Perky penguins

Christmas for kids recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has chocolate button, icing, walnut whips, icing, fruit pastilles, fruit pastille and icing.

Perky penguins

Perky penguins

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Christmas for kids
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

40 mins

Ingredients

  • Chocolate Button: 3 jumbo chocolate buttons
  • Icing: 150g icing made from royal icing sugar
  • Walnut Whips: 3 walnut whips
  • Fruit Pastilles: 3 red fruit pastilles (we used Tesco as they look like wooly hats)
  • Fruit Pastille: 1 orange fruit pastille

Directions

  1. Cut the jumbo chocolate buttons in half and place together in pairs, rounded sides touching, to make feet. Snap the walnut off the top of the walnut whip and discard. Put a little royal icing on each pair of feet and stick a walnut whip on top.
  2. Divide the fondant icing in three. Take one piece and roll out into a sausage that is fat in the middle and thin at both ends. Flatten the ends to make flippers. Place the sausage on top of the walnut whip and shape the fat middle section into a head. Leave the flippers to hang free at the sides.
  3. To decorate, put the remaining royal icing into a piping or plastic bag and snip a tiny bit off the end. Pipe a circle on the front of each penguin. Pipe two dots for eyes. Pipe a circle on top of each head and stick on a fruit pastille. Pipe a blob on top for a bobble.
  4. Carefully cut three triangular pieces from the orange fruit pastille and stick on the face. Using the black writing icing pipe black dots in the centre of each eye. Leave to set.