A grownup should definitely help with this recipe – especially when the latkes have to be fried in lots and lots of boiling hot oil!

Ingredients

4-5 Potatoland (or russet) potatoes, peeled

1 small onion, peeled

2 eggs

1 tbsp flour

1 tsp salt

Lots of vegetable oil for frying

Directions: 

Grate the potato and the onion.  Your grownup helper can use the grating attachment on a food processor for this step – it’s much faster.

Squeeze as much liquid out of the potato-onion mixture as you can.  The Lunchkins use two different methods:

Put the mixture in a clean dishtowel, fold the sides up and twist them together (so you have a sort of bag), then squeeze; OR

Put the mixture in a bowl.  Take handfuls out of the bowl and squeeze over the sink, then put the squeezed stuff into a second bowl.  Grownup helpers might not like this method, but the Lunchkins think it’s quite a lot of fun.

Beat the eggs lightly in a small bowl.  Then add the flour and salt.  Add this mixture to the squeezed potato-onion mixture and mix it all together with a wooden spoon – or your hands, if you prefer.

Now for the real grownup part, so grownup helpers, pay attention!  Heat at least a half inch of oil in a large heavy skillet.  It will be hot enough to fry your latkes when you drop in a bit of batter, and the batter sizzles right away.

Gently drop heaped tablespoons of  potato mixture into the hot oil and flatten with the back of a spoon.  Fry for about 3 minutes on each side, or until deliciously golden and crispy.

Remove the cooked latkes from the pan and drain on paper towels.  As any Lunchkin will tell you, there’s nothing worse than a greasy latka!

Serve your latkes with apple sauce, sour cream or a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar…or just eat them plain.

ENJOY!!!!

Ingredients
(for one menorah)

5 two-bite brownies (you can make your own, if you’d like, using your favourite brownie recipe and a mini-muffin tin)
6 sandwich cookies
9 small orange jelly beans (or red – these are your flames, so you choose)
Icing (store-bought is fine, or you can just make a paste with icing sugar and a few drops of milk or water)
9 toothpicks
A cardboard rectangle – about 11 inches by 3 inches (this can be cut from a shoe box, or any other box)
Tin foil – enough to completely cover the cardboard so that your menorah base is silver

1.Using icing as glue, stick the five sandwich cookies to your tinfoil base. You can place them in a row, or curve them – your choice.

2.Decide which cookie will hold your shamash (centre or at one side). Then icing glue an extra cookie onto your shamash cookie so that the shamash will be elevated.

3.Icing glue a two-bite brownie onto each sandwich cookie. These are your candle holders.

4.Stick a toothpick into each jelly bean. These are your candles. Then put one toothpick candle into your shamash candle holder and two into each of the other candle holders.

5.Take a moment to admire your lovely menorah before you and your friends gobble it up!

Ingredients
3 medium sized apples (golden delicious work well), peeled
1 tablespoon of lemon juice (optional, but will stop your apple from turning brown)
2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/3 cup of sugar
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1½ cups of milk
1 teaspoon of cinnamon (optional)
Lots of vegetable oil for frying

1.Grate the apple and toss it in lemon juice.

2.Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon and salt together.

3.In a separate bowl, beat the eggs well, then mix in the milk.

4.Add the grated apple and the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and combine.

5.Heat a layer of vegetable oil in a large frying pan (the oil is hot enough when a drop of batter sizzles in the pan). Gently drop heaped tablespoons of batter into the hot oil and flatten with the back of a spoon. Fry for about 2 minutes on each side, or until deliciously golden and crispy.

6.Remove the cooked latkes from the pan and drain on paper towels. Same rule applies here as to potato latkes…there’s nothing worse than a greasy latke!

7.Sprinkle your warm latkes with a bit of icing sugar, serve them with sour cream…or just eat them plain.

8.ENJOY!!!!