Sunday, July 20, 2008

Child Friendly Recipes

Kids like to help in the kitchen. Kids enjoy cooking. I think one of my favorite recipes for kids is Dump Cake. This is literally a cake where you dump everything into the baking dish and then bake.

Dump Cake

20 ounces crushed pineapple
16 ounces cherry pie filling
1 package yellow cake mix, dry
1 1/2 sticks butter, sliced

Dump all ingredients into baking pan and bake at 350 F until brown, approximately 1 hour.

Have fun with the kids. Try blueberry or strawberry instead of the cherry pie filling. If you like nuts or coconut, throw some of that in the dish also.

If you prefer a chocolate cake, try a chocolate cake mix instead of the yellow cake mix.

This is such a fun recipe and kids love that they made the cake.

Another of my favorite kid recipes is trail mix. The kids get to make their own trail mix. Buy a bag of nuts, a box of Chex cereal, a bag of chocolate chips, a bag of pretzels, a bag of raisins and any other goodies you want in the trail mix and then get out the snack size Ziplocs. The kids get to make the trail mix and bag it up for lunches and snacks. When they make it, they love eating it. This is a great healthy snack.

Have you ever had a waffle sandwich? Buy some Eggo waffles. Let the kids toast the waffles and then spread peanut butter and jelly on them. You can also let the kids cut up bananas and add them. They love this breakfast sandwich that they can make all by themselves.

Do your kids like burritos? Let them make their own burritos. Set out containers of tomatoes, cheese, olives, chopped chicken and anything else you might have in the fridge. Give the kids tortillas and let them add the ingredients they like and then wrap and eat.

My final suggestion is kabobs. Kids love to make their own kabobs. Chop up some apples, pineapple or melons. Cut some cheese squares and let the kids make their own fruit and cheese kabobs. Use a yellow cheese and a white cheese. Use a red melon and an orange melon. This lets the kids make colorful and delightful kabobs that they’ll enjoy both making and eating.

Audrey :)
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7 comments:

Rochelle R. said...

When I had my preschool we use to do quite a bit of cooking especially in the summer. I still have my kids cookbook collection. Lot of fun recipies in them.

Jennifer said...

Great ideas! I'm definitely going to try the "dump cake" w/ the kids!!

Anonymous said...

Thats a really great idea!

Carissa(GoodnCrazy) said...

I've been looking for dump cake...THANKS!

Dove420 said...

Grandkids and I love to cook and bake together. We have made a dump cake with a choc fudge mix and the cherries....a dollop of whipped cream when serving and you've got a Black Forest Cake that was really easy and fun to make

Anonymous said...

what great ideas. I've tried the dump cake and it's awesome. i'll give the others a try.
djohnson@catcrew.com

Unknown said...

Some good ideas. My girls always wants to help me in the kitchen when I'm cooking.