What to cook for a child’s birthday?

Young mothers often wonder what to cook for a child’s birthday. Making a children's holiday menu is really not easy. After all, it should be satisfying, useful and at the same time attractive, since young guests eat the dish more readily, the more original and unusual it is.

Menu for a child’s birthday

What dishes to choose for a children's birthday depends on the place of celebration. If the celebration is celebrated at home, then you should take care of a full, hearty table with salads, appetizers and hot.

Holiday salads for children's birthday

Holiday salads for a child’s birthday should be both tasty, light and effectively decorated. For example, in the form of favorite fairy-tale characters.

Salad "Three Little Pigs"

Ingredients:

• ½ chicken breast;
• 1 boiled chicken egg and 3 quail;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 1 apple
• sour cream;
• 100 g of cheese;
• salt;
• radish - 1 pc.;
• several cranberry berries;
• ½ bunch of dill.

Cooking:

1. Cook chicken until tender, cool and break into fibers.
2. Coarsely boiled egg. Also chop fresh cucumber, cheese and apple with peel.
3. Mix the products, salt and season with sour cream.
4. Put the salad on a plate with a slide.
5. Sprinkle with chopped herbs that mimic the grass.
6. From boiled quail eggs to make piglets.From the pieces of radish cut ears, specks and ponytails. Eyes can mimic peppercorns.

"Glade" with "piglets" can only be decorated with cranberries.

Hedgehog Salad

Ingredients:

• 150 g of boiled beef;
• 1 boiled carrot;
• 2 boiled chicken eggs;
• 3 boiled potatoes;
• ½ bunch of fresh spinach;
• 2/3 Art. unsweetened yogurt;
• 60 g of processed soft cheese;
• a handful of rectangular oblong crackers;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Put the grated potato with the first layer in the shape of a hedgehog and coat it with salted yogurt.
2. Next, arrange on it cubes of beef, cream cheese, chopped spinach with yogurt, grated carrots with yogurt and grated chicken yolks.
3. Top well grease the salad with salt sauce and cover with finely grated proteins.

Put the hedgehog needles out of crackers. Cut the nose and eyes from slices of boiled carrots.

Fast and unusual snacks

There are many options for quick snacks that will captivate kids.

Young guests especially like various buns and spring rolls, tartlets and profiteroles with salads, pieces of meat, poultry and fish in batter, as well as other similar treats.

Octopus from sausages

Ingredients:

• 15 pcs. mini sausages;
• 1 egg
• salt;
• 1 tbsp. l flour and as much sour cream;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking:

1. Beat the egg until frothy, salt, mix with sour cream and flour.
2. Clear sausages. Cut the ends of each on one side crosswise.
3. With the uncut side, lower the sausages into the batter.
4. Then send the workpiece to a well-heated vegetable oil.

Put the finished snack on lettuce leaves. Serve with sweet ketchup.

Snack "Mice"

Ingredients:

• 3 processed cheese;
• 120 g sour cream;
• 350 g of crab sticks;
• ½ boiled carrots;
• 1 olive.

Cooking:

1. Frozen cream cheese and grate finely. Also grind crab sticks.
2. Mix the ingredients and season with sour cream. Send for an hour in the cold.
3. Blind the mice out of the cold mass and lay the blanks on a plate.

From boiled carrots cut ears and tails, from olives - eyes and noses.

Sweet table for the holiday

A sweet table at a children's party should be especially diverse. You can put on it any goodies to your liking: sweets, cakes, cakes, fruits, berries, nuts with dried fruits, chocolate, ice cream. If you have some time to prepare desserts, you should cook a couple of delicious treats yourself.

Fruit Salad with Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients:

• 2 nectarines;
• 1 banana
• 3 apricots;
• 10 grapes;
• 1 handful of dried cranberries;
• 1 tbsp. l almond flakes;
• 90 ml cream of medium fat content;
• 90 g of dark chocolate;
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar.

Cooking:

1. Heat the cream with vanilla sugar and put pieces of chocolate in them. Stir and simmer on fire until smooth. Cool the sauce under cling film.
2. Pour boiled cranberries for 3 minutes with boiling water. Squeeze the berries from the liquid.
3. Wash all fruits, if necessary, peel and finely chop.
4. Add cranberries.

Arrange the salad in a bowl, season with chocolate sauce and garnish with almond flakes.

