Kid's Edible Tea Cups - Pretty Petunias

Kids Edible Tea Cup Treats

As summer wraps up, we try to celebrate and get every last drop of warmth from the last few weeks of the season. This year we had an end of summer garden tea party at my mother-in-laws. Our kids plus their cousins were very happy to dress up and have tea in the garden. But of course the ideas started flying as soon as the words came out of my mouth about what epic treats each of my girls could make to contribute to such an occasion. Before I was covered in nothing but a tornado of pink frosting, sprinkles and tears (at the five layer cake someone was proposing), I presented the idea of kids edible tea cups.

I hear the phrase “no, mom let me do it” time and time again, unless we are talking cleaning up dirty dishes (in that case there is eerie silence like you wouldn’t believe in the home as everyone plays dead in hopes of me not calling on them to help). So I am always on the prowl for little projects my girls can primarily whip up themselves in the kitchen (and of course leave me the mess to deal with). These little tea cups are basically just an assembly of items, with no real cooking, unless you bake the cookies yourselves (which we did a day or two before). It was a great project for little hands!

These little tea cups took:

Large marshmallows
Flat, round cookies – roughly an 1 1/2” in diameter
Chocolate mint patties
Sprinkles
Frosting
Life Saver Candies (cut in half)
Water
Clean kitchen paintbrush

We had baked up our sugar cookies a few days before, but store bought would work fine as well, provided they are not too large. Make sure an adult cuts the lifesaver candies, since it requires some force to get thru the hard candies.

Mix up the frosting (or use store bought). We tinted ours pink, even though I tried to explain that white would show less as ‘glue,’ but my girls were adamant that pink frosting works better for anything and everything.

To get started lay out:

marshmallows
mint patties
cut lifesavers
small, shallow dish of sprinkles
Little bowl of water
frosting
paper towels or a damp cloth

Assemble as follows:

Step 1:

Spread frosting on a cookie:

Step 2:

Dip a marshmallow into the frosting:

Step 3:

Place marshmallow on top of the frosted cookie:

Step 4:

Unwrap mint patty and brush the top lightly with water (otherwise the sprinkles will not adhere) and dip into sprinkles:

Step 5:

Place decorated mint patty on top of the icing topped marshmallow (the icing works as glue):

Step 6:

Dip half a lifesaver candy’s edges into frosting and use it to stick onto the side of the marshmallow for the cup’s handle:

Step 7:

Allow these masterpieces to dry and the frosting to completely harden before moving.

Embrace the adorable leaning nature of the imperfect marshmallows that got squished by little sticky hands assembling them and the somewhat excessive use of pink frosting!!!

These were the first to disappear at our little tea party and everyone delighted in their sweet imperfection. As for our girls, they thought these marshmallow tea cups were just perfect. Turns out crooked tea cups taste just as sweet! So really that is all that matters.