Week 4: Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday!

Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday 

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

Pretzel Log Cabin

Pretzel Rod Trees

Supplies Needed: Pretzel Rods, fruit gummies, pretzel sticks, frosting, wax paper

1. Place a piece of wax paper in front of your child.  
2. Use the Pretzel Rod for the Tree Trunk.
3. Then, let your child dip little pretzel sticks in frosting and make tree branches with them. 
4. Next, spread frosting on fruit gummies and have your child place them on the branches like fruit.
5. Finally, your child can eat their masterpieces.

Pretzel Cookie Trees

Supplies Needed: Cookie dough(your choice of flavor), tree cookie cutter(you may have Christmas ones), pretzel rods, pretzel sticks, green sprinkles

1. First, grab some cookie dough, make sure you have enough for your cookie cutter.  
2. Flatten dough down and cut out your tree shape.
3. Next, cut down the pretzel rod to place it down into the tree trunk of the cookie cut out.
4. Take some of the pretzel sticks and place the down into the dough for the branches
5. Finally, shake some green sprinkles on top of their tree.
6. Repeat until you run out of dough.
7. Cook cookies as directed on package.

Pretzel Log Cabin

• Supplies Needed: Pretzel Log Cabin:  Pretzel rods(look like tree trunks), frosting, wax paper, graham crackers

1. If you don't have frosting you can use smooth peanut butter.
2. Place a piece of wax paper in front of your child.
3. Place some frosting along 2 pretzel rods and place them parallel (up and down), on the wax paper, about 2 inches apart.
4. Next, take two more pretzel rods and place frosting on both ends of stick about 1/4 of the way in.  
5. Then place one rod on top and the other on the bottom section, to form a square. You want the rod to overlap on the ends, just like a log cabin does.
6. I placed whole Graham Crackers, standing up inside the square to form walls.  I used two on each side.  I used frosting to hold them up. 
7. Keep this up until you have your log cabin as high as you want it.  
8. For the roof, place frosting on the ends and lay them across to form a roof. 
9. If you would like a door or windows, you can put peanut butter on graham crackers or crackers and place them on your cabin.  Could add an M & M on the door for the door knob. For a chimney stack, you could use pretzel sticks and do the same thing you did with the rods, or you can use a combo or big marshmellow, maybe dipped in chocolate. I also placed graham crackers inside the chimney too.
10. I used marshmellows to make a person and pretzel sticks for the arms and legs. I took a graham cracker and dug two little holes with a knife to put the pretzel stick legs into, to hold it in place. I used sprinkles for the eyes, nose, mouth, hair and held it on with frosting.
11. Picture shown above

Week 4: Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday!