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Help Your Kids Become Independent in the Kitchen!

May 4, 2026 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Want to help your kids become independent in the kitchen this summer? ME TOO.

Hey there, Parents!

It happens every single summer. School ends. Break starts. Kids want to eat all day.

I’ve been a mom for a long time (28 years) to a lot of kids (11). I know how this summer-break-food-crazy-life works.

That’s why we created this Kids CAN Kit – to help make our summer a little bit easier and a lot more fun!

And guess what? IT’S ALL FREE.

The Kids CAN Kit includes five simple, printable guides and books:

Kids Can: The Simple Guide – What Kids CAN do in the kitchen, ages Two-Teen
Kids Can Plan – Explore what foods go together well so that Kids CAN create tasty, balanced meals and snacks
Kids Can Cut – Teach kids to use a knife safely according to age and ability
Kids Can Cook(book) – 10 Simple meal and snack ideas and recipes Kids CAN make
Kids Can Pack – 10 Great Lunches Kids CAN pack themselves

With just a glance through this kit, your kids will be eager to get started! I know this because my 7-year old (very active, busy, ADHD, autistic, tools-outdoor-and-sports-loving) kiddo took a peek at one of these books and ran right into the kitchen to wash his hands to start making food with me. THIS IS A BIG DEAL!

My goal for this summer with all of our kids is to:

help them become more independent in the kitchen
teach them more about healthy food choices
grow their kitchen confidence
allow them to be more creative and have fun with food

I want to take the burden off Mom and Dad and redirect our kids toward taking ownership and responsibility in the kitchen in all the way that Kids CAN.

There’s a little something for all kids in the Kids CAN Kit, beginning at age two or three. And these resources can be used all the way up through the teenage years. Get all your kids involved. I know I will!

Do this with us this summer!

I couldn’t decide how to price this resource in order to get it into as many hands as possible. So I decided to give it away for…FREE! I’m so very excited about this!

How it works: The week of May 11-15, we’ll send out a series of exclusive emails filled with very simple information, printable resources, and eBooks. They’ll all be yours to keep and enjoy with your family. It’s as easy as that!

Simply click here to sign up.

Spread the word!

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How to Make Christmas Cookies with Little Kids

December 7, 2023 by Laura 3 Comments

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If you want to make Christmas cookies with little kids without losing your mind, here are some tips!

Let’s see now. Do I have much experience with making cookies with little kids? Bah! Just a little bit. ;) I wish I had more cookie-making pictures from our first round of kids, but here are a few that I found:

Multiply those pictures times a few dozen-hundred and now let’s head into the 2020’s in which there are seven new little kids two enjoy cookie-making experiences with. I now take all that I learned whilst making Christmas cookies with Round 1 of kids and enjoy keeping things simpler with Round 2 of kids.

As if making Christmas cookies with kids can every really be called “simple.” But at least we can make it less hard if we practice some of these hacks…

How to Make Christmas Cookies with Little Kids

Tip #1: Break up the cookie-making tasks into two or even three separate days. As in:

Mix up the cookie dough one day, refrigerate. Done.
Roll out, cut out, and bake cookies a different day. Freeze cookies to frost a different day. Phew.
Frost and decorate cookies. Treat!

All three of these tasks make a nice mess, and take some effort and time. So I’ve found that if I divide each part of the cookie-making process into different days I’m not as exhausted, frustrated, and overwhelmed by bowls, pans, cookie cutters, frosting, sprinkles, flour, flour, flour (you KNOW what I’m talking about).

Tip #2: Wash your kids’ hands before you get started, then pretend you don’t see them licking the flour off their hands, touching each other with cookie cutters, and wiping their frosting on their pants.

Listen, I’ve decided that all the slobber and germs that go onto the cookies bake away in the oven. This is a scientific…fact that my mom-brain decided was true and I stand by my findings. It’s way too difficult to keep a 3-year-old’s hand out of her mouth during the cookie-making process. And if you’re like me and baking cookies with kids ages 9, 8, 5, 3, 3, and 2 all bets are off.

