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Entries Tagged as 'food appreciation'

Kids Bake Orange-Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

February 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · kids, Recipes

Ever tried to cream butter and sugar with the back of a wooden spoon? Most people would use an electric mixer. But we don’t cotton to electric gadgets in our food appreciation classes. We do everything by hand on the theory that if kids know how to make things manually, they will better appreciate making […]

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Kids Bake Dried Fruit and Cream Scones

January 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · kids, Recipes

If you have a few minutes to chop dried fruit, these scones are surprising easily and some of the best we’ve ever tasted. They come strait from Marion Cunningham’s The Breakfast Book, but if you aren’t making them for breakfast, organize your own tea. They’d also go swell with a cup of hot chocolate. They’re […]

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Kids Bake Banana Bread with Cocoa Nibs

January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments · kids, Recipes

Is there anything more fun than smashing bananas with a potato masher? My wife, who hates bananas but loves banana bread, urged me to try this recipe with the kids in my food appreciation classes because “it’s so easy.” I suppose you could say that about banana bread in general. This is how we dispose […]

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