Children's birthday menu should be considered with great care. It should turn out interesting, original, diverse. It is important to take care not only of taste, but also of the bright and unusual design of each treat and, of course, its harmlessness to the child.

Children's menu for the first birthday

The first birthday is a responsible event in every sense. But holiday treats still do not have to pay special attention. All dishes are mainly prepared for adult guests.

Children's birthday table in 1 year old can include peeled, cut and beautifully laid out fruits, portioned fruit / berry / vegetable purees, juices, curds and cookies. Only a special cake made from children's dairy products will be able to pamper the kids.

Cake for 1 year

Ingredients:

  • 1 banana
  • ½ tbsp baby yogurt;
  • 200 g of baby curd;
  • sugar at will;
  • 5 g of gelatin;
  • 150 - 200 g of children's cookies.

Cooking:

  1. Cover the detachable form with a film and completely cover its bottom with cookies.
  2. Mix dairy and sugar. The last ingredient is optional; it is added as desired. If yogurt and cottage cheese are sweet, you can do without an additional sweetener in the recipe.
  3. Dilute gelatin in 50 ml of cold water and leave for 10 to 12 minutes.Heat the mixture over low heat until the thickener is completely dissolved and pour into the composition from the second step.
  4. Distribute the curd mass over the liver. Most of it will pop up.
  5. Remove the base of the dessert in the cold for 3 hours.
  6. After this time, carefully turn the cake on a plate and remove the film.
  7. Put a side of the cookie around the dessert and dress it with a bright ribbon.

It remains only to decorate the finished treat with banana slices.

What to cook for a five-year-old child

It is not easy to keep the five-year-old birthday man and his guests at the festive table. Children at this age prefer to spend most of their time playing active fun games. Therefore, in the menu for a children's birthday of 5 years, you need to include such treats that will be able to quickly satisfy your hunger in order to run further on your business.

Pancake canapes

Ingredients:

  • 300 g chicken ham;
  • 1 full glass of soft curd cheese;
  • olives / olives;
  • 8 pcs thin ready-made pancakes;
  • fresh greens.

Cooking:

  1. According to any convenient recipe, you need to bake thin delicious pancakes. It will be enough 8 pcs.
  2. Put the first pancake on a cutting board, cover it with curd cheese and sprinkle with herbs. Cover with a second and spread thin slices of chicken ham over it.
  3. Repeat layers until the basics and filling are complete.
  4. Cut the resulting “cake” into neat squares-canapes.

Garnish each serving with olive or olive, fasten with a skewer.

Stadium appetizer

Ingredients:

  • 3 packs of white bread;
  • 1 pack of creamy sausages;
  • half a kilo of any sausages;
  • a pound of cheese;
  • 2 bunches of lettuce leaves;
  • 2 kg of various vegetables (cherry, sweet peppers, cucumbers);
  • olives and olives;
  • salted square crackers.

Cooking:

  1. Put a rectangular shallow salad bowl in the middle of a large round or square dish. Pour it with lettuce leaves, chopped directly with your hands (half of the amount stated in the recipe).
  2. On the resulting “playing” green field, put the “players” of two teams of olives and olives.
  3. The area around the salad bowl with the help of square crackers is divided into equal parts. At your discretion, fill them with chopped sausages, sausages, small pieces of vegetables and cheese.
  4. It remains to frame the resulting design with slices of white bread. Between them put a lettuce leaf.

In addition to such a spectacular appetizer, you can serve any mild sauces in addition.

Octopus from sausages

Ingredients:

  • 12 to 14 miniature sausages;
  • 1 table egg;
  • 2 dessert spoons of sour cream;
  • 2 dessert spoons of flour;
  • salt;
  • sunflower oil.

Cooking:

  1. Beat the egg until foam appears. Add sour cream and salt to it. Repeat whipping the components together.
  2. Add sifted flour. Mix. You should get a homogeneous batter of medium density.
  3. To clear each sausage from a film and on one side to cut crosswise. Lower the second part of the sausage into the batter.
  4. Fry the appetizer until cooked in boiling oil.

Serve with ketchup.

Banana dessert

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp. l peanut butter;
  • 2 large bananas;
  • half a bar of milk chocolate;
  • 2 tbsp. l chopped nut assortment.

Cooking:

  1. Peel the bananas and divide each one into 4 to 6 parts (depending on size).
  2. Spread fruit slices with peanut butter and string on long skewers.
  3. Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Pour chopped nut assorted into a separate bowl.
  4. Each banana slice is first dipped in chocolate, then sprinkled with nut crumbs.

Send the finished dessert for half an hour to the freezer.

Holiday menu for 7 - 9 years old

Schoolchildren can sit quietly at a table for some time and try their favorite dishes. In order to delay them at dinner longer and nourish them, you need to include treats with an attractive design on the theme of your favorite cartoons and fairy tales in the children's holiday menu.