Keep reminding them to keep their hands clean, but otherwise don’t worry about them doing what they ultimately can’t help. Keep telling yourself, “this will bake off in the oven, this will bake off in the oven…” Smile at your kids, shake the flour off your hands, and move on.

Tip #3: Use only one cookie cutter at a time.

That is to say, when we roll out and cut out cookies, I don’t let my kids have a free-for-all. I control the cookie cutter, helping each child take a turn cutting out a cookie, then I hand it to the next kid for a turn. Everyone gets a turn with the star, everyone gets a turn with the tree, and on we go.

Often, I use the hand-over-hand method to help them cut their cookie so that it goes all the way through the dough and so that they don’t cut their cookie right in the middle of the dough.

Tip #4: After the kids get tired of cutting out cookies, I give them a little bit of dough to roll on their own, cut, smash, lick, drop on the floor…

THIS does not go into the oven, but instead into the trash. I have my limits. But it does keep them busy while I finish rolling and cutting cookies to finish off the job and clean up.

Tip #5 Avoid cookie cutters with appendages.

It can be devastating for kids and frustrating for parents when Santa arms and reindeer legs break off over and over. I’ve learned through the years to never use cookie cutters that have long, skinny parts.

Even the snowmen you see in this photo were a bit challenging. So we didn’t make very many and instead made lots of trees and stars!

Our kids LOVE making Christmas cookies so all of the effort is worth it so that we give them great memories. Try these tips and see if they help you enjoy the process too.

Have any other great tips?

P.S. My hands-down favorite recipe for Christmas Cookies: Cream Cheese Cut-Out Cookies

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Junior Chef Club – JOIN US!! (This Makes a Great Gift!)

November 3, 2021 by Laura 23 Comments

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Our brand new Junior Chef Club is a perfect way to help your kids have fun learning in the kitchen! We can’t wait to include all of your kids in this!

What is the Junior Chef Club?

The Junior Chef Club is a weekly cooking subscription just for kids! (Bonus: Parents get to enjoy all the recipes and food too, and maybe even a night off!) Here’s how it works:

Each week, we’ll send a brand new Recipe Printable Packet to your inbox. You can print this packet and turn it over to your Junior Chef! It will share simple prep instructions for a brand new recipe plus a Grocery List, a Kitchen Supply List, and a bonus page with Serving and Sharing Ideas.

We suggest that you print the pages each week and let your Junior Chef add them to a 3-ring binder as they build their Junior Chef Cookbook!

Here’s a sample of what your Junior Chef Club Member will receive each week:

Cost for the Junior Chef Club?

Your Junior Chef will receive an email packet of recipes and printables every single week! What a super fun gift that keeps on giving!

To make it easy, we have options to make it work for your budget! What works best for you?

- $2.00/week ($104/year) or
- $5.00/month ($60/year) or
- $36.00/year (BEST VALUE!)

—> And check out the additional huge Christmas Coupon below that we’re giving you! <—-

Yep, there’s more…. :)

Yearly Subscribers receive a Big Bonus for joining!

We want to encourage you to save money with our yearly subscription fee, plus we want to set your Junior Chef up for success!

If you choose to jump in for an entire year, you’ll save lots of money AND receive the following printables right away so that you can get your kids set up with a fantastic 3-ring binder and begin to Build a Cookbook. Check this out!

These bonuses add $15 to the value of the subscription. And guess what else?

We’ve got a Christmas Coupon for you!

YES. That means that if you hurry, you can sign up for just $26 for the entire year!!! AND, the $10 coupon will be re-applied year after year, so your subscription will always be $26 instead of the regular $36. Woooo!!!! What a fantastic gift for your kids!! Are you as excited as I am?!

COUPON CODE: LASTCHANCE10

This offer is only good through Friday, December 3. After that, registration will not open again until next November. GET IN WHILE YOU CAN!

Let’s review!

Subscribe to our Junior Chef Club – hurry to use the coupon (LASTCHANCE10) to get a super great discount on the entire year’s subscription!
Yearly subscribers receive a big packet of bonus materials to help their Junior Chef get started with an amazing cookbook binder.
Every week, we’ll send you a packet of Recipe and Serving Ideas Printables to print and give to your Junior Chef. They can add it to the 3-ring binder Junior Chef Cookbook they are building and they can have a blast trying new recipes!
This offer officially ends Friday, December 3, and will not be available again until November 2022.

