Mini Football Subs
Ingredients
* Meatballs
* Spaghetti sauce
* Shredded Cheese
* Individual-size rolls
Instructions
Kiddos
Shipshape Snack
Ingredients
* Red bell pepper
* Tuna or egg salad
* Thin pretzel stick
* Cheese slice
* Cream cheese (dab)
* Red pepper flag
Instructions
1. Cut a red pepper in half lengthwise (or into quarters for lighter fare) and remove the seeds.
2. Fill each pepper boat with lunchtime cargo, such as tuna or egg salad. Sink a thin pretzel stick mast into the center of the boat, then add two triangular pieces of cheese for sails.
3. Use a dab of cream cheese to fix a small red pepper flag to the top of the mast.
Taco Roll-Ups
Beef Taquitos
Ingredients
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for brushing on the taquitos
* 1 medium onion, finely chopped
* 1 clove garlic, minced
* 3/4 pound lean ground beef
* 1 cup salsa, plus more for dipping
* 2 teaspoons chili powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 10 (6-inch) flour tortillas
* 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar or Monterey Jack
* Sour cream
Instructions
UFO Breakfast Treats
Ingredients
* Bagels
* Favorite spreads & toppings (cream cheese, peanut butter, bananas, etc.)
* Hard-boiled egg
Instructions
To prepare these treats, simply spread cream cheese or peanut butter on half a bagel, then set a peeled, hard-boiled egg in the center and adorn the ship with carrot or banana slices. Or melt a slice of cheese on a bagel half before setting a hard-boiled egg in the center. Breakfast has never been so out of this world.
Doughnut Snowmen
Ingredients
* Small powdered doughnut
* Powdered doughnut hole
* Decorators' gel
* Pretzel or potato stick
* Haviland Thin Mint or Grasshopper Cookie
* Reese's peanut butter cup miniature
Instructions
Easy Ice-cream Pie
Ingredients
* 1 1/2 cups finely crushed graham crackers or chocolate wafers
* 5 tablespoons butter (melted)
* 1 quart pistachio or mint chip ice cream
* 1/2 cup hot fudge sauce
* red and green candies
Instructions
1.Place 1 1/2 cups finely crushed graham crackers or chocolate wafers into a 9-inch pie pan.
2.Stir in 5 tablespoons of melted butter, then press the mixture into the bottom and sides of the pan.
3.Freeze for 30 minutes.
Brownie Pizza
Ingredients
* Chewy brownie batter
* 2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
* 2 1/2 tbsp. milk
* 1 tsp. vanilla extract
* Red food coloring paste (available at kitchen and party supply stores)
* 6 oz. white chocolate
* Assorted candies
Instructions
1. Prepare the brownie recipe, with one exception: Instead of pouring the mixture into a rectangular or square pan, pour it into a lightly greased (and clean!) 12-inch pizza pan.
Blueberry Fool
Apple Crisp a la Mode
Ingredients
* 6 apples (or 6 cups of apple slices)
* 1 1/2 cups rolled oats
* 3/4 cup brown sugar
* 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
* Whipped cream or ice cream
Instructions
1.
Apple Crisp a la Mode - Step 1 To peel an apple safely, your child should hold the fruit in one hand, grip a vegetable peeler in the other, and push the peeler away from himself.
2.