Children's buffet. Recipes for your child's birthday party menu

A child's birthday is one of the most important holidays for every family. Guests, children's laughter, fun, funny photos, pleasant fuss and chores throughout the day. And of course, it is impossible to imagine this day without holiday table, delicious sweet cake, funny trinkets that children love so much. Table decoration, of course, will require imagination, time and effort, but the happy eyes of a beloved child are worth such stress.

Organizational moments

First of all, you need to decide:

• how many guests do you invite;
• what is the theme and program of the holiday;
• what place in the festive program is a treat;
• the treat involves the preparation and decoration of a festive children's table or it will be a dessert buffet;
• how ready your potential guests are for self-service at the table.

Warning!

Since we are talking about decorating the table on the children's birthday, and the guests of the dear birthday boy will come to have fun and play pranks, and not sit decorously around the table, do not use at the holiday:

• breakable dishes,
• expensive and valuable services for you,
• candles,
• sharp knives,
• small details of decoration,
• fresh flowers with sharp rich aromas,
• dyes and flavors that cause allergic reactions.

Table, tablecloth

The choice is definitely in favor of a stable and sturdy table. He must withstand the onslaught of children's fun, fuss, tapping with hands and utensils on the countertop, feet on the legs of the table. The height should be comfortable for the growth of young guests.

Deciding on a common theme holiday, you can choose a tablecloth. Children's birthday is in no way combined with a classic snow-white starched tablecloth. More democratic options will suit you.

• A themed tablecloth with drawings or applications on the theme of your holiday will be an excellent basis - a background for the festive table, and on memorable photos it will always serve as a signal for memories of the theme of the holiday.
• Paper cover: cover the table with plain paper of any color, and at one of the stages of the festive day, invite guests to write birthday wishes or draw something. So your "tablecloth" will gradually become thematic and unique. Children at such a table will feel confident and calm. And funny photos will capture both the design and the original result.
• Oilcloth coatings look beautiful and practical. You can originally arrange oilcloths different colors. Easy to remove if needed upper layer. The edges can be decorated with bright clothespins or bows.
• A piece of bright colorful fabric, possibly with a children's pattern, is perfect as a tablecloth for a children's table.

Napkins, cards

Napkins are a great addition to the table decoration on a children's birthday. Artfully folded and laid out, they will give originality to your table. Both fabric and paper napkins, decorated with stickers, fastened with a bright ribbon or a paper ring with a funny muzzle of your favorite cartoon character, will surely please your birthday boy and his guests.

Cards with the name of the guest and his photo will be a great detail. It is not difficult to prepare them yourself, using a ready-made printing base, colored felt-tip pens or pens, and photos of friends invited to visit. During the holiday, guests can write wishes to the birthday man and leave them as a keepsake. And you can also write to the hero of the occasion merry wishes guests on their birthday and present such memory cards.

And one more nice decor detail. Small toys from kinder surprises in line with the theme of the holiday will be the most pleasant "highlight" that will surprise and delight. Don't forget to take some photos with the original cards.

Dishes

As experience shows, plastic dishes are the most practical for a children's table. With it, you can not be afraid for safety during a noisy fussy birthday.

You can purchase ready-made sets of colored dishes. Or you can make funny stickers on cups and plates, pick up forks and spoons, decorative umbrellas, skewers for canapes and rosettes for tartlets and baskets by color when preparing to meet guests on their birthday.

The edges of the cups for the sweet table can be decorated with bright confectionery frost: on the eve of the birthday celebration, wet the edges of the glass and dip it in powdered sugar or confectionery powder. Let dry well. Looks great in these cups. colorful jelly. Drinking from them is also a real pleasure.

Juices and drinks are best served in carafes rather than bags. Bright colors drinks will serve as an additional decoration of the festive table.

Do not forget to capture the process of decorating the dishes in the photo. Your photo and video report on the holiday will start with fun moments of preparation and will give amazing memories in the future.

Serving dishes

A festive children's table on a birthday differs more in design than in unusual dishes. Children prefer acquaintances habitual tastes and product combinations. They are wary of original recipes and culinary experiments. Therefore, on the birthday of the children, preparing to meet the little guests, it is better to think over original design everyone's favorite mashed potatoes, steam cutlets and meatballs, vegetable salads, sandwiches and pies. The key to success is a combination of tasty and beautiful.

