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| Treasured Valentine Recipes to Share With Your Little Ones Sweet for the sweet is the theme of Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is the best time to spend the day in the kitchen creating time honored snacks with the little ones. White chocolate with dark chocolate swirls will be a wonderful treat for a Valentine Day dessert buffet. Kids like chocolate and strawberries. The combination makes for a yummy and fun activity. Red Strawberries & White Chocolate Fondue Ingredients: * 1 cup whipping cream * 10 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped * 2 oz white chocolate, chopped * Fruit to fresh strawberries, sliced bananas, orange * Sara Lee Pound cake cubed Instructions: 1. Pour the whipping cream into a small saucepan place over medium heat. 2. Bring cream just to a simmer 3. Remove from heat. 4. Add the semisweet chocolate and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth. 5.Transfer mixture to a small ceramic fondue pot over a tea light candle. 6.Sprinkle the chopped white chocolate over the dark chocolate mixture. 7.Let stand for a minute or two to allow it to melt 8. Gently run a spoon through the mixture two or three times, just until marbled. 9. Serve with strawberries, and other fresh fruit and chunks of cake for dipping. Valentine Day Cupcakes A special treat to serve on Valentine's Day INGREDIENTS: * Red Velvet Cake Mix * Cream Cheese Frosting * Cinnamon Hearts * Heart shaped cake molds Instructions: 1. Make your cupcake batter according to the package directions 2. Pour into cupcake cups in the cupcake pan. 3. Frost and decorate with cinnamon hearts. These cookies are so easy, even the tiniest of helpers can participate in the excitement. Quick assembly and cooling is all that is required. Valentine Day Cookies Ingredients: * 1 box Vanilla wafer cookies * 1 pkg. Round pretzels * 1 bag of Hershey's Kisses * 1 box Candy hearts * 1 8oz Valentine M&M candies Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. 2. Place vanilla wafer cookies 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. 3. Set a Hershey's chocolate Kiss on the center of each cookie. 4. Bake at 200 degrees for 5 minutes. 5. Remove from oven and gently press an M&M candy or a candy heart into the center of the softened Hershey's Kiss. Allow to cool completely to let the chocolate harden again. You can cool in the refrigerator, but the chocolate will soften again after coming out of the refrigerator. Just allow them to sit long enough to harden up again. Valentine Day PRETZELS Place pretzels 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Place a Hershey's chocolate Kiss in the center of each pretzel and bake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and gently press an M&M candy or candy heart into the center of the softened chocolate. When pushing down you may want to wiggle the chocolate around a little to fill in any gaps between the chocolate and the pretzel. This will help the chocolate adhere to the pretzel. Allow to cool completely. Next time you are looking for Valentine's Day recipes or any day you want to make something special with or for your children, pull out these recipes and give them a try. For more fun kid friendly tips check out www.kidapprovedmeals.com |
| January 9, 2010 |
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| The 5 Best Cookies For Kids! by: Mary Walsh Both young and the old ones love and enjoy the sweet treats brought by cookies. Children most especially are hooked with these little bites of sweetness. Different terms and names are given to these delicious cookies. Spaniards name them as galletas while English people termed them as biscuits. Germans name these small goodies as kels whereas people from Northern part of America name them cookies. Earliest forms of cookies actually were just tiny cakes known as koeje, a simple Dutch term for small cakes. This term koekje later developed and become cookie. Regardless of the label or name given to this delicious and aromatic flavor, they remain good treats for all children. Usually, children love sweets or cookies which are bought commercially. In a report given by www.timeforkids.com, there were five in demand brands of cookies in the market. 1. Oreo which sells around $519 M (million) annually 2. Chips Ahoy sells around $347 M (million) annually. 3. Chips Deluxe earns $160 M (million) per year. 4. Newton gets $137 M (million) in one year. 5. Fudge Shoppe earns around $127 M (million) in one fiscal year. Even if kids enjoy cookies which are bought from stores, children still love the ones made from their homes. Children enjoy baking while the parents find quality moments with their children in this activity. When you want to give your children some freshly baked cookies at home, here is a list of the most popular and tasty cookies which children love. 1. Gingerbread Flavor Cookies: Gingerbread always brings delight to all children because these tasty treats usually are baked in numerous figures and designs. Plus, frosting is being used also to decorate these delicious cookies adding to their appeal. The ingredients are: flour, butter/margarine, sugar (granulated), soft butter, cinnamon powder, molasses, baking agent, ginger powder, crushed cloves, salt, grated nutmeg and leavening soda. 2.Double Choco-Chip Cookies: Double choco-chip flavored cookies are a favorite of most children. Ingredients are: sugar, salt, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, leavening soda, cocoa (powder unsweetened), buttermilk and partially sweet choco-chips. 3.Peanut Butter cookie: Undoubtedly, this flavor is very much liked by children. You may enhance the flavor by using known brands such as: Jiffy, Skippy or Peter Pan peanut spread. When you want, you may combine it with choco-chips. You may also make your cookies healthier by using peanut spread that has no preservatives. The ingredients are: brown or unrefined sugar, eggs, peanut spread, butter/margarine, flour, shortening, leavening agent, salt, sugar (granulated) and baking agent. 4.Choco-Chip Cookies: Choco chip cookies are really famous to children. They feel soft, moist and chewy. You may consider the usual choco-chips, milk-choco chunks and gourmet choco-chips. Any of them would be a sure hit with your children. The usual ingredients are: eggs, melted unsalted margarine or butter, brown or unrefined sugar, flour (all-purpose), white or refined sugar, salt, vanilla, leavening agent and lastly partially sweet choco-chips/chunks. 5.Sugar-Flavored Cookies: This flavor of cookies is sweet and delicious. Plus, this cookie may be cut in various figures and designs. Ingredients are: margarine/ butter), sugar (granulated), flour (all-purpose), leavening soda, eggs, salt, vanilla and cream of tartar. Children enjoy and love the sweet and delicious taste of cookies - that is why offering them these treats will surely give them much delight. About The Author Mary is a food lover! Visit her very popular Cookie Recipes & Crockpot Recipes & Salad Recipes The author invites you to visit: http://www.greatappetizerecipes.com |
| January 29, 2010 |