Cooking with Kiddos & Crayons in the Kitchen ((oh, and there is chocolate))

Every once in a while we have a sweet after dinner ((mostly when company is coming or we are celebrating)). I have 4 little sets of eyes that are keenly trained to detect the difference between dinner prep & dessert prep. All of the sudden, I have many kind offers of helping, stirring, holding, dumping …. and of course licking! 

As soon as the bag of See’s chips came out of the chocolate chip jar – the troops surrounded me & began giving and taking orders. I can always find ways for them to help – sometimes it is not very easy to find jobs for them. But with this recipe, they were able to assemble the entire dessert with very little help from me.

The trickiest part is melting the chocolates & the chopping of the nuts can be a bit hazardous because the pistachios tend to roll around the board, so I handled those parts. But the kiddos did everything else.  

 The funnest part ((not including licking)) was adding the white chocolate drizzle. Each kiddo HAD to have turn at the drizzle station!

We used semi-sweet See’s chips for the base, white chocolate for the drizzle and pistachios, dried apples & dried cranberries. It was delicious – but you can adjust your additions according to what you have on hand & what your family loves!