• The usual mashed potatoes will turn into festive fireworks if you divide it into several parts and tint each part natural dye(beetroot, carrot, spinach, tomato). It will not affect the taste in any way, but it will look very festive. Get acquainted with the photo on culinary sites.
• Traditional cutlets and meatballs can be easily turned into animal figurines, decorated and supplemented with vegetables and cheese.
• Quail and chicken eggs turn into nimble mice with pieces of olives, cheese and herbs.
• Fun mushrooms are easily made from eggs and cherry tomato halves.
• Sandwiches are turned into funny faces with baby ketchup, homemade mayonnaise or sour cream, pieces of vegetables and fruits. Photos with decor options are posted on culinary sites.
• Favorite fruits for a children's holiday are also transformed into fruit bouquets and baskets, interesting figurines and sweet boats. In combination with sweets, nuts, colored confectionery they are the perfect finishing touch to a birthday treat and are the perfect complement to the obligatory birthday cake.

Do not spare the time and effort to prepare and decorate the children's holiday table. Inspired by the love for your little birthday boy, getting acquainted with different ideas, taking into account important points, you will definitely be able to organize the best and most unique holiday for your baby. And the reward will be happy children's laughter and joy in your beloved eyes. Time will pass, and reviewing the photo, you will again experience joy. Happy holiday!

Photo selection of original tables

Here comes the birthday of the child. Colorful balloons are inflated, presents are prepared, the entertainment program is carefully compiled thanks to numerous thematic sites on the Internet. It remains only to think over the menu for the festive table, and this, as you know, is a very responsible matter, because the dishes should please all the little guests.

Organization of a children's holiday

Some negligent parents prefer to buy carbonated drinks, children's sausages, cakes with whipped cream. Is this option not for you? And right! It means that you are a caring parent and are concerned about healthy eating children.

Don't forget what's on the table there should be no food that contains a lot food additives , as well as food that contains allergens that can cause indigestion and immunity disorders.

1 Buffet is most suitable for young children (4-6 years old). If you decide to organize a feast a la buffet, you can put together several ordinary children's tables, covering them with a common festive tablecloth. You can also use an ironing board. Do not forget that the height of the countertop or board should correspond to the height of the guests.

2 The buffet has a large number of various merits. The most important advantage is that you do not need to puzzle over where to get children's furniture. Since not every family will definitely have a dozen children's chairs and tables.

3 The advantage is that no one forces children to eat, and this will undoubtedly delight them. And another advantage is that few of the children know how to handle cutlery, in our case, we avoid this problem.

4 And finally, none of those present will interrupt you with exclamations of “I'm thirsty!”.

It is desirable that your program contains funny contests and various surprises. Do not forget to warn parents in advance that the birthday will also be celebrated with a cake for adults.

Remember that a cheerful and joyful child is a suitable option for any mother. It would be best if you set the table with beautiful disposable tableware, which will depict favorite children's cartoon characters. As a rule, everyone perceives this without question.

Pay great attention to the design of festive dishes. Even the most simple meals, such as mashed potatoes, will delight children when decorated in a festive manner.

Find out from mothers if their children have allergic reactions to certain Exotic fruits or cocoa.

Forewarned is forearmed. Thus you will be able avoid various embarrassing situations. Also, it would not be bad if you included dried fruits in the holiday menu, as they are stores of vitamins and iron.

It is advisable to prepare hotels for children a few days before the holiday. For this purpose, you can visit souvenir shops where you will find the products you need. To order gifts in bulk, contact the supplier. If you need a small number of gifts, then it will be easier and faster to purchase them on the market. Another popular method of buying gifts is online shopping.

What to cook for the little ones?

puddings. cooking recipes

The smallest children can make pudding. Ways to cook it simple dish great multitude. For a baby's birthday, this dish is quite suitable. This dish is quick to prepare and has excellent taste properties. It is also affordable for anyone.

Rice pudding

We will need: 350 ml of milk, a third of a pack of butter, 3 chicken eggs, a glass of sugar, 250 grams of rice, half a pack vanilla sugar, orange peel, dried apricots.

First of all, rinse the rice thoroughly, then boil it over low heat for fifteen minutes, put it in a colander, add milk, and boil it again for fifteen minutes. Whipped in advance with granulated sugar and vanilla egg yolks put in cool rice. Add orange zest, crushed nuts, dried apricots, as well as butter and whipped proteins there.

semolina pudding

Ingredients: 150 g semolina, 250 g sugar, lemon zest, a quarter pack of butter, 700 ml whole milk.