Questions?

Let’s see if we can answer them for you!

When will I receive the free Bonus Pages? If you choose to become a yearly subscriber, we’ll email you the Cooking and Baking Basics eBook, the Cookbook Cover pages packet, and the Cookbook Divider page printables just as soon as you sign up. We’ll also email you a certificate that you can print and include with your gift which helps explain all the fun to your Junior Chef!

When will my Junior Chef start to receive new recipes? We figure a lot of you will plan to give this subscription as a gift to your Junior Chef at Christmastime! Therefore, we will begin emailing the Recipe Packets starting Wednesday, December 22.

So the printables to get started will hit your inbox immediately after purchase, as described above. But the year’s worth of recipes won’t start coming in until right before Christmas. When your Junior Chef opens the Cookbook Binder on Christmas morning, you can explain what they’re getting, and you’ll have a starter pack of recipes waiting for them in your inbox to get them going!

What if I have more than one Junior Chef in my family? Awesome! We allow the printables to be used for more than one person IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY.

If I only want to pay per week or per month, will I still get the freebies? No, those are only free for yearly subscribers. But you can purchase that packet here for just $15 if you’d like!

Let us know if you have more questions!

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Calling all Kids!! Join us for a Kids Cooking Camp this Summer!

June 2, 2020 by Laura 22 Comments

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We excitedly invite your kids to join our Kids Cooking Camp!

Don’t worry one bit about this whole camp thing being educational. The kids don’t have to know about that part. They’ll just think they get to make and enjoy treats like ice cream and mudballs and fruit dip. So what that they’ll learn some valuable cooking skills? Who cares that they’ll learn about family teamwork? Whatever that they’ll get to help with meal planning and meal prep? They won’t even realize they are learning because they will simply be having fun and doing something special just for them!

Aha! But it isn’t just for them. It’s for parents too! Because when the kids learn great cooking skills, the parents win big time!!!

This entire Kids Cooking Camp package is worth $99 because of its loaded content and lifetime access.

What is Kids Cooking Camp?

It’s an online “camp-in-the-kitchen” experience. Your kids can have fun with you, with their siblings, and/or with their friends and neighbors while enjoying the Kids Cooking Camp activities and recipes! Here’s what you and your kids will find when you first access this awesome online resource:

Heya Kids! Welcome to the Kids Cooking Camp!

We hope you’re ready to have some fun. Maybe you’ll learn a thing or two while you’re here?!? But mostly we want you to find some new favorite recipes and figure out some ways to have a blast in the kitchen!

To make this happen, we created a great list of Challenges and Activities for you to choose from.
Then we created an entire stack of printables for you to use as you work your way through the Challenges and Activities.
Of course, we put together huge lists of recipes that you can pick from and enjoy.
And we topped it all off with a Campfire. Because you can’t have camp without a campfire!

You’ll find a Parent Letter to give you more of the information you need. The huge list of delicious recipes is kid-friendly, easy, and fun. There’s even a brand new eBook full of Non-Food recipes (for things like slime and moon sand!!) to give your kids an extra fun recipe-reading-and-following experience.

Well, you just need to get signed up and dig in with your kids. That’s all there is to it. Then you can see for yourself how fantastic this is!!

Who is this Kids Cooking Camp for?

Really, it’s for kids of all ages.

Little ones can have fun doing activities and creating recipes with a grown-up. Older ones can take the entire package and run with it! And adults? Well, have I mentioned that we all get to eat the tasty treats our kids will be making?

Everything is great about this Kids Cooking Camp! Everyone wins!!

It’s so easy! We look forward to enjoying this with you and your family! Ready to dive in?

Enjoy our Kids Cooking Camp – awesome for everyone in your family – HERE —>

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How Your Entire Family Can Learn About Eating Healthy!

March 4, 2020 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Looking for a simple way for your entire family to learn about eating healthy? It doesn’t get any easier than this!

