Recipes

Shake it up Chocolate Pudding!

2008-06-10T20:45:00Z

Get your kids involved in making their own serving of a favourite snack. This chocolate pudding is fun and easy to make, let your kids jump around and they’ll love watching it change right before their eyes.

What you’ll need:

empty baby food jars
milk
instant chocolate pudding

What to do:
Fill the baby food jar ¾ full with milk.
Add a teaspoon of instant chocolate pudding.
Get your child to shake the pudding jar.
When they’re all tired out you can sit down and enjoy!

Ice Cream Creatures

2008-06-10T20:41:00Z

Need to a cool treat to beat the heat? Have fun creating an ice cream creature!

What you’ll need:
small brownie ie. Two bite brownies
ice cream
m&m’s
peanuts
raisins
tringy licorice, cut in 1-3 inch lengths
chocolate sauce
spinkles

What to do:
Cut the brownie in half for feet.
Place a scoop of ice cream over the two brownie halves.
Add m&m’s for eyes.
se chocolate sauce, peanuts, raisins, sprinkles, or licorice as hair.

Butterfly Bites

2008-06-10T20:36:00Z

Have fun playing with your food! Your kids will love making these cute butterfly snacks flutter around before they land in their mouth.

What you’ll need:

celery, cut 2-3 inches long
twist pretzels
stick pretzels
peanut butter or cream cheese

What to do:
Spread the peanut butter in the celery.
Stick 2 twist pretzels in the peanut butter to make the wings.
Add 2 stick pretzels as antennae.

Yogurt Berry Granola Cups

2008-06-10T20:33:00Z

Make a colourful healthy snack. Kids will enjoy seeing and eating the different colours and layers of their creations!

What you’ll need:

clear cup
different flavours of yogurt: strawberry, blueberry, vanilla, etc.
granola cereal -berries: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries

What to do:
Give each child their own clear cup, so they can see the different layers.
Let your child alternate layers of berries and granola with a dollop of yogurt to separate them. Then enjoy!

Summer Medley Edible Art

2008-06-10T19:24:00Z

Want a fun way to enjoy healthy fruits and veggies? It’s simple! Just play with your food.

What you’ll need:

toothpicks with two pointed ends
veggies normally eaten raw: broccoli florets, cauliflower, celery, bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, carrots
or you can use fruits: strawberries, blueberries, grapes, orange chunks, apple chunks, pear wedges, pineapple, bananas, peach wedges

What to do:

Set the veggies or fruits on a table for the children to select from.
Let them skewer their choice onto toothpicks to make their own picture or sculpture.
Then, of course, eat your creations! You may be surprised at how many kids who normally refuse to eat veggies will chow down on their art!

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

2008-05-26T19:09:00Z

Here's a tasty sweet and salty treat. You and your preschooler will have fun making, and eating them. Most of all deciding who gets to lick the bowl clean!

Ingredients:

chocolate chips, white or milk chocolate
1 pkg pretzels
optional: sprinkles

Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler, stirring constantly. Dip pretzel half-way or all the way, remove with a fork. Place on wax paper or parchment paper to cool. Sprinkle sprinkles before chocolate hardens. Place in refrigerator to cool.

Raisin ABC's

2008-05-26T19:00:00Z

Here's an easy and educational treat. You and your preschooler will have fun making and eating.

Ingredients:

1 pkg. rice cakes
peanut butter or cream cheese
raisins or dried cranberries

Spread peanut butter or cream cheese on the rice cakes. Use raisins or dried cranberries to make letters on the rice cakes.

A few ideas:
You can decorate rice cakes with letters and ask your child to match the rice cakes that have the same letters.
Ask your children to name the letters on their rice cakes.
Ask your child to hand you a rice cake with a certain letter on it.

Bugs on a Log

2008-05-26T18:54:00Z

Here's a healthy treat that's fun to eat, and it's quick to prepare.

Ingredients:

celery cut into 4" lengths
peanut butter
raisins

Spread peanut butter in celery and arrange the raisins on top.

Slime Smores

2007-09-20T19:23:00Z

Here's a yummy treat that's fun to eat, and it takes no time at all to prepare.

Ingredients:

Graham crackers (not crumbs)
Marshmallows
Chocolate bar
Green food colouring

Soak your marshmallows in the food colouring until they turn green

Place a piece of chocolate on the graham cracker and put your green slimy marshmallow on top.

Place smore in microwave and heat on high for 1 minute or until your marshmallow and chocolate have melted.

Slime Juice

2007-09-20T18:22:00Z

Looking for a gross drink to quench your thirst? Then allow us to recommend a glass of chilled Slime Juice with some gooeyness thrown in. It's very tasty, especially when you suck up pieces of the slimy goo through the straw!

