Baking with Grace and Charlie

Today the kids and I baked up some treats for some friends in our neighborhood and Grace's teachers. I picked kid-friendly recipes so that they could do most of the work. The first thing we made were Pretzel Turtles, or at least that's what I call them. My sister makes these every year, but I'm pretty sure my grandma is the one who first introduced us to this yummy and super easy treat! It's so easy, I'll let the kids show you how it's done...

First, you lay out pretzels all over a baking sheet. Always make sure you taste your ingredients!
Check out that awesome bed head!! We got to work first thing in the morning. As far as I'm concerned, there is no reason to get cleaned up just to get messy again!

Then you start unwrapping Rolos.

And keep unwrapping. It took a loooooong time, but the kids stuck with it!

Place each Rolo on a pretzel.

Then keep unwrapping...while Mommy checks her email, drinks coffee, does the breakfast dishes...

Oops! One of these things is not like the other!

Bake the pretzels and Rolos in a 300 degree oven for about 4 minutes, or just long enough to get the Rolos nice and soft. Then you push a pecan onto the top of each one. All done!!

I've also done this with Hershey Kisses on pretzels then smooshed down with a holiday M&Ms. Those are very festive, but I like the caramel in these ones the best!

In case you're looking for other recipes the kids can help with, we also made these. Happy baking!

Peanut Butter Bars

Crunch Bars (This one ended up not being too kid friendly, but they did like laying out the saltine crackers.)