IN warm milk Add all ingredients except mango. Then slowly pour semolina and, stirring, cook for a quarter of an hour. You can add chopped almonds or nuts if you like. Next, the resulting mass is placed in a prepared mold and sent to the oven for a quarter of an hour.

oatmeal pudding

You need to take: 500 ml whole milk, 200 g any oatmeal, a couple of eggs, 300 g of sugar, 40 g of fresh butter.

Cook porridge with granulated sugar and vanilla. Then beat the yolks with sugar and butter, then add everything to the porridge. Also add pre-whipped protein there. Having done all this, put the resulting mass into a mold, having previously covered its bottom with breadcrumbs. Then we send it all into a preheated oven and bake at medium temperature. To make the pudding look more presentable, you can decorate it with berries or jam.

Vermicelli pudding

Ingredients: 600 ml whole milk, 150 g sugar, 200 g durum vermicelli, a quarter pack of butter, three eggs, 100 g walnuts, citrus peel.

In milk brought to a boil, put sugar and zest. After that, we immerse a well-broken vermicelli into it. Vermicelli should cook no more than 15 minutes. During cooking, the main thing is not to forget to stir the mixture. After this time, the mixture is allowed to cool. And add the yolks, chopped nuts to the chilled mass, and also do not forget about the butter.

After thorough mixing, add protein. After that, stir the mixture in the oven for half an hour, and the pudding is ready. Little advice: pudding should be served at the table at least after a few hours, from this the taste will acquire a brighter shade, which can be supplemented with fruit.

Children's birthday menu for children from 3 to 5 years old

Pyramid of pancakes from the cat Matroskin

Pancakes for this dish should be lush.

Put the pancake in the pan, sprinkle it with finely chopped chicken meat or chopped low-fat and ham, cover with the second pancake. Sprinkle grated hard cheese on top, cover with a third and garnish with tomato slices and herbs. bake in hot oven 6 - 7 minutes or 1 - 2 minutes in the microwave.

Meat ball with cheese and mushrooms

Spicy meat ball filling with classic combination cheese and mushrooms will leave few people indifferent. Adding various ingredients that are on hand will allow you to experiment and fantasize during cooking.

For cooking you will need:

• Pork or veal mince - 500 gr.
• Champignons - 200 gr.
• Hard cheese - 150 gr.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Pomegranate - 3 tbsp. tablespoons grains (for decoration)
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Spices and seasonings, such as Provence herbs - 0.5 tsp
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
• Small bunch of greens
• Lettuce leaves and cherry tomatoes for garnish

Meal preparation:

Finely chop the onion and garlic and sauté hot pan before the advent golden color. Mushrooms (can be frozen or canned) cut into small pieces and add to the onion and garlic.

As soon as the mushrooms warm up, they must be salted, seasoned with freshly ground pepper and a mixture provencal herbs. Fry the mushrooms until golden brown. Finely chop a bunch of greens, grate hard cheese on coarse grater. Beat the minced meat well, salt and season with pepper.

Add fried mushrooms, half chopped herbs and grated cheese to minced meat. Stir the mixture thoroughly, and form a ball with wet hands. You can add whole mushrooms to the ball, and pieces of mozzarella, diced carrots and bell pepper, black or green pitted olives, green beans, peas or corn.

Grease a baking sheet with oil, lay out carefully meat ball, lightly sprinkle the top with vegetable oil and bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180C., until a golden crust appears. Put the meat ball on a plate with lettuce leaves, cut into 8 parts, arrange cherry halves and pomegranate seeds on the sides.

The bowl is delicious both hot and cold. As an everyday dinner, it can be supplemented with a potato or rice side dish and vegetable salad.

homemade chocolate recipe

Nowadays, children eat, there is plenty of chocolate and therefore you will not surprise them with chocolate. Except homemade chocolate.

To make homemade chocolate you will need:

• glass of sugar
• Half glass of milk
• A pinch of vanillin
• One third of a pack of butter
• Half glass of dry milk
• A quarter cup of cocoa

So let's get straight to making homemade chocolate. Gradually add vanillin to boiling milk, granulated sugar and oil. We wait until the butter has melted, after which we add the baby powder and cocoa powder. And don't forget to stir.

When you notice that the density of the mixture has increased, transfer it to a plate previously moistened with cool water. When you make chocolate, to improve the taste, you can add various ingredients such as: raisins, coconut flakes, walnuts, almond. After cooling, cut the tile into portioned pieces.

fruit jelly eggs

The dish is able to surprise all the little guests. There is one important nuance in its preparation, you will need a whole eggshell with a small hole. With the help of some sharp object, we make a small hole from the blunt end of the egg.

