Recipes

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.

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.

40 min | 20 min prep

24 whoopie pies

* 1/2 cup hot water
* 1/2 cup baking cocoa
* 1/2 cup shortening
* 1 1/2 cups sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup buttermilk

Filling

* 1/2 cup milk
* 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1 dash salt
* 3/4 cup shortening
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla

Ingredients

* 2 tablespoons butter, softened
* 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
* 2 teaspoons milk
* Several drops peppermint, almond, lemon, or orange extract or flavoring
* 2 to 3 teaspoons small, multicolored decorative candies
* 12 purchased chocolate chip or other cookies, about 2-1/2 inches in diameter

Directions

1. In a small mixing bowl, beat together butter and one-half of the powdered sugar.

2. Beat in milk, extract, and remaining powdered sugar.

This friendly walking stick is made out of your child's favorite snack foods.

What You Need:

* 8-inch trimmed celery stalk
* Two tablespoons peanut butter
* 13 mini marshmallows
* Two 4-inch pieces of red shoestring licorice
* 12 thin pretzel sticks

Instructions:

1. Fill celery stalk with peanut butter.

2. Cut a marshmallow in half for eyes. Set eyes and licorice antennae into peanut butter at wide end of celery.