Recipes for December

Reindeer Sandwich 


Ingredients Needed:


1 slice whole wheat bread
Filling- peanut butter, jelly, cheese, cream cheese, tuna, chicken or egg salad, etc.
2 black olive halves
1 small half of a grape tomato
Pretzel pieces

Equipment Needed:

Plate
Knife

Directions:

1.  Wash and dry hands.
2.  Cut off crusts from bread.
3.  Cut bread in half, diagonally to make 2 triangles.
4.  Put sandwich filling on 1/2 of the bread; top with other triangle bread.
5.  Add olive halves for eyes, and the tomato half for the nose.
6.  Break the pretzels to look like antlers and place at top of sandwich.
7.  Use bread crust pieces for ears.



Chocolate Dipped Holiday Pretzel Sticks



Ingredients Needed:

Chocolate Chips or Melting Candy Wafers
Rod Pretzels (8 oz. box has approx. 24 rods)
Assorted sprinkles, jimmies, small candy pieces or nuts

Equipment Needed:

Waxed paper
Microwavable Bowl                                                                      
Spatula for stirring
Knife or Popsicle stick for spreading chocolate
Shaker or small spoons for sprinkles

Directions:

1.  Wash and dry hands.
2.  Pour the chocolate chips or wafers in the microwaveable bowl.
3.  Microwave on high for 2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute.  (If necessary repeat for 1 minute more).
4.  Spread chocolate on 1/2 of pretzel rod.
5.  Sprinkle on choice of toppings.
6.  Let cool on waxed paper. (You can place the waxed paper on a cookie sheet and place the cookie sheet in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate faster, if you wish.
7.  Place in container of  your choice or wrap and give with a smile! (We used 1/2 of the small water bottles.  Cut off the top half, and have the children decorate the bottom half with permanent markers. Tie a bow around it,fill with 6 pretzels and wrap up).

             
                                                                         
Remember that Cooking with the Kids involves many Activity of Daily Living Skills that they will need for Life!  And you cannot beat a cooking activity to work in everyday math. Cutting a pice of bread in two involves fractions.  You can have the children count the number of ingredients, or how many times you have to stir.  Yo can pose subtraction problems by asking how many ingredients you have left if you remove this or that.  You can begin multiplication and division by figuring out how many items for how many students (6 pretzels times 8 students equals ? pretzels or 48 pretzels divided by 8 students equals how many pretzels per student).