Cookies and marshmallows roll

Ingredients:

• a pound of shortbread cookies;
• 1 pack of chocolate butter;
• 90 ml of any fruit syrup;
• 2 tbsp. l condensed milk;
• 3 pcs. marshmallows;
• 1 tbsp. assorted nuts.

Cooking:

1. Grind nuts with cookies in a blender.
2. Add condensed milk, syrup and softened butter to the dry mass.
3. Spread the mixture on film and roll out. Cover it with thin marshmallow plates.
4. Roll up the roll and send it to the freezer for a couple of hours.

Cut the treat into small pieces and serve with tea.

Beautiful fruit plates

Fruits are an obligatory component of a table with refreshments at a children's holiday. To surprise the kids, it is worth laying them out in an unusual way. In this case, you can endlessly fantasize, create original compositions in the form of flowers, animals and cartoon characters.

Fruit plate "Dolphins"

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas;
• 2 small branches of green grapes;
• 7 dark plums;
• 4 things. Blueberries
• 3 kiwi.

Cooking:

1. Cut each banana in half (do not peel!). Divide into 2 parts its “sharp” tip. Insert 1 pc into the resulting hole. blueberries. Toothpick “draw” dolphin eyes.
2. Place the banana halves in the middle of the flat plate with the wide cut down.
3. Around the "dolphins" lay out miniature twigs of grapes, plums and slices of kiwi.

Set a plate of fruit in the center of the festive table.

Hot for baby's birthday

When choosing a hot birthday for guests with children, you need to remember that kids do not like to sit in one place. They are unlikely to gently eat the contents of the pots out of the oven or cut slices of meat with a knife.

Therefore, it is better to make hot portioned and original.

Chicken Lollipops

Ingredients:

• 1 chicken fillet;
• spices and salt;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 90 g of cheese and breadcrumbs;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 2 tbsp. l olive oil and 1.5 tbsp. vegetable.

Cooking:

1. Cut the breast into small pieces. Grease each with olive oil and beat off very thinly.
2. Salt the resulting plates and sprinkle with a small amount of spices. Sprinkle them with grated cheese and put a skewer on the edge.
3. Roll up the workpiece with a roll with a “foot” skewer.
4. Beat eggs, salt and combine with 2 tbsp. l grated cheese.
5. Roll chicken on skewers in flour, dip in the mixture from the fourth step and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
6. Fry the “lollipops” until cooked in a large amount of heated oil.

Serve the meat with spicy sauces.

Potato peaches

Ingredients:

• 10 medium potatoes;
• 200 g of minced meat;
• 90 g of cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• ½ onion;
• 4 tsp flour;
• salt;
• 1 tsp turmeric
• breadcrumbs.

Cooking:

1. Cook potatoes until cooked.
2. Salt the minced meat and add the grated onion to it. Make small balls of meat and fry in any heated oil until tender.
3. Coarse the cooled potatoes and divide into 2 parts. Add salt and turmeric to one, only salt to the other.
4. Add eggs, flour and a portion of grated cheese to both sides.
5. To form “peaches” of two color potatoes stuffed with meat balls. Turmeric dough will be the top of the billet.

Sprinkle “peaches” with breadcrumbs and bake at medium temperature in the oven for a quarter of an hour.

Original tartlets and canapes

Canapes and tartlets are the most convenient snack options for children's parties. It’s convenient to hold them in a small pen, the guest can escape from the games for a minute, have a bite to eat with one serving of food and run on to have fun with friends.

Lavash tartlets

Ingredients:

• 3 large thin pita bread;
• 2 eggs;
• salt;
• any salad.

Cooking:

1. Cut pita bread into small squares. Each should turn out with a side of about 10 cm.
2. Beat eggs slightly and add salt to taste.
3. Dip the pieces of pita bread in the egg mixture and place in muffin tins, making a recess inside.
4. Bake tartlets 5 - 6 minutes at high temperature in the oven.

Fill the cooled rosy "baskets" with any salad you choose.

Pancake Canapes

Ingredients:

• 8 thin delicious pancakes;
• a handful of pitted olives;
• 200 g of cottage cheese;
• 350 g of slightly salted salmon;
• greenery.

Cooking:

1. Grease the first pancake with curd cheese.
2. Lay the second on it and cover with fish slices.
3. Thus, fold all the pancakes, alternating the fillings.
4. Cut the resulting “cake” into square canapes.

