Tasty Treats

Tomorrow is the Twilight Fete for Charlotte’s school and, having been quite ill in bed for the last three days, I forgot all about it.  So I needed some super-fast fete food that would be cool, interesting and easy to make.  Obviously the usual suspects like pikelets and cupcakes were immediately thrown into the "too hard" basket and immediately discarded.  I also discarded toffee, chocolate crackles and honey jumbles purely because someone always makes them and I swear it will never be me. 

I went digging on the Interwebs for some interesting solutions and came up with the ultra-cool caramel popcorn you see below.  I threw in the Rocky Road as well and dropped them all into ice cream cup cones for a bit of a change from the ubiquitous cupcake papers.  The best thing about the whole lot is that they were incredibly easy and you can pretty much all hook in and help.

Rocky Road

Ingredients

400gm dark chocolate

250 gram bag mixed marshmallows halved

½ cup of shredded coconut

100g glace cherries, chopped.

Large marshmallows

Drop a large marshmallow into each cone to form a base for the rocky road. 

Mix the flavoured marshmallows, coconut and glace cherries together in a bowl.

Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave and stir through the mix.

Heap a pile of the rocky road into each cone and then refrigerate.

Makes about 16.

Caramel Popcorn Cones

Ingredients

300g caramels (I used Columbines)

150g butter

100g packet natural flavoured microwave popcorn

Pop the popcorn in the microwave beforehand and transfer immediately to a bowl to allow the steam to escape and prevent the popcorn from going soggy.  Ditch any unpopped kernels.

In a saucepan on the stove heat the butter and the caramels until they blend.

Be warned, it looks like a mess and feels like it will never come together.

But don’t worry, it will!

Pour the caramel over the popcorn, stir through and then heap into the empty cones.  When the mixture has cooled you can use your hands to shape the ball on top.  

It’s not anywhere near as messy as you think it will be and once the mixture has cooled a little the popcorn will stick better.

Makes about 12.

Voila!  So many tasty treats for the fete in no time at all!