Chocolate games
 You would be hard pressed to find a person who honestly doesn’t like
chocolate, and likewise you’d be hard pressed to find a person who
wouldn’t eat some if you offered, barring of course allergies. And it
may be so generally liked all across the globe for good reason as well,
with research showing that chocolate consumption has potential
beneficial effects on the human body. As far as cocoa and dark chocolate
is concerned, it has a beneficial effect on the circulatory system and
it may also work as a cerebral stimulator, cough prevention, anti-diarrheal
and it is a significant source of anti-oxidants. So besides the fact
that it tastes good, it may actually be healthy for you as well, but
only in small doses.
 Possibly the greatest lovers of chocolate are kids, they love it in
cookies, they love it in ice-cream, they love it in pudding, they love
it by itself, and you can rest assured that they will love being
involved in the process of making chocolate and chocolate related
deserts if you choose to engage them in some homemade treats.
Depending on their age, you can let them break up the chocolate before
melting it, as well as let them melt it in the microwave after you’ve
made sure everything’s alright. You can also involve them in making
various molds out of tin foil for the chocolate.
 If you’re planning on
making that delicious treat, chocolate chip cookies, then you can
involve your children even more by first explaining what each ingredient
is, the pots and pans that you will be using and then reading the whole
recipe from start to finish so that they can have an idea of what is
going to happen in the near future. You can let them mix the butter with
the sugar and then get them to mix the rest of the dry ingredients
separately. After the dough is ready they can also aid in spooning the
cookies on the cookie sheets. You’ll see how they take even greater
pleasure in eating those cookies than normally since they’re aware that
they made them. When it comes to chocolate cake, again they can be
implicated in mixing the dry ingredients, helping and tasting the
various creams that will go into the final product. A nice idea of
combining chocolate with some healthy fruits, and obviously making your
children want to eat it is to involve them in making some fruit kebabs
which are basically pieces of apples, pineapple, banana, whatever you
have around stuck on a skewer and then coated in the melted chocolate
that they just helped prepare. If they’re old enough and able to wield a
knife, they can help with the slicing and dicing of the fruits, this
being a very healthy and fun way of convincing your children to eat
fresh fruit by combining them with chocolate. |
