Pre-K Fun Alphabet Cooking

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Rainbow Pops

1/3 C. orange juice
3 oz. fresh raspberries our strawberries
1 tsp. sugar
1/4 C. grape juice

Pour orange juice into molds and place in a freezer. Leave in until these are frozen.
 Put berries in sugar, and 1/4 cup cold water, and then mix in a food processor
 or blender. Process until smooth. Pour berry mixture over orange juice and return
 to freezer until almost frozen. Mix grape juice with 1/4 cup cold water,
 then pour over berry mixture, and insert holders. Freeze until frozen.

Rice Cakes with Peanut Butter

Let the children add peanut butter on to a rice cake for a yummy treat.

Rice Krispies Treats

3 tablespoons margarine
1 (10 ounce) package regular marshmallows
or 4 cups miniature marshmallows
6 cups Kellogg’s® Rice Krispies cereal
Vegetable cooking spray

Melt margarine in large saucepan over low heat. Do not use diet/reduced fat margarine
 in this recipe. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
 Add cereal. Stir until well coated. Using buttered spatula or wax paper, press mixture
 evenly into 13 x 9-inch pan coated with cooking spray. When cooled,
 cut into 2-inch squares. Makes approximately 24 squares.

Rice Krispies Caterpillar Treats

3 tablespoons of margarine or butter
1 package (10 oz., about 40) of marshmallows or 4 cups miniature marshmallows
6 cups KELLOGG'S® RICE KRISPIES® cereal
Prepared icing for decoration

In a large microwave-safe bowl, heat margarine and marshmallows at HIGH for 3
 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Stir in KELLOGG'S RICE KRISPIES cereal until
 well coated. Using spatula sprayed with cooking spray or waxed paper, press
 mixture into a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch pan coated with cooking spray. Allow
 mixture to cool slightly. Make caterpillar sections, using small round cookie
 cutter, cut cereal mixture into circles. Place eight to nine sections next to each other to
 form caterpillar. Decorate with icing to make antenna, eyes, feet and spots on caterpillars.

Rootbeer Float-Sicles

1 liter of rootbeer
1 gallon of vanilla ice cream

Spoon some ice cream into plastic popsicle containers. Next fill the
 containers with root beer (watch out - it will fizz a little).
 Put popsicle sticks on top and freeze for several hours.

Ramen Noodle Stir Fry

Sliced onion
Sliced celery
Sliced carrot
Sliced mushrooms
Leftover meat, diced (optional)

Sauté vegetables. Add leftover meat, if desired. Stir in seasoning packet.
Soften noodles for 3 minutes in boiling hot water, then drain.
Put noodles in a soup dish, then top with vegetables.

Rainbow Cake

1 box white or yellow cake mix
Food coloring
Ready-made white or vanilla frosting

Make the cake according to the package instructions. Pour the batter into whatever
 size cake pan(s) that you want. Scatter drops of different food colors over the top of
 the batter. Use a butter knife to cut through the batter using a swirling motion.
 This will blend in and mix up the colors. Bake the cake and cool.
 Frost with white frosting. Scatter dots of food coloring over the frosting.
 Then use a wooden pick and swirl the colors into the frosting.

Rainbow Toast

Pour a teaspoon of milk into each of 3 cups. Add a drop of red food coloring
 to the first cup, yellow to the second cup and blue to the third. Next dip a small
 brush into each of the milk colors and paint a "rainbow"
on a piece of white bread. Toast and butter the bread.

Rock Candy

4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup water
Food coloring or Wonder Colors*
Clean glass jar
String, cut into 6-inch lengths
Pencil

In a medium saucepan, heat 2 cups of the sugar and the water. Stir until the sugar
 is completely dissolved. Gradually add a few drops of the food coloring of your
 choice and the additional sugar, stirring continuously until all the sugar is dissolved.
Pour the solution into a clean glass jar and tie the pieces of string to the pencil and
 suspend them across the mouth of the jar so that the ends hang into the sugar water.
Crystals suitable to eat will form in an hour and continue for several days
 to a week. Pieces can be broken off and eaten after the first hour.

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