9 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes To Make With Your Kids
By Katherine Sacks, Epicurious
Photo Credit: Charles Masters; food styling by Chelsea Zimmer
These crowd-friendly recipes will make your kids happy and teach them a thing or two.
1. Grilled Vanilla French Toast
Classic French toast can teach your child the basics of an egg custard and how to evenly cook in a sauté pan. As they improve their cooking skills, the recipe is easily embellished; whisk in different spices or flavorings to the egg mixture or try a different cooking technique, like grilling the French toast.
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Photo Credit: Jose Picayo
2. Baked Eggs with Bacon and Spinach
Teach your kids this easy trick for the classic bacon-and-eggs breakfast by baking the eggs in a ramekin rather than frying on the stovetop. Just crack the eggs into the dish and the oven does the rest of the work.
Photo Credit: Rhoda Boone, food styling by Rhoda Boone
3. Guacamole with Aleppo Pepper
As much fun as we have smashing up avocados to make guacamole, kids have even more fun. Along with the onion, chile, and tomato, you can add tons of add-ins, such as nuts, fruits, or chopped up vegetables. Just remember, no lime required.
Photo Credit: Photo by Chelsea Kyle, and Ali Nardi
4. Grilled Corn, Zucchini, and Black Bean Quesadillas
Teach your kids to #wasteless with quesadillas, the ultimate use-up-the-leftovers dish. No matter how old they are, kids can help out with almost every step of making these from chopping up vegetables to opening jars of salsa.
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5. Cobb Salad with Balsamic Shallot Vinaigrette
This classic salad offers plenty of learning exercises to review with your children: teach them how to hard-boil eggs, make a vinaigrette, and pan-cook chicken breast. The salad can also be tossed together for a simper presentation.
Photo Credit: Tara Donne
6. No-Knead Pizza Dough
Everyone is a fan of pizza night! This no-knead dough comes together easy and the whole family can have fun putting together the pies. Tomato sauce might be traditional, but why not introduce your kids into something a bit more fun, like a carrot and fontina combo.
Photo Credit: Photo by Chelsea Kyle, food styling by Rhoda Boone
7. Our Favorite Spaghetti and Meatballs
There’s just something about a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs that puts a smile on your face. It’s also a great way to teach your kids about seasoning and the importance low-and-slow simmering. We spent hours in the test kitchen coming up with this ultimate recipe, which we guarantee will please.
Photo Credit: Tara Donne
8. Chocolate Chip Cookies
Whipping up a batch of cookies is a great way to spend some time in the kitchen with the kids. As with all baking recipes, you can explain the importance of carefully measuring each ingredient out, you can teach them how to cream together butter and sugar.
Photo Credit: Photo by Chelsea Kyle, food styling by Katherine Sacks
9. Fudgy Double-Chocolate Brownies
Whether you’re making dessert for the end of Sunday supper or to take to the neighborhood potluck, a pan of brownies is sure to earn approval from kids and parents alike. This recipe creates the ultimate fudgey texture by whipping the eggs, another lesson you can pass along to the kids.
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