Recipes

 

Cool Cookie Creatures

Makes 6 cookie creatures

What's Needed

• 1x 2L Dairymaid Mermaids and Pirates Ice Cream

• 40 g chocolate, melted

• 12 large oat cookies

• Fruit based jellies and other sweets, for decoration

Method:

1. On a baking paper lined plastic tray, scoop 6 balls of Dairymaid Mermaids and Pirates Ice Cream. Place them on the tray and freeze.

2. Meanwhile, melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a small saucepan of boiling water. Set aside. Using a variety of gummy and chocolate sweets, make eyes and decorations for your cookie creatures. Use the melted chocolate to stick the sweets together; onto 6 of the cookies.

3. Place the pre-scooped ice cream balls onto the remaining cookies and top with the decorated cookies, at different angles to create a variety of creatures.

Variations, Hints and Tips:

• Use melted milk, white or dark chocolate to attach the sweets onto the cookies.

• Decorate the cookies with a theme of your choice.

• Have a decorating table for the children to design their own cookie creatures.

• Use cookies of your choice to make the cookie creatures.

 

 

Under the Sea Banana Split

Serves 6

What's Needed

• 6 large bananas, sliced in half lengthways

• 2 red or green apples (brushed with lemon juice to stop browning)

• 1x 2L Dairymaid Mermaids and Pirates Ice Cream

• Blueberries, for eyes

• Raspberries, for lips

• Shallow bowl

Method:

1. Place one sliced banana against each side of long narrow shallow bowl.

2. Slice the apple into thin slices, and then into a fin shape (use template below if needed)

3. Scoop balls of Dairymaid Mermaids and Pirates Ice Cream, place 2 balls in the bowl and 1 ball on top, place the apple fin on the side of the ball; add a blueberry eye and raspberry lips.

Variations, Hints and Tips:

• Fish fin template

• Use other fruit-based snacks for alternative decorations.

• Get creative and see how many under the sea creatures you can make with your Dairymaid Banana Boat.

• Make this dessert in any shaped bowl.

 

Crispy Coral Basket

Makes 6 to 8, depending on size

What's Needed

• Coral Baskets:

• 20 ml (20g) butter or margarine

• 140 g pink and white marshmallows

• 5ml vanilla essence

• 3x 250 ml (100 g) popped rice cereal/crispy-Kellogg’s?

• Non-stick spray-add

• 1x 2L Dairymaid Pirates and Mermaids Ice Cream

• Fruit Jellies, to decorate

 

Method:

1. Spray a 12-hole muffin pan with non-stick spray. Set aside.

2. In a large saucepan, melt the butter on a low heat, add in the marshmallows and vanilla essence. Stir until completely melted.

3. Add the popped rice cereal and stir using a wooden spoon; until all popped rice is covered in marshmallow.

4. Spoon in a heaped teaspoon of the mixture, at a time, into each muffin hole and press using the back of a metal spoon lightly greased with oil to form a bowl shape.

5. Set aside and allow to set.

6. Fill the baskets with Dairymaid Mermaids and Pirates ice-cream and decorate.

 

Variations, Hints and Tips:

• Keep the baskets at room temperature in an airtight container.

• Decorate the ice cream bowl with freshly sliced fruit.

• Add in coloured edible sprinkles/ glitter into the basket mixture.

• When the mixture has cooled slightly, use your fingers, lightly dipped in water to press the bowl shape.

• Use a variety of bowl shapes for a fun twist on the basket shapes.

• If the popped rice mixture cools too much to mould. Place back onto a low heat for a few minutes to heat the marshmallows again.

 

Sweets and Snacks of Choice:

 

Healthy:

• Freeze dried strawberries

• Freeze dried pineapple

• Freeze dried coconut

• Freeze dried apples

• Skinny dipped roasted almonds dipped in chocolate

• Berry fruit protein balls

• Fruit concentrate fruit jellies

• Mango fruit gums

• Pineapple fruit gums

• Mixed berry and yoghurt drops

• Banana and yoghurt drops

• Oat crunchies

• Low calorie chocolate chip cookies

Sweets

• Romantics (pink sweets)

• Mini liquorice

• Jelly tots

• Sentries

• Tangy tops

• Starlight jellies

• Jellybeans

• Pretzels (sticks, knots, yoghurt dipped)