Gingerbread Ornaments

Today, ginger is used as a homeopathic treatment for nausea, motion sickness, and morning sickness. It is also used in all different types of recipes and religious rituals. The making of gingerbread men remains one of the most popular uses for ginger.

EASY GINGERBREAD MEN
(Makes 6 ornaments)
1/2c Applesauce
1/2c Cinnamon
2T Household glue

Mix all ingredients together and roll on wax paper to 1/4-inch thickness. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the shapes of the intended ornaments. Poke a small hole in the top of the ornament using the end of a straw, knife, chopstick, small dowel, pencil, or similar object. Allow ornaments to air dry for 1-3 days. When ornaments are ready to be decorated they will be completely dry and very hard.

Bird's Nest

Birds Nests

   

Ingredients:
1 1/3 cup flaked coconut
2 sticks butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cup Easter-colored candy coated milk chocolate pieces

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 300F. Spread coconut on non-greased cookie sheet. Toast in oven, stirring occasionally, until it turns light golden, about 25 minutes. Remove coconut from cookie sheet and set aside. Increase oven to 350F. 

In large bowl, add butter and sugar and whip until light and fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla. In medium bowl, combine flour and salt. Blend into creamed mixture. Form dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Roll heavily into toasted coconut. 

Place coconut cookies 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheets. Make indentation with thumb in center of each cookie. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden brown. Remove cookies and cool completely. Fill indentations with candies.

This recipe from CDKitchen for Bird's Nest Cookies serves/makes 2 dozen

Apple Crunch

Posted September 2007 by admin

Age: 12+

What You’ll Need:

• 1/2 cup of butter
• 5 apples
• 1 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of brown sugar
• a dash of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Grease a flat baking dish.

Melt butter in the microwave and set aside to cool. Peel, core and slice the apples and place them in the baking dish. Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add egg and the melted butter to the dry ingredients, mix well using a fork. Spread the mixture over the apples and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top.

Bake for 40 mins

Fruit Kabobs

Fruity Kebabs

Posted September 2007 by admin

Ages: 4+ (Some assistance required)

What You’ll Need:

• Bamboo skewers
• 1 cup of strawberries
• 1 cup of thickly sliced banana
• A handful of grapes
• 1 cup of cubes apple pieces

Method:

Take a 6 in. (15 cm) long skewers and thread fruit onto them.

Serve kebabs with fresh yoghurt on the side.

Stone Soup

You will Need:

1 stone - cleaned and wrapped in foil

1 cabbage

2 onions

1 pound stew beef

4 carrots

4 potatoes

1 box frozen green beans

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

12 mushrooms

1 tablespoon sage

Step One - Brown the stew beef. Set aside.

Step Two - Fill a large soup pot a little over half full with water. Place it on a stove burner on medium heat. Add stone to the pot.

Step Three - Chop the cabbage, onions, carrots, and potatoes. Put in soup pot.

Step One - Add the rest of the ingredients, including the stew beef, to the soup pot. Simmer 1 hour. Enjoy!

Note - Textured vegetable protein can be substituted for the stew beef for a vegetarian stone soup.

Candy Corn Cookies

Ingredients:   
                                                      
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of margarine, softened
2 1/4 cup of flour
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
orange and yellow food coloring

Directions:

1. Cream sugar and margarine, add egg and vanilla blend. Add flour.

2. Roll into three balls. Add orange coloring to one of the balls.
yellow to the other. The remaining ball has no color. Chill dough.

3. Then roll balls flat together so that the white ball is the bottom, the orange ball is in the middle and the yellow ball is the top.

4. With a knife cut the dough into 3 inch triangles. (If dough is still too sticky, add a little more flour)

5. Bake 15 min at 350F

Valentine's Day Rice Crispy Lollipops

Ingredients:
4 cups Marshmallow Fluff Creme
6 cups crispy rice cereal
red/pink gel icing
sprinkles

Supplies
big bowl
spatula
wax paper
popsicle stick for the stick of the lollipop
Pam Cooking Spray

Directions:
1. Lay out your piece of wax paper
2. In a large bowl mix the Marshmallow Fluff Creme with rice crispy cereal.
3. Spray some Pam on your hands
4. Get a lump of marshmallow mixture
5. Shape into a heart shape
6. Put the popsicle stick at the bottom of the heart, in the marshmallow mixture.
7. Outline your heart with the red or pink gel icing
8. Add sprinkles to the top for decoration.
9. Enjoy