Let's start making jelly, which will serve as a filler for our shells.

Ingredients:

• Gelatin powder packaging
• 250 grams of granulated sugar
• Fruit platter

Fill eggshells with hot jelly, cool until room temperature and then put it in the fridge overnight. Carefully peel the eggs holiday dish ready!

Salad "royal fairy tale"

For older children (from ten years old), you can cook all kinds of meat salads, and arrange them on small portioned plates.

For one serving:

• 100 g chicken meat
• 100 g ham
• 80 g boiled or pickled champignons
• 100 grams canned pineapple
• 60 g pickled cucumbers
• sour cream sauce

Chicken meat, ham, pineapple and cucumbers cut into small cubes. Mushrooms cut lengthwise. Mix all the ingredients, season with sour cream sauce. Decorate with pineapple slices.

Boy's birthday menu

Salad for adults

For one serving:

• 60 g onion
• 100 g boiled chicken fillet
• 60 grams of prunes
• one boiled egg
• 100 g hard cheese
• sour cream sauce

Chop and marinate the onion. Finely chop the chicken fillet and prunes. Grate the egg.

Lay the salad in layers on a platter. Top each layer with sour cream sauce.

The bottom layer is an onion. Then chicken fillet, prunes, egg and hard cheese. Garnish with pomegranate seeds.

Desserts with berries and fruits

If you want the holiday to be a success, treat the little gourmets fruit desserts, snacks and drinks before the start of the competition program.

Desserts from fruits and berries are an integral part of fun children's feasts.

To prepare delicious and beautiful fruit and berry desserts, take:

• 5 yolks
• 400g 20% ​​sour cream
• orange peel
• Cherry berries, candied - half a kilo
• a little vanilla

Cooking steps: Grind egg yolks with sugar, add zest and sour cream, as well as candied cherries, after removing the seeds from them, pour in a little vanillin.

Pound the mass well, mix and beat in a blender, put in beautiful molds set to six o'clock freezer. Before serving this beauty to children, decorate desserts with berries or fruit slices.

Salt to taste

To prepare the filling we need:

• 300 grams of boiled lean pork or salami sausage
• two onions cut into half rings, sautéed
• hard cheese, grated on a coarse grater 150g
• cherry tomatoes, cut into rings - 6 pieces
• fresh basil and leaf parsley
• sour cream sauce - 100 ml

Cooking steps:

Doing yeast dough, and leave it to fit. After the dough will do, knead and roll into a round cake, the layer thickness of which should not exceed half a centimeter. Carefully lay out the future pizza form on a pan or baking sheet, spread the filling on the dough, lift the edges of the dough so that the filling does not end up in the pan, pour grated cheese on top, bake the pizza in a well-heated oven.

Cooking steps:

First of all, you need to make mushroom caps. To do this, we roll the dough in the form of sausages, cut it into pieces of different sizes, take these pieces in our hands, and sculpt mushroom caps from them, like from plasticine.

While the mushrooms are baking, prepare the sugar syrup to glue the components together. To prepare, take a glass of granulated sugar, pour 25 ml of water into it and cook the sugar syrup over low heat, stirring constantly.

With a sharp knife making holes in the caps, insert the legs there, glue them with sugar syrup. Place the mushrooms on a baking sheet.

To paint hats prepare the cocoa mixture. Take 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of water, two tablespoons of granulated sugar, mix and boil this mixture over low heat, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes. In this brown fondant, we dip the hats of our impromptu mushrooms. Hats will acquire a very beautiful brown color. mushroom legs Lubricate with sugar syrup, and then sprinkle with grated poppy seeds on top.

• 1 pack of gelatin powder
• 1 glass of water
• 650 g granulated sugar
• teaspoon of citric acid
• 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
• 100 g powdered sugar

Cooking steps:

gelatin powder and water mix(until the gelatin particles are completely dissolved), set aside for half an hour for the swelling process. After that heat up over low heat until boiling, with constant stirring, pour out the sugar (650 g), pour in 200 ml of water and boil this mixture for 10 minutes, after which we combine with the swollen gelatin mixture. Whip all this mass with a mixer, put baking soda, continue whipping.

Five minutes later active whipping We dose citric acid, beat again at the highest speed. received lush mass need to place into a food syringe and squeeze out beautiful roses on parchment paper, put cold for 60 minutes. After the marshmallow hardens, roll put it in powdered sugar, put it on a beautiful tray, decorate sprigs of mint and berries, and serve to guests.

