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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Week 3: Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturdays!

Saturdays are set aside to spend some quality, fun time in the kitchen with your child

This week you and your child will be making Monkey Bread and Lion Cookies!



Monkey Bread

Supplies Needed: 2-3 Thawed bread dough rolls(found in freezer section of grocery store), 4 sticks of butter, sugar, cinnamon and half and half, angel-food cake pan.
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Place your thawed out dough on a piece of wax paper
  3. In a microwave melt 2 sticks of butter
  4. In another bowl mix equal parts cinnamon and sugar
  5. Grease Angel Food Cake Pan
  6. Take a piece of dough (about quarter size), and roll it into a ball. 
  7. Then roll the dough into the butter, make sure the butter is not still hot
  8. Next, roll the buttered piece of dough into the sugar mix.
  9. Then place the ball into the bottom of the pan.
  10. Continue to do this until, you run out of dough, or when its about half full.
  11. Then pour a little half and half over it.  This makes is really gooey.
  12. Place in oven.  If you want you can put a piece of foil over it because the top part might get burnt.
  13. Cook for 30-35 minutes.
  14. When its cooled down, place a plate on top that is a little bigger then the rim of the pan and turn over the cake pan.  Yours should look like the picture above.
  15. Enjoy!!!




Lion Cookies

(16.5 oz.) roll refrigerated peanut butter cookies
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons miniature candy coated chocolate baking bits
1 cup chow mein noodles
Brown decorating gel


Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Take teaspoonfuls of dough and shape into 32 (1-inch) balls.
  3. Roll balls into sugar.
  4. Arrange balls 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  5.  With the bottom of a clean glass, press down on each ball to flatten
  6. Use the baking bits to create the lion's face.
  7. Create hair with the chow mein noodles by pressing noodles into the top end of each face. Break up a few of the noodles and use to create whiskers.
  8. Bake 9 - 13 minutes until cookies are a light golden brown. Cool for 1 minute.
  9. Transfer to cooling rack or plate and let cool completely (around 15 minutes).
  10. Create a lion style mouth with the brown decorating gel.
If you don't have the baking bits on hand, substitute miniature chocolate chips for the eyes.

This recipe was found in the Halloween Pillsbury magazine found at Wal-mart and other places that sell magazines.  They have great Halloween recipes that your children will love.
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1 comment:

coupongeek said...

I remember making this Monkey Bread when we were kids!

The blog looks great! I'm so proud of you. Great ideas. I plan on doing lots of them with Nathan and Kaydi soon!

YAL,
Jaycie