Three Cooking Games You Have To Try

There are plenty of cooking games out there, but some stand heads and tails about the rest.

Pizza Makers – Everyone loves pizza, so who wouldn’t love to make it virtually. Throw the crust, if you can, top with sauce and then start adding those toppings. You’d better get it right or you might not make it to the next round. At the end of this game, you’ll be hungry for the real thing.

BBQ Games – There is something about a game that grills meat that is universally appealing. You can grill just about anything, but the most common food items are hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken kabobs. Keep your hands moving to make those plates and you might come out on top.

Cake Games – If you’re a fan of any cooking games, you’ll certainly be a fan of cake games. Virtually bake and then ice your own cake. Then you can start adding all kinds of toppings and garnishes to your completed cake.

Cooking Games: Gingerbread Houses

I love gingerbread houses. If you don’t cook them exactly right, you wind up with cookies a bit too hard to eat easily, but that just makes them that much better for decorating. The ideal, of course, is to make your gingerbread house firm enough to decorate easily, but soft enough devour when the holiday mood strikes.

Making Gingerbread Houses
The easiest way to make gingerbread houses is to buy the mix from store that requires just a handful of ingredients or even better, buy the ready made dough that you can just roll out and start cutting. Cutting out your gingerbread house will require a knife and steady hand rather than cookie cutters. You'll need to make the four wall and the two roof sections before baking.

Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Cut out the gingerbread sections and bake them according to instructions. When they are baked to a golden brown, allow the sections to cool before decorating. Use icing tubes to stick the sections together and then candy to decorate the little house. Your gingerbread house can be a great decoration or you can start nibbling on it just as soon as you get it all put together.

Cooking Games – Peanut Butter and Chocolate

I’m convinced that nothing goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate. Fortunately, one of my very favorite holiday treats uses both of these items. Simple to make and even simpler to eat, peanut butter chocolate drops are truly yummy.

What You’ll Need:

• Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
• Hershey’s Kisses

Make perfectly round balls of cookie dough about an inch across. Place each one onto a cookie sheet. You’ll want to roll the balls by hand rather than just scooping them up. This is a time that neatness really does count, so stick to it (and wash your hands well, first.)

Put the cookies inside the oven according to the instructions on the cookie dough package. While you wait, you can peel the wrappers from the Hershey’s kisses. Place the open kisses in a bowl or on a plate.

When you pull the cookies out of the oven, you’ll have a collection of perfectly round peanut butter cookies. Place a kiss in the middle of each. The heat of the cookie will melt the chocolate holding it in place. Yum!

Cooking Games – Salt Dough Ornaments

A great Christmas time tradition are salt dough ornaments. You can make these ornaments using materials you likely have around the house already. Bake them until hard and then paint, color or use glitter to make them truly shine for small gifts and keepsakes on wrapped packages.

Combine ½ cup salt, 1 cup flour and ½ cup water in a bowl. Mix it well and then use a rolling pin to roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Use your favorite holiday and Christmas cookie cutters to make the ornaments and be sure to use a toothpick to widen a small hole at the top of each for a string or hanger. Place each finished ornament on a cookie sheet and when ready, bake all of them at 200 degrees for two hours.

When the ornaments are cooled off, you can use poster paints to create the ornaments. Use glitter and glaze to make them shine and then thread a festive ribbon through the tops so that friends and family can add the ornaments to their tree this holiday season.

Progressive Dinner

Your parents might have enjoyed a progressive dinner party, and you might have gone along. If you’ve never played this cooking game, however, this is the perfect time.

A progressive dinner winds through a neighborhood or larger area. You and the rest of the party guests eat an appetizer such as bread or small treats while talking and visiting. When everyone has had a chance to arrive and grab a bit to eat, the entire party moves together to the next house.

This move might be done in cars or on foot if everyone lives close enough together. But the bottom line is when the party arrives at the second house, another course of the meal is served.

After dinner, the crowd can move again – this time to another house or location for dessert. Finally, after dessert, the gathering is finished, but you might wind up heading back for seconds now that you know how delicious everything is and exactly where it is located.

You can have your own progressive dinner by hooking up with friends and each arranging a portion of the meal to prepare. You mom can help by keeping an eye on the stove while you run down the street for an hour for appetizer at a friend’s house, and then she might help you serve up the food for the main course. Then you’ll head to another friends’ house for dessert. All in all, a yummy evening.

Cooking Games - Cookie Quotes

If you have a set of cookie cutters in the shape of letters, you’re in business for this cooking game. Buy a package of sugar cookie mix and grab a rolling pin – we’re making cookies quotes!

Put the prepared cookie dough on a piece of wax paper and roll it out until the dough is about ¼” thick. Then use your cookie cutters to cut out the letters that spell out a particular message, such as “Happy Birthday” or “I Love You.”

Cut out the letters until you don’t have room left in your dough. Then, carefully remove the excess dough leaving the cookies on the wax paper. Use a spatula to move the cookies to a greased cookie sheet. You’ll have roll and repeat enough times to get all the letters, of course.

When everything is cut and on a cookie sheet, bake. After baking, let the cookies cool on a cooling rack while you assemble candy, sprinkles and icing. The best part of all cooking games is decorating the finished project, so arrange your cookies using icing on a piece of cardboard and decorate to your heart’s content. Present to a special someone and enjoy!

Flower Cookies

Want to treat your friends to something extra special? This cooking game is especially fun because you enjoy the final product almost as much as the ingredients!

Make a batch of sugar cookies using ready to bake dough or from scratch. Use a round cookie cutter or tin can to cut perfect circles in your cookies. This might mean you need to roll out the dough, you can just use the kind that comes in little circles already.

When the cookies are completely cooled off, spread a layer of icing on top of each. You can use food coloring to make your icing something fun like a pale blue or green if you’d like. Or you can use chocolate icing to make the flowers pop.

When the cookies are made and iced, grab a package of candy vines and a bag of M&Ms. Unwind the red candy vines until you have just one. Carefully lay the vine onto the cookie in a figure 8 pattern. You might need to cut off some excess. Then make another figure 8 on top of the first, but with the round parts fitting neatly between the first two. Now you should have a four-pedaled red flower.

Put one yellow M&M in the center of the flower (us ea bit of icing to secure it as needed.) Your flower can now be complete or you can use red M&Ms to fill in the petals if you’d like.