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 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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Laura says
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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Sharon says
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
Stephanie S says
I think even my 20 and 30 something friends would love to decorate snack cakes 🙂
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Kristin says
Yumm! Looks like a delicious and fun activity!
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Catie says
I love the penguins - they are so cute!
LadyWild says
The twinkie monsters are so cute
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Sheila says
Too many cute cakes to pick a favorite! Hope I win so I can try to make my own!
suburban prep says
How darling. What a great thing to do for any age group. I like the ones using Twinkies. They are just great.
Jeannine DiBart says
These are all so adorable!!! Would love to win and host a party like this one:)
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I really like the spooky twinky with the green mouth...so cute!
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