Six-hands Cheese Crescents

Two kids and me in the kitchen... The plan is to make something for breakfast, I hope it is going to be edible :)

What are the benefits of making food with kids? Flour everywhere over the kitchen, white faces and hands not visible under the dough, some undefined forms of dough spread all over the kitchen table... And it won't be over very fast, they enjoy the game :)

But this game can always be educational. You can turn it into math class, learn colors, fact about some groceries...

This was our game (children of 3 and 6):

- How many eggs do we have in the box?

- When we use 2 eggs, how many remain?

- Where does this milk come from?

- What animal gives us the milk?

- How do we get flour?

- Where does it come from?

- What is the egg consisted of?

- What color is which part of an egg?

- What shape is this?

- Can you make a triangle?

And so on, and so on... Depending on groceries you use to make what you intend to.

Today we made cheese crescents. Very quick and easy to make. Children can make them, too. They are so sweet with their little tools (stolen from play-dough) and enormously large aprons, that goes all to their toes. But it is useful, when you think of all the spilled flour...

That's what we needed for our crescents:

For dough:

- 2 cups of white flour

- 4 oz cottage cheese

- 1/4 cup milk

- 1/4 cup oil

- 1 egg white

- 3 tsp backing soda

- 1 Tsp salt

For spread:

- 1 egg yolk

- 1 Tsp milk

- sprinkle of salt

- sprinkle of pepper

I poured everything we needed into the cups, kids poured it into the bowl. Counting all the time. Then we mixed everything thoroughly - kids for the beginning, then I finished the dough. I divided it into three equal parts and spread two of them into the rounds. Then we used knives from play-dough to cut them into eights (elder child did it perfectly). I made the first crescent to show kids how to roll them, and with a little help they finished the rest of the rolls. The third part of the dough was left for freeform shaping. It came into some weird forms, pretended to be crescents... Small tiny crescents, more like fingers, but very cute. The prettiest, absolutely. Made by sweet little hands.

Final step was to coat them with spread and they were ready to get into oven, for about 30 minutes.

At last we could sit and wait for our breakfast. It was so yummy!

Made by pretty little hands. The best breakfast ever.

I send hundreds of kisses to my dear friend who gave me this recipe, it is really fantastic. We had a great time, and a great meal.