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Kids Snacks - Appetizer Recipes - Dips

Kids snacks of all kinds are featured here, from dips and spreads to appetizers.
  1. Popcorn Recipes (14)
  2. Deviled Eggs Recipes (8)
  3. Dip Recipes (22)
  4. Fruit Snacks (11)
  5. Snack Mix Recipes (6)

Baked Chicken Wings Recipe

This baked chicken wings recipe has a sweet Asian sauce that really makes these oven baked chicken wings tender. This baked chicken wings recipe is super simple.

Beef and Cheese Nachos Recipe

This nachos recipe is made with beef, cheddar cheese, corn and tortilla chips. Fresh cilantro gives this beef and cheese nachos recipe authentic flavor.

Carrot Sticks with Peanut Butter

The combination of carrots and peanut butter can't be beat. It's a filling, healthy snack.

Celery Sticks with Cream Cheese

Celery sticks are filled with cream cheese to make celery boats in this easy snack for kids.

Chicken Nachos Recipe

This chicken nachos recipe is made with rotisserie chicken breast. Whether you're looking for a filling appetizer or a quick and easy dinner for kids, you won't be disappointed with this recipe for nachos.

Cocktail Meatballs

Slightly spicy, slightly sweet, these cocktail meatballs appeal to everyone who tries them. Use smaller meatballs for appetizers or large ones for a main course.

Coco-Nutty Tropical Treat Bars - Coconut Bars - Snack Bars

These coconut bars are made with pineapple, coconut, sweetened condensed milk, graham cracker crumbs, almonds and white chocolate chips. These snack bars have a real tropical flavor.

Cocoa Dusted Hazelnuts Recipe

These cocoa dusted hazelnuts are coated in a maple syrup and sea salt mixture, then baked. The hazelnuts are then tossed in cocoa powder for a sweet-salty snack that makes a great special occasion treat or addition to the kids' lunch boxes.

Cream Cheese Crostini

Crostini are just slices of toasted Italian or French bread topped with anything from meats to cheeses to vegetables. This cream cheese crostini recipe is topped with cream cheese and caramelized onion jam.

Flower Rice Krispies Treats Recipe

Kids will love making these flower-shaped Rice Krispies treats with you. They don't take long at all, which means you get to the best part - eating - faster!

Fun Food For Kids

These fun foods for kids include recipes that not only appeal to kids' taste buds, but are easy and fun foods for kids to make themselves. Making these fun foods with kids is a great way to get picky eaters to expand their palates.

Granola Bugs - Granola Recipes - Granola Cookies

These granola cookies are a fun and healthy snack for kids. To make this recipe for granola cookies even healthier, use crispy brown rice cereal.

Haystacks Recipe

These haystacks are made with semisweet chocolate chips, butter and chow mein noodles. This chocolate haystacks recipe is a great dessert when you're pressed for time. This recipe for haystacks is so easy, kids can make it all by themselves.

Healthy Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats

These healthy peanut butter rice crispy treats are made with peanut butter, crispy rice cereal, brown rice syrup and chocolate chips. These peanut butter rice krispie treats are all-natural and have a lower glycemic index than most rice crispy treats recipes.

Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids

Looking for healthy snack ideas for kids? These healthy snack ideas include both snacks you can buy as well as healthy snack recipes you can make. From fruit to vegetables to dips, these healthy snack ideas will satisfy even picky eater's snack cravings.

Healthy Snack Recipes for Kids

These healthy snack recipes are especially designed for kids. These recipes include snacks that are high in vitamins, fiber, protein, antioxidants and calcium. And all of these snacks are quick and easy to prepare, too.

Healthy Snacks - Carrot Sticks with Peanut Butter

Carrot sticks pair surprisingly well with peanut butter. This satisfying, healthy snack is a cinch to make.

Healthy Snacks for Kids That Don't Seem Healthy at All

Healthy snacks for kids are as important as a healthy breakfast or a good night's sleep. These healthy snacks for kids include crunchy, sweet and savory treats.

How to Make Soft Pretzels

Soft pretzels are a cinch to make when you use this bread machine. This step by step guide shows you how to make soft pretzels.

Italian Bruschetta Recipe with Spinach Pesto

This bruschetta recipe is a tasty and healthy appetizer or snack. This Italian bruschetta recipe is topped with spinach pesto for a novel twist on a classic Italian favorite.