We just rolled this out, and it’s packed with great information while being as simple as can be!

What is the Healthy Eating Jumpstart Basic Nutrition Class?

You won’t believe all that you’ll get in this fantastic online class! Healthy Eating Jumpstart includes:

10 easy lessons to walk you through the basics of eating well
10 fun videos to watch and use with each lesson
A practical packet full of worksheets and printables to use with each lesson
A beautiful bonus Jumpstart eCookbook filled with 51 easy recipes that will jumpstart your entire family on a journey to healthy eating
A Lesson Guide and Checklist packet to walk you through completing each lesson

How can you best use this Healthy Eating Jumpstart Basic Nutrition Class?

Work through it as a family and set goals together toward taking steps for healthier eating
Work through it on your own and start making small changes in your kitchen for your family
Hand it to your older kids to work through as part of their homeschool lessons or life skills learning
Hold on to it and utilize it again and again for yourself, your kids, and your entire family as needed

Your Entire Family Can Learn About Eating Healthy!

Here’s a peek at the Lesson Book intro page so you can get an idea of what this class will cover…

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Ready to begin your Healthy Eating Jumpstart Class?

GREAT NEWS!!!! If you are a Heavenly Homemaker’s Club Member, this fantastic product is already yours!!! Find it on your eCurriculum page (because this is a great educational resource for your family!) and on your Kitchen Tips page. Then dive right in!!!

Not a Club Member yet? It is WORTH IT to be a member so you’ll have access to this amazing new Healthy Eating Jumpstart resource plus ALL of our eBooks, eCurriculum, printables, and so much more (over $1000 worth!) for just $10/month!

Join us here! You won’t believe all you get for such a low monthly cost!!

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If you prefer, you can purchase this online class separately. Ready to get started? Purchase here:

Make healthy eating EASY!!!!! This class will help!

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Simple Recipes We’re Using to Help Our 5-Year Old Learn Kitchen Skills

July 11, 2019 by Laura 2 Comments

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We’re starting over at our house! Just like we did with our “first set of kids” we are teaching our new 5-year old Bonus Boy how to cook. Here are the favorite simple recipes we are using to help him learn kitchen skills!

Hopefully, you won’t get too tired of hearing me encourage you to teach your kids to cook. :) Obviously, it’s more important that you teach them to love the Lord and love people. Focus on that first.

But also, eating is something we must all do every day of our lives. Your kids need to know how to prepare simple foods (or complicated foods, if you are my 19-year old). It’s a much-needed skill, and guess what?

After putting in hours of effort, making lots of messes, and having a blessed mixture of frustration and fun with my oldest four kids – they can all cook. It is fantastic. The work involved was entirely worth it. And when all is said and done, we made a lot of awesome memories (and Monkey Bread).

Sometimes now, they feed me. Often they feed themselves. They will someday feed their wives and children. This is beautiful!

Now, we’re starting all over again. This little one moved in with us when he was four. He has become the 5th Coppinger Boy! If I have the audacity to make food without him, he can’t possibly understand why. “But I wanted to help you!” Well, who am I to argue with that?

He cracks eggs, makes messes, helps measure ingredients, makes messes, stirs carefully, makes messes – well, he’s also learning how to use a broom and dustpan. ;)

Teaching Kids to Cook is MessyYum

So what? I like a clean kitchen, but now that I have teen and adult kids who can cook, I realize more than ever that the messes from when they were little are just part of the teaching process. If I expect a mess from the little one in training, then I’m less frustrated when a mess inevitably happens. If we happen to crack, pour, and stir correctly so as to avoid a mess, well, that’s a bonus.

Ready for some kid-friendly recipes?

Simple Recipes to Help Kids Learn Kitchen Skills

Here are some of our favorite simple recipes we are using right now to help teach our 5-year old basic kitchen skills. He helps measure, pour, and stir. As we work, I talk through everything we are doing so that he learns the vocabulary of cooking and the reasons we do what we do.

In addition, he helps:

Crack eggs for Scrambled Cheese Eggs (he cracks it, then hands it to me to open it into a bowl).
Put frozen fruit and mixed greens into the blender for Smoothies.
Do whatever he can with whatever I’m making because he really wants to be a part of all of it! So if possible, I always try to find him a job while I’m cooking or baking.

