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🍪Easter candy fans have you tried this?? Not to

🌸Sometimes toddlers and kids need opportunities

🌸Sometimes toddlers and kids need opportunities to play and make “friends” with their fruit and veggies! Here is some inspiration to get you started:
🌷Flower toasts: toast up your favorite sliced bread then spread on cream cheese, hummus, or nut/seed butter (depending on what goes with the fruit/veggies you are using). Slice up your fruit and/or veg and don’t be afraid to use both! Let your kiddo decorate the toast as they’d like and it’s ok if they pick stuff off and put it to the side or eat it separately.
🐰Pink bunny smoothie bowl: the recipe for this smoothie is in my free ebook, Easy Snacktivities (on happykidskitchen.com or dm for link). It has frozen banana, strawberries, frozen cauliflower, greek yogurt, vanilla, and milk. You can also do this with just yogurt in a bowl. Use mini chocolate chips or small blueberries for the eyes.
🐣Veggie nest: Use a peeler to make long shreds of cucumber and carrot. Here I topped the nest with hard boiled egg “chicks” using chia or black sesame seeds for the eyes and a small triangle of carrot for the beak.
🦋Fruit and Veg Butterfly: This one has a celery stick filled with peanut butter and some chocolate chips at the center but you can use any filling and topping combo you like for the celery. Pretzel wings topped with fruit then carrot sticks for the antenna.
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Reminder: Making cute/fun food isn’t something you have to do all the time. It’s just a tool for having fun in the kitchen and exposing kids to different foods when you want to. Make sure you are having some fun with your food too and model creating and eating snacks with your kiddos too!
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#playwithyourfood #funfood #funfoodforkids #cookingwithkids #preschool #cookingwithtoddlers #toddlersnacks #kidfood #healthykidsfood #kidsactivities #toddleractivities #pickyeater #pickyeaters

🍀Turkey and Veggie Shepherd’s Pie. Perfect fo

🍀Turkey and Veggie Shepherd’s Pie. Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or any day of the week! Grab the recipe by searching ‘turkey and veggie’ on happykidskitchen.com, clicking the link in my stories, or you can DM me for the direct link.
Nourishing comfort food at its finest! This is one of my boys’ favorite meals since they are huge mashed potato fans. 🥔😍
If your family isn’t used to seeing lots of veggies in their ground meat, you can use less or just use some grated carrot and/or peeled zucchini. You could also finely chop the veg you use in the food processor to make them super small quickly.
👩‍🍳Tips on how kids can help make this recipe are on the full blog post, as always! #kidsinthekitchen
Are you making anything special to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day? (And if you’re not, that’s totally fine too!!) 😊💕
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#shepherdspie #whatsfordinner #dinnerideas #healthydinner #cookingwithkids #stpatricksday

🌈🥇Golden Coin Pancakes One more easy, fun id

🌈🥇Golden Coin Pancakes
One more easy, fun idea before St. Patrick’s Day! (Although I think mini pancakes and rainbow fruit is a great way to celebrate any day of the week! Don’t you?)
I love a good pancake mix hack! For these I stirred in some turmeric to make the pancakes a “golden” yellow. It’s a small amount so it doesn’t make the pancakes taste all that different, especially if you dunk them in some syrup. If your kiddos don’t use syrup for pancakes, add a tsp or two of honey or syrup to the batter before cooking.
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How to:
🌈Make 2 cups of your favorite pancake mix according to package directions.
🥇Stir in 1/4 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla, and a few tiny grinds of black pepper (you don’t really taste it)
🌈 Use a teaspoon or small scoop to make little pancakes. They can be any size you like.
🥇Serve with fruit or make some fruit skewers And add a little pot of maple syrup on the side for dipping.
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🌈Share this video with a friend that might want a fun breakfast idea! And head to my feed @heather.happykidskitchen for more recipes to make food FUN! 😊💕
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#stpatricksday #stpatricksdayfood #pancakes #funfoodforkids #eattherainbow #toddlerfood #healthyfoodforkids #healthykidsfood #playwithyourfood #kidsactivities #toddleractivities #cookingwithkids #cookingtogether #cookingwithtoddlers

🥳It’s Kid Kitchen’s birthday!! Aka Publicat

🥳It’s Kid Kitchen’s birthday!! Aka Publication Day!!
If you preordered the cookbook, it should be on its way! And if not, you can get a copy at your favorite bookstore or online. I’m so excited to get this book into your kids’ hands and the recipes into your kitchens.
So many people helped make Kid Kitchen a reality. I’d especially like to thank my editor Sarah for her insight and guidance, and the talented Michelle @michelleboulephoto for bringing my recipes to life with her photographs.
Also, thanks to YOU, if you are reading this right now. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to write and sell a book without you. Thank you for cheering me on through the testing and writing process, and for supporting me during the preorder phase.
Kid Kitchen is a book to empower kids in those middle years—those kids that crave independence but aren’t quite teens. It’s to help those kids cook for themselves and share their creativity and hard work with others. The recipes are fun, easy, colorful, and enticing.
I’m proud of the resource and inspiration we created for kids!
To help me celebrate, please share a picture of your book as it arrives, either on its own or with your kids holding it/cooking from it. Tag me or DM me if your account is private.
Thank you again, friend! 😊💕
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#cookbook #kidscooking #kidchef #cookbookauthor #cookbooks #cookingwithkids #cookbookforkids #kidscookbook #kidscancook

