Special no cook desserts for kids to promote bonding time

It might be the special occasion of Children’s Day or you wish to indulge your little one, or your almost grown-up kid. If they like to try new things or helping in the kitchen hand them the tools and supervise your little chef. Or, pamper them with these no-bake and no cook desserts for kids, that just need some chocolate, cookies, and some decor details.

1. No Bake Oreo Truffles

(Makes 15 truffles)

Ingredients:

• 750 gm Oreo cookies
• 115 gm cream cheese, softened

For dipping:

• 120 gm white chocolate
• 120 gm dark chocolate
• Assorted sprinkles, for decoration

Instructions:

1. Take the Oreo cookies in a food processor and grind them down to fine crumbs.
2. Add the cream cheese into the food processor and run it again until you have a cohesive mass that collects on one side of the processor bowl with a sheen.
3. Using a medium-sized cookie scoop, portion out the Oreo-cream cheese mixture into 1-inch sized balls. Take each portion and roll it between the palms of your hands, to make round spheres. Arrange each finished truffle onto a sheet of parchment paper and transfer to the refrigerator to chill for 15 minutes.
4. While truffles are chilling, prepare your chocolate coating. Place both the chocolates into separate small, microwave-safe bowls. Microwave each bowl in 30-second intervals, removing and stirring between each interval. Continue this process until almost all the chocolate is melted, but a few small pieces remain unmelted. Set aside.
5. Take out the chilled truffles from refrigerator and dip each one individually into either bowl of melted chocolate, until fully coated. Return each coated truffle back onto the parchment paper.
6. While the chocolate is still wet, decorate with your choice of sprinkles or drizzle with the contrasting chocolate variety.
7. Let the chocolate coating to fully harden before enjoying your truffles.
8. Freeze for three minutes for the quickest set, or let them set at room temperature for approximately 30 minutes. If you prefer to refrigerate, the truffles will set in 10 minutes.

2. Marshmallow Pops

Makes 20 pops

Ingredients:

• 375 gm Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, chopped
• 20 marshmallows
• 90 gm digestive biscuits, crushed
• 20 lollipop sticks

Instructions:

1. Carefully create holes in the bottom of each plastic cup, for the lollipop sticks. Once all holes are made, turn each cup upside down to create your drying stand.
2. Take each marshmallow and carefully insert one lollipop stick through its center, making sure it goes deep enough to hold securely but doesn't pierce through the top.
3. While doing this, prepare a dish filled with digestive biscuit crumbs for easy rolling.
4. Add the chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl and melt for one to two minutes, stirring at 20-second intervals. Keep going until you have a completely smooth, melted chocolate.
5. Before the chocolate can harden, dip each marshmallow-topped stick into the melted chocolate. Immediately roll the chocolate-covered marshmallow in the crushed biscuits.
6. Once coated, insert each completed marshmallow pop into the prepared upside-down cups.
7. Let them rest for 10 minutes until the chocolate coating fully hardens.

3. Owl Cookies

(Makes 6 cookies)

Ingredients:

• 6 plain cookie halves
• 12 Cadbury Gems, for the eyes
• 6 small strawberry triangles, for the beak
• 50 gm Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, chopped
• 3 Oreo cookies
• 250-300 gm white chocolate, chopped

Instructions:

1. Add the chopped white chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Heat for two to three minutes total, making sure to pause and stir every 30 seconds to prevent burning.
2. Once melted, pour the melted chocoalte into a pastry bag or a ziplock bag and secure the top to prevent and leaks. Set aside.
3. Take the cookies, preferably square and split into halves two have two equal pieces. Place next to each on a baking tray, to look whole.
4. Cut small triangles from some strawberries for the nose.
5. Then melt the chocolate in a small bowl for one minute, stirring at the 20 second mark. Quickly dip the strawberry beaks in the chocolate and arrange on a parchment sheet to dry.
6. Return to the bag of melted white chocolate and make a tiny snip in one corner. Carefully pipe it on the cookies make sure to cover evenly.
7. Just before placing the Cadbury Gems, quickly pipe a little extra white chocolate for the eyes. Push the Gems into the chocolate making sure they are in the right place.
8. Scrape out the cream from each Oreo cookie and keep the cream for some other use. Split each six cookies into clean halves, for the owl’s wings.
9. Position these wing pieces just below the eyes, with the rounded edges are pointing upward. Adjust to have a little space with the wings extending outward from the cookie base.
10. Complete the owl's face by placing the chocolate-dipped strawberry under the center of the eyes, with the pointy side facing to the toes.
11. Let the completed owl cookies to sit undisturbed at room temperature for 30 minutes
12. Once hardened, serve them to your kids.