Looking for more help and recipes as you pull your kids into the kitchen with you?

Grab our new and improved Teaching Your Kids to Cook eBook!
Here’s our Kids in the Kitchen discounted eBook collection.
This Kids Cook Real Food eCourse is fantastic! It is well worth the investment for all that it offers to your family!
Our Chocolate Covered Kids Cookbook and Resource Pack is filled with helpful tips, instructions, and of course, recipes!

If you really want to go all in and teach your kids to cook this summer, I encourage you to invest in Katie Kimball’s Kids Cook Real Food eCourse. I used this course with Malachi and plan to use it with Bonus Boy too. It is FANTASTIC!!! Get the details here. And pick up her awesome FREEBIE —>

What are your favorite foods to make with your kids?

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No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites – (Gluten and Dairy Free)

July 7, 2019 by Laura 2 Comments

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You might notice that this No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites recipe looks identical to our No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars recipe. This one is a fun one to make with your kids!

Yep. You figured it out. Same recipe. One shaped into bars. One shaped into balls. We are so creative, are we not?

Speaking of creative, we’ve got three other simple varieties of this recipe here. Just a few ingredient variations will give you one of these!

Grab the No-Bake Cookie Dough Bite recipes here:

Need Coconut Flour?

I found a great price here!

Need Almond Butter?

It’s hard to find a good price on this! Aldi has been my best option, if and when I can make it there to shop. (I live an hour away from the closest Aldi, boo!) Try to find one without added sugar. Or better yet, if you can find a good price on almonds, make Homemade Almond Butter!

Need Honey?

I much prefer and recommend buying local honey! Otherwise, I recommend buying a big jug from Azure Standard if that is an option for you.

Need Chocolate Chips?

My very favorite chips are these Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips! They are usually more expensive in the summer as they don’t ship well in the heat. So watch for them to go down in price in the fall and winter months, then stock up!

Need Vanilla Extract?

Oh how I love making it myself! Unfortunately, the price of vanilla beans has gone up over the years. Boo. Still, I think it’s best to make it ourselves if we can! Learn how here!

And now, grab your kids and let them help you make these awesome little treats!

No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough BitesYum

No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites - 5 Ingredients

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Author: Laura

Serves: 12-15

Ingredients

1 cup natural creamy almond butter
¼ cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup coconut flour
¼ cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

Mix the ingredients together in a bowl until well combined.
Roll the mixture into teaspoon-sized (or whatever sized) balls.
Refrigerate for about 30 minutes before serving.

We like using a cookie scoop like this one to make these Cookie Dough Bites.

Looking for more help as you pull your kids into the kitchen with you?

Grab our new and improved Teaching Your Kids to Cook eBook!
Here’s our Kids in the Kitchen discounted eBook collection.
This Kids Cook Real Food eCourse is fantastic! It is well worth the investment for all that it offers to your family!
Our Chocolate Covered Kids Cookbook and Resource Pack is filled with helpful tips, instructions, and of course, recipes!

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

The Easiest Frozen Yogurt Cups

July 2, 2019 by Laura 4 Comments

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When I say that these are the Easiest Frozen Yogurt Cups, I truly do mean that they are the easiest!

The “recipe” I’m about to share with you is going to entirely amaze you. Where has this been all of our lives? Why have we never thought of this before? We should have been making these for years!!

This is the time where you gently interrupt and say, “Laura, I figured this one out a long time ago. You are the only one who didn’t know. Bless your heart.”

Heh.

Well, either way, let’s all talk about making these Frozen Yogurt Cups right now. It’s the easiest thing in the world. And the result is super fun and refreshing on a hot day!

The job of making these Frozen Yogurt Cups has been turned over to our 5-year old. He’s thrilled to be our biggest kitchen helper, and we love that he is starting to learn basic cooking skills!

Of course, in the case of these Frozen Yogurt Cups, there is no cooking involved. This is perfect for a 5-year old!

