Oven roasted carrots is a side dish that is perfect for kids. Many children hate to eat vegetables, you may be concerned that your child is not getting enough fresh vegetables. Some kids don’t want to eat different types of food because there is green stuff in their food, or there is some onions in their food. Guess what, making roasted carrots means you control what is in your oven roasted vegetables. They are simply sliced carrots with a honey glaze sauce that tastes so good.

Making your own roasted carrots is very easy to do. You may even want to buy organic carrots, organic carrots are very inexpensive when compared to other organic vegetables, so if you haven’t tried organic vegetables this is a great dish to start with. Carrots have a natural sweetness to them, so most kids just love cooked carrots.

Oven Roasted Carrots for Kids

Yield: 4 servings
2 pounds carrots
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Wash and peel carrots. Slice carrots into 1/4 inch thick. In a medium sized bowl combine honey, olive oil, and salt, and whisk well. If you and your family like thyme, you may wish to add 1/4 teaspoon of thyme. Add sliced carrots into bowl of honey sauce, and well until the carrots are fully coated. Pour carrots onto a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes, stir occasionally while cooking.

Other great carrot recipes

Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

Mom’s Cooking Club Roasted Carrots

Healthy Eating Kids

You can vary this recipe quite easily.  If you like cinnamon, you can add about 1/2 teaspoon to the mixture of carrots and the marinade.  I have tried this recipe with ginger, and pumpkin pie spice with really good results.

Witch Finger Cookies

These spooky looking cookies will please your ghouls.

1 cup butter, Softened
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 Egg
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Almong Slivers
4 -5 drops green food coloring paste
1 Tube Red Decorating Gel

Preheat you oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl mix together butter, confectioners sugar, egg, vanila extract, almond extract, and green food coloring. Add flour, salt, and baking powder and blend together. Once the dough is blended together well, refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

Spray cookie sheets with non-stick spray. Take about 1 1/2 tablespoons of cookie dough and shape into a finger shape, for knuckles use the blunt side of the knife to place impressions in the cookies for the knuckles. Gently press a slivered almond at the end of the “finger” to represent the fingernail.

Place cookies on cookie sheet, and bake for 15 to 17 minutes. Remove cookies from cookie sheet by gently lifing the finger off of the cookie, they are very delicate when warm. When cookies have cooled slightly decorate with red gel where the cuticles would go.

You may want to add a little extra dough to make some lovely warts. I took these cookies to my class and they loved them. You can make witch finger cookies at home, this is a recipe that kids will enjoy.  Although, you may have to tell everyone that these really are cookies  My class thought these wren’t edible at first, they thought they were a Halloween toy, but once I told them they were cookies, they thought they were fun Halloween treats.

Enjoy more Halloween cookies

More witch cookies
Halloween Cookie Recipes

Halloween Sugar Cookies

Yield: approximately 3 dozen
1 cup butter softened
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1 egg
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
4-5 drops orange food coloring
4-5 drops yellow food coloring
Sanding Sugar if desired

In a large bowl combine softened butter, confectioners sugar, egg with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and vanilla.

Divide dough into thirds, in one third add yellow food coloring, and mix well. In the second third add the orange food coloring and mix well. Leave the final third alone, you will leave this one white.

On separate sheets of wax paper roll out each dough ball into separate sheets that are approximately 12×9 inches. Stack rolled out dough sheets on top of each other on a cookie sheet, refrigerate stacked dough for approximately 30 minutes.

Remove sheets from the refrigerator after they have chilled, place the un-colored sheet on the bottom, then stack the orange sheet on top of the un-colorered sheet, remove waxed paper. Stack the yellow sheet on top of the orange sheet, remove the waxed paper when staking. Gently roll together the three stacks of dough into a cylinder. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place cylinder on the cookie sheet, and place back into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before slicing cookies.

When you remove the cylinder from the refrigerator, slice the cookies into 1/4-inch slices. On ungreased cookie sheet, place the slides about 1 inch apart.

Bake for approximately 7 to 8 minutes, let cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet before placing on the cooling rack.

Frankenstein’s Fingers and Sheeps Eyes

We may eat a lot of sweet goodies during Halloween, but you can eat healthier snacks that looks kind of spooky. Frankenstein’s fingers are delicious carrot snacks with slivers of almonds, and the Sheeps Eyes, are so simple to make, you can get your kids to help you make them!

Frankenstein’s Fingers

Yield: 5 fingers
Prepared Guacamole
5 baby cut carrots
almond slivers
cream cheese (optional)In a small bowl place prepared Guacamole. For each finger cut a small sliver on the top of the carrot, gently push the almond sliver into the cut you just made. If you need a little “glue” a tiny dab of cream cheese works very well.

Sheeps Eyes

These are sooo easy to make. Let your kids help you make Sheeps Eyes.
Yield: 4 servings.
3 large carrots, peeled
1/3 cup sour cream
grape slices or sliced olives

Cut carrots into approximately 1/4 inch slices, place a small dollop of sour cream on top of each carrot and then top with a grape or an olive slice.

