Cooking with Kids?

Question

I have checked out the websites, but would like personal recipes that you use with your kids. Easy please, for 8 and 11 year old beginner cooks.

Answer 1

Muddy Hand Cookies

Ingredients:
2/3 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Prep:
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla extract together. Add eggs and mix well. Add dry ingredients, blending thoroughly. Chill dough until firm.

Roll dough out to 1/4-inch thick. Lay your hand on the dough and cut around it to make your handprint. Bake on an ungreased sheet at 350 degrees F for 6 to 8 minutes.

Answer 2

i bake with 4 and 7 yr olds we make easy things like cookies.
i just buy the just add water and egg mixes from the store and they have fun cracking the eggs and using the mixer.
if you are talking about cooking dinner and snacks i get great ideas from www.kraftcanada.ca they have great recipes and it is usually the website i go to to get the kids cooking with me. it is a good kids section. also jello.com i know you didnt want websites just recipes but i couldnt decide which ones i liked the best they are all really good and easy.

Answer 3

Any and everything from cutting to placing stuff in the oven. Cookies / stirring / measuring / pour and mixing ingredients...my 4 year old loves to cook and also watch Rachael Ray (especially during holidays as the cooking channel always has yummy things to make)

Answer 4

My mom started me out with tacos (she did the meat) and Tollhouse cookies so I could measure and stir. She even let me do a pot roast about that age, 11. It's just tossing everything in a pot and she put it in the oven, and then reminded me when to put the tapioca in.

She normally didn't like me in the kitchen, she said I made a mess. Well I was a kid! But I do remember learning from her.

Answer 5

I always let my son help with stirring, measuring, etc. When he was younger, anything that didn't involve dealing with the stove or a knife.

Packaged cupcakes (you know - where you make them from a cake mix) are a good start. So are cookies, fruit pies, mashed potatoes, pressing hamburger patties, just about anything that has processing steps to it.

Answer 6

bread or anything which uses dough that has to be kneaded then it doesnt matter what the kids do to it
Then when you are waiting for the dough to rise make some shortbread cos thats someting else thats easy and wont go wrong with too much handling