Ingredients:

3 oz package of red Jello (any flavour)
1 can of frozen concentrated lemonade (defrosted)
Water
Green food colouring

Make Jello according to directions on the package. Chill in the fridge until partially set. (If you need it to set quicker - put it in the freezer for 30-45 minutes.)

Dump lemonade into a pitcher and add 4-5 cups of cold water (depending on how sour you like it).

Add food colouring until juice turns the desired shade of green.

When ready to serve, pour Slime Juice into individual glasses. Then spoon in some of the partially set Jello.

Give it a stir, stick in a straw and enjoy!

Slime Pudding

2007-09-20T18:07:00Z

Try this colourful dessert

Ingredients:

Lime Jelly powder
Frozen dessert topping
Thawed dessert topping
Food colouring

Dissolve one pkg. (85 g) of lime jelly powder in 1½ cups boiling water.

Pour half into individual serving dishes and place in fridge to partially set. (Should make four small servings)

Whisk in one cup frozen (not thawed) Dessert Topping into remainder of jelly mix.

Remove serving containers from fridge and add jelly powder/dessert topping mix to serving containers.

Chill until completely set.

Add a few drops orange food colouring to thawed dessert topping and mix. Top each serving container with orange dessert topping.

Options : Use different food colourings or jelly powders to create spooky combinations. Add gummy worms to semi-set jelly powder for a creepy treat.

Turtle Crackers

2007-09-20T17:54:00Z

Is that a turtle napping on a cracker? Most likely he was tired out from all that Halloween trick or treating.

Ingredients:

2 round crackers
1 cheese slice
1 cherry tomato
1 carrot of celery stalk
1 green olive

Cut a cheese slice into four pieces and place one piece between two round crackers.

Cut a cherry tomato in half and place one half on top of the cracker.

Cut five small pieces of carrot or celery and place around tomato to form four "legs" and a "tail."

Cut a stuffed green olive in half and place one half in front of the tomato for the head.

Spider Crackers

2007-09-20T17:40:00Z

Here's an easy spiderlicious appetizer you can make with the kids.

Ingredients:

1 slice processed cheese
1 olive
2 round crackers
8 Chow Mein noodles

Cut a cheese slice into four pieces and place one piece between two round Crackers.

Arrange eight dried chow mein noodles on each side of cracker to form "legs."

Slice a stuffed green olive and place two slices on top of cracker for "eyes".

Options: Use raisins or grapes for eyes.

Spider Cookies

2007-09-20T15:47:00Z

Ingredients:

2 Chocolate Wafer Cookies
Chocolate Frosting
Mini Chocolate Chips or M&Ms
Black Lace Licorice

Spread the chocolate frosting on the flat side of each cookie.

Cut a piece of licorice into 8 pieces about 2 - 3 inches long. Stick the licorice on the frosting on one of the cookies so they look like the spider's legs sticking out (4 sticking out on each side).

Then put the other cookie, frosting side down on top of it to hold the "spider legs" in place.

Using the frosting as your "glue", add 2 eyes using the chocolate chips or M&Ms and enjoy!

Jack-o'-Lantern Cookies

2007-09-19T20:43:00Z

Ingredients:

1 recipe of oatmeal chocolate-chip cookie dough (this is enough for 2 jack-o’-lanterns)
Cookie decorations, including icing
A medium-sized metal bowl that is ovenproof, aluminum foil, a table knife, a small, heavy plastic bag, scissors

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).

Line the inside of the bowl with aluminum foil. Fold any extra aluminum foil over the edges. Cover the

inside of the bowl with a layer of dough a little more than 0.5 cm (1⁄4 in.) thick. Working from the bottom of the bowl, pat the dough in place. Smooth the top edge of the dough with the table knife and your fingers.

Using the table knife, cut out a jack-o’-lantern face from the dough.

Bake the dough in the bowl for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. If the edges brown too quickly, cover them with foil. Remove from the oven. Recut any bits of the face that have filled in — the bowl will be very

hot, so ask an adult to help you. Leave the jack-o’-lantern in the bowl to cool completely.

When cool, gently remove the jack-o’-lantern from the bowl, turn it over and peel off the aluminum foil.

Half fill the plastic bag with icing and snip off one corner. Pipe designs onto the jack-o’-lantern face or use the icing to glue decorations in place.

Options: Make a cookie bowl to hold candies,brownies or even more cookies. If youlike, decorate the outside and scallopthe edge of the bowl.

Look at a more detailed version of this craft.

This craft is from Bake It and Build It by Elizabeth MacLeod. Available from Kids Can Press.