Children's birthday, like any other event, has its own characteristics of table setting and the organization of the holiday as a whole. Also, the design of the celebration is influenced by fashion trends reflected in the decor and the rules for its implementation.

But all parents have the opportunity to arrange an unforgettable and bright holiday for their child and his guests, which will not only remain in the common memory, but also fit into the budget.

To arrange a magical birthday for your child, first of all, you need:

1. Choose a general theme for the event. It can be a favorite cartoon that will immediately determine the color scheme, holiday attributes and even the child's outfit. Today, Frozen, Minions, Smeshariki are especially popular, and classic Disney princesses or comics also remain relevant. The theme of the holiday can also be a hobby or a child's desire for some kind of work;
2. Choose a room in which a children's table will be organized. It can be directly a children's room, and a living room and a kitchen, if its size allows.
3. Create a menu with suitable recipes. On the table there must be an assortment of sweets and all kinds of healthy goodies that will not be difficult for children - mini-formats, tartlets, skewers, canapes are desirable;
4. Prepare small gifts for the little guests. These can be toys in the general theme of the holiday, sweet presents, etc. It's good if children can use them immediately during the celebration, and then take them with them - magic wands, pipes, bandages or jewelry, etc. You can put them on plates.

The main thing is to start preparing for the children's holiday as early as possible so that there is time to check the selected recipes, use or make decor with your own hands and search for everything you need. At the same time, it must be remembered that the children's table is not a place for spicy, fatty, overly salty and smoked dishes, plus it is important to find out from the parents of young guests in advance if they are allergic to any products, and exclude them from the menu.

There is no need to come up with too sophisticated dishes, because children can refuse them - they are happy to eat only a well-known, traditional food. And in no case should you try to force one of the children to eat, because such adult behavior can lead to a tantrum that will ruin the whole holiday.

Table decoration for children's birthday

Decorating a children's table for holiday gatherings has its own requirements:

1. Excerpt of the general color range. Regardless of whether a certain theme is chosen for the holiday (cartoons, professions, hobbies, etc.) or a neutral design is chosen in the form of stars, hearts, polka dots, etc., it is important that the entire table setting matches 2-3 primary colors or shades of choice;
2. Decorating the space around and above the table. These can be “Happy Birthday!” garlands, paper decorations, a background made of paper or fabric, figurines, flowers, etc .;
3. Selection proper utensils. You will definitely need plates, cutlery, glasses, shelves for sweets and fruits, a cake stand, vases for sweets, and trays and more dish. But for reasons of convenience and safety, it is better to choose paper or plastic utensils, which can be made in the colors of the holiday. No - universal white will do;
4. Making a festive tablecloth. It should also fit into the color scheme, so you should not buy a tablecloth separately for one holiday. It can even be a disposable oilcloth, if it suits the theme, but also the simplest white tablecloth it is easy to decorate with frills or a garland (using a stapler), or paint it with watercolors, adding inscriptions and drawings;
5. Making decor for the festive table. It's about about themed napkins, vases, underplates, decorations for straws, cutlery, cakes and desserts, candlesticks, etc. - all this can be done from improvised materials;
6. Chair decoration. Chairs are an important attribute of the festive table, for which they need to be draped, tied with bows, decorated with balls, or hang name plates and other attributes on them that correspond to the theme.

Children's birthday table: menu planning and recipes

Children's birthday is a celebration of the stomach (including for parents), its menu must be composed of simple but very tasty dishes.

Nuggets, french fries, baked potatoes with stuffing, macaroni and cheese, salads in tartlets, etc., have the greatest chances of being eaten, and not complex meat or vegetable dishes.

The children's table can even consist entirely of snacks - small sandwiches, mini-burgers, pies, spring rolls, etc. As an option - a sweet table of donuts, muffins, cookies, cakes, macaroons, lollipops, marshmallows, marmalade, sweets and , of course, a cake with candles.

Sweets can be supplemented with fruits, berries, nuts and yogurts (including frozen ones). Naturally, we need more juices or soda.

Healthy nuggets

Required Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg chicken fillet;
• 0.25 l heavy cream(above 20%);
• 70 gr. breadcrumbs and sesame;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking time: 30 minutes plus 4 hours for marinating.

Calorie content: about 70 kcal / 100 gr.

First you need to marinate the chicken fillet, cut into small pieces in cream with salt and pepper for 4 hours in the refrigerator. Then roll each piece of meat in breadcrumbs with sesame seeds and fry in vegetable oil at both sides. You can serve with any sauce - cheese, sweet and sour, homemade mayonnaise, vegetable gravy etc.

