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Kids Easter
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Kids Easter recipes abound at this time of year.
Not only can
kids celebrate the season dying Easter eggs, there are many fun Easter
recipes kids can make with an adult's help or if they are old enough by
themselves. There are the usual Easter traditions of eggs, birds,
bunnies but don't forget to get your kids involved in Easter dinner
too. When creating these kids Easter recipes remind them that all these
fun Easter decorations are symbols of rebirth, starting anew and
celebrating Spring.
Kids Easter
Recipes
Baskets and Birds Nests
Easter
Cookie Baskets
Sugar cookie dough
Frosting
Licorice ropes
Jelly beans or other small candies
Prepare a sugar cookie dough either homemade or store bought dough.
Spray a muffin pan with cooking spray or grease each muffin tin. Press
a small ball of dough into each hole pressing up along the sides to
make a well in the middle. Allow to cook at 375 degrees about 8 minutes
until golden. Press down center of each cookie. Let cool and pop out of
muffin tins. To decorate fill a small amount of frosting in each hole.
Attach a licorice string into each frosting. This will be your basket
handle. Sprinkle with coconut tinted green and add jelly beans or small
chocolate pieces to resemble eggs.
You
can also do this Kids Easter recipe with cupcakes. Frost cupcakes,
insert a licorice handle and add jelly beans on top.
How to Tint Coconut
Green
An easy way to decorate with coconut for Easter is to add your shredded
coconut in a glass or ziploc bag. Add a few drops of green food
coloring and stir together or if using a bag squeeze color into coconut.
Breakfast Egg Nests
2 large potatoes, shredded
½ Zucchini
4-6 eggs (depending on size of dish using)
Shredded cheddar cheese
¼ teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Pepper
4-6 slices cooked crumbled bacon or cooked crumbled sausage
Shredded cheese
Peel and shred potatoes into buttered 9x 13 or 8x8 casserole dish. Add
in shredded zucchini on top, if desired. Sprinkle with seasoning salt
and pepper. Bake at 425 degrees for 20-25 minutes. With back of spoon
make several indentions for eggs. Carefully break one egg into the
center of each indention. Salt and pepper. Sprinkle with crumbled
bacon. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake in oven about 15 minutes or
until eggs are to desired doneness. Sprinkle with cheese. Top with
chopped fresh tomatoes before serving, if desired. **You can do this
same Kids Easter recipe individually in muffin tins.
Jelly Bean Nests
Cookies
4 Cups Chow mein noodles
½ Cup light corn syrup
½ Cup sugar
¾ Cup peanut butter
Jelly beans
Have kids break chow mein noodles in small pieces. Put in large bowl
and set aside. In saucepan add corn syrup and sugar on medium-low heat.
Stir until sugar dissolves. Add peanut butter. Stir until melted. Pour
peanut butter mixture over chow mein noodles. Stir to cover noodles.
Lay out a sheet of wax paper. With a spoon drop tablespoon of noodles
on waxed paper. Flatten middle with back of a spoon to make a nest
shape. Have kids add jelly beans. If mixture has cooled and jelly beans
aren't sticking to noodles, add a dot of frosting inside the nest and
then add the eggs.
Coconut Nests
1 1/3 Cup flaked coconut
1/3 Cup sugar
2 Tablespoons flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
½ teaspoon vanilla
In mixing bowl, combine coconut, sugar,
flour and salt. Stir in egg whites and vanilla; mix well. Drop by
spoonfuls onto greased baking sheet. Press thumb into each cookie to
make an indention. Bake at 325 degrees for 18-20 minutes. Let cool add
a drop of frosting and add jelly beans or chocolate mini eggs in center.
Egg Grass Centerpiece
This is an easy fun Kids Easter recipe they will enjoy
watching. Start
this a few weeks before Easter.
Using a medium size Easter basket, line the bottom with thick heavy
plastic. Add potting soil. Add seeds to the soil either radish, wheat
or grass seeds. These grow quickly and will look good poking out of the
soil.
Spray with water and cover with plastic wrap for several days.
Then uncover and continue to spray with water each day. (a water spray
bottle works well.) In about 1 to 2 weeks you will have a
basket that has real looking grass in it. You can use this as
a
centerpiece for Easter by adding colored Easter eggs or other
decorations.
~~We made our own little boxes out of cardboard.
Kids Easter
Recipes
Eggs
Coconut
Cream Eggs
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
1 cup flaked or grated coconut
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate
chips
1 tablespoon shortening
In a medium bowl add soft cream cheese, soft butter, powdered sugar and
coconut. Stir together until well combined. If dough is hard to work
with chill in the fridge. Form into egg shapes and place on a cookie
sheet that is lined with wax paper. Place in the freezer until hard
about 1 hour. When you are ready for dipping melt chocolate chips and
shortening in a microwave safe dish until melted. Dip each coconut egg
into chocolate to coat. Place back on wax paper and chill.
Kids Easter recipes:
Sugar Eggs
Check out how to make sugar
eggs here.
Kids
Easter Recipes
Bunnies
Bunny
Bread
This Kids Easter recipe is all in the shaping of the bread rolls.
Bread dough
Raisins for eyes
Make a large roll for the bunny tummy. Place on a greased cookie sheet.
