Complete your How to Catch party or family get together with delicious recipes! See below for recipes inspired by your favorite How to Catch characters.

mermaid popcorn

Inspired by How to Catch a Mermaid
Featured from the How to Catch a Unicorn and Dinosaur Storytime Kit!
Image Credit: Sarah, rufflesandrainboots.com
INGREDIENTS:
  • 5 cups popcorn, popped and kernels removed
  • 1 ½ cups blue candy melts
  • 1 ½ teaspoons coconut oil
  • Green Skittles, for topping
  • Purple M&Ms, for topping
  • Sugar sprinkles (green, blue, or purple)

INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper and spread the popped corn onto the sheet.
  2. Place the candy melts and coconut oil in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, until melted.
  3. Pour the melted candy over the popcorn. Use a spoon to mix everything together until all popcorn kernels are colored.
  4. Top with Skittles and M&Ms while candy coating is still warm so they stick. Add the sugar sprinkles as an added pop of color!

Unicorn Lemonade

Inspired by How to Catch a Unicorn
Featured from the How to Catch a Dinosaur and Unicorn Storytime Kit!
Image Credit: Lauren, midgetmomma.com
INGREDIENTS
  • 3 cups water
  • Pink, purple, and blue food coloring
  • 2 tablespoons corn syrup
  • 1 jug (59 oz.) store-bought or homemade lemonade
  • Sprinkles
  • 1 lemon (for garnish)

INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Divide the water into three different glasses.
  2. Color the water of each glass with a drop or two of different food coloring so you have a pink glass, purple glass, and blue glass.
  3. Pour the water into individual ice cube trays and allow ice to freeze overnight in your freezer. When the ice cubes are frozen and ready to use, pour corn syrup onto a small plate.
  4. Sprinkle a good amount of unicorn sprinkles on another plate. Dip the rim of each serving glass into corn syrup to lightly coat it and then dip the rim into the sprinkles.
  5. Layer ice cubes in the glasses alternating colors until ice is to the top of the glass.
  6. Pour in lemonade, garnish with lemon wedge, and drink!

elf biscuits

Inspired by How to Catch an Elf
Featured from the How to Catch an Elf Event Kit! 
INGREDIENTS:
  • ¾ C butter
  • ½ C sugar
  • 1 C chopped pecan
  • 1 sleeve of graham crackers.
INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. First, arrange your graham crackers flat on a baking sheet.
  2. Add the butter, sugar & pecan together and bring them to a boil for 2 minutes.
  3. Pour the hot mixture over all the crackers and bake at 300 degrees for 12 minutes.
  4. Let them cool, then break up the crackers. Enjoy as a sweet treat, or use in the elf traps!

snowman on a stick

Inspired by How to Catch an Elf
Featured from the How to Catch an Elf Event Kit! 
INGREDIENTS:
  • Wooden skewers
  • White powdered doughnuts
  • Jelly beans (especially orange!)
  • A few chocolate chips.,
INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. Take 2 or 3 doughnuts and put them on the skewers by sliding the skewer through the cakey part of the doughnut.
  2. Once you have the doughnuts on, stick an orange jelly bean in the hole of the top one for a nose, two colorful beans for buttons in the other doughnuts & use the chocolate chips for eyes and a mouth.

apple cider float

Inspired by How to Catch an Elf
Featured from the How to Catch an Elf Event Kit! 
INGREDIENTS:
  • Original apple cider
  • Sparkling apple cider
  • Vanilla ice cream
  • Plastic Cups
INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. Put a scoop of ice cream in the bottom of your cup
  2. Add in equal parts of original and sparkling cider.
  3. Add apple slices, cinnamon and caramel sauce!
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