Mother’s Day is just around the corner on May the 9th, so it’s time to start planning how you and your family are going to celebrate the mothers in your lives. Good food is at the heart of every celebration, and what better way to demonstrate your love and appreciation to your mom this year than by giving her some delicious homemade snacks?
We’ve compiled a list of fun Mother’s Day snack recipes that are both delicious and simple enough for even the youngest members of the family to help to make. Why not make them all and put together a super Mother’s Day snack basket to spoil your mom?
Personalized Buttermilk Cookies
Cookies are the ultimate snack food: they’re delicious, quick to make, and fun to decorate and personalize. But rather than making standard chocolate chip cookies this Mother’s Day, mix things up and bake some deliciously delicate buttermilk cookies. There’s something extra special about buttermilk cookies; they are sophisticated yet homey, deliciously rich but light and airy, making them the perfect addition to a Mother’s Day snack basket.
Buttermilk cookies are remarkably simple to make, so even the little ones can help out in the kitchen. You can make plain buttermilk cookies topped with a coating of sweet frosting, or go all out with the flavors and decorations to make them personal to your mom.
The first thing to decide when preparing your Mother’s Day buttermilk cookies is whether you will include any extra ingredients. You can’t go wrong with standard vanilla-flavored cookies, but if your mom or your childrens’ mom particularly loves chocolate chips, oatmeal, or lemon, these all make great additions. If you’re not a confident baker, make sure you find a recipe that includes your extra ingredient to avoid a baking mishap.
The next thing to consider is the shape. Will you opt for a classic round cookie or use cookie cutters in fun shapes to make your Mother’s Day snacks a bit different? Hearts and flowers are always charming shapes for cookies and perfect for expressing Mother’s Day sentiments. Alternatively, why not try something a little unusual, like a cat or house shape?
Now comes the fun part: the decoration. A quick and easy way to decorate cookies that every child can get involved with is sprinkling something delicious over frosting -which you dye pretty colors to make the cookies pop. Chopped walnuts or flaked almonds work well, or you can go extra decadent by sprinkling small pieces of candy such as M&Ms or Nestle’s Smarties. Encourage the little ones to participate by putting the toppings into bowls and allowing them to decorate the cookies themselves.
Charming Chocolate-Dipped Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
Just like cookies, cupcakes are a traditional and much-loved snack. In recent years, the innovation in cupcake decoration has been striking, even inspiring television shows. You can get in on the action while giving the mothers in your life a special treat with these charming chocolate-dipped ice cream cone cupcakes.
The great thing about this sweet treat is that they look impressive but take very little baking skill. The most difficult thing you need to do here is to bake a pack of French vanilla or yellow cake mix, whip up some frosting, and melt some chocolate.
These cupcakes are one to add to your list of Mother’s Day snack basket ideas; any mother would be delighted to receive these unique cupcakes that look just like ice cream cones. They add a summery look to any picnic or tea party without the worry of melting ice cream! Add some colorful sprinkles or crushed nuts for decoration and a bit of crunch, or evoke the feeling of a British Day at the seaside by adding a mouth-wateringly delicious Cadbury’s Flake.
Decadent Nutella-Stuffed Strawberries
Is there anything more decadent than strawberries dipped in chocolate? How about strawberries stuffed with Nutella and then dipped in chocolate? Yes, you read that right; this delectable treat is pure luxury.
Mother’s Day lets moms know how appreciated they are and gives them a day where they can relax and get spoiled by their loved ones. Whether they have a day at the spa, an afternoon watching movies on the couch, or a meaningful family lunch, preparing some yummy snacks for them makes it an extra special day. And if you’re looking for impactful Mother’s Day snack ideas, these chocolate strawberries will do the trick.
Although they look fancy, they couldn’t be simpler to make. They are a great option for those that shy away from baking, as this recipe is oven-free. Simply remove the stems from the strawberries, pipe in Nutella, dip in melted chocolate, and sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts. Once they’ve cooled and set, they look stunning. For maximum luxury, serve with a glass of champagne. Go on; she deserves it.
Wholesome Mom’s Chocolate Bread
There’s something about giving someone homemade bread that represents love. However, many people find baking bread from scratch overwhelming. Luckily, this easy recipe for Mom’s chocolate bread uses refrigerated crescent rolls, meaning you can give your mother a heartwarming snack of sweet chocolatey home-baked bread without having to become a master baker.
This uncomplicated recipe essentially requires you to spread chocolate chips and simple cinnamon, sugar, flour, and butter mix, known as streusel, onto the crescent roll dough and roll it all up. The thing that makes this chocolate bread extra special is that you serve it with the leftover streusel sprinkled on top, giving it extra texture, flavor, and visual appeal.
Although this chocolate bread is a great example of easy Mother’s Day snacks for kids to make, it looks like it requires much more skill and preparation. The mothers in your family will be extremely impressed by your contribution and, more importantly, will love munching on this scrumptious snack.
This chocolate bread can be eaten at any time of day but is especially nice at brunch, so rope in the whole family (apart from the mothers, of course!) to prepare a delicious brunch.
Scrumptious Banana Beignet Bites
If your mom loves doughnuts, she’ll adore these delectable Banana Beignet Bites. Beignets are a type of French doughnut popularized in New Orleans cuisine, and no one does pastry better than the French.
Although this treat is probably the most complicated to make it onto our list of Mother’s Day snack ideas, it still only requires a few simple steps, the most difficult of which is deep-frying the dough. While young children can be involved in mixing the batter and even the rolling of the beignet bites, deep frying should always be left to a responsible adult.
Mashed-up bananas are this recipe’s secret ingredient. They give a sweet, mild flavor that you wouldn’t expect. Make your beignet bites even more fun to eat by providing skewers to make beignet bite kebabs and offering various dipping sauces and syrups, from chocolate to caramel. With this tasty snack, Mother’s Day will feel like Mardi Gras!
Treat Your Mother This May
With Mother’s Day approaching, it’s time to start considering how you’re going to celebrate and spoil the mothers in your family this year. There’s no better way to express your love than through providing delicious food to eat. This collection of sweet snack recipes are simple enough for anyone to prepare and is bound to be a hit with all the moms.
An equally special alternative to a homemade snack basket is a subscription to MunchPak’s snack international snack boxes. Available in three sizes, from MunchPak Mini to the FamilyPak, these boxes are jammed packed full of snacks from around the world. They’re a great way to introduce you to new snacks you would never try at home, so why not treat your mom to her very own snack box subscription that she can look forward to every month?
