Recipes

Welcome to our Food & Recipes page. Here you'll quick and easy recipes, simple kitchen tips, and food crafts and activities for kids. Check out a few of our most popular posts here, or scroll down for the most recent projects.

Lighting our Ice Cream Cone Olympic Torch

by Marie

The Winter Olympics are here, and as part of this week’s Winter Olympic Games for Kids series, we started things off by lighting our Ice Cream Cone Torches! With sugar cones filled with orange sherbet flames, it’s the perfect treat to get us off on the right foot! However, these torches won’t be lit for [...]

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Mini Ice Cream Sundae Candies

by Heather

If your kids like miniature stuff as much as I do, uh mine do, they’ll love these mini ice cream sundae candies. They’d be a fun ending to a miniature food meal (make mini hamburgers, serve mini corns, and drinks in tiny plastic shot glasses or Dixie cups). Or just serve the mini ice cream [...]

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Get Your Chocolate On With Candy Bar Pizza

by Marie

So absolutely glorious! Thanks to Fahrenheit 350 for sharing the recipe! Head on over to get your chocolate on!

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Weekend Make and Takes: Football, Hearts & Chinese New Year

by Marie

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?! Well, here’s some yummy tailgating snacks to help round up the football fans! Citrus Guacamole by Recipe Girl (pictured above, yum!) Cheesy Spinach Bacon Dip by A Southern Fairytale Crab Stuffed Mushrooms by Furey and the Feast Teeny Tiny Tacos by Time in the Kitchen Here’s a few more [...]

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Valentine Pudding Pie with a Homemade Graham Cracker Crust

by Marie

I’m contributing over at Alpha Mom’s – Once Upon a Holiday again. Come see how I’m making a yummy Valentine Vanilla Pudding Pie for dessert!

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There’s Never Enough Food Made With Hearts!

by Marie

I love Valentine’s Day. Can you tell? There’s so many fun crafts, treats, and activities to be had. Here’s a fun after-school snack we made with our toast. Supplies for Heart Shaped Toast: one slice of bread butter heart shaped cookie cutter topping: sugar, cinnamon, or jam Toast your bread and butter it. Place on [...]

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White Chocolate Popcorn With Valentine Candies

by Marie

This sweet and savory popcorn will have your sweetheart begging for more. It’s got all the things you love, a perfect combination: popcorn, chocolate, and m&ms! Supplies for White Chocolate Popcorn: 8 cups popped popcorn Homemade Microwave Popcorn Recipe 1 cup melted white chocolate 1 cup m&m candies large mixing bowl spoons First, pop your [...]

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Valentine’s Day Crafts from the Past

by Marie

Here’s a few fun Valentine’s day crafts, recipes, and projects we’ve done in the past here at Make and Takes. Hopefully it will give you some ideas for a classroom party, treats for your children’s friends, or even a love note ideas you can give to your Valentine! Valentine Tic Tac Toe ~~~~ Stitching Hearts [...]

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A Chinese New Year Feast Fit for a Tiger

by Marie

Guest Post by Lisa of Petit Appetit Happy Chinese New Year! 2010 ushers in the Year of the Tiger (no, really), which also happens to be on February 14th this year. Like Christmas the celebration is an entire season (so you still have time for Valentine treats too). The festival traditionally begins on the first [...]

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Chocolate Dipped Cupid Hearts You’ll Fall in Love With

by Marie

We’re dipping jelly hearts and fun Valentine marshmallows in chocolate. They’re easy to dip and fun to eat. Once you’ve been shot by these Valentine arrows, you’ll be in love. Supplies for Chocolate Dipped Hearts: heart jellies and heart shaped marshmallows melted chocolate bowls, spoon wax paper party toothpicks with cellophane frills plastic baggie sprinkles [...]

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