Make a smaller ball for the head and place above the tummy section.
Roll two balls into ropes and loop ropes over to make bunny ears. Lay
on top of bunny head. For arms and legs use smaller balls and lay next
to appropriate part of body. Give the bunny two raisin eyes and two
very small balls for a nose. Cover with a cloth or plastic wrap and let
rise for 30 minutes. Remove towel or plastic wrap and brush beaten egg
white over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. This kids
Easter recipe is great fun to put together. They will really enjoy
experimenting on their own as to what size dough balls to use and
create their own bunny body.
Bunny Pears
One pear half
2 raisins for eyes
1 red candy
2 almonds
Cottage cheese
To make one bunny place a pear on a plate with the narrow end at the
top. Press two raisins into pear for eyes and a red candy for a nose.
Press almonds for ears into top. Add cottage cheese for the tail.
Bunny's Favorite
Carrot Cake
3 cups Flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking
soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups
sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
½ cup vegetable oil
½ Cup applesauce
3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups carrots coarsely shredded
1 Cup raisins
½ Cup chopped pecans, optional
Cream cheese frosting
In mixing bowl add all dry ingredients including flour, cinnamon,
baking soda, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, salt, brown sugar and white sugar.
Stir together and set aside. In smaller bowl add wet ingredients
including oil, applesauce, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Blend into dry
ingredients with mixer. Stir in carrots, raisins, and nuts. Pour into a
greased cake pan or 13 x9 inch pan. (**or use the bunny cake idea
below.) Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted
in middle comes out clean.
Easy Easter Bunny Cake
For this Kids easter recipe use your favorite cake mix or the carrot
cake recipe above. Bake mix in two 8 or 9 inch round cake pans. Allow
to cool and assemble as follows. One round cake will be the bunnies
head. The other cut two oval shapes off the ends of the cake leaving a
small portion in the middle that will resemble a bow tie. These two
oval shapes will be the bunny ears. Place them above the other round
cake pan. Decorate with white frosting, shredded white coconut, candies
for eyes, nose, mouth and whiskers.
Kids Easter
Recipes
Dinner
Baked Ham recipes
There isn't much to baking a ham, but kids can get involved by stirring
a sauce to pour over the top before baking. Simple and Sweet Baked Ham
Rub about 2 cups of brown sugar over the top of a 6-8 pound ham. While
it is cooking baste the ham with its juices pouring over the brown
sugar.
Sauce for baked Ham
½ Cup brown sugar
½ Cup apricot jam
1 Can pineapple rings
maraschino cherries
Reserve the juice from the pineapple and cherries.
1 ½ Cups orange juice
In mixing bowl stir together brown sugar, apricot jam, juices from
pineapple and cherries and orange juice. Whisk together until sugar is
dissolved and mixture is thick and combined. Place your ham in a baking
dish and pour or rub sauce over ham. Decorate top and sides of ham with
pineapple rings and cherries in the middle using toothpicks to hold in
place if needed. Bake for 1 hour or depending on size of ham. (follow
ham's packaging directions)
Maple Syrup Ham and
Sweet Potatoes
with Marshmallows
One of the most desired types of food to eat at Easter is ham and you
can
sweeten up the flavor of ham by adding some tasty maple syrup. While
your
store purchased maple syrup should work, try to purchase maple syrup
that is
100% pure and not made with corn syrup. Adding pure maple syrup will
add a
sweet, delicious taste that your friends and family will love.
You can simply complement your maple syrup ham
with some yummy
sweet potatoes
smothered in minature marshmallows. Sweet potatoes should be your maple
syrup
ham’s best friend. For an extra treat, add minature marshmallows and
you will
definetly get some smiles from children and adults alike.
Recipe courtesy of Menu
Planning Central
Kids Easter
Recipes
Leftover Ham Recipes
Ham
and Bean Soup
2 Cups dried beans
8 Cups water
1 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon chili powder
Ham bone
Chopped ham, as much as desired
1 garlic
clove
28 oz. can tomatoes
Bay leaf
½
teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 Tablespoons lemon
juice
Wash and sort beans. Cover with water and soak overnight. Drain. Cover
with water again and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and cover with
lid. Let stand 1 hour. Rinse. Add 8 cups water, chopped onion, chili
powder, ham bone, chopped ham, garlic clove, chopped tomatoes, bay
leaf, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Simmer for an additional hour to 2
hours on medium-low until beans are tender. Remove ham bone and bay
leaf before serving.
Ham and Broccoli
Casserole
Frozen pkg. Broccoli
Fun shaped noodles or spaghetti noodles, cooked
Diced ham, as much as desired
½ Cup butter
¼ Cup flour
1-1/2 Cup milk
Bread crumbs
Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Cook noodles and add broccoli within last few minutes of cooking. Drain
and add diced ham pieces to mixture. Pour into casserole dish. In
saucepan, mix butter and flour together. Add milk gradually and stir
getting rid of any lumps. Add milk until sauce is as thick as you want.
Season with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over mixture in casserole dish.
Top with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 20
minutes until thickens.
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You
can also do this Kids Easter recipe with cupcakes. Frost cupcakes,
insert a licorice handle and add jelly beans on top.
