I made these Honey Joys a couple of weekends ago for our youngest’s third birthday party. They went down a treat with both the kids and the adults. I think most adults secretly love a bit of old school party food!

Honey Joys Recipe

Ingredients:

• 180g butter or margarine
• 2/3 cup caster sugar
• 2 tablespoon honey
• 8 cups Corn Flakes

(makes about 40)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 150°C.

2. Line about 40 muffin tins with patty pans and measure out corn flakes into a large bowl.

3. In a medium saucepan, melt butter, sugar and honey together.

4. Remove from heat once it starts to bubble slightly.

5. Pour butter mixture onto corn flakes and mix well.

6. Spoon the mixture into patty pans. The mixture hardens quite quickly, so you need to work with a bit of speed.

7. Bake for about 10 minutes.

8. Allow to cool in trays for 10 minutes before moving to racks to cool further. If like me, you are going to put little party toppers onto the honey joys, it is good to do it as soon as they are out of the oven. The mixture then sets around the little stick.

Enjoy! I will share more photos and recipes from the birthday part over the next month or so.

Our Family Menu Plan For This Week.

Baking: Easy Chocolate Cake

Monday: Fried Rice

Tuesday: Lamb Chops With Steamed Vegetables

Wednesday: Left Overs

Thursday: Slow Cooker Butter Chicken – a personal fave of mine!

Friday: Pasta with Chicken and Spinach

Saturday: Marinated Chicken Sticks With Salad

Sunday: Sausages and Steamed Vegetables

If you are looking for further recipe inspiration, check out my complete list of Family Friendly Recipes. All of these recipes are in the database of the Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner. You can use the menu planner to plan a week of meals for your family and then print out the associated shopping list.

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For Christmas 2011, I put together a Greek inspired menu plan. This involved cooking a number of new recipes, including these delicious Greek meatballs.

Over the next few weeks I will share more of the recipes that we cooked. I was very lucky to have one of my younger sister’s staying with me and she worked like a Trojan in the kitchen!

If you are ever in Mildura, you should check out their wonderful cafe and bakery in the Langtree Mall (town centre). I can highly recommend their turkish bread and in particular their turkish bread bacon and egg breakfast!

Greek Meatballs

These lemon and feta meatballs are based on a recipe from Super Food Ideas, April 2011. The main difference between mine and theirs is I oven bake them, where they fry them in batched.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams lamb mince
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 cup flat leaf parsley
• 2 teaspoons lemon rind
• 100 grams Greek feta cheese
• 125 grams tzatziki

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. In a large bowl add the lamb mince.
3. Beat the egg lightly and add to bowl.
4. Crush garlic cloves and add to the meat mixture.
5. Add the dried oregano and bread crumbs to the mix.
6. Finely chop the flat parsley and add it.
7. Grate the lemon so you have 2 teaspoons to add.
8. Crumble 100 grams of Greek feta into the bowl.
9. Add salt and pepper to your taste, then using your hands mix until well combined.
10. Using about a tablespoon worth of mixture, roll it into a firm ball.
11. Place the meatballs onto a tray lined with baking paper.
12. Bake for about 30 minutes or until the meatballs are firm and have turned a golden colour.

Serve with tzatziki and if you are serving as finger food, you may like to add a tooth pick to each one, to make them easier to eat. Makes about 40.

Family Menu Plan

Baking: Chocolate Slice

Monday: Fried Rice

Tuesday: Slow Cooker Spaghetti Bolognese

Wednesday: Left Overs

Thursday: Spicy Chutney Chicken With Mixed Rice

Friday: Beef Stir Fry

Saturday: Homemade hamburgers

Sunday: Roast Chicken and Vegetables

If you are looking for further recipe inspiration, check out my complete list of Family Friendly Recipes. All of these recipes are in the database of the Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner. You can use the menu planner to plan a week of meals for your family and then print out the associated shopping list.

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Props to my dear friend Lou for this recipe. I have posted this chicken schnitzel recipe before and while the kids prefer that one, the oven baked chicken schnitzel is still very tasty, but much easier and quicker to prepare.

This recipe could easily form part of starters for Christmas day. Just cut the chicken breasts into small strips and as they are quite crispy, they would make a great finger food.

Easy Chicken Schnitzel (Oven Baked)

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken breasts (My kids ate everything and Mr I and me didn’t get once piece, so I would use at least 4 breasts next time.)
• 1 cup of mayonnaise
• Panko (Japanese) breadcrumbs

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

I like the chicken to be thin, so slice the chicken breast in half (width ways), then cut it into the size pieces I want for the meal.

Dip the chicken into the mayo and cover completely.

Then dip into the breadcrumbs and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Repeat this until all the chicken is crumbed.

Place tray in the oven and cook for 30 – 40 minutes, turning once during cooking.

See easy and tasty!

Family Menu Plan

Baking: Banana Cake

Monday: Beef Stir Fry

Tuesday: Mexibake

Wednesday: Lamb Chops with Steamed Vegetables

Thursday: Left Overs

Friday: Pasta Carbonara

Saturday: Daughter’s 8th Birthday Party!

Sunday: Sausages and Salad

If you are looking for further recipe inspiration, check out my complete list of Family Friendly Recipes. All of these recipes are in the database of the Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner. You can use the menu planner to plan a week of meals for your family and then print out the associated shopping list.

Current Sponsors:

• Bright Star Kids' Name Labels - Super Cute & Durable Name Labels
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Easy Chicken Schnitzel (Oven Baked) is a post from: Planning With Kids