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Storytime Snack: A Recipe for GOLD!

Peachtree Publishers — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:33:00 +0000

You’ve heard the expression, “put your money where your mouth is.” But what if we literally did that?

Check it out:

This…

Looks a little like this…

Right?! And who doesn’t love caramel popcorn?

Here’s a recipe for edible gold to snack on while reading about the Alaskan Gold Rush in Alison Hart’s Murphy, Gold Rush Dog!

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
½ cup corn syrup
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 quarts popped popcorn (microwave or stove-top is fine!)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 250°F

2. Put popped popcorn in a large bowl.

3. In medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter.

4. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt.

5. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Then, boil without stirring for 4 minutes.

6. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda and vanilla.

7. Pour in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring to coat.

8. Place in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in a preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 1 hour.

9. Remove from oven and let cool completely.

Just try to only eat a serving size. I double-Murphy-Gold-Rush-Dog-dare you.

Ha. See what I did there?

Story Time Snack: A Pear Mouse for Any Adventure!

Peachtree Publishers — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:00:00 +0000

Photo by Jill Dubien via canadianfamily.ca

I don’t know about you, but nothing makes me hungrier than an adventure.

You know who else loves adventure? Mouse from Can I Come Too?

With a few healthy ingredients and some circle-cutting skillz, you can make a tasty snack to accompany your Can I Come Too? story time.

This one’s so cute, you might buy a cage for it and name him Paul.

Ingredients:

1 Boscoe pear (those are the brown ones!)
1 slice of cheddar cheese
2 round, thin slices of carrot
1 strip of green onion
Cream cheese
String cheese
1 sharp knife

Directions:

Wash the pear and slice it in half so it lies flat on the plate.
Pull apart one strip of string cheese and slide it under the back of the pear to create a mouse tail.
Using your knife, cut several small circles out of the cheddar cheese.
Dab a little cream cheese on the small end of the pear; press one of the cheddar cheese circles onto the cream cheese. (This will make a mouse nose!)
Use two dabs of cream cheese to make mouse eyes above the nose.
Using your knife, cut two horizontal slits into the top of the pear above the eyes.
Stick the carrot slices into the slits to make ears.
Cut two more slits–this time they should be vertical and on either side of the nose.
Take your green onion, chop it into 6 smaller pieces.
Stick three onion slivers in the left vertical slit and three in the right.

Voila! Adorable and healthy! Could you ask for a better adventure treat?

Story Time Snack: Stanley’s Marshmallow Buildings

Peachtree Publishers — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:23:00 +0000

Every night before Stanley (You know Stanley, don’t you? Adorable hat-wearing hamster? Great with colors and machines?) goes to bed, he has supper and a bath.

But what is Stanley the Builder’s favorite food? William Bee hasn’t personally confirmed, but I’m pretty sure it’s…

marshmallow buildings!

Photo via Parents.com

Grab your favorite early reader and head to the kitchen for this Storytime Snack!

via joyfulabode.com

Ingredients:

1 bag of pretzel sticks
1 bag of large marshmallows
1 can of colorful frosting (optional)
1 bag of M&M’s or other small candies (optional)

Directions:

Decide what you’re going to build. Will it be a house, like Stanley built for Myrtle? Or, will you make a spaceship? A skyscraper? Something completely new?
Insert each pretzel stick into a marshmallow.
Go on connecting until your masterpiece is finished!
If you’re feeling fancy, use frosting to attach M&M’s, gumdrops, or other small candies for decoration!

Yum!