Children's Recipes
Cooking is a great way for children to learn. When you and your child put
a recipe together you are teaching science, math, social skills and nutrition.
These recipes are for the little ones in your life. Make sure you let them
help. (Here is where most people would put the WARNING!!!!
But
I won't insult your intelligence by reminding you of kitchen safety with
you child. Everyone should already know that children shouldn't be allowed
to cook alone, the oven gets hot, wash you hands before starting, don't
get burned, etc., etc., etc.)
- 2/3 c. powder sugar
- 1 T. margarine
- 1/2 oz. cream cheese
- 1 1/2 t. cocoa
Put all the ingredients into a sturdy, sandwich size Ziploc bag.
Push air out of bag and seal well. Allow the child to squish mixture together
with their hands. It is dry at first but will soon mix up into a delicious fudgy
treat. Let the child dip graham crackers in the fudge, or spread it with a
plastic knife on crackers or cookies. It is a great sensory activity.
Makes One.
Bird's Nests
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 oz. can chow mien noodles
- 24 jelly beans
Melt butter in a saucepan. Add brown sugar. Boil and stir for one minute.
Add chow mien noodles. Put the mixture in 12 paper baking cups in a muffin tin.
Use your thumb to press noodles into the nest while still warm. DO NOT BAKE.
Give children 2 jelly bean "eggs" to put in their nests.
Baked Wormy Apples
- 6 large Golden Delicious apples
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 6 Gummy Worms
Core apples from bottom ends, leaving stem ends intact.
Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set apples,
stems up in a 9 x 13-inch pan.
Mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a 2 quart
pan Stir over high heat until the mixture boils. Pour the hot syrup around
the apples. Bake,
uncovered, in 350 degree oven, basting occasionally with the syrup. Bake until
the apples are
tender when pierced and the skin begins to crack, about 30 to 35 minutes.
Remove the apples from oven; cool in the pan about 20 minutes.
Set each apple in a small bowl. Cut a hole, about the size of a
dime, in the top of
each apple, and tuck in a candy worms , leaving most of the worm dangling
out.
Spoon some of the syrup on and around the apples.
Spooky Spiders
- 2 tablespoons Peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons Powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons Graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tablespoons Coconut
- Licorice
- Raisins
Mix peanut butter, sugar and crumbs together and form a ball. Divide the ball
into 2 parts to form 2 balls, 1 slightly smaller than the other. Roll balls in
coconut and place smaller ball on top of larger one. The smaller ball with be
the head and the larger 1, the abdomen. Add 8 licorice legs and 8 raisin eyes.
Makes 1 yummy spider.
- 1 large banana
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 2 raisins
Peel the banana. Cut into round slices. Spread peanut butter on one
side of each slice. Stick all the slices together. Add raisins with peanut
butter to one of the banana ends for eyes.
- 1/4 cup coconut
- green food coloring
- 6 pieces apricot halves
- 2 long pieces red licorice
- 12 chocolate chips
- 6 candy corns
- 1 quart vanilla ice cream
- 6 ice cream cones
In plastic bag, put 2 tablespoons coconut and 2 or 3 drops green food coloring.
Shake well until all coconut is colored. Repeat with the rest of the coconut and blue coloring. Cut each apricot half into 2 pieces with dinner knife.
Cut licorice into 1 1/2 inch pieces with dinner knife.
To make one witch: Scoop ice cream into paper muffin cup. Decorate by using coconut and 2 apricot pieces for the hair. Use 2 chocolate chips for eyes and candy corn for the nose. Put 1 piece licorice for the mouth and top with sugar cone for the hat. Then place on shallow tray and freeze.
Orange Julius
Tastes like the expensive stuff, only better. :-)
- 6 ounces orange juice concentrate
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 10 to 12 ice cubes
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
Put everything in a blender and blend for 30 seconds or until all ice is
crushed.
Purple Cow Drink
- 1 cup grape juice
- 1 cup vanilla ice cream
- 1 liter lemon-lime soda
Put grape juice and ice cream in blender and blend for 15 seconds
or until well mixed. Fill small paper cups about half full of this mixture, then
add about 2 oz. soda in each cup. Serve.
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 2 squares bitter chocolate, melted
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- 4 cups sifted flour
- 1 cup strawberry jam
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 2 teaspoons baking powder mixed in 1 cup buttermilk
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and stir. Add melted chocolate and stir.
Add raisins. Add cinnamon, cloves, and flour, stir. Stir in nuts and jam.
Now add the baking powder to the buttermilk and quickly stir into the cake
mixture. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
Quickly pour mix into greased and floured angel food cake pan. Bake at 350
degrees until cake stops singing, about 45 minutes. Make sure you time this so
your guests are present during the baking. Once the cake is baked, the effect is
over
These recipes have been gathered from all over the
Internet and from various recipe books. I do not take credit as the author of
any, unless specifically stated in the recipe.
Revised: November 11, 2003
Copyright © 1999-2003 Linda
Hays All Rights Reserved