Homemade Applesauce Recipe-Cooking with Kids
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Homemade applesauce is so flavorful and can take your kid’s apple learning to a whole new level of sensory experience with taste. It just takes a little planning to learn how to teach kids cooking classes.
Making applesauce is fun and easy. Kids love to explore apples in this way! Cooking with kids is so important. So having kids cooking classes gives kids a ton of skills and other benefits. It helps them to appreciate where their food comes from and want to try new things. They are much more likely to eat healthy foods if they help prepare them.
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There are many fun ways to explore apples with your kids. Try taking them out to pick apples from a tree, taking them to the store to choose apples, or having parents pick out apples with the kids and bring them to daycare to share for your projects.
We have been exploring apples at Little Sprouts. Each of the kids brought two different kinds of apples for us to share. We had tons of fun cutting some up to make homemade applesauce. It’s easy, it’s delicious, and it’s good for you!
How can you make homemade applesauce of your own? It’s super easy. See what apples to use here.
Easy applesauce recipe for kids
Peel, core, and cut up about 6-7 apples. Make sure they have a great flavor so your sauce will have great flavor. I peel and core the apples and let the kids cut the sections into smaller pieces. This gives them some great practice with a butter knife and some fine motor skill building as well.
Add about 1/3 cup sugar to give a little sweeter flavor if you like, it’s optional of course.
Put the apples in a dutch oven with about a half cup of water and cook on medium heat for about 20 minutes.
Let the apples cool for a bit and add a small pinch of salt to bring out the flavor of the apples.
Place cooled apples in a blender and blend until the sauce is the texture you like.
The kids gobbled up this applesauce in no time flat and begged for more. And it was fresh and healthy for us too. There is no comparison between store-bought applesauce and homemade. The flavor will blow you away.
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How cute. I miss when the kids were young like this and loved to help in the kitchen. Now my boys run the other way….lol
My daughter does too, but my daycare kids are perpetually young, so I get a lot of cooking with them. 🙂 thanks so much for reading.
Yum! I need to make some, we went apple picking last weekend. Visiting from Let’s Get Real 🙂
How fun, and you have everything you need. 🙂 Thanks for reading!
It’s that time of the year. I have applesauce on my to-do list as well. Yours looks delicious. I know I sound like a broken record, but your daycare charges and their parents are so lucky to have you!
I don’t mind your broken record. It’s a great compliment and thank you for it! I guess because of the apples I used, it was the BEST applesauce I’ve ever tasted. We make it often, usually several times every fall when apples are in season. thanks for reading along with our adventures. I appreciate your encouragement so very much! (And I LOVE reading your blog!)
The kids would definitely love this project. My kids love it when I use the hand cranked apple peeler 🙂
oooh, fun! 🙂 Thanks for reading!
Aww…that bring back sweet memories of making applesauce when my oldest children were littles. It’s such a fun, easy, and tasty project. Thanks for sharing. By the way, your applesauce looks fantastic! 🙂
Good memories! I love making them. Thanks!
Love this!!!
Thanks!