CUB GRUB - Fun Food
Making
Asteroids
National Capital Area Capital
Ingredients:
Potatoes -- Enough to make 4 to 8 cups of mashed
potatoes. You can use frozen mashed potatoes. Or you can use fresh mashed
potatoes (takes about 5 pounds to make 6 cups of mashed potatoes). Or you can
use instant mashed potatoes. (Just don't make them too soft.)
1 cup grated cheddar (or other kind) cheese
Note about the cheese: The cheese will make the asteroids
more delicious, but when it melts, the asteroids might go flat. If you want
more realistic asteroids that don't taste quite as interesting, leave out the
cheese.
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) of butter or margarine
Salt and pepper, as you like it
Extra butter or margarine to grease the cookie sheet and,
if you like, to melt over the hot asteroids before you eat them.
Utensils:
Depending on how you make your mashed potatoes, you might
need a pot and a potato masher or electric mixer
Mixing bowl and spoon
Oven mitt or pot holders
Cookie sheet
Directions:
Turn on your oven to 375º Fahrenheit (190 Celsius).
Take a little slice of the butter or margarine and rub it
evenly on the cookie sheet so the asteroids won't stick. (You might want to
use a paper towel for this so your fingers don't get all messy--yet!)
Make the mashed potatoes. Make a lot (8 cups) or a little
(4 cups).
Add the cheese (if you want), butter, salt and pepper to
the potatoes and mix well. The mixture should stick together. If it's too dry,
add a little milk. If it's too moist, add a little flour (start with 2
tablespoons).
Take a handful of potatoes (about 1/2 cup or more) and
shape it into your own idea of an interesting asteroid shape. Use your fingers
to poke dents in it for craters.
Set the asteroid on the greased cookie sheet.
Use all the potatoes to make asteroids. (If you have lots
of asteroids, you may need another cookie sheet. Or bake the first ones, then
regrease the cookie sheet and make some more.)
Put the cookie sheet full of asteroids in the hot oven
for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until they are brown.
Using the hot pads or oven mitt, remove the cookie sheet
from the oven, and using the large spoon, transfer the asteroids to a serving
plate.
Enjoy your asteroids!
Moon Rocks
National Capital Area Council
Ingredients
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups packed light brown sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup water
2 cups miniature marshmallows
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Let cool.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Blend eggs into the
butter mixture one at a time. Stir in vanilla, flour mixture, water and
chocolate into the butter and eggs; beat well. Stir in marshmallows. Fill
paper-lined cupcake pans half full.
Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F, oven for 20 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack before serving.
Astronaut
Foods
York Adams Area Council
There are lots
of food suppliers that sell snacks like “dehydrated ice cream.” Also, check
out the website
http://www.spacestuff.com/ for a link to “real
astronaut food” that you can purchase.
Rocket
Pretzel Sticks
York Adams Area Council
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Thick pretzel sticks
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Fruit roll-up sheets
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Icing
Have the boys design and cut
out the fins and nosecones of their own pretzel stick rockets. Depending on
how well they seem to manage it, have either the boys or an older person use a
pastry decorating bag with a thin decorating tip put the “mortar” on the
pretzel for the fins and cone. You can add edible glitter, dragees, etc. to
finish off the decorating.
Man In the Moon Cookies
York Adams Area Council
Really simple, but messy!
Get one or two large “hard” cookies (like ginger snaps) for each boy. Buy or
mix up a batch of white icing and put out in small plastic bowls. Give the
boys butter knives and let them use the icing to spread on the cookie to look
like the surface of the moon.