American macaroni and cheese

Required Ingredients:

• 300 gr. pasta horns;
• 100 gr. smoked bacon;
• 100 gr. hard cheese (preferably cheddar);
• 100 gr. mozzarella (in extreme cases, you can replace it with suluguni);
• 200 gr. frozen green peas;
• 400 ml cream 20%;
• 50 gr. butter;
• 2 tbsp. spoons wheat flour;
• a pinch of grated nutmeg;
• salt to taste.

Cooking time: 50 minutes.

Calorie content: about 330 kcal / 100 gr.

You need to start by boiling the pasta and preparing the sauce in parallel, which requires melting the butter, pouring flour into it, quickly mixing until smooth and pouring cream. Boil until thickened, season nutmeg and salt.

Cut the bacon into small pieces and fry in a dry frying pan (a lot of fat will be rendered), grate the cheese. Mix together cooked pasta, bacon, peas, cheese and put the mass in a baking dish. Cook in the oven at 200 degrees until crispy.

Children's birthday buffet: menu planning and recipes

If it is clear that the birthday boy and his guests are active children, and it will be difficult for them to sit still at the festively set table, it is appropriate to dwell on the buffet option, in which a lot of portioned snacks canape type. Usually, such a table setting delights children, and they eat everything with appetite.

Canape with sausage and tomatoes

Required Ingredients:

• 1 baguette (preferably grain);
• 200 gr. boiled sausage;
• a bunch of cherry tomatoes;
• 150 gr. processed spreadable cheese;
• lettuce leaves.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Calorie content: about 210 kcal / 100 gr.

For squeezing small circles, a glass with thick walls, a baking dish, or even half a container from a kinder surprise is suitable. And you need to squeeze them out of sliced ​​\u200b\u200bin thin slices baguettes and sausages, although the sausage can be cut into very thin pieces and simply folded into four.

Each of the slices of bread must be greased with melted cheese, covered with a small piece lettuce and put on a skewer. On the same skewer, put another piece of sausage and cherry tomato (you can use half). Ready!

Meat balls

Required Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg of mixed minced meat;
• 1 pack of puff pastry;
• salt to taste;
• vegetable oil for lubrication.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Calorie content: about 250 kcal / 100 gr.

Minced meat needs to be salted and rolled into small meatballs from it, and puff pastry thaw and cut into thin strips according to the number of resulting meatballs - they need to be wrapped with them. Put the resulting balls on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees - until crusty.

This is the simplest and universal recipe- in tartlets you can put any salad that your child likes, including traditional Olivier and crab. The tartlets themselves can be either bought at any store or prepared from puff or shortcrust pastry in cupcake molds. As a result, the children's buffet table will be very supported.

Sweet table for a children's birthday: menu planning and recipes

It's no secret that desserts are the most anticipated dish for both little birthday people and guests, and (even if secretly) for their parents. sweet table can support the main meal or be an independent holiday menu, but the scope for serving it is truly limitless. And you can't go wrong with it.

Curd-pineapple dessert

Required Ingredients:

• 0.4 kg of cottage cheese;
• 0.2 kg of sour cream;
• 1 can of canned pineapples;
• 0.5 l of pineapple juice;
• 0.5 cans of condensed milk;
• 25 gr. gelatin;
• vanilla sachet.

Preparation time: 15 minutes plus chilling and soaking time.

Calorie content: about 150 kcal / 100 gr.

First you need to soak the gelatin in pineapple juice for an hour, and then dissolve it for small fire without bringing the liquid to a boil. Next, the preparation is elementary - all the ingredients, except for pineapples, need to be beaten with a blender and combined with pineapple slices and a cooled gelatin mixture. Pour the mass into a mold or molds and let it harden.

Buckwheat sweets "A la truffles"

Required Ingredients:

• 200 gr. buckwheat flour (you can make it yourself in a coffee grinder);
• 200 ml of natural yogurt;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
• 1 st. a spoonful of sugar;
• 5 st. spoons of prune puree;
• 5 pieces. whole prunes;
• 5 st. spoons of liquid honey;
• 0.5 teaspoon of soda;
• 1 st. a spoonful of vegetable oil;
• sesame seeds for sprinkling.

Cooking time: half an hour.

Calorie content: about 300 kcal / 100 gr.

First you need to mix all the dry ingredients, and then mix them with prune puree and yogurt, as well as sunflower oil. Finely chop prunes.

