Here’s something any mother can appreciate: Last week my first grader came home with a Xeroxed note from school asking for a “favorite family recipe.” The letter cryptically added that the assignment was part of a “top secret” project students were working on and not to ask too many questions.
Given the timing of the note and the fact that I received a very similar one the year before when my daughter was in kindergarten it didn’t take much for me to deduce that I will likely be opening a kid-friendly cookbook this coming Sunday.
I will wait until a later date to share the recipe my daughter submitted. For now, I’ll reveal one of the most heartfelt gifts I’ve ever received from my then 4-year-old (with help from aunt and grandma):
SWEET FLOWER POT
Purchase an inexpensive unglazed terra cotta flower pot, and have your child decorate it with paint, glitter glue, sequins or stickers. Then, line it with a clean, plastic container and fill it with the following yummy treat:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 boxes (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding
3 cups cold milk
1 12-ounce tub of frozen Cool Whip
1 cup graham crackers, crushed
1 package Oreo cookies, crushed
1 bag of gummy worms
Plastic flowers
Directions:
Cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar.
In a separate bowl mix pudding with cold milk until it starts to thicken.
Fold the Cool Whip into the vanilla pudding, and then add it to the
butter and cream cheese mixture.
Sprinkle a layer of the graham crackers in the plastic container.
Next, spoon a layer of the pudding mixture on top.
Then, sprinkle in the crushed Oreos.
Spoon a pudding layer on top of that.
Continue alternating layers in the same order ending with a layer of Oreos on top.
Decorate final Oreo layer with flowers and gummy worms.
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