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Category Archives: Desserts
If you got the hang of Chocolate Lava Cakes, try this one – white chocolate orange lava cakes – when cooking with kids
Chocoholics beware! This cake could be in your future! Orange White Chocolate Lava Cake Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 6 large eggs 2 teaspoons orange flavor 1 tablespoon orange zest 2/3 cup all-purpose flour … Continue reading
Making yummy molten chocolate lava cakes – cooking with kids
If you are a chocoholic you will LOVE these cakes. Their name says it all – Molten Chocolate Lava Cake Ingredients 1 cup butter 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 6 large eggs 2/3 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 … Continue reading
Making Pannekoeken ( Dutch Baby Cups) from prepared mix and filling them with yummy stuff – great for cooking with kids
Coming from South Africa, there is a significant amount of Dutch heritage in the background of those who live there and so I remember growing up with many recipes that heralded from Holland. One of those memories is all about … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with kids, dessert, Pannekoeken
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Sugar Cookies – always good when cooking with kids! And a Spiderman Birthday Cake!
Sugar cookies are fast and easy. However below are some ways to dress them up. My grandson Jonah just loves to bake cookies of any kind with me! Below is the SPIDERMAN cake that I made for his fourth birthday … Continue reading
Banana Nut Cupcakes with yummy caramel frosting – Cooking with kids – and make Banana Nut Bread too!
The Prepared Pantry Vanilla Bean Baby Cakes Mix makes great banana bread. It’s baked at a lower temperature and in a loaf pan with mashed bananas and comes out denser and moister than a cake—just like a quick bread. (See the … Continue reading
Creme Brulee – not just for fancy chefs – you can do it too – and while cooking with kids!
Creme Brulee is a delicious dessert – and not that hard to make. Here are a couple of variations and all of them are good for cooking with kids too! General Tips on Custard Making ( Creme Brulee is basically custard!) … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking wtih kids, Creme Brulee, Custards
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Cooking with kids again – this time chocolate coconut baby cupcakes – yum!
Chocolate Coconut Baby Cakes Baby Cakes are cupcakes designed for dessert. Emphasis is on taste, not design and fancy decorations are not necessary though they should be attractive enough to serve at a dinner party. We first made these from … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, chocolate, coconut, cooking with kids, cupcakes, dessert
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Spudnuts – ridiculously divine – certainly not low cal – but a treat for once in a long while…
Spudnuts always seem a little indulgent but they sure are good—much better than donuts. We used a Spudnut mix which we bought from Prepared Pantry, and cooked both the donuts and the donut holes—with extra donut holes for our sundaes. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Other wonderful treats
Tagged dessert, Doughnuts Spudnuts, sugar
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Why not have eggnog at other times of year? Its so delicious – try eggnog cupcakes!
To Make the Eggnog Cupcakes: From our affiliate partner THE PREPARED PANTRY from whom I buy all my bread mixes and some of these specialty ones too! Try them – they are amazing! By clicking on any of the links … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate, cooking with kids, cupcakes, dessert, eggnog
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Cooking with kids – CATHEAD BISCUITS! A recipe from the old south but quick and easy!
Cathead Biscuits: Easy Biscuits in the Oven or on the Stovetop Because you don’t have to roll the dough and cut the biscuits, drop biscuits are faster than cut biscuits. This recipe filled an 11-inch skillet perfectly and made nine … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Jams, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks
Tagged biscuits, biscuits and jam, butter, Cathead biscuits, cooking with kids, old south, skillet, southern cooking
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Making Chocolate Ganache in the microwave – sounds fancy but if you can use a cake mix, you can make ganache! Cooking with kids – so much fun!
How often do you want to make dessert but don’t have time? With this, you can make incredible desserts and save time. And do it cooking with kids – listening to music – what could be better! If you have … Continue reading
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Tagged cakes, chocolate, cooking with kids, cupcakes, desserts, family fun, family time, ganache, grandma music, listening to music
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A great deal for RAMEKINS! Colors are pretty too! Great for cooking with kids…
Do you use ramekins? I love them for baking – or serving small individual servings of coleslaw or jams – in fact all my jams are in ramekins when I have a cooking or tasting event at The Little Farm. … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking with kids, great deals, prepared pantry, Ramekins
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The Day after Xmas – known as Boxing Day in the UK and Colonies – a day to relax and recoup – and also make all those New Years Resolutions!
Boxing day – December 26th – a strange name until you know its genesis. Boxing Day ( according to Wikipedia – a amazing source of so much) is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradespeople would receive … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Desserts, Family, Philanthropy, Raising Children
Tagged Boxing day, cooking with kids, doing good, Grandma, holidays, jams, Philanthropy
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Tonight is the 8th Day of Hannukah – time to be with family and celebrate – of course cooking with kids!
All of the last week has been the festival of the lights – the Jewish Holiday of Hannukah. The holiday is commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt … Continue reading
Upside down Apple Cake – Cooking with Kids -They LOVE the idea of this! Along with Marches by John Philip Sousa
We had a HUGE crop of apples this year – baskets of them. So I was racking my brain trying to come up with recipes. I have already shared a super easy apple cobbler in former posts with you. This upside down cake … Continue reading
Apple Cobbler – with fresh apples from The Little Farm ( but store bought apples will do fine!) Cooking with kids means tasting a lot!
Here is a super easy recipe for Apple Cobbler. Our little ones loved tasting it – raw and cooked – and I loved delivering many offerings of it to friends, family and staff at The Little Farm. Enjoy making it … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Opera, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged Apple Cobbler, apples, cooking with kids, grandma cooking, Little farm, Opera
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5 minute Fudge – Cooking with Kids! Add Chopin’s Polonaise in A flat major and you have a great treat!
Cooking with kids along with GREAT classical music. Here the great Horowitz plays Polonaise Op. 53 in A flat major. My cousin John Brittan – an amazing pianist who played in South Africa with the symphony orchestra – used to … Continue reading
Getting ready for Halloween – Are your kids excited? Try cooking with kids to make Sugar Cookies!
Our grandkids are already getting excited. Can you believe it? Only 4 weeks to go? Sigh…it seems like Halloween is the topic of discussion for 5 and 3 year old children for months… here are my oldest grandsons trying out … Continue reading
Cinnamon Bun Sundaes – wickedly divine – Cooking with Kids!
Try these while Cooking with Kids and listening to great music – we love the classics – what about Nutcracker Suite! Improved Cinnamon Bun Sundaes Any good dessert should evolve over time. A year or so ago, I tried cinnamon … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with kids, desserts, family, food, fun, music, nutcracker suite
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Cooking with kids – A Cookie Mishap while listening to Johann Sebastian Bach – but we fixed it!
Cooking with kids – so much fun whenver we do it. Last week we made sugar cookies and I misread the recipe so had to make it up and it turned out fine! Here is the recipe that worked out … Continue reading
