Cooking Kids

I had my monthly kids’ cooking club on Friday. The theme was Turkey Tracks and the kids had a blast. The recipes were cut out turkey sandwiches, turkey track crackers and turkey cupcakes. This was one of the most time-intensive cooking club I’ve done so far. I got the idea for the turkey cupcakes from Family Fun magazine,  and while the idea of wrapping fruit leather around toothpicks sounds easy, I didn’t think about the fact that I don’t have a crew of 30 to help me out. So I spent about 2 hours wrapping Fruit Roll-Ups around toothpicks so that each kid could have about 5 feathers, for a total of 50 feathers. We changed up the recipe a little bit, since the original turkey cupcakes called for cutting fruit leather into gobbler shapes. I used red Tic-Tacs instead.

Here’s the recipes and a couple pics from our cooking club:

Turkey Cut-Out Sandwiches:

I provided two slices of bread, 4 pieces of turkey, and filled cups with mayo and mustard, just in case some kids liked those toppings. Then the kids made the sandwich and used a cookie cutter of their choice to cut out their sandwich.

Turkey Track Crackers:

I provided each kid with two large, round butter cracker and squirted some Cheez-Whiz in the middle of each. They spread the cheese around and then used chow mein noodles to create a turkey foot on each cracker. While they enjoyed making them, most of them took the noodles off before eating the cracker.

Turkey Cupcakes:

Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes. Provide a cup of chocolate icing, 1 Nutter-Butter cookie, 2 mini chocolate chips, 1 red Tic-Tac, colored icing in small tubes, feathers made from fruit rollups, rainbow Twizzlers, or rainbow Airheads.

Have the kids spread the chocolate icing on the cupcake. Then have them dab two spots of icing on the Nutter Butter to make the turkey’s eyes. Place the chocolate chips on the icing. Add a dab of icing to the nose area and attach the gobbler. Push the Nutter-Butter half way through the cupcake. Add the feathers and enjoy.

To make the feathers:

Cut Fruit Roll Ups into angled feather shapes and pull apart. Wrap around toothpicks and form. You can also use rainbow Twizzlers, if you can find them. I also used sour rainbow Airheads by threading them through a toothpick. I gave each kid 5 fruit leather feathers and 2 Airhead feathers. I’m using a new camera and I’m still learning how to best upload with it, so here are the pics, or at least links to some pics:

Turkey Cupcake