👏How awesome is Chef Caleb! So glad he’s back

👏How awesome is Chef Caleb! So glad he’s back making these S’mores Brownie Bites from Kid Kitchen.
This was probably the recipe my kid recipes testers repeatedly gave the highest score during the testing phase of the book. They are so good! Graham cracker base, fudgy chocolate center, and toasted marshmallow top—what’s not to like, right?
There’s only a few more days left to preorder Kid Kitchen and collect your bonuses (10 extra free recipes, knife skills course for kid, and tickets to a cooking class with me!)
Go to kidkitchenbook.com, click the link in my bio or stories, or send me a DM!!
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Here’s a quick recipe for the S’mores Brownie Bites but the full, printable recipe is also on my site, happykidskitchen.com
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 4 sheets)
2 tbsp butter or vegan butter, melted
1 egg or egg sub
1/2 cup natural almond butter (or tahini)
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup Dutch processed cocoa powder
1/4 cup all purpose flour or gluten free flour
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup mini marshmallows
Preheat oven to 350. Line mini muffin tin with paper liners.
Mix graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. Press 1 tsp if the crumbs into the bottom of each muffin cup. In a large bowl, stir together the egg, almond butter, applesauce, vanilla, and brown sugar. Add the baking soda, salt, cocoa powder, flour and chocolate chips and stir to combine. Fill muffin cups with brown batter then top with 2 or 3 marshmallows. Bake until marshmallows are golden brown and brownie is set, about 12 minutes. Let cool then enjoy.
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These recipes are really made to get kids excited about getting into the kitchen! There aren’t just recipes for sweet treats (although we love those too!), but more ideas for healthy snacks, lunches, and family dinners too. I know you all are going to love this book, so be sure to preorder today!! 😊💕
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#kidschef #kidscooking #kidsrecipes #cookingwithkids #kidscancook #kidscookbook #cookbook #cookbookauthor

Mess!! 🤪 We all hate it, but it’s an inevitab

Mess!! 🤪 We all hate it, but it’s an inevitable part of cooking, especially when kids are involved.
In my new cookbook, Kid Kitchen, I shared some of my best tips for managing kitchen mess. (Have your preordered your copy yet?? Only a few days left to get in on the bonuses and extra recipes!)
Swipe ⬅️ to read some of what I shared in the book and please comment below with any additional tips, thoughts, or complaints (I know you have some…let ‘em out here! 😆)
The truth is we have to both embrace the mess (it’s learning!) and also do our best to teach our kids how to clean up. Putting things away, wiping up the counter, putting the dirty dishes where they’re supposed to go…these things aren’t innate and kids haven’t had the experience to learn them yet. So we have to be as specific as possible in teaching our expectations when kids are starting to be more independent in the kitchen.
Be sure to let me know your thoughts! 😊💕
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#cookingwithkids #kidscooking #momlife #kidchef #mess #kidsthatcook

🌈Sheet Pan Pancake An easy, magical breakfast!

🌈Sheet Pan Pancake
An easy, magical breakfast!
🥞Make 3 to 4 cups of your favorite pancake mix (or I have an easy whole wheat recipe on happykidskitchen.com search ‘sheet pan pancake’ or dm me)
🥞Divide the batter into bowls (I did 6 but you can do less or more)
🥞Use food coloring to dye the batter. Make the colors bright because they will fade as they bake. (I used this natural dye from Whole Foods but use whatever you kind you like/have.)
🥞Preheat oven to 400. Line a sheet pan with parchment or grease well with oil.
🥞Divide the batter colors into different sections or make stripes of color. Up to you! Just don’t over mix or you won’t see the individual colors.
🥞Take a chopstick or a butter knife and swirl the colors a bit to get a tie dye effect.
🥞Bake until cooked through, 10 to 12 minutes.
🥞Cut into squares then serve with maple syrup or whipped cream and sprinkles. 🥳
Not cooking for a crowd? Make 2 cups of batter and make this in a smaller pan like a 9-by-13.
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🌈So fun for kids to make and eat, right?? Send me a pic if you try it! 😊💕
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#stpatricksday #rainbow #rainbowfood #eattherainbow #pancake #sheetpanpancakes #whatsforbreakfast #funfood #funfoodforkids #cookingwithkids #cookingwithtoddlers

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