Child friendly recipes can be fun to prepare. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for kids. These ingredients can provide a fun element to children's meals. Finding child recipes that kids can create for themselves provides them a feeling of independence. Let the little ones choose the fruits and veggies that you use for the child recipes listed below.
Getting kids to consume fruit can be simple when we make it adventurous and entertaining. Since fruit should be a staple in every family's menu, let the kids decide what fruits they use to prepare a fun and exciting fruit pizza masterpiece.
You may be surprised by the fruits they pick at the farmer's market. Let the little ones decide what fruits and veggies they would like for their at home project.
Select exciting or colorful fruits at the store or farmers' market, then turn the kids loose making imaginative faces on this yummy fruit pizza. Chances are, they'll snack as they go--and enjoy what they taste.
Select fruits in an assortment of hues and sizes. Let the little ones decorate the pizza with fun faces or make other shapes on this colorful and interesting 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 options for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can choose pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they they prefer.
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.
*Spread the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula,
*Spread to the edge of the crust
Now its time for the little ones to get involved.
*Allow the little ones to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture.
Don't worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun.
Kids may opt to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.
*Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour
*Slice with a sharp knife and serve
The little ones will be antsy and want to consume the pizza right away.
This pizza cream cheese mixture is almost set but will cut easier after refrigerated. Let the little ones assist you with the cleanup. They will be antsy to consume their masterpiec.
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