Donkey Nutter Butters – Farm Animal Party Treats

Today we have a super fun farm animal themed party food idea. If your little one is loving barn animals, is a fan of Donkeys or your teaching an “on the farm” unit at preschool, this could be a great farm animal themed activity to do with the kids.

All you need is a packet of nutter butter or similarly shaped biscuits and your melting chocolates. It can be great fun and they don’t have to be perfect, after all the best part of this is eating the treats once they are served!

We have farm animal crafts here on the Inspiration Edit including a fantastic Old Macdonald Kids Activity which you may love. Why not check it out!

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These treats require a lot of chocolate melting so I’d recommend using a number of ramekins or you may want to use a specially designed Chocolate melting pot.

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Contents

What You Need to Make These Party Treats

1⁄4 cup white melting chocolates for grey
1⁄4 cup brown melting chocolates for light brown
1⁄4 cup brown melting chocolates
2 tbsp black melting chocolates
1 tbsp pink melting chocolates
1⁄4 tsp coconut oil

Reserve a few pieces of white in a separate dish for the lightening the brown and creating the eyes and muzzle.

Any colours can be created using a base white melting chocolate and blending in a tiny amount of chocolate colouring.

Additional items:

ramekins and pan for double boiler set up
piping cones *optional
chocolate dipping wand or fork
wire cooling rack
parchment paper
toothpicks

How to Make These Farm Animal Party Treats

Set up double boiler with shallow pan and ramekins for each colour chocolate.

Fill with water till half way up side of ramekins *careful not to get water inside them as it will seize the chocolate. Turn heat to medium low.

Add chocolates and smidge of coconut oil to each, stirring to combine as they melt. *To create grey: combine 1 black melting chocolate to 1⁄4 cup white chocolate. To create very light brown: combine 1 white chocolate piece to 1⁄4 cup brown chocolate.

Using wand or fork, dip nutter butter cookies in grey and/or light brown chocolate until thoroughly coated. Hover above dish as chocolate drips off. Use a toothpick to pop any air bubbles that form. Set on wire rack to harden.

To create the ears, tear a strip of parchment paper. Place a nutter butter on the paper and gauge the size of the ears. Hand draw ears with a pencil. Fill pencil drawings with chocolate by using a piping bag or forming with a toothpick. *make extra and put in refrigerator to harden.

Work quickly to attach ears as the warmth of your fingers will melt the thin chocolate.

Using a toothpick, dip into the base colour of the face and attach ears by dabbing on back of ears or on the head where you plan to place the ears.

A little goes a long way.

To create the mane, dip a toothpick into the black and fill in the donkey mane, creating waves.

Form the eyes by dipping a toothpick into the plain white chocolate and creating tiny slightly slanted oval eyes.

Dab a tiny dot of black in the center or off to the side to make them appear to be looking in a variety of directions.

Fill in a generous circle with white or grey for the muzzle and when it hardens, use a toothpick to dab slanted nostril marks and draw a smiling mouth.

Set to dry and harden.

Your Nutter Butter party treats are ready to serve! They would be great for an animal themed party!

Store in airtight container.