Put olives on them half and fix with a skewer.

Sandwiches and pizza for a children's party

For a children's holiday, any sandwiches and pizza are suitable. The first ones are best cooked on a thin baguette to make them miniature. And pizza before serving to the table should be cut into small pieces and complement with skewers.

Sandwiches with Nuggets

Ingredients:

• 1 PC. chicken fillet;
• 1 egg
• 1 baguette;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 4 things. Cherry
• bread crumbs;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Cut the chicken into small pieces and transfer them into a bowl with a beaten salted egg. Each slice breaded in breadcrumbs.
2. Fry the nuggets in plenty of oil until cooked.
3. Cut the baguette into slices, and the tomatoes and cucumber into thin slices.
4. Place a cucumber slice on each bread slice and add nuggets and cherry on top.

Fasten the entire structure with skewers.

homemade pizza

Ingredients:

• a glass of flour;
• half a glass of milk;
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
• ½ tsp salts;
• 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
• 1 tsp instant yeast;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 tbsp. l ketchup;
• 70 g of sausage and bacon;
• 1 pickled cucumber;
• cheese.

Cooking:

1. Dissolve the yeast in warm milk and pour in ½ tbsp. sifted flour. Leave the mass for half an hour warm.
2. Then add salt, sweet sand, butter and a second portion of flour. Knead the dough and leave it to rest again, but for an hour.
3. Hook the resulting mass, roll it on a baking sheet covered with parchment and grease with ketchup.
4. Cover the base with slices of bacon and sausage. Put slices of tomato and cucumber on top.
5. Cover everything with cheese.

Bake pizza for a little less than half an hour in the oven at medium temperature.

Drinks for children

Modern store juices and soda are harmful to the child's body. Therefore, small guests of their holiday should offer home-made soft drinks and fruit drinks without hazardous ingredients.

Homemade lemonade

Ingredients:

• 1 large lemon;
• half a glass of granulated sugar;
• 800 ml of filtered water.

Cooking:

1. Wash the lemon and pour boiling water over it.
2. Remove the zest from citrus with the finest grater and squeeze the juice.
3. Boil water, add sugar and zest to it. Cook the mixture for 10 minutes.
4. Cool the drink slightly and pour citrus juice into it.

Cool the lemonade well and serve with bright straws.

Blackcurrant juice

Ingredients per pound of berries:

• 1 tbsp. granulated sugar;
• 6 g of cinnamon;
• ½ lemon;
• 2 l of purified water.

Cooking:

1. Bring water to a boil and fill in the washed berries.
2. After boiling again, cook the mixture for a quarter of an hour.
3. Remove the drink from the heat, cool, add sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice.
4. Strain the fruit drink.

Pour completely cooled drink into a beautiful jug.

Design and decoration of children's dishes: ideas

Making dishes on the table for a children's holiday, you should turn on your imagination or seek help from online sources. Even a regular salad or pizza can be served brightly and interestingly.

1. For example, “bees” and “ladybugs” become a universal decoration for savory dishes. The first are collected from slices of olives and boiled quail eggs. Wings are cut from protein. Ladybugs are easily made from halves of cherry and slices of olives.
2. Grinding various greens, on a salad, pizza or plate for any snacks, you can create a "forest clearing". And then supplement it with pickled mushrooms or “mushrooms” from the egg and half of the cherry with drops of sour cream.
3. You can cut any fairy-tale characters from sausage, cheese and vegetables. You can use special molds for this (they are usually intended for cookies).

Recommendations for creating a children's menu by age

When compiling a menu for a children's holiday, it is imperative to take into account guests of what age will attend it. If the smallest (up to 2 years), then as a dessert it is worth choosing fruits, berries and a cake from special cookies with curds. As hot, baked miniature cutlets with potato or other vegetable puree are suitable. It remains only to beautifully decorate such treats.

Guests from 3 to 5 years old may already like salads, canapes, pizza. But it is better not to add sausage and other semi-finished products, as well as mayonnaise, to their composition. As a sauce, it is better to use sour cream or unsweetened yogurt. Instead of sausages and smoked sausage, take boiled chicken fillet or shrimp.

Children's holiday is emotions, vivid impressions and good mood. Complete it with colorful and delicious dishes, and then your baby will remember him for a long time.