Cooking Up Something New at MBHOH

Fahlin eating jigglers Our Maria’s Big House of Hope preschoolers are onto something new…cooking class!

With fall arriving and temperatures dropping, we’ve taken to more creative indoor activities. Fridays have now become cooking days. The kids really look forward to this day, as we take them on a “field trip” from their usual preschool classroom to our 4th floor kitchen. They love getting their hands dirty and most of all, love that they get to EAT!

So far, we’ve made chocolate cake (with icing and sprinkles, of course), rice crispy treats, and Jell-O jigglers (these were a huge hit!). Our favorite week though was when Abby taught us to make apple bundles, to celebrate fall. We got to roll, stuff, taste, and most importantly make a mess with a lot of flour!

We’d love some ideas for more cooking classes! Please leave your favorite kid-friendly recipes in a comment below (please keep in mind that recipes with minimal ingredients are best, as many food items are not available to us in China).

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Sheila Eaton

Monkey Bread
2 cans of biscuits cut each into 1/4
Shake in bag w/ 1/3 C. white sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
Place in greased loaf pan
Melt in sauce pan : 1 C. Brown Sugar, 1 stick butter, and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Pour over top of layered biscuits
Bake at 350 for 35 min.
Remove at once on wax paper
Our kids LOVE this.
Amber

this blog immediately came to mind if someone has time to go through it and see if there is anything you guys can use http://www.kingdomkidsnutrition.blogspot.com/
Heather

Blueberry muffins are super easy!
4 oz flour
2 oz sugar
1/2 t. Salt
1 t. Baking powder
1 egg
4 oz milk
2 oz vegetable oil
2 handfuls of fresh or frozen blueberries (or other fruit of choice)

Mix all ingredients except the fruit together in a large bowl, whisking as needed to smooth out the batter. Fold in the blueberries with a spatula. Pour into greased muffin tins, and bake at 350 degrees F until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffins comes out clean. Enjoy!
Kara Love

Here’s a simple no-bake chocolate balls recipe that my siblings and I always helped my mom with from an early age:

2 cups powdered sugar

1/4 cup cocoa

1/4 peanut butter (or almond butter for allergies)

1 tsp vanilla

3 Tbsp milk

Mix all ingredients together, careful not to be too messy with the powdered sugar. Add a little more milk if won’t mix, or a little more powdered sugar if too gooey.
Take little pieces of the mixture and roll into balls, place on a plate. Eat immediately or set in refrigerator to firm up some more.
RebeccaM

Thank you Kara! These sound great and so easy! Can’t wait to try them with the kids…they love chocolate
RebeccaM

Great recipe Heather, thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to try it!
Rebecca McCoy

Thank you for the link Amber!
Rebecca McCoy

I love monkey bread! Biscuits may be a bit hard to come by, but I am sure we can find a way to improvise! Thanks for sharing!
AShort

Here are 2 simple recipes .

1 banana, peeled and sliced
2 slices bread, toasted
cream cheese or honey
Directions:

1Toast your two pieces of bread.
2Spread either the honey or cream cheese on the toast. (you can do one piece cream cheese and the other honey)
3.Place half of the banana slices on one piece of toast, and the other half on the second piece.

Cake mix sugar cookies

1 vanilla or yellow cake mix

3/4 cup butter melted

1 egg

2tablesppons milk (can use evaporated milk too)

mix ingredients together

roll out dough ( if too soft, place in fridge for 30 mins)

use cookies cutter shapes and bake 375 for 6-10 mins
http://www.facebook.com/people/Elizabeth-Margaret-Lefavour-Clark/526010643 Elizabeth Margaret Lefavour Cl

My favorite recipe for making as a kid came from a book called Healthy Recipes for kids. All it entailed was two parts peanut butter, two parts dry milk powder, one part honey. You mixed them together (good opportunity for messy hands), rolled it into balls, and refrigerated it on trays/wax paper to set. The best part was that you could mix basically whatever you wanted and was available into it or roll it in things to coat the outside. We used things like rice crispies, coconut, and chocolate chips. I’m sure if you wanted to get fancy you could melt some chocolate and butter and dip them in before you refrigerate them.

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