Christmas is well and truly alive here at Inspired and now is the perfect time to share many of the learning adventures our children are enjoying.
Decorating the Christmas Tree, is there anything more enjoyable than the festive season and coming together as a family to decorate the tree with a variety of colours and textures? Our Inspired children have relished the opportunity to decorate a Christmas tree with their friends, with many children fascinated by the different shapes and colours on offer. The smiles, laughter and excitement was infectious and we sure know this Christmas is going to be well celebrated with friends and family.
Educator Tip: Provide your child with a basket of decorations and a small sized Christmas tree, we can assure you that your child will be engaged for days on end with decorating their very own Christmas Trees.
Is it your turn to bring dessert this Christmas? or preparing snacks for the children? We have the ultimate Christmas recipe, every family should devour’.
Christmas Crackle (the chocolate kind)
Ingredients:
- 115 g butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 100 g pretzels
- 200 g milk chocolate melts
- 200 g dark chocolate melts
- 2 tsp sea salt
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 220˚C.
- Line a baking dish with baking paper. Cover the base of the dish with pretzels.
- Put the butter and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Melt the butter into the sugar then bring it to the boil. Boil it for 4 – 5 minutes, until it begins to caramelise.
- Pour the caramel toffee mixture over the pretzels. Make sure it’s nicely distributed as it will be the ‘glue’ that holds it all together.
- Place in the oven and bake at 220˚C for five minutes.
- Put the chocolate melts into a glass bowl. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in short 30 second bursts until smooth.
- Pour the melted chocolate over the pretzel/caramel mixture. Spread it around so it covers everything.
- Refrigerate overnight, or until set hard.
- Break/crack into pieces and serve.
