A fruit and cheese tray will delight children's taste buds at your Christmas celebration.
When planning a child's Christmas party, remember that when it comes to food, children tend to prefer familiar foods. While adults may look forward to fancy hors d'oeuvres at Christmas celebrations, you're most likely wasting time and money making such foods for children's parties. A simple mix of sweet and savory dishes is all you need to keep their little taste buds happy. Avoiding messy foods, like sauces and dips, will keep your floors and furnishings from almost certain disaster. Does this Spark an idea?
Gingerbread People
Gingerbread men and women--or boys and girls--are a popular choice for children's Christmas party food. You can either make the gingerbread cookie figures ahead of time or incorporate the designing and baking of the treats into the party itself. Children will have a blast using cookie cutters, adding candies to the cookies and tasting their finished products. If you're concerned that the kids may not enjoy the gingerbread flavor of the cookies, make plain sugar cookies instead.
Sweet Snowmen
Another option for your child's Christmas party is to make snowmen out of powdered sugar doughnuts. This is also a treat in which you can allow the children to participate or you can make it yourself ahead of time. Stack several miniature powdered sugar doughnuts over each other and top them with a doughnut hole. Embellish the snowmen with dried fruit rolls as scarves and with chocolate chips, mints and pretzels as buttons, arms and other snowman features.
Trail Mix
A party food that allows you to be exceptionally selective in choosing ingredients is trail mix. You can take a healthy approach to the treat, adding dried fruits, whole-grain cereals and nuts, as long as none of the children have an allergy. Alternatively, take a more indulgent approach and use red and green candy-coated chocolates, marshmallows and mint candies. Include salty foods, like pretzels or cheesy crackers, as well as sweet foods, like raisins or peanut butter candies, to round out the mix.
Fruit and Cheese Tray
A simple, yet child-friendly, food offering is a fruit and cheese tray. Arrange a basic selection of cheeses, like American, cheddar and Swiss. If you want to be creative with the cheeses, cut slices into shapes with Christmas cookie cutters. Apple slices, banana chunks and halved grapes pair nicely with cheese and you can serve them alongside crackers on a festive Christmas tray to create an inviting presentation for the children.
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