Kids Recipes

Kids Recipes: No-Bake Banana Pudding Trifle Or Cream Pie (Your Choice)

January 12, 2012
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Plans in our kitchen, especially kids recipes like this attempt at banana cream pie, don’t always end up as they were intended. I bought a ready-made graham cracker pie crust, because I thought La Jolla Girl could make a banana cream pie on her own. As you probably know, banana cream pie involves simple ingredients: whipped cream, pudding, bananas and a crust. But once the whipped cream arrived on the scene, La Jolla Girl wanted to [...]

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Kids Recipe: Easy Donut Hole Snowmen

December 15, 2011
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Kids will love these donut hole snowmen for a holiday dessert. Or, stack them next to a homemade gingerbread house. Depending on the age of your kids, you may need to help them out a little with the smaller pieces and cutting the fruit strips. They are almost too cute to eat. Almost.

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Kids Recipe: No Bake Pumpkin Pie (Or Use Ice Cream Cones)

November 20, 2011
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I blame my dessert coma (just finished a mini pie) on this simple no bake pumpkin pie kids recipe. If you like pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top, you’ll love this. We tried presenting it in several ways:   ramekins, ice cream cones and ultimately in a ready-made graham cracker pie crust. The pie isn’t pictured and I was told not to tamper with her “staging” before photographing, so they are as she intended. It [...]

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Kids Recipes: Healthy Halloween Snacks

October 17, 2011
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Again, these aren’t super fancy but La Jolla Girl thinks there amazing and that’s all that matters, right? I bought a Wilton Halloween Metal Cookie Cutter Set. Each cookie cutter is a few inches wide, roughly. I scored pack of 48 Stretch Island Fruit strips at the Costco on Morena Blvd for about $10. Then, it occurred to me that she could cut the fruit strips with the cookie cutters and place them on top [...]

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Kids Recipes: Halloween Spider Cracker Snacks

October 7, 2011
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We just took these as a snack to preschool and La Jolla Girl promises that they were a hit. She makes them herself, so I thought I’d post this kids recipe as a relatively healthy Halloween snack idea.

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Edible Playdough – Watch Out, It’s Tasty

August 3, 2011
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A reader mentioned that I should look out for edible playdough. My other playdough recipe is definitely edible and safe, in case a bit gets into the mouth of whoever is playing with it, but it probably doesn’t taste all that great. This recipe does. In fact, be aware that it’s delicious, if you like gooey. Peanut Butter Edible Playdough Recipe 1 cup of peanut butter 1 cup of nonfat dried milk 2 tbsp honey [...]

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