Last Updated on June 25, 2022 by Mary J. Grice
Any children’s holiday is not only a joyful event but also a very big responsibility for its organizers. Because every child is an extremely discerning taster with their preferences and not always easy to please, the quality of the products used in the diet for babies must be excellent.
Therefore the highest requirements are always imposed on the organization of the children’s table.
How to Make a Menu for Children’s Birthday
When a children’s birthday is celebrated at home, the menu should never be limited to desserts alone. Firstly, eating a lot of sweets is harmful (and not only for kids, but also for adults), and secondly, not all children prefer to feast on only sweets. Of course, the festive menu is better to diversify, and then each child will be able to choose the one that best suits his taste.
The children’s menu can include the following:
- snacks,
- salads,
- hotter,
- beverages,
- fruits,
- desserts.
Naturally, serving everything at once is not worth it: you need to pause between meals, which can be occupied with fun games, dances, and entertainment.
What Kids Love and What Not
Food is almost never dominant in life for children, especially since each person, including babies, has different tastes and preferences. Someone loves ice cream, while someone else would instead try cake or candy. The main thing is variety and, of course, some tricks that will help to treat all children with not only tasty but also healthy dishes.
Rules for Serving Dishes to the Children’s Table
- the dish should be not only healthy but also tasty;
- the dish should be bright, interesting, attractive to the eye, and unusually decorated;
- any dish should look delicious. Of course, everyone has their tastes, but if a dish exudes unique aromas and looks juicy and tasty, you will always want to try it at least;
- all children love to make it enjoyable, therefore, if a dish is handy, but not very favorite, you can serve it to the table with a fantastic story or a joke so that everyone is interested and everyone wants to try it;
- all children love games, so you can arrange a lottery, as a result of which everyone will have to try something unique, beneficial, and, of course, delicious;
- you can make a competition for the best dish that the guys themselves will cook, and then everyone will try it;
- it is necessary to warn that the best eaters will receive a surprise at the end of the holiday.
Snacks
Light snacks will certainly justify their presence on the table; only there is one condition: for a children’s table, it is better to make them proportionate, that is, small. If you want to make sandwiches, then give preference to canapes. You can also make small baskets with salad – they will disappear from the table very quickly.
Cheese Baskets With Salad
What you need to prepare them (6 servings):
- cheese – 200 g;
- salad.
You can use any salad for this dish. Cooking method: rub the cheese on a fine grater and put it in circles on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. We put in a heated oven. The cheese will melt in a few minutes. Carefully take each circle and, while it is still warm, form small baskets from it at the bottom of a mug or glass, and fill it with salad just before serving.
Salads
Of course, salads can be present on the menu at a children’s birthday celebration, but it should be borne in mind that for kids, salads thickly seasoned with mayonnaise or consisting of exotic products are taboo. You should also avoid making very complex dishes with many ingredients.
You can make fruit salads, but don’t overuse fruits that can cause allergies. It is better to make several types of salads from fresh seasonal vegetables and decorate them beautifully so that the children cannot resist and be sure to try your treat. Here are some great salad options for toddlers.
“Nest” Salad
What you need to prepare it (per serving):
- processed cheese – 1 pc .;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- sour cream – 3 tbsp. l .;
- fresh cucumber – 1 pc .;
- garlic – if you like;
- pigtail cheese – 100 g.
How to cook: Mix boiled egg and processed cheese, chopped with a fine grater, add garlic, and sour cream. Mix everything and make balls from the resulting mass. Divide the cheese into separate fibers, layout in a circle, giving the shape of a nest. Put a cucumber in it, cut into strips, and on top – “testicles”. You can decorate the salad with herbs.
Mosaic Salad
What you need to prepare it (per serving):
- fresh cucumbers – 20 g;
- hard cheese – 20 g;
- ham – 20 g;
- red bulgarian pepper – 20 g;
- radish – 20 g;
- pineapples – 2 rings;
- sour cream or children’s mayonnaise.
How to cook: cut everything into strips, mix with sour cream or baby mayonnaise, garnish with pineapple.
“in the Cradle” Salad
What you need to prepare it (per serving):
- avocado – 1 pcs .;
- bulgarian pepper – 20 g;
- boiled chicken – 20 g;
- fresh cucumber – 20 g;
- cheese – 20 g;
- lemon juice – 1 tsp;
- children’s mayonnaise.
