Popover Recipe

The only difficult thing for small children about making popovers is waiting for them to come out of the oven. The batter is simple and light – easy for small arms to stir. Once Funny Faces in the oven, this wimpy-looking batter gets transformed into puffy little breads. Children are amazed by this magic! This is chemistry Begin with an English muffin, rice cake, Frozen Applesauce and Fruit Cup at its most enjoyable. They’ll want to make tortilla or piece of bread. Spread a layer Ingredients: these again and again. of peanut butter on top. Then decorate with various foods. Use shredded cheese 1 c. chunky or regular applesauce 2 tablespoons butter or carrots for hair. Ears or eyes may be 10 oz. pkg frozen strawberries, thawed 1 cup milk banana slices or chopped grapes and 11 oz. can mandarin orange segments, 2 eggs pineapple tidbits could be teeth. Provide drained 1 cup flour several toppings and let your child use 1 c grapes, chopped his/her imagination. Allow the child to 2 T.orange juice concentrate ¼ teaspoon salt experiment and explore the foods. 1) Preheat oven to 375°F, and melt Worry about the mess later. butter. In medium bowl, combine all 2) Brush the insides of 12 muffin cups ingredients. Spoon fruit mixture into with melted butter. individual dishes or paper cups. Freeze 3) Break eggs into the mixing bowl. until firm. Remove from freezer about 4) Add milk and beat well. 30 minutes before serving. 7 (2 cup) 5) Add flour and salt and whisk until servings. reasonably well blended – it doesn’t have to be perfect. 6) Use a ¼-cup measure with a handle to pour batter into each muffin cup. They should be one-half to two- thirds full.

7) Bake 30 minutes without opening Frozen Berry Yogurt Popsicles the oven. Go Fishing Snack 8) Remove muffins from the pan and Ingredients: prick with a fork to let the steam 1/3 cup Goldfish crackers escape. Spread with butter, peanut 2 cups berry yogurt (any flavor) 10-12 pretzel sticks (fishing poles) butter and/or mashed berries, and 1 can pears, including juice 1-2 Tbs. peanut butter eat! YIELD: 1 dozen Blend yogurt, pears and juice in blender, Put the peanut butter and pretzels on a Taken from Pretend Soup and Other Real then pour into ice-pop molds or paper plate and goldfish crackers in a bowl or Recipes by Mollie Katzen and Ann cups, and put in the freezer overnight. Henderson glass. Dip a fishing pole in the peanut When using paper cups, insert popsicle butter and "catch" a fish with it. sticks into the mixture when it is firm, but not yet completely frozen. Makes 4 large or 8 small popsicles.

Healthy Banana Split dough balls. on one of the crackers so they look like Ingredients: 2. Dip the dough balls into the melted the spider's legs sticking out (4 sticking 1 small, ripe banana butter and then roll them in seeds, cheese out on each side). 2 cup fresh blueberries or other fresh fruit or sprinkles. 3. Then put the other cracker, peanut 2 cup nonfat or low-fat vanilla yogurt 3. Press the balls together on a cookie butter side down, on top of it to hold the 2 cup low-sugar, high fiber cereal sheet to form a caterpillar. "spider legs" in place. (such as Cheerios, Wheaties, Grape-Nuts, 4. Bake the biscuits according to the 4. Using the peanut butter as "glue@, add or Bran Flakes) directions on the package. 2 eyes using the raisins. 5. When the caterpillar biscuits are done, poke raisins onto the ends of two pretzel 1. Peel the banana and slice it lengthwise sticks and press them into the heads of (from tip to tip). Wash the blueberries by the biscuit caterpillar for antennae. placing them in a colander and running water over them. (If you are using another fruit, wash it and cut it into small pieces.) Berry Banana Fruit Smoothie 2. Spoon the yogurt in a mound in the (makes 4 servings) center of a cereal bowl. Crunchy Bananas on a Stick 1 ripe banana 8 oz. strawberry yogurt 3. Sprinkle the cereal on top of the 4 firm ripe bananas 6 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice yogurt 8 wooden sticks with rounded ends Blend all ingredients together in a 4. Arrange the banana halves on either 1 to 2 containers (6 ounces each) Yoplait blender. side of the yogurt Custard Style yogurt (any flavor) 5. Sprinkle the top with the blueberries 3 cups Cheerios Cereal Orangana Smoothie or other fruit (makes 4 servings) Cover cookie sheet with waxed paper. 1 ripe banana Peel bananas; cut bananas in half. Insert 8 oz. vanilla yogurt wooden stick into cut end of each 6 oz. orange juice banana. Roll in yogurt, then in cereal. Blend all ingredients together in a Place on cookie sheet. Freeze about 1 blender. hour or until firm. Wrap each banana in plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Store in Lemon Velvet Smoothie Caterpillar Biscuit Snacks freezer. 8 servings (makes 4 servings) 10 oz. milk Ingredients: 3 oz. orange juice concentrate Refrigerator Biscuits Spider Crackers Recipe 4 oz. lemon yogurt Pretzel Sticks Put mixture in a container with a lid and Raisins Round Crackers shake well. Butter or Margarine (melted) Peanut Butter Try any or all of the following: Poppy Pretzel Sticks Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Grated Cheese, or Raisins Colored Sprinkles 1. Spread peanut butter on one side of 1. Prepare small bowls of sesame seeds, each cracker. poppy seeds, grated cheese or sprinkles. 2. Stick the pretzels on the peanut butter Use two biscuits to form four small