Give your kids permission to play with their food! They will have so much fun decorating snack cakes. You’ll be surprised at their creativity.
Decorating snack cakes is so much fun and over the past few months, I’ve shared tutorials for making all sorts of whimsical designs like Mickey Mouse Ding Dongs, Chocolate Snack Cake Bats, Bumble Bee Twinkies, Teddy Bear Snack Cakes, and more.
I thought it would be fun to invite some of my friend’s kids over to have some fun decorating their own treats. I was blown away by their creativity and enthusiasm.
Even the older kids, several teenage boys, had a blast.
Here are some of their whimsical creations.
Aren’t their snack cake creations clever and fun?
I love each and every one of them and so did the kids.
A snack cake party is so easy to set up, you don’t have to put together a fancy display, just fill a workspace with supplies and let the kids get busy.
What you need to decorate snack cakes…
- snack cakes like Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s, etc.
- frosting
- fondant
- peanut butter
- Nutella
- candy eyes
- royal icing
- icing colors
- sugar pearls
- sprinkles
- candy
- pretzel sticks
- Pocky Cookie Sticks
- colorful cereal
- mini cookies
Workspace.
Give each child a paper plate or a piece of wax paper or parchment paper to work on. Things will get messy!
Set all the decorating supplies on your table in a random order. The kids will find what they need easily enough and they actually preferred hunting for the perfect item to use to decorate their treats.
Allow each kid to decorate a few snack cakes. They will have lots of ideas and will be freer to be creative if they can have more than one cake.
Let them have fun.
The teens enjoyed this project more than I ever imagined.
They loved having so many candies, cookies, sprinkles, and edible decorations to use to make their treats.
I hosted the party just before Halloween so many of their cakes were decorated like monsters.
Let’s take a look at the young food artists at work.
I had kids as young as 3 at the party.
All of the kids really enjoyed decorating, but I think some had even more fun eating …
This party was so much fun that we’ve decided to add a snack cake decorating station at our Halloween party. Wouldn’t your kids and their friends just love doing this too?
Here are a few ideas for decorated snack cakes…
Snack Cake Pups – Twinkie Dogs
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I am so glad I found this post! I am going to do this for my son's Kindergarten party on Halloween.
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What a wonderful idea thank you – kellidparker(at)yahoo (dot) com – www.adventurezinchildrearing.com
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Perfect giveaway for a Halloween party!
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I absolutely love the little penquins…GREAT decorating ideas for kids of all ages;)
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OMG – AWESOME decorating! I want a treat now! 🙂
I love your fun food ideas. Please keep them coming.
I love your fun food ideas. Please keep them coming.
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I love all of your cute creations! Very cute & clever. I would also love to win this contest. My granddaughters Birthday is this month & it would be fun to let them do this at her party!
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What a great giveaway! Thanks!!
Tee-hee! The Beaker Twinkie is adorable, as is everything, and I also loved the Twinkie Bee, since my friend has the Honeybees youth group at church, for 3 & 4 yr. olds! Thanks for the chance…AND the ideas! I work with the teens at church in our puppet team and I KNOW they would love to do something like this together!
How fun! I would love to win this contest!
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i follow on face book and pin….such cool ideas ……..who wouldnt like to win some stuff ………………and get to make new treats for the kids too.
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Great ideas…. I can't wait to let the kids get creative!
This would be so fun to do with our special needs cheer team!
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I love all of your creations but I like the spider snack cake decoration the best.
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These would are all so cute. I would love to throw a party and have a snack decorating table for my teen daughter. Too fun!
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All of them are cute, but I like the bats and the cats especially. 🙂
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What a fun party and idea for anyone of any age.
What a wonderful idea! I would love to do this with some of my son's friends…15 year old boys are not too grown up to enjoy a snack cake decorating party! I would love to have the Wilton package (love Wilton!) Love them all but I especially like the bat!
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Well o.k. Beaker rules, but the spiders are cute too. It looks like so much fun!
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I like the RTD frostings for the little ones. They feel so independent making their creations.
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Love it all! Those black cat snack cake pops are adorable.
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Hi! I love your ideas… you are so creative. I like Beaker the best!
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Love the bumblebees – we have a bumble bee birthday party for my daughter and these would have been perfect!
These are so incredibly awesome! I would love to have them to make fun food to sell at charity fundraisers for several church groups I volunteer for! Of course, I would use them at home as well when not using to raise much needed funds for my non -profit groups!
