Breakfast Recipes For Kids

Make breakfast fun and educational by cooking up these breakfast recipes for kids!

Baked Eggs

February 29, 2012 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 6 Comments

Sometimes you just have to throw logic out the window.

Today is one of those days.

It’s a breakfast for dinner kind of day.

This is a great and delicious recipe for breakfast or dinner.

The kids like to crack the eggs into little ramekins to make their own.

And they love to dip the bread!
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Serves 4 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes

WHAT YOU NEED:

½ t minced fresh garlic

½ t minced fresh thyme leaves

½ t minced fresh rosemary leaves

½ t minced fresh oregano leaves

2 T minced fresh parsley

2 T freshly grated Parmesan

8 extra-large eggs

4 T heavy cream

2 T unsalted butter

S&P

Whole Wheat Toast for dipping

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat the broiler for 5 minutes and place the oven rack 6 inches below the heat.

Combine the garlic, thyme, rosemary, oregano, parsley and Parmesan and set aside. Carefully crack 2 eggs into each of 4 small bowls or teacups without breaking the yolks. You aren’t going to bake them in these, you just want to have them ready to go.

Place 4 individual gratin dishes on a baking sheet. Place 1 tablespoon of cream and 1/2 tablespoon of butter in each dish and place under the broiler for about 3 minutes, until hot and bubbly. Quickly, but carefully, pour 2 eggs into each gratin dish and sprinkle evenly with the herb mixture, then sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. Place back under the broiler for 5 to 6 minutes, until the whites of the eggs are almost cooked. (Rotate the baking sheet once if they aren’t cooking evenly.) The eggs will continue to cook after you take them out of the oven. Allow to cool a bit and serve hot with toasted bread.

Noteworthy Nugget: I leave off the herbs for my pickiest eater. I give him extra cheese. You could make this with cheddar cheese too or any other kind of cheese your kids really like!

These are an ode to a recipe I made with my mom when I was a kid out of my favorite kids cookbook. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Cookbook. These were sort of like Smee’s Baked Eggs. I think I made everything in that book when I was a kid. Wish I could find it!

It’s been a rough week around here for us. I promise to be back on schedule next week. Be sure to enter our Disney Princess – Ariel contest by midnight tonight. Winners of this and the Cinderella contest announced next week!

Cookies for Breakfast in a Jar

December 17, 2011 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 6 Comments

Cookies for Breakfast in a jar Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes

2/3 c brown sugar, packed
1 t baking soda
¾ t baking powder
1 c all purpose flour
¾ c whole wheat flour
3 c multi grain cereal
½ cup dried blueberries
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup raisins

Layer all ingredients in a mason jar. Close jar tightly and cover with fabric and ribbon. Affix with the following instructions.

1 jar cookies for breakfast gift mix
½ c butter room temperature
2 eggs beaten

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat together butter and eggs until smooth. Add ingredients in jar. Mix until well combined.
With your hands form batter into large golf ball sized balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Press down on each ball with a spoon to flatten it slightly. Place cookies in the oven and bake for 12 – 15 minutes. Let stand 1 minute then transfer to cooling rack. Enjoy these warm with a glass of milk or leave out for Santa. Happy Holidays!

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Fall Faves – Pumpkin Bread

October 24, 2011 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 9 Comments

You all know how we love the pumpkin.

Pumpkin Pie.

Pumpkin Pancakes.

Pumpkin Coffee.

Pumpkin Anything.

Nothing makes the boys happier than getting off the bus…

To a batch of delicious warm pumpkin bread.

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree

4 eggs

1 c vegetable oil

2/3 c water

3 c sugar

1 c brown sugar (divided)

3 1/2 c flour

2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

1 1/2 t salt

1 t ground cinnamon

1 t ground nutmeg

1/2 t ground cloves

1/4 t ground ginger

1/2 t ground allspice

Optional:

chocolate chips

walnuts

pumpkin seeds

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl combine pumpkin, eggs, vegetable oil, water, sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Mix until blended.

In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice. Mix until well combined. Pour dry ingredients slowly into wet ingredients and mix until well combined.

Add in your desired mix ins. We usually do one with walnuts and one with chocolate chips.

Pour batter into 2 greased loaf pans. Sprinkle tops with remaining brown sugar.

Bake on 350 for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

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Pumpkin Pancakes

October 12, 2011 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 7 Comments

As you know…

We’re kind of obsessed with pancakes around here.

We make them pretty much all.the.time.

But this glorious time of year reminds me to switch things up a bit.

Check out these bad boys.

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 ¾ c All Purpose Flour

3 1/2 t Baking Powder

¾ t Kosher salt

3/4 t cinnamon

1/2 t all spice

1/2 t ground nutmeg

3 T Granulated sugar

1 1/2 c Milk

1 large Egg

1 t Real Vanilla Extract

3/4 can real pumpkin puree

WHAT TO DO:

In a medium size bowl combine the dry ingredients. Make a well in the center and add in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix until smooth.

Fold in pumpkin puree being sure not to overmix, this will toughen the pancakes. Let your batter rest for 15 minutes before you cook them.

Preheat your frying pan to medium heat. You’ll know it’s hot enough when a drop of water skips along the surface. Melt a bit of butter on the pan.

Using a ladle drop about 1/3 cup batter onto your buttered pan for each pancake. When you see bubbles all over the top of the pancake, it’s time to flip. Flip only once and don’t press down on your pancake or they won’t be light and fluffy!

When the second side is browned pull them off and keep them warm under some tinfoil on a plate.

Top with butter and syrup or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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Apple Week – Dutch Babies with warm apples

October 7, 2011 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 5 Comments

So you all know how much we looooove our pancakes around here.

We have them pretty much…

Every.

Single.

Weekend.

But sometimes you want to switch up your pancake just a bit.

Enter the Dutch Babies!

Want to know the boys favorite part?

They each get their own little ramekin made special just for them!

WHAT YOU NEED:

4 T butter

4 eggs

1 c. milk

1 c. flour

¼ sugar

1 t. vanilla

for the apple topping:

2 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and sliced

1 t butter

1/4 t salt

1/4 t cinammon

1 T sugar

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine eggs, milk, flour, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl and whisk well.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

When butter has melted pour equally into small ramekins and swish butter around in the bottom of each to coat. (If you don’t have ramekins just batter into skillet then transfer into oven.) Place ramekins on a baking sheet and put into the oven.

Bake for 25 minutes. Sides will be golden brown and puffy.

Meanwhile melt remaining butter over medium high heat. Toss in apples, sugar, salt and cinammon. Allow to cook until apples are nice and soft and caramelized.

Remove dutch babies from oven and serve immediately. Top with powdered sugar and apples.

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Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

July 29, 2011 by Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 10 Comments

I love fresh scones.

But I’m not a baker…

So I rarely make them.

But this is a relatively easy recipe to get yummy scones on the table on a weekend morning.

WHAT YOU NEED:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup unsalted butter, very cold, cut into chunks

3/4 cup cream

1 egg

1 pint blueberries (locally grown)

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

In your food processor bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Pulse quickly to combine. Add cold butter and pulse quickly to cut butter in until it looks like coarse sand.

In a separate large bowl combine cream and egg. Mix well. Pour off just a bit into a small bowl then pour the flour mixture in. Stir a bit just to combine. Fold in your blueberries very gently being careful not to burst them.

Now comes the creative part…

You can turn out your dough and form into a large square or circle and cut them into traditional triangles or you can do what I do and just drop them into circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of the scones with the reserved cream/egg mixture and sprinkle with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with Blueberry Butter.

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