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!
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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💖 Why This Recipe Works
- Adorable & Thematic: These treats, like donkey-shaped Nutter Butters, bring farm animals to life, adding charm to your party.
- Simple & Fun to Make: With just cookies, melting chocolates, and a few extras, these treats are easy and enjoyable to prepare.
- Customizable: Use different cookies and chocolates to create various farm animals, tailoring them to your theme
🥚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 tablespoon black melting chocolates
- 1 tablespoon pink melting chocolates
- 1⁄4 teaspoon 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
For the complete list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
🌈 Substitutions and Variations
- Cookie Base: If Nutter Butter cookies aren't available, use oval-shaped biscuits or homemade sugar cookies as a base.
- Coloring Options: Create custom shades like grey or light brown by mixing white melting chocolate with small amounts of black or brown food coloring.
- Decorative Tools: Use piping bags or toothpicks to add details like ears, manes, and eyes with melted chocolate, allowing for precise and creative designs. sea salt to the melted chocolate.
🔪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.
👩🍳 Expert Tips
- Use Nutter Butters as the base for each animal face—perfect shape and easy to decorate.
- Dip in colored melted chocolate to match the animal (pink for pigs, white for sheep, etc.).
- Pipe on details like ears and snouts with more melted chocolate or candy melts—super fun for kids to help with!
💭 FAQs
Pop 'em in an airtight container at room temp for up to 3 days—unless it’s hot out, then chill 'em so the chocolate doesn’t melt into a moo-mess
You bet! Any oval or oblong cookie will do—just make sure it’s sturdy enough to handle some chocolatey decorating.
Use white melting chocolate and mix in a dab of food coloring to match your farmyard favorites—pink for pigs, brown for cows, you get the idea!
Use a little melted chocolate like edible glue. Hold for a sec, let it set, and boom—ear perfection.
💖 Serving Suggestions
These are my favorite treats to serve alongside farm animal party treats:
- Animal-Shaped Sandwiches: Use animal-shaped cookie cutters to make fun sandwiches with ham, cheese, or peanut butter and jelly.
- Barnyard Veggie Cups: Serve cut veggies like carrots, cucumbers, and bell peppers in individual cups with ranch dip for a crunchy, healthy snack.
- Cow Cupcakes: Decorate cupcakes with white frosting and black spots using chocolate chips to create cute little cow faces.
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Super Cute Farm Animal Party Treats
Equipment
- Ramekins And Pan For Double Boiler Setuo
- Piping Cones Optional
- Chocolate Dipping Wand Or Fork
- Wire Cooling Rack
- Parchment paper
- Toothpicks
Ingredients
- ¼ Cup White Melting Chocolate For Grey
- ¼ Cup Brown Melting Chocolate For Light Brown
- ¼ Cup Brown Melting Chocolate
- 2 tbsp. Black Melting Chocolate
- 1 tbsp. Pink Melting Chocolate
- ¼ tsp. Coconut Oil
Instructions
- Set up a double boiler with a shallow pan and ramekins for each colour of chocolate.
- Fill with water till halfway up the side of ramekins *careful not to get water inside them as it will seize the chocolate. Turn the heat to medium-low.
- Add chocolates and a smidge of coconut oil to each, stirring to combine as they melt. *To create grey: combine 1 black melting chocolate with 1⁄4 cup white chocolate. To create very light brown: combine 1 white chocolate piece with 1⁄4 cup brown chocolate.
- Using a wand or a fork, dip nutter butter cookies in grey and/or light brown chocolate until thoroughly coated. Hover above the dish as the chocolate drips off. Use a toothpick to pop any air bubbles that form. Set on a 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-drawn ears with a pencil. Fill pencil drawings with chocolate by using a piping bag or forming with a toothpick. *Make extra and put in the 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!
Notes
- Use Nutter Butters as the base for each animal face—perfect shape and easy to decorate.
- Dip in colored melted chocolate to match the animal (pink for pigs, white for sheep, etc.).
- Pipe on details like ears and snouts with more melted chocolate or candy melts—super fun for kids to help with!
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