Inside: Your new no fail angel cake recipe for when you need a yummy dessert in a hurry. Perfect for newbie chiefs. #juniorchefs Has this ever happened to you? You look at the clock and realize your guests will arrive in an hour and you only have large quantities of Cesar salad and boiled buckwheat…
Category: Kids Cook
Fun, healthy, creative and simple to follow recipes kids love to make and eat.
Food Science for Kids: 3-ingredients, 1-minute Chocolate Cake
Do you sometimes wish you could have a delicious, freshly made, healthy, homemade chocolate cake the moment you want it? What if you could have the cake and teach kids some science at the same time? It’s possible with our 3-ingredients, 1-minute chocolate cake! Mix 2 tablespoons of hot cocoa with an…
Russian Apple Pie - Gluten-free Sharlotka
Inside: Easy-peasy gluten-free Russian apple pie. This is a recipe that your kids will enjoy making, baking and eating. Physics, geometry, and chemistry were not the only subjects taken seriously in Soviet times. In my public high school, we were also required to take a class named Trudovoe Obuchenie, or Trud, the name that I can only…
Navy Bean, Squash, Apple Soup with Pumpkin Oil to make with kids
One of two choices is available to Chicagoans this time of the year. We can either wrap ourselves in existential depression lamenting the disappearance of warmer weather until April, or we can break out snow pants and embrace the cold. One of the things that help us embrace the cooler weather is my winter recipes folder. It’s full of…
Apple Sorbet you can make with your kids
Inside: Do you have leftover apples? Ask your kids to help you turn them into a delicious apple sorbet. “Mom, I want an apple, please.” You pick an apple, rub it carefully with your fingers under running water, dry it with a fluffy kitchen towel, and hand it to your darling child with a…
Fava Bean Salad (Kids Can Make)
Putting a salad together is a quintessential life skill. I teach it to my kids as soon as they are old enough to stand on a chair in front of a kitchen counter. Not only little kids love tearing baby kale into pieces, squeezing lemons for the dressing, and chopping soft veggies, they learn to…
