Easy Recipes For Kids

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

Mary W. Rivers July 26, 2017 Add Comment

This Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge is a wonderful and easy treat! It is smooth and creamy and is like a peanut butter cup in fudge form! Everyone who tries this recipe falls in love with it!

I LOVE fudge this time of year! The silkiness and creaminess is something I crave.

I have been exceptionally tired lately. Probably due the the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. When it comes to making a treat for friends, family or a party, I simply don’t have the energy for something that is going to require a lot of time or effort. That is where fudge comes in! It comes together so quickly and there is no baking required!

This fudge reminded me of a peanut butter cup but in fudge form! It was DIVINE! My sister, who is peanut butter fanatic could not stop eating it! It really is unbelievably good :)

If you are looking for a treat that is easy and delicious, give this one a try! You will be SO happy you did :)

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

¾ cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
⅔ cup evaporated milk
12 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
7 ounces marshmallow cream
1 teaspoon vanilla

Peanut butter fudge

6 Tablespoons butter
1 cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
⅓ cup evaporated milk
1 cup peanut butter chips
3 ounces marshmallow cream
½ teaspoon vanilla

Wonton Chicken Salad

Mary W. Rivers July 19, 2017 Add Comment

This Wonton Chicken Salad is a simple yet delicious salad that goes perfectly as a side or the star of the meal. The crisp wontons paired with chicken and the incredible dressing are such a tasty combination of flavors, ingredients and textures!

Salads are one of my favorite foods to enjoy in the summertime! I love the freshness and the crisp bites. This Wonton Chicken Salad is one of my all time favorite salads! This recipe comes from my grandma’s cookbook of family recipes. I have been enjoying this salad since I was a small girl!

The dressing is such an important part of this salad. It gives it a wonderful flavor without being to overbearing.

The dressing paired with those crisp fried wontons and juicy chicken keeps it simple yet packed with flavor! This is always a crowd favorite whenever I make it! There is a reason this salad has stood the test of time in my family. It. Is. AMAZING!

This is one of those salads you are going to want to make again and again! You won’t believe your tastebuds unless you try this for yourselves! And if you are looking for one of my other favorite summertime salads, give this BBQ CHICKEN SALAD a try! It is seriously the BEST of its kind!

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Salad

Ingredients:

6 ounces wontons, cut into thirds
oil to fry wontons
8 cups lettuce, I use a combination of Romaine and iceberg
½ cup chopped green onions
1½ cups cooked and chopped chicken
¼ cup toasted sesame seeds

Dressing

1 cup rice vinegar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugariklan
1 teaspoon accent seasoning
2½ teaspoons salt

Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish Braid

Mary W. Rivers July 12, 2017 Add Comment

This Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish Braid is SO simple and tastes incredible! The puff pastry just melts in your mouth and is perfectly paired with a cream cheese filling and a delicious raspberry sauce.

Pastries are probably one of my favorite desserts right next to chocolate. I love the buttery, flaky, melt in your mouth texture it creates.

After making the Patriotic Pastry and my Blueberry Danish Puff, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Trust me, ITS THAT GOOD! I knew I wanted something similar but also wanted to make some adaptions and this little beauty was born.

It has a delicious sweet cream cheese filling and a wonderful raspberry sauce. It is sweetened just perfectly so that there is a subtle hint of tart to each bite.

This is such an easy dessert to make! It uses sheets of puff pastry, which in my opinion, tastes just as great as completely homemade and creates the perfect flake each and every time!

If you are looking for a quick and easy dessert that is packed with incredible flavor, give this recipe a try! People will be raving about it FOREVER!

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients:

Raspberry Sauce

¾ cup raspberries
2 tablespoons water
1½ Tablespoons cornstarch
½ cup sugar

Cream Cheese Filling

1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
⅓ cup sugar
½ teaspoon Almond Extract

Pastry

1 box puff pastry (2 sheets), thawed to room temperature

Frosting

1¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ Heavy Cream
1 teaspoon Almond Extract
pinch of salt

Korean Chicken Skewers

Mary W. Rivers July 05, 2017 Add Comment

These Korean Chicken Skewers make for an easy and tasty meal. Delicious marinated chicken is grilled to perfection with a refreshing flavor.

I loved grilled recipes regardless of the temperature, but summer is definitely my favorite time to bust it out. I don’t have to heat up my house and they make for easy, quick and delicious meals on busy summer nights.

I found this recipe over at Closet Cooking and couldn’t wait to try it out. I changed up some of the quantities to my personal preference and my whole family loved it! If you are looking for a fun new flavor to bring to the grill, give these Korean Chicken Skewers a try! It has such a light and fresh flavor to it and it is sure to be a huge hit!