How to cook: Cut the avocado into two halves, remove the seed and pulp. Finely chop some of the pulp, and put the rest in a blender, add lemon juice, baby mayonnaise, salt and make a homogeneous mass out of all this – this will be a sauce. Finely chop the rest of the ingredients and mix with half of the sauce. Place the salad in a cradle made from half an avocado. Drizzle over the rest of the sauce.
Hot
Hot must be served at a children’s party, unless, of course, this is a lovely table.
The only thing that you should not cook very heavy, hearty, and dense meals. And do not forget about the rules for serving dishes on the children’s table! Here are some great hot menu recipes for a children’s birthday.
Meat with Vegetables
What you need to prepare it:
- pork,
- carrot,
- onion,
- margarine,
- salt,
- children’s mayonnaise.
How to cook: beat the pork into thin slices, lightly salt. Put several margarine pieces in a high saucepan, on top of it – grated carrots and chopped onions. We pour everything with baby mayonnaise. Next – meat in one layer.
Alternate layers again. And again pour with baby mayonnaise. Add margarine pieces from time to time. When the pan is filled to the top, please put it on a small fire and simmer for an hour. It turns out to be a delicious and undoubtedly healthy dish.
Children’s Mayonnaise
Since it is not recommended to give ordinary mayonnaise to small children, you can use its safer, healthier, and home-made analog. What you need to prepare it:
- vegetable oil – 50 ml;
- potato starch – 10 g;
- water – 50 ml;
- egg yolk – 1/2;
- lemon – 1/4;
- sugar – 1 tsp;
- salt.
How to cook: mix the raw yolk with vegetable oil and salt, beat everything well until a thick mass is formed. Add lemon juice and a mixture of starch and water. You can diversify children’s mayonnaise by adding chopped carrots, parsley, and dill.
Chicken on a Bottle
What you need to prepare it:
- whole chicken
- garlic,
- salt.
How to cook: Wash the chicken thoroughly, drain off the water. It is good to coat it with salt, crushed garlic, leave to soak for a while under oppression. Take a regular empty glass bottle, remove all labels from it. String the chicken on the bottle.
Place on a baking sheet in a cold oven, turn on medium heat, and bake for an hour. The resulting chicken has a delicious crust, baked meat pulp, and a wonderful aroma.
Beverages
Drinks that all children love are, of course, juices, fruit drinks, compotes. You can also make milkshakes with jam or berries: both tasty and healthy. We bring to your attention one cocktail recipe. Creamy strawberry cocktail What you need to make it:
- cream,
- fresh strawberries,
- sugar.
The amount of ingredients varies depending on tastes and preferences. How to cook: chill the cream in the freezer, add fresh berries (if not available, use jam), and sugar. Beat all this with a mixer. This makes a delicious strawberry creamy cocktail!
Fruits and Berries
Berries and fruits must be present on the children’s festive table. However, do not overuse the amount of those that can cause allergic reactions. Bananas, apples, pears, apricots, grapes, watermelon, and melon are good choices.
Dessert
Not a single children’s holiday is complete without a dessert. There are many options here: cookies, sweets, marmalade, chocolate, pies, cakes. Any source on the Internet will be full of information of this type; therefore, in order not to repeat ourselves, we bring to your attention a recipe for a quick and surprisingly easy-to-make biscuit that is not inferior in taste to even the most unusual, skillfully prepared delicacy. And, importantly, it is suitable even for the smallest sweet tooth.
Air Sponge Cake From the Microwave
What you need to prepare it:
- eggs – 3 pieces;
- sunflower oil – 9 tbsp. spoons;
- flour – 2 cups;
- soda – 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- vanillin;
- milk – 1 glass.
How to cook: Mix vegetable oil, eggs, beaten with sugar, soda, slaked with lemon juice, milk, and flour. Pour the resulting liquid mass into a greased glass mold and put on maximum power in the microwave for 13 minutes.
Divide the finished biscuit into separate parts and soak with cream. Also, ordinary cookies “Nuts” will be an excellent dessert, some of which will contain small toys from kinder surprises or funny wishes.
First of all, any holiday is a mood; therefore, no matter what dishes your table abounds in, the main thing is that a relaxed, warm and sincere atmosphere should be present in your house, as well as cheerful, cheerful laughter. And then even the simplest dishes, but cooked with love and served with a smile, will seem amazingly tasty!
If you cook a dish and decorate it beautifully or shape it into an animal, the children will not leave a crumb.
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