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What a fun idea! Would never have thought of this- I like that they're decorating snack cakes. Such a cute spin off of decorating cupcakes. I'll have to try this with the kids from our church- thanks!
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This is such a wonderful idea…I have my 12 yr old grandson over the house on the weekend and he loves to bake. We have baked the cake pops just 2 weeks ago and he came over with 2 friends (we live down the street from His Dad) and I cannot tell how much fun I had and I think they had also..Would love to be a winner and have his friends over more just to enjoy the kids more…thak you
I think even my 20 and 30 something friends would love to decorate snack cakes 🙂
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Yumm! Looks like a delicious and fun activity!
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I love the penguins – they are so cute!
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Too many cute cakes to pick a favorite! Hope I win so I can try to make my own!
How darling. What a great thing to do for any age group. I like the ones using Twinkies. They are just great.
These are all so adorable!!! Would love to win and host a party like this one:)
I really like the spooky twinky with the green mouth…so cute!
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What a great idea!!!
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This looks like a blast to do with a group of mixed age children.
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I'm not sure I would let a bunch of teenagers loose in my kitchen although it looks like they were enjoying themselves and NO food fights. My Gkids would a blast doing this. kbsbcadams@aol.co
I love the Hoho bats. So cute!
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The bats because they look so simple and easy.
Such a cute party idea. Perfect for my son's Halloween party
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This looks like so much fun! We've done cupcake decorating parties and cookie decorating parties, but never one with snack cakes. This would be great at Halloween.
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Looks like those kids had a ton of fun! My favorite is the yodel which I haven't bought in a looonng time.
I love all the decorations, but the ghost with the candy corn has to be my favorite!
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What awesome memories you made for those kids, I can tell they were having a blast! Thanks so much for linking at Utahtopia!
I would LOVE to make your black cats with my two little granddaughters. We'd have So much fun!
Wonderful idea – the kids at the local Amvets would love this!
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Oh these are fun!!! We made monster cupcakes last year- they would have been even more fun with all of these decorations!
Beth, how cute! I can't choose which I like best, because they are all too cute! How my granddaughter and her friends would love this!
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My husband recently formed an 8 year old baseball travel team, and this looks like a great way to get all the boys together off the field to get to know each other. Thanks for all the great ideas!
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This looks super fun! My nieces would love this!
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What fun with a bunch of boys….
Eye, eyes…. What fun with bunch of boys
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They all look fun to make but with Halloween just around the corner I would love to make the bats.
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OK, I HAVE to enter this one. My nieces and nephews would LOVE to have a party like this one! 😀 Thanks so much for your generosity, and for sharing your INCREDIBLE creativity!
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They're all so cute, but I especially love Beaker!
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I love all of these ideas! I enter a Halloween Bake Off every year at the school I work at and I will definitely being using some of these.
I love snack cakes and what you have made out of them! I love your Halloween blog and will be making some of your ideas this year!
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I like the mickey mouse pops.
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I love the decorations.
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I love "BEAKER!" He reminds me of my childhood days watching the Muppets. What a fun thing to do for kids of ALL ages!!
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Fun! They are all so cute. My kids would have a blast decorating them. What an awesome idea.
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I think my favorite ones are the Penguins……so cute!!!
Would love to win this and have a party for my granddaughter & her friends.
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The kids did a awesome job! My favorite Hostess cakes you have made are the Bats!
Oh what fun!! My kids would love this 🙂
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Cute! I'd love to have one of these parties for my teenager and his friends. They would have a blast!
I would love to win this fantastic giveaway
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Cute! I'd love to have one of the parties for my teenager. They would have a blast!
This is soooo cute!! It would be great for a party for 5/6 year olds! I hope I win!! Thanks for the chance.
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I like the bats! We will do that for sure 🙂
I love your Beaker you made. I am getting prepared for a 5 yr old Birthday Monster party and this would be so much fun with the kids…Thanks for posting! Amy Bair…amybair@sbcglobal.net
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I can just imagine how much fun those guys were having! My sons would have loved that!
I'm so glad I already follow you on FB, Twitter, Pinterest, and by Email notification! My favorite snack cake decoration that you made are the bats! I just love them and they ARE my favorite snack cake so I guess that MAY have something to do with it! 🙂
My favorites are the bats. My son and I already made them and they were so easy and fun. Not to mention tasty!
What a blast! Wouldn't it be neat to take pix every ten years of a party like this: what I see from these kids looks very different from what I imagine my friends would have made at the same age!
What a fun party! My son did this last year at a friend's monster b-day party. The kids had a blast.