For the sandwich snake (Makes 20 sandwiches)
1 cucumber
2 red peppercorns
1 small piece of ham
10 white toast slices
10 brown toast slices
peanut butter
cherry jam
cream cheese
For the fruit star wands (Makes about 10)
1 peeled pineapple
blueberries
raspberries
marshmallows
For the sandwich snake:
Wash the cucumber and cut 6cm pieces off both ends. Carve a mouth into one of the cucumber ends and place a piece of ham ‘tongue’ into the mouth. Carve two small holes into the cucumber above the mouth and push in the two peppercorns to function as eyes. Cut 2cm off the tip of the remaining cucumber end and carve out some spikes, so that you end up with a crown for the snake’s head. Take the remaining 4cm piece of cucumber end and carve in spikes to form the tail end.
For the sandwiches: take a shot glass and cut out two bread circles from each toast slice.
Spread some peanut butter onto 10 of the white bread circles, spread some cherry jam onto the remaining 10 white bread circles. Lay the peanut butter covered slices onto the jam-covered slices to form little sandwiches.
Cut the remaining cucumber into thin slices. Spread some cream cheese onto each of the brown bread circles, top half of them with a cucumber piece and top with the remaining cream cheese circles to form little sandwiches.
Place the cucumber snake head onto a serving plate. Stick a piece of tooth pick into the cucumber crown and stick the crown into the head. Align the sandwiches behind the snake head so that it forms a snake body, alternating between white and brown sandwiches. Finish off the snake by placing the spiky tail end at the end.
For the fruit star wands:
Cut the pineapple lengthways into 4, and cut each long pineapple lengthways in half, so that you end up with two thinner pineapple pieces of the same width. Use a star-shaped cookie cutter to cut out 10 stars of the pineapple flesh.
Cut the pointy tip from 10 wooden skewers and discard. Thread some blueberries, raspberries and marshmallows onto the skewers and finish off with a pineapple star. Place in a jar and serve.
Sandwich snake and the Fruits Etoile Baguettes are the right menus
for children tea with granny.