How A Kids Recipe Can Make A Rainy August Day Good

Easy Cinnamon Swirl Cake

This is a easy fun kids recipe you and the kids can make on a rainy August morning.  Let each of your children watch you cut the biscuits in quarters.  Let the children 1st grade and up join in the fun and make biscuit quarters.  Let the little ones and teens mix the sugar mixture and everyone can enjoy rolling the biscuits in the mixture.  Mom text or call a girlfriend to come over for coffee and cinnamon swirl coffee cake.

YOU NEED:

3 cans (7.5 oz. each) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 Tbsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 cup  (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted

4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1/2 cup  powdered sugar

1 to 2 Tbsp. milk

PREHEAT oven to 350°F.

CUT each biscuit into quarters.

MIX granulated sugar and cinnamon in medium bowl. Roll dough quarters in cinnamon sugar.

PLACE 1/2 the biscuit pieces in greased 12-cup fluted tube pan; drizzle with 1/2 the butter. Repeat. Sprinkle with any remaining cinnamon-sugar. Bake 40 to 45 min. or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean and top is golden brown. Cool in pan 5 minutes then invert onto serving plate.  Remove from pan.

BEAT cream cheese and powdered sugar in small bowl with mixer until well blended. Add 1 Tbsp. milk; beat until well blended. Blend in enough of the remaining milk until glaze is of desired consistency.  Drizzle over warm bread.

Photo Credit and Recipe: Kraft Foods

Easy Chicken Strips Your Kids Can Make

With the kids out of school it is a fun time to gather everyone in the kitchen, and prepare a meal the whole family will love.  The fun begins when you teach your children safe ways to handle food as well as how to whisk, stir, measure, and chop ingredients.  Making kids recipes is a  hands-on experience that will enhance kids appreciation and basic knowledge of good nutrition, different foods, and simple cooking skills.  Plus, it’s a fun way to spend time together and to encourage a lifetime of healthful eating.

• 2  tablespoons  butter
• 1/3  cup  reduced-fat baking mix
• 1/3  cup  grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 1/2  teaspoons  Old Bay seasoning
• 1/8  teaspoon  black pepper
• 2  pounds  chicken breast strips

Melt butter in a 15- x 10-inch jelly-roll pan in a 425° oven.

2. Place baking mix and next 3 ingredients in a large zip-top plastic bag; shake well to combine. Add chicken, several pieces at a time, shaking well to coat. Arrange chicken in melted butter in hot baking dish.

3. Bake at 425° for 30 minutes or until chicken is done, turning once. Serve immediately.

Note: To freeze, place uncooked, coated chicken strips on a baking sheet in the freezer. Once frozen, place strips in a zip-top plastic freezer bag, and freeze until ready to prepare. Bake frozen strips on pan (according to previous directions) at 425° for 35 minutes, turning after 25 minutes.

Prep: 15 min., Bake: 30 min.

Makes 5 servings (serving size: 3 strips)

Photo Credit:  Southern Living Magazine

Kids Will Love Making Chic Cupcakes

 Kids Recipes loves this Chic Cupcake Recipe from McCormick. A fun project for children from learning about chics, to color of chics, while mothers and family pass on family traditions of spring holidays. Reading books about chics are perfect for your toddlers this time of year.

Makes 12 (1 cupcake) servings.

Prep Time: 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 container (16 ounces) vanilla frosting

McCormick® Assorted Food Colors and Egg Dye

2 cups flaked coconut

12 unfrosted cupcakes

12 plain donut holes

12 pieces candy corn or 6 orange jelly beans, halved lengthwise

Miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Tint frosting yellow, using 18 drops yellow food color. Place coconut in resealable plastic bag. Add 12 drops yellow food color to coconut in bag; shake until coconut is evenly tinted.

2. Spread top of each cupcake with tinted frosting. Press opposite sides of each cupcake into tinted coconut. Spread donut holes with remaining frosting. Press a donut hole into top of each cupcake to form the chick’s head.

3. Press coconut on top of the head for feathers. Insert a candy corn or jelly bean half into the face for the beak. Use the chocolate chips for the eyes.

Tips

Kitchen Tip: For ease in frosting donut holes, first insert small wooden skewer into donut. Use skewer as a handle when frosting donut. Invert frosted donut onto cupcake then remove skewer.