Five Recipes To Cook Together With The Kids

Recipes to cook together with children are an activity that strengthens the bond between parents and children. This not only creates a particular bond, especially when children are not mere observers, but also when they engage in the creative act. This process, although it requires order and discipline, can be very fun and exciting.

When we prepare recipes to make together with the children, we achieve these goals:

• The ability to follow instructions is developed.
• The child’s attention levels are enhanced.
• It starts to become clearer what it means to fulfill a goal and the process that must be gone through to reach it.
• Habits of order and cleanliness are learned .

Practical and delicious recipes to make with children

strawberry ice cream

Ingredients:

1 cup of sugar

2 cups of sour cream

2/3 cups of strawberries in the form of puree

Preparation mode:

• Make strawberry puree. For this, it is necessary to wash, cut into pieces and crush the strawberries. You can choose to make a creamy puree or make it in a rustic way, in order to play with the different textures.
• Next, mix the strawberries with cold cream and sugar in a large bowl. With the help of an electric mixer, we mix the ingredients until it forms a light dough. Perform this procedure until you get a firm texture.
• Finally, cover with a transparent PVC film and store in the refrigerator for 4 hours.

Truffles

Ingredients:

500 g of sponge cake

5 spoons of dulce de leche

100 g of butter

100 g of chocolate

Liquor

200 g of grated coconut

Preparation mode:

• Crush the sponge cake by hand until it is in crumbs. The sponge cake can be of any flavor.
• Then add the chocolate that was previously melted with the butter. Then add the liqueur and 5 tablespoons of dulce de leche.
• All ingredients must be mixed to form a paste. During the mixing of the ingredients, dried fruit or chocolate chips can be incorporated.
• Small portions of this dough are formed and made into balls with the hands, the size that the children want.
• Then put in the fridge. After 2 hours they will be ready to eat.

Tutti-frutti gelatine

Ingredients:

1 can of condensed milk

1 glass of tutti frutti

1/2 glass of water

8 g of an unflavored gelatin envelope

Preparation mode:

• Mix the condensed milk with the glass of tutti frutti in water previously heated for 50 seconds in the microwave.
• When the mixture is correctly uniform, place it in small containers. Then refrigerate for an hour or until they are set.
• If the objective is to emphasize the flavors, you can add some

  juice

  of fruit.

Butter cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup of flour

100 g of butter

2 eggs

50 g of sugar

salt

1 glass of water

Preparation mode:

• Mix the ingredients. Form a homogeneous mass. Make a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour. Then remove the dough and knead with a rolling pin.

• Put flour in the place where the dough will be placed to prevent it from sticking.
• Knead until smooth and 1cm thick. Make different shapes of biscuits using molds to

  cookies

  . Place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

• Brush each biscuit with egg and sprinkle Glass sugar (powdered) before baking.
• Bake for approximately 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius. When finished, let it cool.
• Note: Glass sugar can be made at home by mixing sugar and cornstarch, beating everything quickly and then sieving.

Baked apples

Ingredients:

4 apples

1 glass of apricots

1 glass of apricot juice (can also be peach)

4 heaped spoonfuls of chopped almonds

1 big spoon of sugar

Preparation mode:

• The day before, cut the apricots into small pieces and soak them in the apricot juice overnight.

• On the day of preparation of the apples, preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
• Wash the apples and remove the part that protects the seed, leaving them hollow. Drain the apricots, mix with the almonds and sugar.
• Place the mixture in the open cavity in the apples. Make small holes in the apple peel several times with a knife or toothpick.
• Put the apples in the oven for 30 minutes (decrease or increase the amount of time depending on the size of the apples).
• Serve with a ball of

  Ice cream

  .

Do not waste time! When you want to do something different, discover the benefits of these recipes to make together with the children and to spend family time spent in the best possible way.