From ready dough make small cakes, put a few pieces of prunes in them, close and form balls that need to be laid out on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. When cool, they will need to be dipped in honey and sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Required Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg "Anniversary" cookies;
• 200 gr. butter;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
• 1 glass of milk;
• 100 gr. Sahara.

Cooking time: 20 minutes plus 6 hours to set.

Calorie content: about 420 kcal / 100 gr.

Biscuits need to be divided into two parts and crushed in a blender, and the second broken into pieces by hand. Melt the butter with milk, add cocoa powder and sugar, then bring the mixture to a boil.

Pour ground cookies, remove from heat and knead the resulting mass well, adding the remaining pieces of cookies to it as a result, and put on cling film or parchment paper, shaped in the shape of a sausage. It remains to send the dessert to the refrigerator for several hours and cut into slices before serving.

How to decorate a children's table for a birthday: ideas, photos

Some of the most relevant topics in the decor of a children's holiday today are "Princesses" and "Cold Heart" for girls, "Pirates" and "Minions" for boys.

You can create a fabulous atmosphere of a Disney holiday for a little princess with the help of bright and lush decorations - clusters. balloons, pink bows and ribbons, banners with inscriptions, draperies of chairs, tables and lampshades, paper garlands. In this case, more flowers in the design are desirable - both living and artificial, and even in pots, as well as cardboard models of castles and towers or posters with their drawings.

The Frozen cartoon won the hearts of all girls, so a holiday in this style will surely make them the happiest in the world. Here, blue and white colors come to the fore, as well as any imitations of snow and ice.

Snowdrifts made of synthetic winterizer or other material, cardboard figures painted with glitter paint or covered with shiny glue paper, snowflakes made of Christmas decorations, cookies of the same shape, muffins with blue cream and sprinkled with silver confectionery topping ... And balls.

You can arrange a pirate party for a little birthday boy with bandanas, vests and pirate hats, which are sold in many children's stores. There you can also find toy daggers and treasure chests. Bananas, chocolate coins, appetizers with seafood and caviar (you can imitate it) are obligatory in the treat.

"Minions" are adored by all children, so the design of a children's birthday in this style is suitable not only for boys, but also for mixed holidays. It is advisable to find hats or minion masks for all guests, but you can simply print their images from the Internet and hang them on the walls.

You can write wish cards in the warped language of minions and distribute them to children, learn a funny dance with them. Bananas are also obligatory in treats, as well as all kinds of images of these creatures.

And a few more ideas for dishes for a children's birthday - in the next video.

There comes a day when your child becomes a year older. Birthday!

If with the parents who will probably also celebrate this celebration (they are no less involved in this), relatively everything is clear, then with the organization of a children's event it is somewhat more difficult.

The question arises of what to cook for children on their birthday.

Not every dish can be put on the table, and the age of the guests must be taken into account. How to decorate dishes so that they are interesting and appeal to little guests.

Therefore, you have to sit down at the table and make a menu for a children's birthday.

The menu should consist of small meals, which are readily and quickly absorbed.

Of course, you need to take into account the age of the guests, not everything that can be put on the table for 7-10 year olds can be suitable for 3-5 year old kids.

Children's birthday menu

Let's start with the most simple, beautiful and readily eaten canapes, these are small sandwiches fastened with a skewer and consisting of fruits, vegetables, meat or fish products.

fruit canape

Prepare 6 - 7 types of fruits and berries, keep in mind that for young children, some fruits may be allergens

Rinse them well, cut into small pieces and put on skewers (you can choose and purchase a variety of skewers for canapes in stores), different options, spread or arrange them on a plate

Fish and meat canapes

Such canapes are made with small pieces of bread, sausage cut into thin plastics, fish or seafood.

Add pieces of vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, olives

What makes such sandwiches convenient is that they are easy and quick to prepare and there is a large scope of various options.

Another type of sandwiches on cookies or biscuits

Take biscuits or cookies, preferably not sweet, spread pate (liver, chicken) on top, cover with a small lettuce leaf

Cut the cherry tomato into four parts, put two on the salad in the form of a butterfly, cut out the head from the olives, put dots on the mayonnaise wings

Very original and tasty sandwiches "ships running on the waves"

Made from halves of egg whites stuffed with grated yolks with cheese and sour cream, and use potato chips as sails.

What else can you offer on the menu for a children's birthday?

Salad "Watermelon slice"

This salad contains:

• chicken fillet - 300 g
• cheese - 100 g
• boiled eggs - 4 pcs
• champignons - 300 g
• fresh tomatoes - 3 pcs
• fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs
• mayonnaise - 200-250 g
• butter - 1 tbsp. spoon
• pepper, salt

How to prepare such a beautiful and tasty salad?