What’s more these devilish delights are packed with carrot goodness. They are brimming with the powerful antioxidant beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the body. In fact, of all fruit and vegetables, carrots are actually the best source of beta-carotene – an 80g serving contains more than twice the recommended daily amount (RDA) needed by adults. Vitamin A aids the growth of healthy bones and teeth and is essential for the proper functioning of the immune system. Carrots are also high in fibre, naturally low in fat and saturates and count as one of your five-a-day.

So what are you waiting for? Hop on your broomsticks, don your pointy hats and get carrot crunching this Halloween. Try out the spooky recipes below or visit www.britishcarrots.co.uk for more recipe inspiration.
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Frankenstein Fingers and Sheep’s Eyes
For a bit of Halloween fun, try these spooky ideas! They are quick and easy and get the kids eating veg too!

Fill a small bowl with ready-made guacamole, houmous or other favourite dip. Take 5 baby carrots and take a thin slice off the tip of each. Then use the knife to make a small incision at the base of this cut and push a flaked almond into the slot to look like finger nails! Arrange the carrots into the dip so they look like fingers. For the sheep’s eyes, peel 4 carrots and thickly slice. Slice a few green stuffed olives and red grapes. Top each carrot slice with a blob of sour cream and the sliced grapes or olives. Arrange the eyes in pairs on a serving plate.

So what are you waiting for? Hop on your broomsticks, don your pointy hats and get carrot crunching this Halloween. You can find more carrot recipes. ]]> http://www.kidskuisine.com/recipe/frankensteins-fingers-and-sheeps-eyes/feed/ 0 http://www.kidskuisine.com/recipe/mummies/ http://www.kidskuisine.com/recipe/mummies/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:23:06 +0000 stephanie.manley http://www.kidskuisine.com/?p=562 Mummies you can make fancy pigs in a blanket dressed as mummies, kids will enjoy making this recipe. This is an easy recipe for kids to prepare.

Mummies

Notes:
You and your kids can make Mummies for Halloween, it is very easy to make Mummies. A package of your favorite Hot Dogs and a can of crescent rolls is all you need to make these delicious mummies for Halloween. Mummies are a recipe that kids will like, these can be made in a matter of minutes. You may wish to serve these mummies with a side of honey mustard or even mustard to dip the hot dogs into.

Ingredients:
8 hot dogs
1 can Crescent rolls

Preparation:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Unwrap crescent rolls carefully, Cut two of the triangles into small strips you will need these to make the bandages for the heat of the mummy. Wrap the headress on each mummy, then wrap the body of the mummies, leave a space for the face for the mummy. You can create eyes with drops of mustard. Place the mummies on an ungreased baking sheet, and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until crescent roll has been browned.

Mummies are a fun way to enjoy pigs in a blanket, by adding a little headdress to your pigs in a blanket you can transform these into mummies. You don’t have to wait for Halloween, you can enjoy these mummies any time of year.

Green Tortilla Chips

Serving Size: varies
Notes:
You don’t need to look all over for green chips, you can make them at home, and serve them with your favorite dip.

Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. Green Food Color
1/4 C. Water
Will do about 40 5 1/2″ White Corn Tortilla Shells

Preparation:
Mix together food color and water. With pastry brush, brush on color on both sides of a 5 1/2 ” white corn tortilla. Let dry for one hour. Slice into triangles and fry in hot vegetable oil. Drain tortilla shells on paper towels, salt to taste.

Leprechaun Legs

Serving Size: varies

Notes:
This is a fun way to make stuffed celery sticks. You can leave out the food coloring and enjoy these all year.

Ingredients:
8 oz. Cream Cheese (room temperature)
8 oz. Can Crushed Pineapple (drained)
Celery
Green Food coloring
Preparation:
When cream cheese has reached room temperature whip until soft and fluffy. Blend drained pineapple with cream cheese until completely mixed to gather. Add in food coloring to desired shade. Clean and trim celery. Cut celery into desired pieces. Fill celery with cream cheese mixture and place on serving tray, cover and chill until ready to serve. These are so easy. Simple stuffed celery sticks are tasty little appetizers, or a compliment to a relish tray.

My Heart On A String Cookies

Notes:
To thicken ready to spread canned frosting add a little powder sugar and stir well. This will help frosting to have a firm and dryer texture for frosting cookies.
Ingredients:
1 pkg. Sugar Cookie Mix
Heart shape cookie cutter
Ready to Spread canned frosting
food color
Ready to use decorator frosting
Decorating candy sprinkles or bits
1/8 inch ribbon
Plastic Straw

Preparation:
Prepare cookie mix as directed. Roll dough on lightly floured surface, cookie dough should be 1/4 inch thick. Using cookie cutter cut dough into heart shapes. Use a plastic straw to poke one little hole into the top of the heart for the ribbon to go through after baking. Place the cookies on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated oven according to the directions on the package. Remove baked cookies and cool. When cookies are completely cool, decorate cookies as desired. When frosting and decorating is complete, cut ribbon into length desired and string cookies with ribbon.