender, and break half into small pieces with your hands. To do this, it is convenient to use a careful breaking technique “in a plastic bag”.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then pour in the milk and add sugar and cocoa powder.
3. Stirring constantly, continue heating until almost boiling.
4. Add the ground cookies, mix and remove from heat.
5. In a large bowl, add the cookie pieces to the hot mixture.

From the resulting mass we form sausages using cling film or parchment paper. Place the formed sausages in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours. To serve, cut the chilled sausages into slices.

Cake Pops - America's mega-popular dessert

Small sponge cakes that are completely covered with a hard icing.

The most curious thing about this sensational dessert is that, in fact, Cake Pops are a small “Potato” cake on a stick. A convenient one is returning to us from America buffet recipe almost the most famous delicacy of our latitudes.

How to make Cake Pops? You can tinker with homemade sponge cake. Or you can save on effort by trusting a reputable trademark and buying ready-made biscuits in the supermarket.

The process of forming balls is elementary: the biscuit is broken into pieces and combined with plastic mixtures of chocolate, fruit, and condensed milk. Roll the resulting slightly sticky dough into balls... And this is where the fun begins!

Subtleties of making Cake Pops

1. Be sure to dip the skewers (or banal cocktail tubes!) into the ganache, stick them into the balls and put the preparations in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
2. Dip the cooled pieces into melted chocolate or glaze and decorate with suitable sprinkles. Among the delicious bulk decorations are not only confectionery sugar trifles, but also natural ingredients– chopped nuts or sesame seeds.
3. Simple techniques for decorating Cake Pops can be seen here - from 11:00:

Recipes for viscous mixtures to combine with biscuit dough numerous. These can be ganaches made from all types of chocolate, jams, honey and preserves, as well as sweet mixtures specially prepared for Cake Pops.

We offer you 2 popular recipes that can be prepared all year round:

Cherry milk mixture

Mix frozen cherries (500 g) with condensed milk (80 g) in a blender until smooth.

Chocolate ganache

Melt chocolate (500 g), add where butter(50 g), cream (100 g) and powdered sugar to taste.

Chocolate cookies without flour

The cookies look like gingerbread. They are dry on top, but in the middle - like soft caramel. It tastes like chocolate toffee. It is convenient for children to take and carry them, which allows them not to turn their birthday into sitting at the dessert table.

We will need

• 2 cups powdered sugar,
• 1.5 cups chocolate chips,
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 3 pcs. egg whites,
• 1 tbsp. starch,
• ¼ tsp. salt.

Preparation

1. We drown chocolate chips in a water bath.
2. Whisk egg whites with a pinch of salt - until stiff foam.
3. Gradually add 1 cup of powdered sugar to the whites, continuing to stir.
4. Add the resulting mixture to cocoa powder. Add melted chocolate, starch and salt there and knead the dough.

Using a tablespoon, roll the sticky dough balls in powdered sugar and place on a greased baking sheet. vegetable oil. Place in the oven preheated to 175 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Curd juicer

Everything new is well forgotten old! This happens often in cooking, and a striking example of this was the “potato” composition of the mega-popular Cake Pops, described above.

And now we’ll tell you how to quickly and easily feed your child’s young guests open pies with curd filling. Note that here again we are dealing with ingredients that are available year-round.

Dough ingredients

Flour – 200 g, egg – 1 pc., egg yolk – 1 pc., powdered sugar – 50 g, butter – 100 g, baking powder – 1/3 tsp, salt – 1 pinch.

Filling ingredients

Cottage cheese (9%) – 200 g, sugar – 40 g, flour – 30 g, sour cream – 20 g, egg yolk – ½ pc. (filling) + ½ pcs. (for lubrication), water – 1 tbsp. (for lubrication).

Making the filling

• Combine and thoroughly beat cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream, flour and ½ yolk in a blender.
• Let the filling rest in the refrigerator.

Let's start the test

1. In a mixer, beat the butter with powdered sugar, eggs, yolk and salt.
2. Grind the flour through a sieve, add baking powder, and, after mixing, add to the butter mixture.
3. We continue to beat the dough with a mixer until it forms dense lumps. We collect the lumps and knead the dough with our hands.

We roll the sausage, which we divide with a knife into 5-6 equal parts. We flatten each piece with our hands or roll it out with a rolling pin into a circle or oval.

Let's start with Sochniki

• Place about 1 tablespoon of filling on half the circle and cover with the other half of the dough - so that the filling is slightly visible around the perimeter.
• Place the juices on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and grease with yolk for a beautiful color. Grease = ½ yolk + water.
• Bake at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.

A birthday menu for children, and especially a sweet table, is a great opportunity to return to the world of childhood. We can remember classic recipes, or arm yourself modern variations on the theme of classics, in the preparation of which you just want to involve the child himself.

Don't hesitate - get involved! After all, this is a useful educational experience so that our child realizes how much work and imagination is spent on his interesting growing up.

Children's birthdays are always associated with a lot of gifts, surprises, games and, of course, a delicious and beautiful festive table.

It is very important for children that holiday dishes are not only tasty, but also beautiful. And if holiday dish will arouse keen interest and curiosity among children, know that you managed to prepare something that is really appropriate.

The news portal “site” in this article has prepared for you several interesting and easy-to-prepare dessert ideas for children that will definitely become great addition for a birthday pie or cake.

So, let's try to create a children's birthday menu.

Desserts for children

Canapes for children

Fruit canapes for children

What could be healthier and tastier than aromatic and beautifully decorated pieces of fruit. To prepare fruit canapés, you will need special skewers, or you can use wooden kebab skewers.

If very young children will be present at the party, be sure to ensure that the children do not harm themselves with the sharp ends of the skewers.

If you are too worried about this and consider using skewers for canapés children's party not valid, then you can use waffle cups or little bags. Fill each of them with sliced ​​fruit and distribute portions to the children.

An excellent hearty and at the same time beautiful and tasty dessert - fruit canapes with pancakes . This dessert will take some time to prepare, but believe me, it's worth it. Fry small pancakes, wait until they cool, and start preparing the dessert. Thread pancakes onto a wooden kebab skewer, alternating them with pieces of delicious fruit and berries.

If you don't have it in your arsenal large quantity variety of fruits, but you want to surprise and delight the kids, this is possible with apple balls.

Peel the apples and use a special spoon to cut out small balls from the pulp. Thread each ball onto a stick or wooden skewer. Then dip the apple balls in caramel, chocolate frosting or honey. Sprinkle with colorful edible sprinkles. The children will be delighted!

Jelly for children

Children simply adore this bright and quivering dish! Preparing this dessert is very simple, but it is very important to serve it correctly.

One of the options for serving jelly, which should arouse keen interest among the children's audience, is jelly in fruit.

As a mold for preparing and serving jelly on the table, you can use: oranges, tangerines, watermelon, melon, apples, pears, etc.

Sweet sticks

This dessert option can be prepared by the children themselves right at their birthday party. Therefore, you can easily combine serving dessert with an exciting and fun game.

Give the kids the most ordinary ones breadsticks. To decorate the dessert, you will also need: chocolate glaze, condensed milk, honey or caramel. Multi-colored edible sprinkles for decoration.

Pancakes for children

This traditional dessert Almost everyone likes it! And I like pancakes with delicious filling even more.

Toast thin pancakes all over the pan and then coat them delicious fillings(fruits, chocolate, nuts, caramel, honey, cream, etc.). Serve dessert hot!