Recipe Ideas

Four Seasons Fruit Salad

Ingredients

  • Spring honeydew melon, cantaloupe
  • Summer strawberries, blueberries
  • Fall toasted pumpkin seeds, apples
  • Winter vanilla yogurt or whipped cream, shredded coconut
  • Options: Vary fruit as desired.

Directions

  1. Cut fruit into small pieces and place in bowls to share.
  2. Have children add the fruit to a large bowl. Help children describe what the ingredients represent about the seasons.
  3. Top the fruit with winter snow—the coconut and the yogurt/whipped cream.
  4. Serve in small bowls or cups.

Snowball Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • more powdered sugar
  • Options: Add 3/4 cup mini-chocolate chips or chopped pecans.

Directions

  1. Have children help throughout. Cream butter in large bowl.
  2. Add powdered sugar; cream until fluffy. Stir in vanilla.
  3. Sift flour and salt; stir in.
  4. Shape dough into balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes at 350°.
  6. Remove cookies from oven. Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar.
  7. Let cool; roll in powdered sugar again.

Sunny Day Bread

Ingredients

  • 2 16-oz loaves frozen bread dough (or your favorite recipe)
  • golden raisins, optional
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • sugar, optional
  • cinnamon sugar, optional

Directions

  1. Provide each child with a fist-sized piece of dough.
  2. Have children add raisins and cinnamon sugar, if desired, and knead briefly.
  3. Demonstrate how to shape the dough into a sun. Pinch around the outside edge, making small “rays.”
  4. Have children make their own suns. Place the suns on greased cookie sheets.
  5. Beat together egg yolk and water. Children can brush tops of the suns with the egg mixture. Sprinkle with sugar or cinnamon sugar, if desired.
  6. Bake according to package directions until golden brown.