Dessert Recipes for Kids

Easy to Make and Fun to Eat

© Denise Oliveri

Cannoli, Rustic Cooking

Move over mom...there's a new cook in the kitchen. These delicious dessert recipes are easy enough for kids to make (with some supervision required). Let's go...

Kids love to cook and try new things. Give them the satisfaction of making dessert for your family tonight. These easy recipes list all ingredients required with step-by-step instructions to get them done right.

Cat's Eyes

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Spread peanut butter on crackers.
  2. Top each cracker with a slice of banana.
  3. Place a raisin in center of each banana to form a cat's eye.
  4. Repeat for all banana topped crackers.

Daisy Apple

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Set aside a few raisins for face.
  2. Stir remaining raisins into peanut butter.
  3. With apple corer or paring knife, remove core and seeds from apple.
  4. Using a small knife, push peanut butter mixture into center of apple.
  5. Make a happy face on top of peanut butter using reserved raisins.
  6. Arrange peanut halves around edge of peanut butter forming a circle.
  7. Chill before serving.

Dirt Cups

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Crush Oreos in a zip-lock bag and set aside.
  2. Pour milk into medium bowl, add pudding mix. Beat until well blended for about 1 -2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes.
  3. Stir in cool whip and half of cookies.

To Assemble:

  1. Place 1 tablespoon of crushed cookies in bottom of 8 oz cup.
  2. Fill cups about 3/4 full with pudding mixture.
  3. Top with remaining crumbs.
  4. Garnish with a plastic flower in middle and put a gummy worm halfway out of the "dirt".

Microwave Carmelcorn

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Pop 2 bags of microwave corn. Put popped kernels in a brown paper bag (make sure you take out all unpopped kernels)
  2. Boil the following ingredients for 5 minutes on the stove: 2 cups brown sugar, 1 stick of margarine, 1/3 cup of Kero syrup (white). Stir constantly.
  3. Carefully pour mixture onto pop corn and mix.
  4. Place in microwave oven for 1 minutes and then mix again. Tear open bag and let cool.

Puppy Chow

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Melt the peanut butter, butter or margarine, and chocolate chips in a saucepan over medium heat.
  2. Pour over Corn Chex, being sure that all cereal is coated.
  3. Put 2 cups powdered sugar in a large paper bag.
  4. Place cereal in a bag and shake gently until all cereal is coated.
  5. Pour out on wax paper to cool.

Clingons

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Grease a 9 x 13 pan.
  2. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave marshmallows, peanut butter and margarine for two minutes or until melted. Stir until smooth.
  3. Add Cereal and M & M's, stirring to coat all pieces.
  4. Spread mixture in prepared pan and press down slightly with the back of a buttered spoon.
  5. Refrigerate for one hour.
  6. Pull pieces from pan or cut into squares.

Kids Cannoli

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. In a large bowl with electric mixer at low, beat ricotta cheese, sugar, orange peel, and vanilla just until smooth.
  2. Stir in chocolate chips.
  3. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
  4. To serve, spoon mixture directly into ice cream cones or into decorating bag without tip and then pipe into cones.

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