Boil the chicken fillet in salted water and cool it in the broth

Cut the washed champignons, fry them in oil, salt and pepper

This salad is laid in layers, the first layer will be finely chopped chicken fillet, laying out a layer, give the shape of a sliced ​​​​piece of watermelon and brush a little with mayonnaise

The next layer consists of fried mushrooms smeared with a small layer of mayonnaise

The next two layers are grated egg yolks and grated egg whites also smeared with mayonnaise

Grate on a coarse grater fresh cucumber, squeeze lightly, lay out along the edge in the form watermelon rind, lay out the imitation of the white part with grated cheese

Cut the tomatoes into small pieces, let the juice drain, lay out last layer, cut into grains small pieces olives

Salad "Tiger"

This salad uses the following products:

• boiled sausage - 200 g
• potatoes - 400 g
• fresh cucumbers - 200 g
• onion - 100 g
• carrots - 400 g
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs
• mayonnaise, pepper, salt

This salad is also laid out in layers, with each layer smeared with a thin layer of mayonnaise.

The first layer consists of grated boiled potatoes, lay it out in the shape of a tiger cub's head.

The next layers consist of finely chopped boiled sausage, grated cucumber on a coarse grater, chopped green onion, grated egg.

Make the top layer of grated boiled carrots.

From the grated protein, make cheeks, eyes of a tiger cub, lay out the nose, eyelashes, ears, stripes with chopped olives.

Make a protruding tongue with a small plastic sausage.

I think it turned out very cute and delicious.

Fruit and berry salad

You can decorate a salad of fruits and berries in a very original way.

The composition can be absolutely anything.

Cut the pulp in the watermelon, rinse the berries, peel the fruit, finely chop, mix with pieces of watermelon, put everything in the cooked watermelon. Prepare hot or melted chocolate for salad.

Chicken rolls with pineapple

Very tasty recipe

Take 1 kg of chicken fillet, cut into layers, beat off, salt, pepper

For each layer lay out 2 tbsp. l. grated cheese, pineapple and mushrooms, cut into small cubes, roll up and tie with threads or stab with wooden skewers

Brush them with oil and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

Biscuit on skewers

Grind three ready-made biscuit cakes into crumbs.

Mix each one separately with condensed milk, jam, chocolate-nut butter.

Blind the balls, string them on long skewers and dip in hot chocolate, decorate with candy sprinkles and refrigerate.

Children will love this dessert.

Strawberry ice cream

Ice cream dessert will bring great pleasure to children.

You can come up with a lot of options from ordering an ice cream cake to making this dish yourself.

I can offer next recipe, a commonly used hit of desserts.

Freeze a kilogram of strawberries, chop them in a blender, mix with half a kilogram of ice cream (you can vanilla, ice cream, cream), add 200 g of strawberry jam or jam, 50 g of honey.

Beat the mass, put it into molds and freeze.

Sprinkle with crushed nuts or chocolate chips before serving.

If you want to make ice cream yourself, you can read the previous article

berry jelly

Fruit jelly is very popular with children.

It can be prepared from various berries.

I will offer here such a recipe for fruit jelly, consisting of one glass of berries (cranberries, raspberries, currants, etc.), 3 glasses of water, half a glass of sugar, 2 tbsp. l. gelatin, 1 g citric acid.

Soak gelatin in a glass of water for 1.5 hours. Rinse the berries and squeeze out the juice. Pour the pulp hot water and boil for 5-6 minutes, strain, add sugar, citric acid, bring to a boil.

Stir in the swollen gelatin to dissolve. Bring to a boil again and add the juice, stir, pour into molds and refrigerate. Before serving, dip the mold with jelly for 1 - 2 seconds in hot water and put the jelly on a dish.

Cookies crispy sticks

Make the dough, for which mix 2/3 wheat flour, 2/3 sugar, 100 g butter, 1 tbsp. l. lemon peel and salt to taste, until smooth and leave to cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Form flagella from the dough about 1 cm thick and 5 cm long, spread on a greased baking sheet and place in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees, bake until golden brown.

Sprinkle over sticks when serving. powdered sugar, crushed nuts or seeds.

Drinks can be offered various teas, juices, fruit drinks, lemonades, how to make various lemonades.

brew delicious tea you can according to the recipes that you read.

Of course, do not forget to include in the menu for a children's birthday, in which there will be candles according to the age of the birthday man.

Unusual cake for children's birthday