Recipe: Christmas Tree Cake

Here's a recipe which is perfect for socializing with your kids.

Christmas tree cake ingredients:

20 lady's fingers

125 g margarine

1 whipped cream

100g cooking chocolate

1 cup of milk

100 g ground sugar

M&M candy (or similar)

2 egg yolks

Preparation:

Step 1: 10 lady's fingers dip into sweetened milk and arrange in Christmas tree shape (like on the picture)

Step 2: Whisk margarine and ground sugar, add two egg yolks and whisk some more. Add melted cooking chocolate and whisk. When this mixtures is smooth, spread it on the arranged lady's fingers.

Step 3: Arrange 10 lady's fingers on top like in step 1.

Step 5: Prepare whipped cream and spread it over second layer of lady's fingers.

Step 6: Arrange M&M candy on top. Put the cake in the fridge for a while.

And, finally, don't forget to clean your mixer!

Kids Crafts: Fusilli Pasta Reindeer Christmas Greeting Card

Holidays are coming and the kids are getting impatient.

Here's a suggestion how to entertain them while waiting for Santa. Kids will have fun while doing it and just for a moment they'll become "big" while creating something "real".

What you need for "Fusilli Pasta Reindeer Christmas Greeting Card" project:
1. Good will
2. Collage paper or plain colored paper. You can glue paper to thin cardboard and cut it in desired size.
3. Brown tempera
4. White tempera
5. Black pencil or felt pen
6. Thin paintbrush with sharp tip
7. Paper glue
8. Scissors
9. Self-adhesive red paper or plain paper and glue
10. Fussili pasta
11. Envelopes

How to make

Step 1: Fold rectangular shaped collage paper pieces in half.

Step 2: Put brown and white tempera into palette in separate slots. Put your kids thumb into brown tempera (they'll love it) and press it against collage paper in three spots. Let the paint dry (five to eight minutes will do). Thumb prints will represent reindeer's heads.

Step 3: Paint two white dots in the middle of thumb prints. These dots will be the eyes of your new reindeer. Let the white tempera dry, again for several minutes.

Step 4: Draw two small dots over the white tempera with black felt-tip pen. These will be the pupils.

Step 5: Cut small round circles using the red self-adhesive paper and place them under the reindeer's eyes. Voila - that's the red nose!

Step 6: Glue the Fusilli pasta over reindeer's heads (two for each head) making the horns. Let the glue dry for a few minutes.

Step 7: Let's decorate the greeting card with some tinsels, pieces of cotton wool (snow) or something else you've got handy.

Step 8: Write some greeting on the blank side of your Christmas greeting card, put it in the envelope and send to your friends and family.

I'm quite sure that the kid will enjoy making these greeting cards (mine did!) and you'll also have fun. Now go and make some Fusilli Pasta Reindeer Christmas Greeting Card by yourself!