Mini Pizzas
1 15-oz. bottle pizza sauce (I like Contadina)
1 5-biscuit can of your favorite buttermilk biscuit
Finely shredded mozzarella
Flatten the biscuit on wax paper with a rolling pin until it is about 4 inches in diameter. Sprinkle a cookie sheet pan with cornmeal. Place the flattened biscuit on the pan. Spread about 1 tablespoon of pizza sauce on the biscuit. Add thin slices of yellow and zucchini squash. Dot on a few very small broccoli florets. Hide everything under cheese. Bake in a 400 degree preheated oven for 10 - 12 minutes. Choose any vegetable combination you want.
You can also hide "pulverized" fresh or frozen spinach in the pizza sauce (about a teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of pizza sauce).
Frozen dinner rolls may be used instead of biscuits.
Bake them in a 350 degree preheated oven for about 15 minutes.
Sweet Potato Pockets
1 small can of your favorite buttermilk biscuit
1 large sweet potato, baked
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons melted margarine
1/4 cup white sugar with 1 teaspoon cinnamon mixed into it
Bake a sweet potato much like you would a regular white, baking potato. Use the microwave because it is faster.
Flatten the biscuits much like you would for a mini-pizza. Cut open the cooked sweet potato and scoop out the pulp. Place it in a bowl. Add the melted margarine and brown sugar. Stir everything up with a fork until smooth.
Put 1 to 2 tablespoons of the mixture on 1/2 of the flattened biscuit. Fold over the other half and seal with the tines of a fork. Gently roll the pocket in the white sugar/cinnamon mixture.
Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven about 12 minutes or until browned. Be sure to let cool before serving. the center will be hot.
You can change these by adding some pulverized, cooked chicken. Add about 1/4 cup to the sweet potato mixture if desired. You can also add 2-3 tablespoons of raisins, coconut, or both to the sweet potato mixture.
If you have more filling than biscuits, spoon heaping tablespoons of filling onto a cookie sheet and freeze. Transfer the frozen filling to a zip lock bag. You can place a scoop of frozen filling on the next batch you make. It thaws out in the oven.
Apple Volcanoes
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
Apples
Peanut Butter
Raisins
Granola
Cut the top off the apple. Core the apple and discard. Fill the center of the apple with peanut butter. Sprinkle granola, raisins or whatever you may like on top. Eat and Enjoy!!
Chocolate Spiders [adult supervision for younger children]
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
1 package (6oz.) semisweet chocolate chips
16 large marshmallows
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups oatmeal (quick cook oats)
1 cup flaked coconut
uncooked ramen noodles
cinnamon red hots or red m&m`s
Heat chocolate chips, butter, and marshmallows in 3 quart pan, over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth. Remove from heat. Drop by teaspoons full, onto waxed paper or onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Shape into clusters with your hands, to look like spider bodies. Break off ramen noodles to look like legs, put 8 on each spider. Refrigerate until firm. (about 30 minutes) Put the eyes on after refrigerating. If you put the eyes on before refrigerating, the candy will get soft and the colors smear, making the spiders look sick.
Popcorn Cake
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
4 Qt. popped corn
1/2 lb Gum drops
1/2 lb Peanuts
1 lb Marshmallows
1/2 c Melted margarine
1/2 c Corn oil
Melt marshmallows, margarine, and corn oil. Pour over popcorn, nuts and gum drops. Mix
together and pat in a bundt cake pan or angel food cake pan. Cool.
Wagons
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
2 Celery stalks
12 Toothpicks
16 Carrot rounds
1/2 c Peanut butter;
cheese spread or ranch dressing
20 Raisins
Cut celery stalks crosswise
into two pieces each, about 3" long. Push toothpicks through sides of celery to form axles for four wheels. Fill celery wagon with peanut butter, cheese or dressing. Stick carrot rounds onto ends of toothpicks. Cover tips with raisins. Stick a toothpick into the end of the celery at a 45 degree angle to form wagon handle. Cover tip with raisins.
Infant Cookies
Contributed by Little_Momma
Here is a great recipe for zwieback.. every baby's favorite :
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 C. Milk
1 pkg active dry yeast
1/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. melted butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon anise (ground or flavoring)
3 eggs
3 C. flour
DIRECTIONS:
Scald the milk. When lukewarm, add to the yeast. Add the sugar, salt, butter, and anise and the eggs (unbeaten), and enough flour to handle the mixture. Let rise until light. Make into 3 inch oblong rolls. Place close together in a buttered pan in rows, about two inches apart. Let rise again and bake 20 minutes in a 400 degree F oven. Dust with powdered sugar or ice with a powdered sugar glaze or just eat 'em plain.
Oatmeal and Candy Cookie Pops
Contributed by Mommy Ashe
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
l l/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces
20 flat wooden sticks
In large bowl, beat sugar, brown sugar and margarine until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; blend well. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt; mix well. Stir in oats and candy-coated chocolate pieces. Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 1 hour for easier handling. Heat oven to 350'F. Lightly grease cookie sheets. Shape dough into 2-inch balls; insert wooden stick into each ball. Place 4 cookies on each greased cookie sheet. Flatten ball to l/4-inch thickness. Press additional candy-coated chocolate pieces into top of each cookie (to make faces etc.), if desired. Bake at 350'F. for 8 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes, remove from cookie sheets. 20 cookies.
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