Today I’ve got such a cute Christmas fun food plan to share with you – straightforward candy penguins! I’ve been watching for weeks to share these fun treats with you – didn’t they prove cute?
I hope you may love these funny very little penguins the maximum amount as I do, i feel they're in all probability my favorite creation this year to date.
Make them together with your youngsters for a fun Christmas vacation project or serve them up as a toothsome joyous treat. They’re good to relinquish as homemade gifts and for party food too.
It’s the primary day of December and I’m terribly excited to announce a project that I’ve been performing on behind the scenes all month – the fare wonderful Fun Food Advent Calendar.
Every day from currently till Christmas I’ll be sharing a replacement joyous food plan and I’ll be saying them over on the new Advent Calendar page too, therefore do click on the link, bookmarker it and pop back day by day to ascertain what’s new.
I’ve got a awfully busy (but fun!) month prior to Maine, I actually hope you relish all the fun food I actually have planned.
Now back to the penguins – these area unit very easy to create, I promise. My batch terminated up with such a spread of individual characters – the toughest factor is conveyance yourself to eat them.
INGREDIENTS :
- 200 g bag marshmallows
- 200 g dark chocolate
- handful yellow and orange smarties (chocolate beans)
- edible candy eyes
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Line a baking tray or plate with grease proof or baking paper. (Check that it will fit in your fridge first.)
- Break up the dark chocolate and place it in a microwave safe bowl.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second bursts, stirring between each one to ensure it melts evenly. Be careful not to overheat or burn the chocolate, heat only until just melted and smooth.
- Hold a marshmallow by an end ‘edge’ between a finger and thumb and carefully dip it into the chocolate, leaving a patch of uncovered marshmallow for the penguins tummy. Hold it upside down over the bowl of chocolate to allow any excess chocolate to drip off, then stand the marshmallow up on the baking tray as shown below. (Top tip: you’ll find it easier to manoeuvre if you hold a teaspoon or cocktail stick in your other hand to help guide it into place.)
- Don’t worry if some of the chocolate puddles behind the marshmallow – it forms a little tail!
- Repeat with the remaining marshmallows until you have created as many penguins as you need.
- Place the tray in the fridge until the chocolate has completely hardened – 10-15 minutes should do it.
- When the chocolate has set, re-melt the bowl of dark chocolate if needed.
- Cut the smarties in half with a sharp knife. Some of them may crumble, so discard (eat!) those and just keep the ones with a fairy straight edge.
- Lay all of the penguins down
- Using a little of the dark chocolate, stick two candy eyes and a smartie ‘beak’ onto each penguin.
- Return to the fridge to set.
- Store the penguins in an airtight tin or container until ready to serve.
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