Kids in the kitchen

The other day my daughter (7 years old) asked if I would teacher her how to cook. She said that she liked learning how to decorate cakes with me a while ago but now she wanted to learn how to make things all by herself. How can you say no to that? I am a HUGE fan of kids helping in the kitchen. Kids talk a lot more and things about their day come out when you are working together in the kitchen, they learn math skills, and  have fun!

Our first lesson consisted of going over cooking/baking tools, talking about how they are not allowed to use the oven/stove without help from mom or dad/ spent lots of time going over measurements and different ways they can get 3/4 cup or 2 tsp./ how to read a recipe. Then I got all of the ingredients that they would need for their very first recipe and put them on the kitchen table along with all of my measuring spoons and cups, and told them (my 2 girls) that I was going to give them a recipe and was going to leave the kitchen to go vacuum...They were to read the recipe: A would put in the first 2 ingredients and L would put in the last 2 and they could figure out how to split the last ingredient so they could both put it in, and then I would be back to put them in the oven. Their eyes got huge when they realized that I was really going to let them do it alone...I WISH WISH WISH I would have videoed them, they were so cute and acted so big in their measuring away! Then while they waited for them to bake, they copied down the recipe onto their very own recipe card.

The super easy recipe:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup peanut butter (we used creamy because that is what we had and they were GREAT, but I really like using crunchy so you have bits of peanuts in the cookies)
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg ( I gave them a small bowl to break the egg into first to make sure there were no shells)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
Let cool in fridge for 30 min. Drop by teaspoon onto un-greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 7 minutes. Let sit on pan for 10 min to prevent crumbling.
These cookies turned out A-MAY-ZING!!! The girls were very proud of their cookies, and that they measured everything out perfectly without my help, L even told me that she was pretty sure they turned out even better than when I make them! :)
Warning: only make about 18-20 cookies....and you will want more than that..trust me!

So there you have it! 5 ingredients, super yummy treat! (we will work on a healthy one for next time:)