Jelly Belly Recipes

Jelly Belly recipes for everything from candy apples to lemon meringue pie are included in this collection.

Kids Snacks - Healthy Snacks for Kids

Kids snacks don't have to be loaded with sugar or artificial ingredients to taste great. These snacks for kids are delicious and healthy, too.

Kids Snacks: Goldfish in the Pond Rice Cakes

Rice cakes, cream cheese and Goldfish crackers make healthy snacks for kids. Put them together and you have what is sure to become one of kids favorite preschool cooking activities.

Meatball Crescent Rolls

Meatball rolls are one of those crescent rolls recipes that can be put together in minutes. If you are looking for easy party appetizers that taste great, this is one of those crescent rolls recipes that fits the bill.

Mexican Phyllo Cups

These Mexican appetizers are simple phyllo cups filled with a refried beans and cheese mixture that is appealing to kids. These savory fillo cups make great Mexican food for kids.

Microwave Nachos Recipe

This microwave nachos recipe is a basic nacho recipe with cheese and tortilla chips. You can make these nachos in about six minutes!

Mini Cheeseburgers

These mini cheeseburgers make a tasty and satisfying snack or appetizer anytime.

Pizza Cookies - Cheese Cookies - Savory Cookie Recipes

This savory cookie recipe for pizza cookies is made with butter, Parmesan cheese, garlic and sun-dried tomatoes.

Potato Skins Recipe

This potato skins recipe is a perfect appetizer or snack for kids. The skins of the potatoes are where all the vitamins and minerals are, and these potato skins are baked, not fried. Let the kids help make these potato skins. It's easy!

Recipe for Nachos - Nachos with Cheese and Beans

This nachos recipe uses refried beans and two kinds of cheese. Tasty and healthy, this recipe for nachos with cheese is easy, too.

Rice Balls

These rice balls make a tasty snack for kids anytime. They have a secret surprise inside that makes them extra healthy, too.

Rice Crispy Treat Recipes

These rice crispy treat recipes include the basic recipe for how to make rice crispy treats, plus variations of that recipe, including healthy peanut butter rice crispy treats, chocolate peanut butter rice crispy treats, Halloween rice crispy treats, Valentine's Day rice krispie treats and more.

Rice Crispy Treats Recipe

This rice crispy treats recipe made with butter, marshmallows and crispy rice cereal. Kids love making and eating these rice crispy treats.

Rice Crispy Treats with Chocolate Topping

These rice crispy treats with chocolate topping combine two great flavors - peanut butter and chocolate in rice crispy treats form. Unlike regular rice crispy treats, though, these are not made with marshmallows. Instead, these rice crispy treats with chocolate topping are held together with peanut butter and brown rice syrup.

Roasted Chickpeas

These roasted chickpeas are full of fiber, protein and vitamins. But the only thing the kids will notice is how great they taste.

Soft Pretzels from the Bread Machine

Soft pretzels, like these bread machine soft pretzels, are as fun to make as they are to eat. And because the bread machine does all of the hard work, it's easy to make this soft pretzel recipe.

Spiced Pecans Recipe

This spiced pecans recipe is sweet and crunchy, but not sticky sweet, like some recipes for praline pecans. This recipe is made with pecan halves, brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, an egg white and vanilla. Sea salt really brings out the flavor of this recipe for spiced pecans.

Spinach Balls Recipe

This spinach balls recipe makes a great appetizer or snack for kids anytime. If you think your kids don't like spinach, try making these sausage spinach balls. You may be surprised how much they like these!

Spinach Pinwheels - Spinach Appetizers

These spinach pinwheels are flaky and buttery, thanks to a puff pastry crust. Yet these are among the easiest spinach appetizers to make.

Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

This stuffed mushrooms recipe is quick and easy, because it starts with frozen spinach souffle. Bread crumbs and cheese complete these spinach stuffed mushrooms. As an appetizer or side dish, this recipe for stuffed mushrooms is always a hit.

Tortilla Roll Ups with Chocolate Peanut Butter and Banana

These tortilla roll ups are made with a chocolate peanut butter and cream cheese spread that is rolled around a banana. Use whatever flavor tortillas you like for these easy peanut butter tortilla roll ups.

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