I do need to interrupt myself now and say that I have actually made a variety of these Frozen Yogurt Cups before. But now I’ve discovered a cheater way to make them, which is why the 5-year old has found himself a kitchen job, and why I am left wondering why I never thought of this before now.

What’s the cheater way to make these Frozen Yogurt Cups?

Well, as you know, I’ve started buying a few cheater foods at the grocery store. Why? Well, now that our family is doing foster care and have started over raising Littles, all while keeping up with the Bigs, and navigating all the meetings and such involved with foster care – my time in the kitchen is more limited than before. And that’s saying something.

So yeah. Sometimes I buy ready-to-serve yogurt. It’s sweeter than what I could or would make myself if I always made or bought it plain and added our own good ingredients. But I’m pretty happy with the pre-made Whole Milk Yogurts I’ve found. So for now, we settle for this yogurt compromise.

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——> Need some re-assurance that compromising on perfect foods is just fine and dandy? Read my post called Beyond the Free Range Chicken. Be encouraged! Be free! Buy the yogurt. (Or not. Because we’re all in a different place and God will lead us each in how to feed our families.) <——-

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Meanwhile, in the land of store-bought yogurt and 5-year old chefs, may we now present to you the lovely idea you are going to thoroughly enjoy this summer!

First, if you don’t already have them, I highly recommend that you invest in these lovely silicone muffin cups. With these jewels, you can make this Frozen Yogurt Cup “recipe” and many more. I love them and don’t know how I got by without them!

Other Recipes to use with your Silicone Cups:

Simple No-Bake Cookie Cups

Simple Strawberry Cheesecake Cups

Honey Sweetened Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Healthy Peppermint Patties

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

There you go. Just in case you didn’t believe me when I told you that I use my Silicone Cups very frequently!

Now, where were we? Ah yes…

The Easiest Frozen Yogurt CupsYum

While this is hardly a recipe, I’ll write it in recipe form, just for fun and ease. Hand this one to your kids and let them enjoy making this awesome treat!

The Easiest Frozen Yogurt Cups!

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Author: Laura

Ingredients

Your favorite yogurt
Muffin Cups or Silicone Muffin Cups

Instructions

Spoon 3-4 Tablespoons of yogurt into muffin cups.
Freeze for about 2 hours or until frozen solid.
Store in a freezer bag or freezer-safe container.

P.S. Want to help your kids learn to cook? Great!

Need some resources to help you know where to start?

We have this great eCookbook package that is a huge help!

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Better yet, I highly recommend this incredible Kids Cook Real Food eCourse! We used it with Malachi and it was a lifesaver!

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Summer Activities with the Kids: Make Donuts!

May 23, 2019 by Laura 2 Comments

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Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids this summer? I’ve enjoyed 22 summers with kids (and counting!), so I certainly have a few ideas to share! Stay tuned during the next few weeks as we provide all kinds of suggestions for making your summer with your kids meaningful. (Subscribe here so you won’t miss out!) Today’s idea: Make Donuts. Who can say no to that?

Here’s what’s great about making donuts with your kids (besides the fact that everyone gets to eat donuts!):

This activity gives you a chance to help your kids learn more about reading a recipe, measuring ingredients, rolling, cutting, and kitchen safety. Our favorite recipes are listed below!

Looking for more help as you pull your kids into the kitchen with you?

Grab our new and improved Teaching Your Kids to Cook eBook!
Here’s our Kids in the Kitchen discounted eBook collection.
This Kids Cook Real Food eCourse is fantastic! It is well worth the investment for all that it offers to your family!
Our Chocolate Covered Kids Cookbook and Resource Pack is filled with helpful tips, instructions, and of course, recipes!

And if you really want to go all in and teach your kids to cook this summer, I encourage you to invest in Katie Kimball’s Kids Cook Real Food eCourse. I used this course with Malachi and plan to use it with Bonus Boy too. It is FANTASTIC!!! Get the details here.

Make Donuts ~ Read a Book

Summer is an awesome time to spend more time reading fun books with your kids!

Have you read Homer Price? It’s a great read-aloud for your family! There’s a great chapter in the book about Homer making donuts with his uncle’s donut machine – SUCH a fun chapter! The donuts got out of control!! After you read that chapter, you’ll have no choice but to get into the kitchen and make donuts with your kids!

