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Kid-Friendly Holiday Menu
Make a meal that will elicit cheers from the kids' table! This combination of playful treats and plain, simple recipes is designed to please all the guests at your feast -- big and small. Get the kids involved in the cooking for even more holiday fun.
Eye-Catching Starters
Appetizers
Kids (and adults!) will get a kick out of these festive appetizers. Even the pickiest eater might try the "gift wrap" of red pepper polka dots on a cream cheese snack. Let the kids trim their own pizza tree with spinach, and they may ignore its yuck factor. And who doesn't love a cheese ball shaped like a merry old soul?
Christmas Package Cheese Snack
O Christmas Treat Pizza
Cheese Ball Santa
Kids (and adults!) will get a kick out of these festive appetizers. Even the pickiest eater might try the "gift wrap" of red pepper polka dots on a cream cheese snack. Let the kids trim their own pizza tree with spinach, and they may ignore its yuck factor. And who doesn't love a cheese ball shaped like a merry old soul?
Fun with Bread
Have kids help shape this classic white bread dough into edible winter icons, and you'll delight even the pickiest eater while filling the house with the aroma of fresh-baked bread.Jolly Snowman Bread
Have kids help shape this classic white bread dough into edible winter icons, and you'll delight even the pickiest eater while filling the house with the aroma of fresh-baked bread.
Main Dish for Everyone
Pineapple rings and a brown sugar glaze coat this deceptively easy ham. Make it more tempting to little ones by cutting into cubes before serving -- they may not appreciate the holiday grandeur of the cross-hatched, bone-in presentation.
Baked Ham
Pleasing Side Dishes
Mashed Potatoes
They're really just mashed potatoes, but if you call them "potato clouds," we're sure the kids will ask for second helpings!Mashed Potato Clouds
They're really just mashed potatoes, but if you call them "potato clouds," we're sure the kids will ask for second helpings!
Vegetables
Bacon and sour cream flavor sweet corn kernels in this yummy side dish, though adamant veggie haters may need you to skip the festive red and green peppers that lend it its holiday theme.Indiana Corn Pudding
Bacon and sour cream flavor sweet corn kernels in this yummy side dish, though adamant veggie haters may need you to skip the festive red and green peppers that lend it its holiday theme.
Flavored with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, this is a simple, sweet veggie dish for little naysayers opposed to anything green.
Butternut Squash Soufflé
The Best for Last
Kids who help make and decorate a dessert cute enough to double as a centerpiece will beam with pride throughout the meal. (And they won't mind eating it for dessert later.)
Towering Tree Cake
Edible Ornament Cupcake
Rudolph the Red-nosed Cookie
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