Chocolate-Raspberry Pastries

CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY PASTRIES

by Claire (age 8) and Timo (age 4)

We like to make these tiny pastries when we have a craving for something sweet and fancy!

Ingredients

Pre-baked phyllo pastry shells (you can find these in the freezer section - just thaw and fill)

Bittersweet, semisweet, or milk chocolate (we like Ghiradelli bars)

Heavy cream, chilled

A little sugar and vanilla for the cream

Fresh raspberries or other berries

Directions

Arrange the pastry shells on a serving platter.

Melt the chocolate in a glass measuring cup in the microwave or in a little metal bowl set over a pan of simmering water (a "double boiler") on the stove. Make sure to have a grown-up help you with this!!

If you want to make homemade whipped cream, pour the chilled cream into a mixer bowl and add a little sugar and vanilla. 1 cup of cream, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla is a good ratio. Beat with a mixer until the cream thickens enough that you can pick it up with a spoon and it holds its shape. Store any unused whipped cream in the refrigerator. If you want to save some time, you can use canned whipped cream.

Fill the pastry shells with some melted chocolate. Let them cool. Top with little dollops of whipped cream and some berries. (For fun, Claire did the math and figured out how many berries would be needed to put 2 berries on each pastry they made!)

For something different, you can fill these pastry shells with any combination of pudding, caramel, or chocolate and top with fruit or other goodies...get creative with it! This is a quick and easy way to make a fancy-looking dessert for company, tea parties with your friends, and so on.

Berry Poppers

BERRY POPPERS

by Luke (age 6)

Ingredients

1 pint fresh raspberries

I pint fresh blueberries

Directions

Gently wash the berries and let them dry. Carefully slide one blueberry into each raspberry.

Arrange on a platter and eat!!

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Double Berry Smoothie

DOUBLE BERRY SMOOTHIE

by Nicholas (age 7)

Ingredients

3-4 frozen organic strawberries

6-8 frozen organic blackberries

3-4 pieces of frozen organic mango

1 medium organic banana

1/2 cup rice milk or other milk

5-6 ice cubes

Directions

In a blender, blend up banana, rice milk, ice, and mango.

Pour into glass, only fill half the glass.

Into remaining mixture, add in the strawberries and blackberries and blend again.

Fill the glass to the top.

Garnish with berries!

Prehistoric Kale Crunchies

PREHISTORIC KALE CRUNCHIES

by Claire (age 10)

Ingredients

Organic dinosaur kale

Organic olive oil or coconut oil

Organic garlic salt

(Cookie sheet and parchment paper)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wash the kale thoroughly and then cut off the stems. Dry the kale leaves and lay them out on the parchment paper. Lightly grease the kale leaves with the olive or coconut oil and sprinkle with garlic salt. Place try in oven and let cook for 10-12 minutes. When the timer is up, the kale should be green or light brown color. Let it cool or eat it while it's hot (but wait a few minutes so you don't burn your mouth).