Easy Kid Friendly Rice Crisp Cereal Treats

Looking for a fun, kid friendly treat that the whole family can enjoy? Why not try making rice crisp cereal bars? This quick and easy kid friendly recipe has been around for almost 70 years.

The beauty about making rice crips cereal bars is you only need three ingredients: rice crisp cereal, marshmallows and butter. Rice crips cereal treats require minimal supervision (to melt the butter) and that's what makes it a kid friendly recipe.

Ingredients

6 cups of rice crisp cereal

10 ounces marshmallows (regular or mini)

3 tablespoons butter (salted)

Cooking Directions

In a large pot or large saucepan, melt salted butter over very low heat

Add the marshmallows a little at a time - stirring constantly

Continue stirring until the marshmallows are completely melted

Remove from heat

Stir in the rice crisp cereal until it is well coated with the marshmallow/butter mixture

Preparation

Spray a 9 x13 inch baking pan with non-stick spray

Add a layer of parchment paper or wax paper to the 9 x 13 in baking pan. Make sure that paper overflows the pan by 6" inches on each side (optional)**

Using a buttered spatula. mold the crisp cereal/marshmallow mixture into a 9 x 13 in baking pan. Make certain the mixture is spread evenly

Let cool

Cut into squares when the mixture cools.

Yield
Makes 24 squares.

** using the parchment paper or wax paper makes it easy to pull the crisp cereal mixture out of the baking pan.

Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate

What is the easier kid friendly recipe that is also a great kid Christmas recipe? It's got to be Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate.

The Christmas holidays always seem to hold those most precious childhood memories. The smell of the Christmas Tree, Mom's Christmas cookies baking in the oven and that wonderful smell of hot chocolate.

With this quick and easy kid friendly recipe, making Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate will become a family Christmas tradition. This simple kids recipe takes less than five minutes and the kids can do everything except heat the milk.

So why not bring the children into the kitchen and gather around the table while you make lasting Christmas family memories making Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate.

Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate - Ingredients

1 individual pack hot chocolate mix
8 ounces hot milk/per serving
8-12 mini-marshmallows**
1 small candy cane

** or substitute whipped cream

Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate - Directions

Mom/Dad
Heat milk

Kids
Add 1 individual pack hot chocolate mix to large cup or coffee mug
Add mini-marshmallows

Mom/Dad
Add hot milk

Kids
Stir hot chocolate until hot chocolate mix is completely incorporated
Add candy cane

Now enjoy! Use the candy cane to stir your Christmas Mint-Mellow Hot Chocolate, to pick up the marshmallows or just lick it!

Happy Holiday Memories!

Baking Soft Pretzels with Your Kids

A great easy kid friendly recipe is making soft pretzels. I remember making this easy kid friendly recipe with my mom and dad when I was a kid - and I treasure the precious memories of that day even now.

Making soft pretzels is a fun, healthy kid friendly recipe that gets the kids heavily involved. The recipes calls for adding flour and water to make dough, adding yeast to make the dough rise, shaping the dough into pretzel shapes and finally handing it over to mom or dad to put in the oven. Wow what great fun for the kids!

Having quick and easy kid friendly recipes at hand can make a boring day into a fun family tasty day. You and your children will remember these days for years to come. Kitchen for Kids: 100 Amazing Recipes Your Children Can Really Make is a great cookbook with more easy kid friendly recipes that children can really make.



SOFT PRETZEL RECIPE

Ingredients

1 packet of active dry yeast
3 teaspoons dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cups warm water (105 - 110 degrees F.)
1 tablespoon salt
4 cups all-purpose flour
Cornmeal and extra flour for dusting worksurface
Coarse kosher salt

• Combine yeast, 1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar, and water. Let stand 5 minutes until foamy.
• Add remaining sugar and salt and mix well.
• Add flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing by hand until completely mixed .
• Knead dough until nice and smooth about 7 minutes and has a shiny look.
• Put into a bowl and let stand with a cover on it for 40 minutes in a place that's good n' warm.
• Dust where you're going to work with flour and cornmeal.
• Divide dough into 12 pieces and roll out to the length and thickness you want. (Note: thinner=crispier).
• Make dough into pretzel-shapes and put on a baking sheet that has been dusted with cornmeal.
• Allow pretzels to rise for 30 minutes.
• Make sure they're uncovered.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Bring a large pot full of water to a boil.
• Carefully put risen pretzels to boiling water with a spatula and boil on one side for 2 minutes,then you flip and boil other side for 1 1/2 minutes.
• Move boiled pretzels to a rack to drain for a minute.
• Put pretzels on a baking sheet, lightly dusted with cornmeal, and sprinkle with coarse kosher salt.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

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Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches: The Ultimate Kid Friendly Recipe

It's obvious that kid friendly recipes are all the rage these days. Parents use easy kid friendly recipes to teach children life skills. One simple kid friendly recipe is Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches.

Even though it sounds so blantantly simple, children enjoy being independent and doing things on their own. Without knowing it, parents are educating their children about nutrition using these healthy kid friendly recipes.

Quick and easy kid friendly recipes keep kids interested, because they're always doing something. Unlike other recipes that require hours of cooking, these definitely do not.


PEANUT BUTTER AND BANANA SANDWICH
Ingredients
4 ounces smooth or chunky peanut butter
2 slices white, rye or pumpernickel bread
1 whole ripe banana

Directions
Spread peanut butter evenly on 1 side of each piece of bread
Slice banana into 3/4 inch slices
Place sliced banana on 1 piece of bread with peanut butter
Top with the other slice of bread

Next
Slice the sandwich in half
Enjoy!