Cooking Kids

I promised that in September I would be starting a kids’ cooking club called Little Chefs and posting about it. Tomorrow is the first cooking club for my daughter’s playgroup, and both her and I are very excited about it. Here’s what went into planning the first session for a group of 2-4 year olds.

I picked a theme - apples for this one - and chose my recipes based off that. I’m planning for the club to last possibly a  little over an hour. When looking for recipes I searched online and in cookbooks. One of my recipes comes from a book, while the other two were online. When searching recipes, I looked for ones that could be completed individually or with very little parental help. My goal is to make little chefs, and not have the moms making all the foods.

My three recipes are apple roll-ups, apple punch and apple frogs. The kids will start with the apple roll-ups since they need to bake for around 8 minutes. While the roll-ups bake, we’ll make the punch and the kids can start working on their frogs. By the time they’re done with that the roll-ups should be ready to eat. I have little plastic cups saved from applesauce for each kid. I will put their ingredients in these cups and provide plates and cups.

Check back this weekend for an update on how the first kids’ cooking club went, along with recipes and some pictures.

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