I need a cute idea for a thanksgiving dessert for my daughter's day care class.?

Question

healthy would be great, but not necessary.
... and not too complicated to make, since i would like to have her help a little, and she's not quite 3.

thanks!

Answer 1

There is a great recipe for pumpkin dip. Instead of chips and crackers, you dip ginger snaps into it. Its quite yummy, and my kids love it.

Answer 2

I recommend Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. I make them every year around this time, everyone loves them. They are pretty easy to make, and they are moist and delicious! Here is the recipe:

1stick of unsalted butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Pre heat oven to 350F

Sift together dry ingredients
in a separate bowl cream butter and sugars
add wet ingredients to butter sugar mixture
then slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture
once fully incorporated add the chocolate chips and nuts

drop spoonful of dough onto a cookie sheet (sprayed w/non stick cooking spray). Make sure cookies are about 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake for appox 15 minutes or until firm and slightly brown.

This recipe should yield approx 45-60 cookies, depending on size of spoofuls of dough.

Hope you enjoy!

Answer 3

this recipe makes 10. so you might have to double it depending on how many you need. hint: don't double just make 2 batches. if you double and make 1 big batch you will have a big mess. the link below is the same recipe, but it has a picture to give you an idea of what it will look like.

Indian Corn

1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 package (10.5 ounces) mini marshmallows
Yellow food coloring
8 cups peanut butter and chocolate puffed corn cereal (reeces or captain crunch)
10 lollipop sticks
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces (round, ball shaped like sixlets)
Tan and green raffia

1. Line large baking sheet with waxed paper; set aside. Melt butter in large heavy saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows; stir until melted and smooth. Tint with food coloring until desired shade is reached. Add cereal and 1/2 cup chocolate pieces; stir until evenly coated. Remove from heat.

2. With lightly greased hands, quickly divide mixture into 10 oblong pieces. Push lollipop stick halfway into each oblong piece; shape like ear of corn. Place on prepared baking sheet; press remaining 1/2 cup chocolate pieces into each "ear." Let treats set.

3. Tie or tape raffia to lollipop sticks to resemble corn husks.

Answer 4

Make a cupcake and frost it with choco or brown colored vanilla icing then take lady finger and paint them with red, orange, yellow, green food coloring, put three on oneside of it to make a turkey tail, then use a white gumdrop for a head on the other side and stick two raisins on the gum drop with icing to make eyes and attach a candy corn or something orange, like use orage icing and a sandwich bag to make a triangle for a beak!

Answer 5

Pumpkin cookies, or tiny pumpkin pies putting a small amount of pie dough (frozen would be quickest) into each section of a tart pan then filling them up with pumpkin pie filling.
Pumpkin cookies would probably be the less complicated depending on the recipe used.

Answer 6

Make rice krispie treats and separate the batter into a few different bowls and mix in a little food coloring in each. Make a few different colors then let them set like you normally would in a flat pan. Then you can take a cookie cutter shaped like a leaf or pumpkin and cut them out. Hope that helps :-)

Answer 7

Peanut Blossoms. They're a great peanut butter cookie with a candy kiss in the middle, that your daughter could unwrap as you baked. Look at the kraftfoods.com website and the recipe is there.

Answer 8

On pillsbury.com they have a cute turkey cookie. You make a round sugar cookie and use candy corn for tail feathers, mini M&M's for eyes and use icing for feet and beak. Child could help put on candy corn, or m&m's I am going to try this with my 3 year old. They seem easy to do. Hope this helps.

Answer 9

What about Christmas cookies i know they are not healthy and i know it's not really a desert but kids love to decorate Christmas cookies with green and red icing, and you can buy the cookie cutters cheep and use a plain cookie recipe!

Answer 10

How about a trifle
You could use a layer of cake then choc or vanila pudding then cool whip and then crushed gram crackers and them put xome festive Thanksgiving candy on top