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Non-Alcoholic Drink Recipes for Kids

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:32:36 +0000

Every single time we dine out, my kids are asking for the most expensive fruity blended kid drinks on the menu. Smoothies are wonderfully healthy and popular, but they sure cost a bunch when someone else makes them for you! I’m not a huge drinker myself, I have a horribly low tolerance for alcohol – so these non alcoholic drink ideas look positively scrumptious both to me and my kids!

While these are great summer drink recipes for kids, I’m going to be pulling this page out again later for Christmas parties and for New Years Eve drinks for the kids, too!

Related Pages: Easy Summer Kids Recipes, Peanut Butter and Jelly Recipes, Summer Birthday Party Games

Check out all of our kid-friendly recipes while you are here!

Easy Summer Recipes Kids Will Love

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:56:14 +0000

One of my absolute favorite things about summer is going to our local farmer’s markets. While Illinois can make a mean corn on the cob, it’s our neighbors in Michigan that really set my heart aflutter with their berries, peaches and cherries. We just spent a week up there and came home with tons of summer fruits – that unfortunately don’t last very long in our house! Thankfully many of them come to our area every week for our farmer markets, which means we get our berry fix anytime we want!

But man (and child) cannot live on berries alone – though my kids would if they could! So here’s a roundup of really easy summer recipes both you and your kids will love. These would be perfect for summer BBQs, summer party food, or just take a rainy afternoon and make them with your kids!

Related Pages: Watermelon Recipes, Summer Party Games, Ice Cream Party Games

Summer Fruit Recipes


Watermelon Dippers & Dip	Strawberry Mice Snacks	Watermelon Cupcakes	Berry Yogurt Parfait

Easy Kids Lunch Ideas


Kids Sandwich Ideas	Salad for Kids	Corn Dog Muffins	Little Window Sandwiches

Smoothie Recipes


Berry Banana Smoothies	Tropical Smoothie Recipe	Virgin Watermelon Slushies	Blueberry Smoothies

Summer Dessert Recipes


Berry Popcicles	Flower Cupcakes	Fruit Pizza	Frozen Fruit Treats

Rainbow Cupcakes	Jello Oranges	Mini Peach Cakes	Berry Pudding

Check out all of our summer kids crafts while you are here, too!

Fun Cupcake Ideas: Bunny Cupcakes

Wendy Piersall — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:46:12 +0000

The other day I mentioned I was trying to make easy bunny cupcakes. I wanted them to be easy, but not lame. I figured it couldn’t be that hard, and it isn’t. They are almost as easy as my flower cupcake idea.

Fun Bunny Cupcake Idea

Related Pages: Easter Mad Libs, Printable Easter Crafts, Easter Kids Poems, Easter Coloring Pages

What you Need to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Pre-made cupcakes frosted with white frosting

Bunny gummy candies

Large white marshmallows

Small pastel colored marshmallows

Chocolate syrup, mini chocolate chips, or other tiny round candies /sprinkles for the bunny eyes

How to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Honestly, decorating with gummy bunnies is pretty self-explanatory. I put four onto the cupcake and then added an extra dot of white frosting in the middle.

Make Bunny Cupcakes

For the bunny face cupcake, I cut large white marshmallows in half, then in half again so that it was cut in quarters. (You can cut marshmallows with a butter knife or plastic knife, don’t let the big steak knife fool you!)

Place two of the marshmallow quarters onto the cupcake, sticky side down. Place a small pink marshmallow onto the bottom of the bunny face for the nose. I then took a toothpick and dabbed a tiny bit of chocolate syrup on the end, and placed the dots for the bunny eyes. This was my improvisation because I didn’t have any sprinkles or chocolate mini morsels laying around (what kind of cook am I that doesn’t have mini morsels in her kitchen?!).

(Check out more Easter cupcakes at Hoosier Homemade!)

Easter Desserts: Easiest Flower Cupcakes Ever

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:04:28 +0000

I’m what you would call a lazy cook. If it comes in a box, it’s likely I’ve made it. But then a few times a year, I get this unnatural domestic urge to cook something from scratch and spend all day in the kitchen.

But today was not one of those days. *grin*

Today I was in a rush and I was trying to figure out a way to make easy bunny cupcakes. I did, and they are quite cute… but then I looked at the almost-full bag of colored marshmallows and the last few undecorated cupcakes and I was inspired.

So viola – the easiest flower cupcakes on the planet:

Easter Dessert Flower Cupcakes

How to Make the Easiest Flower Cupcakes Ever

Quite honestly, these are so easy they are almost self-explanatory.

Bake cupcakes from a mix.

Frost them with store bought frosting.

Pop colored marshmallows on top.

Done.

For the flower leaves and the pointed yellow petals, all I did was cut the cupcakes in half diagonally like this:

Cut marshmallows

Even a little kid could cut the marshmallows, because you could use a plastic knife to do it.

By the way – my kids devoured them so fast I didn’t get to try one. So if you make these Easter cupcakes, please let me know how they are!


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