Family recipes

Family treats for Fireworks Night

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Enjoy our family-favourite, simple-but-delicious recipes for bonfire night fun.

Fruit rockets – ingredients

  • Strawberries
  • Grapes
  • Blueberries
  • Food-safe bamboo sticks

Fruit rockets – method

  1. Wash the fruit
  2. Prepare the fruit by chopping the tops of your strawberries, cutting your grapes into half/ quarters and, if serving to a little ones, halving your blueberries
  3. Simply push the grapes and blueberries onto your bamboo stick, alternating as you choose
  4. Finish off by popping a strawberry on top of each, to act as the nose cone

Bonfire cupcakes – ingredients

  • Six plain fairy cakes or cupcakes – either shop-bought or homemade
  • 300g buttercream
  • Red and yellow food colouring/ gel
  • Pretzel sticks
  • Mini marshmallows
  • Cocktail sticks
  • Glittery edible sprinkles (optional)

Bonfire cupcakes – method

  1. Halve the buttercream into two small bowls. Add a little of one food colouring into one and a little of the other into the other. Mix each individually until you reach the desired colour
  2. Add both colours into a piping back and gently pipe onto the top of the individual cakes, building up layers to create a ‘fire’ effect
  3. If you are using sprinkles, add these on top at this stage
  4. Snap the pretzel sticks into small pieces, then apply at an angle to create teepee effect over your icing
  5. Add two mini marshmallows to each cocktail stick and place one onto each bonfire cupcake

Chocolate sparklers – ingredients

  • 10 bread sticks
  • 10 chocolate stars
  • Chocolate beans (or Hundreds & Thousands)
  • 100g milk chocolate

Chocolate sparklers – method

  1. Melt the chocolate in a microwave (in short 15 second bursts, stirring well in-between) or in a bain-marie (constantly stirring).
  2. Pour the melted chocolate into a tall container. The deeper it is, the more your breadstick will be covered in the chocolate.
  3. Take it in turns dipping each breadstick into the chocolate, gently shaking of the excess chocolate as you remove them.
  4. Place onto a flexible, food-safe surface (such as a silicone baking mat, greasproof paper or foil). This makes them easier to manoeuvre once cooled & set.
  5. Before the chocolate sets, sprinkle the chocolate beans over each and pop a star on top, to complete the sparkler.