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Dinner

Ingredients

12 wooden skewers, soaked in water for 1 hour
2 pounds of chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch bites
5 garlic cloves, minced
3 Tablespoons grated ginger
¾ cup onion, finely minced
½ cup soy sauce
2 Tablespoons sesame oil
3 Tablespoons brown sugar
¼ cup green onion, chopped
¾ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper

Coconut Pecan Frosting

Mary W. Rivers June 28, 2017 Add Comment

This Coconut Pecan Frosting is such a delicious and flavorful frosting. It has a nutty taste paired with shredded coconut that is perfect for German Chocolate Cakes. It is one of my FAVORITE frosting recipes of all time!

German Chocolate Cake is my mom’s favorite type of cake. My grandma has been making that cake and using this frosting recipe for years.

This frosting will blow your mind with its rich and nutty flavor and wonderful texture! I have used this recipe for a variety of recipes on the blog, like these German Chocolate Cookies, but figured it was high time we gave this outstanding frosting its one post and let it shine in the spotlight ;)

If you have not tried this recipe yet, DEFINITELY give it a try! You will NOT regret it!

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
½ cup butter
1⅓ cups shredded coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla

Red Velvet Oreo Truffle Brownies

Mary W. Rivers June 21, 2017 Add Comment

These Red Velvet Oreo Truffle Brownies are fantastic! Fudgy red velvet brownies, delicious Oreo truffle and melted chocolate combine to make the three layers of this spectacular dessert. They are a hit with everyone who try them!

My original Oreo Truffle Recipe is one of my favorite recipes on the blog and one of the ones I am most proud of. They are delicious and combine EVERYTHING I love. Brownies. Oreo Truffles. And melted chocolate.

With Valentine’s around the corner I was brainstorming some festive recipes I could be doing and it dawned on me to make my favorite brownie recipe with a red-twist!

These were super fun and enjoyed by all who tried them! If you love chocolate then these are a MUST MAKE! They are seriously insane in the best way possible and will be one unforgettable treat.

These Red Velvet Oreo Truffle Brownies are fantastic! Fudgy red velvet brownies, delicious Oreo truffle and melted chocolate combine to make the three layers of this spectacular dessert. They are a hit with

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup unsweetened cocoa
1⅓ cups flour
½ tsp. salt
1 fluid ounce bottle of red food coloring

Oreo Truffle Layer

1 pkg. Double Stuffed Oreos
8 oz. cream cheese, softened

Chocolate layer

1½ cups milk chocolate chips
½ cup semi-sweet milk chocolate chips
1 Tablespoon shortening

Fried Mozzarella

Mary W. Rivers June 14, 2017 Add Comment

This Fried Mozzarella is simple, delicious and a perfect appetizer. The outside is crispy with a gooey soft cheesy inside. It is drizzled with Alfredo and paired with Marinara. The flavor combo makes this one outrageously tasty party food!

My pregnancy cravings have been so weird this pregnancy. One day I hate salt. The next I don’t. Fruit and sugar tend to be a constant. I am pretty sure I have ice cream every single day. I go out to lunch (or dessert-lunch; thats a thing right?) almost everyday. The other day I went to one of my favorite Mexican restaurants for lunch JUST to order their Fried Ice Cream, nothing else. It was heavenly but I’m pretty sure the waitress looked at me like, “You’re really going to eat this all by yourself?” even though she didn’t say anything.

Occasionally though, I get a craving for something salty when I go out to lunch. One particular day drove me to Olive Garden. I was looking over the menu and the main thing that caught my eye was actually an appetizer. It was called Fried Mozzarella. It was different than mozzarella sticks in the sense it had a slightly less thick outside shell and I could instantly tell it was made from slices of a block of mozzarella cheese because they were rectangular in shape.

The thing that caught my attention the most was that they drizzled them with Alfredo sauce and paired it with Marinara sauce for dipping. The addition of Alfredo was absolutely brilliant and was truly a perfect paring.

I knew as soon as I got home I needed to recreate it so that I could have this the next time I had a random salty craving because this truly hit the spot.

If you are looking for a perfect, easy, last minute idea for the Super Bowl this Sunday or need a great party appetizer that people will be going crazy over, give these a try! You will not regret it!

Author: Nikki
Recipe type: Appetizer

Ingredients

8 ounce block of mozzarella cheese, sliced into ¼ inch rectangles
2 to 3 cups oil
¾ cup flour
3 eggs
1½ cups Panko
½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
¼ cup finely chopped parsley
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup marina sauce
1 cup alfredo sauce