Kid Friendly Recipes
By: Christine Steendahl
Child friendly recipes can be fun to create. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for kids. These ingredients can provide a fun element to children’s meals. Finding child recipes that children can create for themselves gives them a feeling of accomplishment. Let the children select the fruits and veggies that you utilize for the child recipes listed below.
Getting kids to eat fruit can be easy when we make it adventurous and entertaining. Since fruit should be a constant in every family’s menu, let the kids choose which fruits they need to create a cool and exciting fruit pizza masterpiece.
You may be surprised by the fruits they pick at the farmer’s market.
Let the children choose which fruits and veggies they would like for their at
home project.
Select interesting or colorful fruits at the store or farmers’ market,
then turn the little ones loose making imaginative faces on this tasty fruit pizza.
Odds are, they’ll snack as they go–and love what they taste.
Select fruits in a variety of hues and sizes. Let the children decorate the pizza with fun faces or create other shapes on this colorful and fun pizza.
Ingredients.
*Ready to bake piecrust
Filling
*1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese
*1tablespoon sugar
*1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
*1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
*1 tablespoon 1% milk
Toppings
Select strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can opt for pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they like.
Instructions:
1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions
2. Unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.
3. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them slightly so that they’ll stay rolled up.
4. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places(allowing air to escape).
5. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or
until it’s lightly browned.
6. Remove from the crust from the oven
To Prepare the Filling:
1. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice
2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable onto the crust.
*Allow the crust to cool.
*Smooth the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula,
*Smooth to the edge of the crust
Now its time for the children to get involved.
*Let the children to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture.
Don’t worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun.
Children may opt to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.
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