Child friendly recipes can be fun to make. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for children. These ingredients can add a fun element to children's meals. Finding kid recipes that kids can prepare for themselves gives them a feeling of accomplishment. Let the children choose the fruits and veggies that you use for the kid recipes listed below.
Getting children to eat fruit can be easy when we make it and exciting. Since fruit should be a constant in every family's menu, let the children choose what fruits they need to make a cool and exciting fruit pizza project.
You may be surprised by the fruits they pick at the farmer's market. Let the children choose what fruits and veggies they would like for their at home project.
Select fun or colorful fruits at the grocery store or farmers' market, then turn the little ones loose creating interesting faces on this yummy fruit pizza. Odds are, they'll snack as they go--and love what they taste.
Select fruits in an assortment of hues and sizes. Let the children decorate the pizza with fun faces or create other shapes on this colorful and fun pizza.
Ingredients.
*Ready to bake piecrust
Filling *1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese *1tablespoon sugar *1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract *1/4 teaspoon lemon juice *1 tablespoon 1% milk
Toppings Select strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can opt for pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they want.
Instructions: 1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions
2. Unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.
3. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them slightly so that they'll stay rolled up. 4. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places(allowing air to escape).
5. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or until it's lightly browned.
6. Remove from the crust from the oven
To Prepare the Filling:
1. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice 2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable onto the crust.
*Allow the crust to cool. *Smooth the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula, *Smooth to the edge of the crust
Now its time for the children to get involved.
*Allow the children to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture. Don't fret if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun. Children may want to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.
*Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour *Slice with a sharp knife and serve
The kids will be antsy and want to devour the pizza immediately. This pizza cream cheese mixture is almost set but will cut easier when refrigerated. Let the children help you with the cleanup. They will be impatient to consume their masterpiec.
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