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Fun Christmas Snack Ideas Kids Will Love

One thing kids love as much as they love their favorite snacks is Christmas, so why not put those two things together for a little more holiday cheer? Festive treats will get little ones even more excited about the holidays! And if you make them yourself, you can make them as sinful or as healthy as you want!

Here are some fun holiday snack ideas you can try for kids:

fluffy hot chocolate

Make it a family tradition to enjoy a delicious cup of hot cocoa by the fireplace or while watching a holiday movie! This may look like ordinary hot chocolate, but the vanilla and melted marshmallows set it apart!

What do you need:

  • 4 cups of 2% milk

  • 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

  • 8 teaspoons of sugar

  • 4 teaspoons of baking cocoa

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine milk, miniature marshmallows, sugar, and cocoa in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for about 8 minutes or until the marshmallows are melted. Remove the mixture from the heat, and then add the vanilla extract. For the mugs, top with some miniature marshmallows and some candy cane if desired.

Christmas tree of stacked cookies

Make this a fun family project – you bake the cookies and the little ones can help stack them up to look like trees and then decorate them. Then you would have made some lasting memories, plus a delicious Christmas treat!

What do you need:

  • 1 tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough

  • 1 can of vanilla frosting

  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 9 unwrapped Rolo candies

  • smart candy

  • Necco wafer candies

  • green colored sugar

  • without red grills

  • yellow food coloring

  • Water

Scoop the cookie dough into a large bowl and allow to soften at room temperature for 5-10 minutes. Prepare the dough to make 18 cookies each using 3 round cookie cutters (2-inch, 1 1/2-inch, and 1-inch). For the remaining dough, make 9 star-shaped cookies (using a 1/2-inch star cutter).

Dust the round cookies with colored sugar and then bake. For the stars, add yellow food coloring to a small amount of frosting, then pipe on top of cookies. To assemble the “trees”, pipe icing on top of a Rolo, top with a 2-inch cookie, pipe icing on top and bottom of one wafer, then top with another 2-inch cookie.

Repeat steps with 2 1 1/2 and 1 inch cookies. Attach stars on top with icing, then decorate with nonpareils.

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