Ice Cream Sundaes – Receive a copy of "First Cooking Activity Book"

Ice cream sundaes are a lot of fun to make once the weather starts heating up, not to mention pretty easy for smaller helping hands.  All you need is ice cream, some sauces, and lots of tasty toppings.  You must make sundaes quickly, so they don't melt.  Put them in the fridge as you finish them, or eat them at once.  Here are some fun twists on an old classic!

Decorating suggestions:

• Chocolate sprinkles
• Rainbow sprinkles
• Mixed nuts
• Vanilla wafers
• Chocolate drops
• Licorice
• Chopped or sliced fresh fruit

Making the Sauces...

For the raspberry sauce:

• - 6 oz (150 g) raspberries (frozen or fresh)
• - ½ cup (75 g) sugar

• 1. Wash the raspberries and put them in a strainer over a bowl. Push them through the strainer with a wooden spoon.
• 2. Add the sugar to the raspberry pulp a little at a time. Stir the sauce vigorously until the sugar has dissolved.

For the chocolate sauce:

• - 4 oz (100 g) dark chocolate
• - 3 tbsp water

1. Break up the chocolate.  Put it in the bowl with the water.  Heat some water in the saucepan until it bubbles gently.
2. Place the bowl over the saucepan until the chocolate melts.  Turn off the heat and stir until smooth.

Fun Sundae Decorating

You can make sundaes that look like colorful insects or flower ingredients and sauces shown in the attached picture or you can experiment with ideas of your own.  First put the ice cream in the dishes (choose your favorite flavor or pick based on color), then add the sauces, and finally the topping ingredients.  You will find it easier to scoop ice cream out of containers if you use a metal spoon that you dip into a pitcher of hot water between each scoop.

Share your cooking stories by posting an article (or articles) to Parenting.gather.com. Tell us about the your child's cooking or baking experience. You can include pictures in your articles too! One member who publish his or her article between now and May 5^th will be randomly selected to receive a copy of First Garden Activity Bookand First Cooking Activity Book.

If you already submitted an article for my "Bread Bears" article and didn't win before, you will automatically be entered for another chance to receive these books.

The Parenting group will continue to ask you to share stories about your child's cooking and gardening activities. If your article is selected not only will you receive the activity books mention above, but you will be put in a drawing to receive the Made with Care library before it hits store shelves in June! These book are created from FSG-certified and recycled paper materials, printed in the US with vegetable-based inks to reduce carbon emissions and written by authors who are champions of the green movement.

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