Every year our family takes some fun food to our "Christmas Crunch" time at church or other times during the year. You can see some of our other fun foods here. Fun Foods We Have Made
This year, I had seen cute little cups made of marshmallows on pinterest, so we experimented and made some. They were very popular-especially with the little ones. :)
The first step is to make or buy some cookies that will work as a "saucer" for the cups. I wanted them to be about 3" in diameter and thankfully, I had a cookie cutter that size.
I used the next smaller size cookie cutter to press a design into the edge, although I ended up covering it up with frosting.
I wanted to have a scalloped edge of some kind... and this worked. Plain circles would work fine... or buy some cookies at the store of a similar size.
Next, spread some chocolate on the top, as shown in the picture. It could be chocolate frosting.... or I used some homemade fudge that didn't set up quite right. :)
I didn't know what to do about the little marshmallows on the top... I was figuring this out as I went.... I ended up just tearing off little pieces from a big marshmallow and it worked fine. I put 3 little marshmallows into each "cup". Next, I used a sharp knife to dig 2 little holes in the side of a regular sized big marshmallow-not a big hole, but enough to allow the broken candy cane handle to go into the marshmallow.
I had to shop around to find little candy canes... a couple of places had some that were too big, or the arch was too much for these marshmallows... Finally, we found some that would work.
Just break off the end, so there is a U-shaped piece. Push into the side of the marshmallow. Yes, it can make it a bit oddly-shaped. and the bottom wasn't flat, but it worked.
See how we used the leftover pieces of broken candy cane here....
Easy Edible Doors!
I got tired of doing these one at a time, so started a bit of an assembly line method...
I put a layer of white frosting on each cookie-saucer, then decorated it and put some matching decoration on the cup. I did have some decorations - the stars were from some after 4th of July sales, but I did also buy a package of 4 different candy decorations. If you have time and desire to do it, you could use only frosting also, but I was in a hurry. 
I put extra frosting on the bottom of the "cup" before I put it on the saucer... and we learned to use that frosting to make the cup as level as possible. The bottoms of the "cups" weren't flat due to the candy cane handles.
We had so many comments on these... and the younger kids LOVED them and even used them as play food before they ate them.
Are these simple and easy and fast? Well.... no... but they aren't hard either... just a bit time-consuming. We got a lot faster as we went and as we figured out how to do them. We made 29 of them, so that took a while, but we were very glad we made them.
These are great for Christmas or New Year's, but they would also be wonderful for a sledding party or Valentine's Day or a summer garden party.... or a little girl's tea party. :) There are so many possibilities with these.
We served them on stands, but they would also be great served in other ways. They can be made all the same... or varied as we did.
By they way, you don't have to be too fussy with these... as my son reminded me, "It won't take long for the kids to eat them.":)
Thank you for visiting my blog today... and I hope you and your family remember to give thanks to God for the wonderful gift of His Son, Jesus, during this season. What a blessing that Jesus came, and lived, died and rose again...defeating death and sin... so that we could have eternal life. That is the best gift ever.
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