Here are a couple pictures of my four oldest boys enjoying the donuts we made after reading Homer Price many years ago. Aw, they were so little! (And Malachi was apparently playing dress-up too!)

He’s 14 now. But he still loves donuts.

Ready for some Donut Recipes? Here’s a classic favorite of ours!

Summer Activity with the Kids: Make Donuts

Whole Grain Cake Donuts

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Author: Laura

Serves: 15-20

Ingredients

3 ¼ cup whole grain flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
⅔ cup sucanat or brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
⅔ cup milk
¼ cup melted butter
Oil for frying (I use palm shortening or coconut oil)

Instructions

Mix dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Stir in eggs, vanilla, milk and melted butter.
On a floured surface, roll dough to ½ inch thickness.
Cut with donut cutter, biscuit cutter, or cookie cutters.
Heat oil in skillet or electric skillet (enough oil to cover the bottom of the skillet about ¼ inch).
Place donuts into the hot oil to fry for 2-3 minutes on each side.
Remove from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate.
Sprinkle a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, or powdered sugar over the hot donuts.

Want to make your donuts even healthier? How about adding a veggie – without anyone noticing? Whole Grain Pumpkin Donuts for the win! Truly, when you add pumpkin puree to donuts it not only adds nourishment but adds moisture and delicious flavor too! Find the recipe here:

Whole Grain Pumpkin Donuts

Need a little frosting for your donuts?

Here’s a high-sugar chocolate recipe. I will provide this recipe for you, but I will not be held responsible for giving your kids a sugar high. ;)

Simple Fudge Frosting

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
¼ cup cocoa
¼ cup butter
¼ cup water
½ t. vanilla

Stir powdered sugar and cocoa together in a bowl. In a small saucepan, melt butter. Add water and bring to a boil. Pour boiling water and butter into powdered sugar and cocoa. Add vanilla. Beat with hand mixer until frosting is combined.

How about a donut glaze that is much lower in sugar!

Orange Honey Glaze

2 teaspoons orange juice concentrate
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 Tablespoons honey

Whisk ingredients together on the stove until smooth. Drizzle over warm donuts!

Get out the Cookie Cutters!

Regular circle donuts and donut holes are fine. But we can make donuts even more fun when we use cookie cutters to make them into fun shapes! Any cookie cutters will do. Make stars during the Fourth of July. Make animal shapes after a visit to the zoo. Make hearts and deliver them to someone you love. Oh the fun you can have!

You might also consider baking your donuts in a cool silicone donut making mold.

Share with Others

Did you see the sentence above about using a heart-shaped cookie cutter to make heart-shaped donuts to share with someone you love?

One of the best ways to spend time with your kids this summer is to SERVE others with them. Perhaps one way you can serve together is to make donuts and deliver them to someone who could use the blessing of friendship and fellowship!

Ready to have some summer fun with your kids? Head into the kitchen and make donuts! Take pictures and let us know how it goes!

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Easy Peanut Butter Fluff Fruit Dip

May 21, 2019 by Laura 1 Comment

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You need just three simple ingredients, plus some bananas, apples, grapes, or berries – and you can enjoy this wonderfully refreshing treat: Easy Peanut Butter Fluff Fruit Dip!

This is one of those delightful recipes that you can hand off to your kids to make! Not only will it give them experience with cooking and reading recipes, but it will also invite them to eat fruit.

I like to make homemade peanut butter – which is easier than you think! Here are the recipe links that explain how to make peanut butter. But of course, if you prefer to buy it at the store, just be sure the ingredients are wholesome!

Peanut Butter (just peanuts!)
Peanut Butter (super creamy – like Skippy or Jif)

Along with peanut butter, all you need is yogurt and honey. Easy peasy! See? Your kids can make this!

Want to get your kids involved in the kitchen with you?

We have a list of great resources for you here. Plus, we encourage you to take recipes like this Easy Peanut Butter Fluff Fruit Dip and use it to help your kids get excited about helping you in the kitchen!