{"id":14803,"date":"2017-06-23T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/responsive.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents\/?p=14803"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:28:53","slug":"edible-clowns-recipe-great-holiday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/food-recipes\/edible-clowns-recipe-great-holiday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Make edible clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Not sure how to keep the kids entertained during the upcoming holidays?\u00a0 Well here\u2019s a fun baking activity. In keeping with my Holiday club theme \u201cThe Circus is coming to town\u201d, how about making edible clowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Ice cream cone<\/li>\n<li>1 marshmallow<\/li>\n<li>1 box of smarties \/ your favourite sweeties<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp of Icing sugar<\/li>\n<li>3 tbsp of water<\/li>\n<li>Marie biscuit or Any biscuit of your choice that is bigger than the ice cream cones base<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Method:<\/h2>\n<h3>Royal icing:<\/h3>\n<p>Add 2 tablespoon of water to 3 tablespoons of icing sugar and mix until smooth. Optional: Add food colouring. Place mixture into a piping bag.<\/p>\n<h3>Clown construction:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut the ice cream cone in half. Top piece will be used as the hat and bottom as the body<\/li>\n<li>Spread the icing onto the biscuit, place the body part of the cone onto the biscuit<\/li>\n<li>Fill the inside of the cone with smarties\/sweeties<\/li>\n<li>Pipe the icing onto the edges of the body (top part of the cone)<\/li>\n<li>Place marshmallow on top<\/li>\n<li>Pipe icing on to the top of the marshmallow and place the hat (bottom part of the cone)<\/li>\n<li>Pipe icing dots on the hat and place smarties\/sweeties on each dot to decorate the hat<\/li>\n<li>Pipe icing dots on the marshmallow to make eyes and mouth then add a smartie\/sweety<\/li>\n<li>Go crazy add more sweeties to decorate if you wish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its not so much about cooking or baking but really about the creativity, thinking and valuable time spent where the lessons of good inputs and processing producing a desired outcome which is a concept\u00a0 applicable throughout life from the smallest home project to the most complex business initiative.<\/p>\n<p>And a little personal lesson I try to teach my kids is that doing something with love as the main ingredient can result in the most powerful outcome. My motto is to \u201cDo EVERYTHING with LOVE\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\"><em>newsletter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Like us on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Follow us on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jozikids?igshid=1n8cwedrewul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how to keep the kids entertained during the upcoming holidays well here\u2019s a fun baking activity. In keeping with my Holiday club theme \u201cThe Circus is coming to town\u201d, how about making edible clowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":353031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}