Mashed potatoes “Spiders”

Ingredients:

  • 500 g of raw potatoes;
  • half a glass of low-fat cream;
  • salt;
  • 50 g butter;
  • 1 olive;
  • 2 feathers of green onions;
  • 2 grains of canned corn;
  • ketchup.

Cooking:

  1. Boil potatoes until fully cooked in salt water. Drain the liquid from it.
  2. Add softened butter and mash the potatoes until mashed.
  3. Heat the cream in a saucepan. Add them in mashed potatoes. Knead the potatoes again.
  4. Put it on a flat round dish and flatten with a spoon.
  5. Using ketchup, draw a thin ornate web from above.
  6. Seat a spider on the side. His body is made of olives, his eyes are made from corn, and his legs are made from green onions.

Serve mashed potatoes on the festive table hot as a side dish.

Krabiki Nuggets

Ingredients:

  • a pound of chicken fillet;
  • 1/3 Art. classic soy sauce;
  • 3 eggs;
  • ½ rolls of white bread;
  • 6 dessert spoons of flour;
  • salt, curry;
  • sunflower oil;
  • blueberries and sweet red peppers for decoration.

Cooking:

  1. Chicken into small portions. Their optimal length is 5 - 6 cm. Pickle the bird in soy sauce.
  2. Freeze white bread in advance, and then grate it coarsely.
  3. Beat eggs separately. Add flour and pour it onto a flat plate.
  4. Sprinkle the pickled chicken pieces with flour, then immerse in the egg mixture and finally roll in grated bread.
  5. Fry the nuggets in heated oil until cooked and browned.
  6. Then put them on paper napkins to remove excess fat.

Make ready-made nuggets in the form of crabs. Add them "eyes" of blueberries and "claws" of sweet pepper.

Salad "Three Little Pigs"

Ingredients:

  • 3 boiled quail eggs and 1 chicken;
  • 1 fresh cucumber;
  • 1 apple
  • 50 - 100 g of "Gouda" (cheese);
  • any sour cream sauce;
  • rock salt;
  • 1 chicken breast;
  • cranberries, radishes and dill for decoration.

Cooking:

  1. Boil the chicken breast until cooked and take apart into fibers. Smear with sour cream sauce, add salt and put the first layer on a plate. Make the base of the salad oval or round.
  2. Rub a large chicken egg and spread over the chicken.
  3. Then spread out the grated fresh cucumber mixed with salt and sour cream sauce.
  4. Add finely grated apple without peel and core over the vegetable.
  5. Cover everything with chopped cheese.

Sprinkle the prepared salad with chopped dill. Place “piglets” from boiled quail eggs on top. Ears, spots and tails for them are cut from the radish. Eyes are laid out with cranberries.

SpongeBob cake without baking

Ingredients:

  • a pound of shortbread cookies;
  • 1 egg yolk;
  • 1 full glass of milk;
  • 2 dessert spoons of liquid honey;
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
  • 2 dessert spoons of butter;
  • 1 dessert spoon of flour;
  • 200 g marmalade sweets;
  • yellow food coloring;
  • on a bar of white and black chocolate.

Cooking:

  1. Mix honey with vanilla sugar, yolk and a little milk. Add yellow food coloring according to instructions. Такое tsp is enough for such a quantity of ingredients.
  2. Pour in flour and mix mass. By consistency, it should turn out as a thick sour cream.
  3. Dilute the mixture with the remaining milk, send it to the fire and bring to a boil. Stir constantly, cook until thickened.
  4. Remove the mass from the stoves, add the butter to it and beat well with a whisk. Pour grated cookies into the mixture.
  5. Put the mixture on a plate, form a rectangle, and make notches on the sides of the rolling pin.
  6. Melt both types of chocolate. From white make the eyes, teeth and shirt of a fairy-tale character. Pour your pants and mouth with dark chocolate.

The remaining details are cut from colored marmalade sweets.

Children's birthday table 10 years

The birthday boy and his guests at 10 years old can already sit down at the "adult" table. Surely they will enjoy the same treats that parents try. But to please little gourmets, it’s worth adding a little originality to the treats chosen for the festive table.

"Balls" with minced chicken

Ingredients:

  • 350 g minced chicken;
  • 200 g of ready puff pastry;
  • 1 onion head;
  • 1 yolk;
  • salt and pepper;
  • vegetable oil.

Cooking:

  1. Chop the onion very finely, mix with the meat, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix well the resulting composition.
  2. Roll balls of medium size from this mass.
  3. Thaw the dough, roll it thinly and cut into small strips.
  4. Wrap them with meat balls on the principle of a ball of thread. It is not necessary to completely hide the stuffing behind the dough.
  5. Lubricate the workpieces with whipped yolk.

Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and put “balls” on it. Bake the dish for 35 to 40 minutes at medium temperature.

Chicken Appetizer

Ingredients:

  • 5 - 6 pre-cooked quail eggs;
  • 4 - 5 dessert spoons of sour cream of medium fat content;
  • 1/3 cup grated cheese;
  • boiled carrots;
  • dill;
  • salt.

Cooking:

  1. Cut the eggs in half figured, so that on each part there are sharp cloves. If the protein is not stable on the plate, cut off its lower part.
  2. Remove the yolks and mash with sour cream. Salt, add grated cheese and mix well.
  3. With wet hands, roll the balls from the cheese and egg mass.
  4. Scallops and beaks for future chickens cut from boiled carrots and fix them on balls.
  5. Place the resulting “chickens” in halves of protein.

Sprinkle the finished appetizer with chopped dill.

Profiteroles with crab sticks

Ingredients:

  • 10 pieces. ready-made basics of custard dough;
  • 1 medium pack of chilled crab sticks;
  • 3 boiled eggs;
  • 1 strong fresh cucumber;
  • 1 tbsp. canned corn kernels;
  • 1 cream cheese
  • 1 tbsp. l chopped green onions;
  • 1/3 Art. classic mayonnaise.

Cooking:

  1. Finely grate boiled eggs, cucumber, cream cheese and crab sticks.
  2. Mix the ingredients together and season with mayonnaise.
  3. Add chopped onions and corn kernels.

Put the resulting stuffing into notched profiteroles.

Chocolate mousse

Ingredients:

  • 4 tablespoons eggs;
  • 1 orange
  • 1.5 bars of quality dark chocolate;
  • granulated sugar to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Build a water bath on the stove. Melt dark chocolate in a smaller container.
  2. Separately, in a deep container, beat pre-chilled raw egg whites. They should turn into a stable foam.
  3. Gently remove the zest with a fine grater from a well-washed orange. Squeeze the juice from the fruit itself.
  4. Mix the remaining yolks with sugar and beat in a separate bowl until white.
  5. Into the resulting mass of yolks, add juice and citrus zest, add protein foam and pour dark chocolate.

Arrange the resulting mousse in a bowl and send into the cold for at least 3 to 4 hours.

Design and decoration of children's dishes: ideas

Today in stores you can find many delicious details for the design of children's dishes. These are chicken / fish nuggets in the form of dinosaurs, and already figuredly sliced ​​vegetables, and edible "eyes" and many other similar options.

Do not forget about the bright skewers. With their help, you can fix a vegetable sail, cheese Christmas tree, etc. on sandwiches or tartlets.

You can cut decorations for children's dishes from vegetables and fruits, draw on ready-made treats with sauces, and also sculpt various fairy-tale characters from cream cheese and other suitable products.

How to set a table for a child’s birthday?

You can set the table for a children's birthday according to the standard scheme - set all the treats at once and place plates with appliances for little guests next to them. But it is much more convenient for kids when the treats are freely available. Then it will be possible at any time to run up to them during the game and have a bite.

For example, with this option, you can arrange portioned treats in small plates and put them on a common buffet.

The main thing is to make portions small "one bite" and do not forget about the large number of napkins.

Decorating the table is in a thematic style. For example, to make it pirate, cowboy, etc. Special sets from the accessories store for the holiday will help in this.They immediately include plates, glasses, tablecloths and napkins with bright patterns.

Features of the menu for the child 1 year, 2-3 years, 5-6 years, 10 years

When inviting children of different ages to their home on a holiday, it is first of all worth asking their parents if their young guests have allergic reactions to any products.

Perhaps some of the dishes mom absolutely forbids her child. Such moments must be taken into account when preparing the menu.

  • For year-old crumbs, the best treats will be fruit purees in sealed packages that are convenient to eat without the help of adults, as well as apples and bananas, cut into large pieces, baby cookies without chocolate and other additives. As drinks, it is worth offering both natural juices and ordinary water in individual bottles.
  • For kids aged 2 to 3 years, you can already put vegetable puree as a side dish on the festive table, serve baked poultry meat without seasonings and sauces, originally decorated cutlets, nuggets. The best dessert will be homemade yogurt cakes, fruit and berry assortments.
  • At 5 - 6 years old, in addition to all of the above, children are already willing to eat salads, try various types of meat, any desserts. The main thing is to minimize the number of hot spices in them, and instead of mayonnaise in appetizers use sour cream or unsweetened thick yogurt.

Ten-year-old and older guests will surely be boldly trying all the served treats. Therefore, it is enough to clarify their taste preferences in advance or try to cook something universal that all young gourmets will definitely like.