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.

Mystery Cookies:

• Your own cookie recipe (ingredients for that recipe), mixing bowl, cookie sheet

1. Tell your child that you received a cookie recipe in the mail, but without the name of the cookies listed so you don't know what kind of cookies the recipe will make.  All we know are the ingredients listed on the recipe.
2. Let the children look at all the ingredients and tell them what each one is.
3. Mix all the ingredients and then have your child smell the dough and see if they can guess what it is yet.
4. Place the dough on the cookie sheet and bake.
5. Have your child try one of the cooled cookies and see if they can get it right yet.
6. How did they do?

Vanilla Popcorn:

• 3 quarts popped popcorn
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, cubed
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Place popcorn in a large bowl; set aside.  In a saucepan, combine the sugar, butter and corn syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat; boil and stir until mixture is golden, about 2 minutes.
2. Remove from the heat; stir in baking soda and vanilla.  Pour over popcorn and toss to coat.  Cool slightly; break apart while warm.
3. Makes 3 quarts.
4. Recipe found in the Taste Of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition

Books:

• If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Numeroff 
• If you take a mouse to the movies by Laura Numeroff
• Cookies Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward
  
• May I Please Have A Cookie? by Jennifer E. Morris

Movie: Watch a movie with your child and enjoy the popcorn you made together.

Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday!