Two Traditional and Easy Treats Children Can Make for Father's Day

Many dads have a sweet tooth and what better way to indulge them than by creating a tasty dessert for them on Father's Day. You can choose from the following two recipes that are traditional, easy to make, and allow for children to help, or if older, to make entirely on their own. As an extra added touch, you might want to take pictures of the child or children creating the treat on a digital camera and then print several out in sequence (with the final picture being the child or family members with the finished product(s) of course, and create a unique and specialized Father's Day greeting card to go along with the present. Everyone involved can sign their own name and a special message on the card as well. You can decorate it any way you like, either on a computer or by hand with markers, metallic pens, glitter pens, glue and glitter, puff paint, or any other way you see fit.

Fudge:

If you have children who want to make dad something for Father's Day this year, creating fudge is simple, easy and fun and is sure to surprise. You only need four food ingredients to create this dessert and with a microwave oven on hand, no stove work is required.

First you will need to gather your ingredients. You need:

One twelve-ounce package of chocolate chip morsels.

One and one-quarter cups of any granola cereal

One cup of salted nuts, peanuts, pecans or walnuts all work well

One small tube of decorator frosting

Directions:
Pour chocolate chip morsels into a large microwave-save bowl and microwave on medium heat for approximately two minutes. Watch carefully to ensure it is not melting too quickly, and if it is, adjust time or heat accordingly. You don't want scorched chocolate.

Stir in granola cereal and nuts.

Grab a teaspoon and carefully create round one-inch balls that you drop onto wax paper (to prevent sticking when dry).

Chill until the fudge is firm.

Take out your tube of decorator frosting and write one letter on each ball until it spells out a Father's Day message, such as "Happy Father's Day." You may want to prearrange the right amount of balls required to spell out your message onto the dish you will be presenting the gift to dad on, and decorate them right in place.

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cup Cookies:

This second recipe, while extremely easy to create, does require some stove use, so if you have younger children involved, be sure to do the baking for them.

First you will need to gather your ingredients. You need:

One roll of refrigerated cookie dough, peanut butter flavored.

One package of fun-sized peanut butter candy cups.

Directions:
Cut cookie dough into thick slices, a little less than an inch in size.

Roll each of the cut cookie slices into the shape of a rough ball (these do not need to be perfectly round and in fact, will work better if they are not).

Remove the candy wrappers from enough peanut butter candy cups so that you have one piece of candy ready for each ball of cookie dough and put the candy aside.

Lightly grease the cups of a miniature muffin pan.

Place the halls, one ball per cup, into the lightly greased miniature muffin pan.

Place into an oven that has been preheated to 350-degrees.

Cook for eight to ten minutes, watching to see how they rise but not opening the oven unless necessary.

Press one peanut butter candy cup into one ball while as soon as the cookies are removed from the oven and still very warm.

You can decorate the outer edges of the cookie with a fork if you like.

Place finished product in the refrigerator until firm.

If dad does not like peanut butter you can do a variation on this treat by using sugar cookie dough, chocolate kiss candies and decorating the sugar cookies with sugar sprinkles or nonpareils before refrigerating to firm.

With fudge or cookies being traditional favorites, either of these treats is sure to be a great Father's Day hit.