Well, my editing program has eaten this post twice now, so let’s just get this done real quick before this post disappears, too.
This is Crackerwitch Castle!!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Strawberry Shortcake's Cooking Fun, 1980
Tested Recipe!
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Take round crackers and cheese. Put a piece of cheese on a cracker, then add another cracker and keep stacking this way until the castle is as high as you want it to be.
The tower at the top is made of a triangle of cheese, and there are olives around the edge.
Ingredients
Directions
Take round crackers and cheese. Put a piece of cheese on a cracker, then add another cracker and keep stacking this way until the castle is as high as you want it to be.
The tower at the top is made of a triangle of cheese, and there are olives around the edge.
Notes
We desperately need things to do around here. And I also need time to do work. As a result, I’ve been starting to read cookbooks with Alex in an attempt to actually have time in my day to look at cookbooks. Luckily, she is enjoying this, and even getting into it.
Especially when we found all of the kid’s cookbooks!
If you aren’t an 80’s baby like me, the Strawberry Shortcake cookbook was released as a softcover kid’s reader book, and because of that and the wonderful color illustrations, was a very popular book with little kids. Everyone I knew when I was younger had a copy, and just about everyone had tried a recipe out of it. The recipes are all fairly easy, and only a few of them require actual baking. That means that kids could make them with little supervision.
And as soon as Alex saw a castle tower made from crackers and cheese, she was in.
For round crackers, we used some Ritz crackers we had in our pantry. For round cheese, we used….cheese. I busted out the round cookie cutter, and the cheese ended up being bigger than the crackers, but oh well. We are making it work here.
Done! Now for some garnish.
Ok, now done for real. It’s time to deliver some lunch.
Dad didn’t have time to take a break from his meetings, so we brought lunch to him.
And he appreciated it.
“Dad, don’t forget to chew!”
The Verdict: Cute and Easy
From The Tasting Notes –
If you are stuck in quarantine with kids, this was a fun, easy project that made Alex feel like she had accomplished something amazing. Which she did, she made part of her lunch! Plus, the book is adorable and is great eye candy. Coming soon: Roll-Up Sandwiches!
Please post more from this book! I used to love it so much, thank you so much for the sweet memories!
Your Castlewitch Castle is beautiful!
Nice! We made a roulade yesterday. Jeeeellyrollls are fun.
I used to love Strawberry Shortcake when I was little! I had the doll that smelled like strawberry shortcake, but we discovered after a while that the smell made me nauseated if I was around it too long 😄 Please congratulate your daughter on an excellent cheese and cracker tower!
Alex is so cute…
OMG, I was just thinking of this cookbook today (I was eating sliced apples with cheddar, which I think is also in there!)… so fun to see it on your blog!
This is super cute! Great work Alex!
So much fun!! Alex is growing up so fast and you can see how much she enjoys being a part of the experiements. Well done, Alex!!
There’s always the Little House cookbook and the Anne of Green Gables cookbook. I also have a Gold Medal ABC cookbook for children. My children loved them all.
Fair warning, though. After reading “Farmer Boy,” my daughter decided that her steer–named Yum Yum and destined for the freezer–would be trained to be an ox as Almanzo did at her age–about 8. By the time she finally lost interest, after taking him to ox-training school, he was over 6′ tall at the withers and dressed out at over 1100#. The butcher had to cut him in half to hang him. Best beef I’ve ever tasted!
Just a word of warning.