Cooking Games and Pasta

Of all the various dishes to cook, pasta is one of the easiest. There are so many different styles of pasta available, and they are all delicious. Often cooking pasta is as simple as throwing a handful of dry noodles into boiling water. The noodles cook for less than ten minutes and then we all have a delicious lunch. Of course, the success of your pasta cooking games depends rather heavily on the type of sauce you decide to use.

Many types of pasta are delicious with a bit of pure butter tossed into the pan. Or for a bit of extra flavor you can use some garlic butter and sprinkle on Parmesan. If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, using a canned or jarred sauce is simple, but the best sauces are those that you create at home. This doesn't have to be a challenge - it's usually as simple as cutting up some veggies, throwing them in a pan with spices and allowing it to all boil down a bit. The end product is a meal fit for a king! Or at least a hungry teenager.

Cooking Games and Sugar-Free Baking

There are lots of ways you can play cooking games without using too much sugar, even if you’re baking. There are some rather nice tricks to the trade of baking and with a bit of clever savvy and practice, you can make delicious desserts that are sweetened with natural ingredients or at least reasonable sugar substitutes to avoid some of the empty calories cooking games often have.

Sugar Substitutes – One of the easiest ways to reduce the calories of the cooking games is to simply remove the sugar that is required in the cake or cookie mix and add in a sugar substitute instead. Be very careful with the measurements of the sugar substitute, however, as it does not always measure exactly like traditional sugar does.

Applesauce – Another popular choice for cookies and cakes that require large amounts of oil and sugar is to substitute apple sauce or other fruit purees to produce the sweetness and moisture that those elements would normally have.

Cooking Games and Fun Cakes

Cooking games should always be fun, and what can be more fun than playing with the various shapes of cakes that are available to us these days? You can buy special novelty pans for baking cakes if you’d like, but you can have just as much fun with what you have in the kitchen already if you’re clever enough to use what is there.

Princess Cakes
Of the many cakes out there, this is a particularly fun one. Preheat the oven to about twenty-five degrees under what is recommended on the box of cake mix. Then, pour your ready cake mix into a glass bowl that you’d use for mixing. Don’t use the same one that you mixed in because you need to grease the cake pan correctly first. Bake the cake in the bowl for almost an hour before it’s done. Then, stick a doll base (you can get one at a craft store) in the top of the cake, decorate her “skirt” and your cake is ready!

Round Cakes
You can use the cake in bowl idea for lots of other things as well. Make hills for cars to drive across. Use the round bowl to make a sport’s ball for a friend trying out for the soccer team. Play with the ideas and you’ll find lots of good cooking games to use when the time comes.