Batter Up Kids Delicious Desserts

by Beery, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781586853655
• ISBN10: 1586853651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

The only thing kids love more than a platter full of gooey homemade cookies is getting into the flour-and-sugar act themselves. Batter Up Kids: Delicious Desserts features simple recipes for treats that any kid can make for any occasion. From Stack 'em High Strawberry Shortcake and Candy-Coated Dragonflies to Thumbs-Up Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies, this kids' cookbook is loaded with healthy fruit-based snacks and traditional cakes and cookies perfect for birthday parties and holidays.The cookbook comes with easy-to-follow, beautifully photographed instructions, easy-to-wipe cover and pages-and an authentic kid's chef hat. Kids will become the new culinary experts at home.

Table of Contents

Children's Cooking School

Learn the Lingo

Tools of the Trade

Stir-Crazy Creatures

Apes for Crepes

Candy-Coated Dragonflies

Chocolate-Covered Unicorn Horns

Flying Frog Pudding

Ladybugs On-a-Stick

Here's the Scoop

Baked Snowballs

Crispy Creamy Ice Cream Sandwiches

Flowerpot Ice Cream

Igloo Ice Pops

Mountains of Mud Pies

It's a Cake Walk

Angel Puffs

Volcano Cupcakes with Buttercream Lava

Hidden Treasure King's Cake

Pink Princess Cake

You Are My Sunshine Cupcakes

Catch Me in Cookie Land

Fancy Fortune Cookies

A Skillet Full of Cookies

Jumping for Gingerbread Cookies

Thumbs-Up Cookies

Totally Tea Cake Cookies

Fruity Favorites

Blast-Off Blueberry Biscuits

Bonkers for Banana Bread

Can You Fondue?

Fresh Fruit Tarts

Stack Em High Strawberry Shortcakes

Index

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Excerpts

CANDY-COATED DRAGONFLIES Makes 8 dragonflies 1 pound vanilla candy coating or vanilla almond bark (use 8 to 10 squares) Food coloring, optional 8 (8-inch) pretzel rods 16 large classic-shaped pretzel twists Assorted decorating sugars or sprinkles 1. Melt candy coating according to package directions. Remove from heat and pour into 2 or 3 small bowls. You may add 2 to 4 drops of food coloring to each bowl. Stir to blend color. 2. Place pretzel rods on foil-lined cookie sheet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray (about 3 inches apart from each other). These are the dragonflies' long bodies. 3. Carefully spoon the warm melted candy coating over each pretzel rod to cover completely. 4. Now dip each pretzel twist in the candy coating and place one on each side of the upper half of the pretzel rod. The pretzel twists should actually rest on top of the pretzel rod and just barely touch one another. This forms the dragonfly's wings. 5. Sprinkle each dragonfly pretzel with colored sugars or sprinkles. 6. Place cookie sheet in freezer for 5 to 10 minutes to allow candy coating to harden on pretzels. 7. Remove from freezer and carefully take each dragonfly off cookie sheet to serve. Don't let them fly away before you have a chance to take a bite!