Crispy Crowns

Since I am free before I pop, I decided to let Chloe try her hand at baking. This is not new to her especially she has done this before in childcare. I saw this simple recipe on a book called Baking With Toddlers. Ingredients are easily available & most important of all they are healthy.

Ingredients
25g dried apricots
50g puff rice
20g strawberry fruit flakes or dried cranberries
(in fact u can replace with any kind of dried fruits)
1 tbspoon golden syrup or runny honey
50g caster sugar (i did not add sugar at all)
50g butter or magarine

Use a clean pair of scissors to cut the dried aprcots inot small pcs in a mixing bowl

Ask ur child to set out 20 or so small paper cases on a large serving plate or tray

Place the syrup, caster sugar n butter into a small saucepan and heat gently until just bubbly. Stir together, then remove from heat allow to cool for 5 mins.

help your child pour the cooled syrup over the puffed rice mixture and stir it all together with a dessertspoon till the rice is covered in the sticky syrup mix.

show them how to take a heaped teaspoon of the mixture to fill each case, but work quickly as the mixture will set as it cools.
Chloe picking on the crispy puffs


The Finished Product