MOV Parent: Get your kids cooking every day
Peep Ice Cream Sandwiches
Peep Ice Cream Sandwiches
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Get your kids in the kitchen with a new cookbook from Food Network Magazine, "The Recipe-A-Day Kids Cookbook" by Maile Carpenter.
This book offers up a colorful mix of photos and 365 recipes for food crafts, tasty treats and creative snacks that are geared toward children with food for every holiday, food trivia throughout and even some fun fake-out foods (foods that look like another).
This is meant to be flipped through daily, with a recipe every single day of the week.
For example, today's recipe is for Sweet-and-Salty Peanuts in celebration of Jackie Robinson Day. Tomorrow's recipe is Matzo Tarts (like a pop tart) in honor of Passover. And Sunday there is a Peep Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe to use up those shaped marshmallows the Bunny brings!
This would be a fun activity for families to get into, reading the recipe of the day and maybe even picking out a few to try out for the week ahead.
The book was created for kids ages 8-12, but families can work together so younger children can get in on the fun, and older children learning to cook would be able to navigate the recipes on their own.
Carpenter is the founding editor-in-chief of Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine with Ree Drummond and in the past was executive editor for Every Day with Rachael Ray.
Try the Peep Ice Cream Sandwiches this Sunday with the recipe, courtesy of the publisher.
"The Recipe-A-Day Kids Cookbook" is published by Hearst Home Kids. It is $22.
Amy Phelps can be reached at aphelps@newsandsentinel.com.
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Peep Ice Cream Sandwiches
Remove the Peeps from two 3-ounce packages but don't separate them (you'll have four rows). Turn a rectangular 1 1/2-quart container of vanilla ice cream on its side and cut off a 1 1/4-inch-thick slab. Peel off the carton, then cut the slab in half lengthwise. Sandwich each half between two rows of Peeps and trim any extra ice cream. Freeze, then slice into individual treats.