Breakfast Pastries Created By Tiny Chefs

My two youngest children are both picky eaters. This is nothing new, right? Parents complain about this ALL THE TIME. It's probably the most common complaint after, "My child likes to throw things at my head!" 

Or maybe that's just a common complaint in my family.

The problem in my home is that those two lovely children are picky eaters in two different ways. Sometimes there's an overlap, they both like bagels but one likes peanut butter and another likes cream cheese. Other times there's no overlap at all: One wants chicken tenders for lunch, the other wants pancakes.

I do find they're more likely to eat something they get to help prepare the meal. I let them help in the kitchen any chance I can get because if it increases the chance they'll eat the final product? I'll take the risk of any negative results. Because - more often than not - the odds are still in favor of my kids eating what they help cook. 

One easy idea that I use for Saturday breakfast is Individual Crescents. The kids have become experts in the Rolling Of The Crescents along the way - it's one of their favorite jobs in the kitchen. Adding fillings to them on the weekends and turning them into a breakfast item? EASY AS PIE. Or crescents. You know what I mean. 

My daughter likes cinnamon and sugar, so we spread a little bit of butter on the rolls first, and then she sprinkles the cinnamon and sugar on hers. And like any picky eater, she doesn't like anything else with cinnamon and sugar on it. Oatmeal, cookies, or even toast. But cinnamon and sugar crescents that she's made herself? Her favorite food! 

My son likes peanut butter and chocolate chips on his. And like his sister, he doesn't eat peanut butter on anything else - sandwiches, bagels, or even crackers. We spread a little bit of peanut butter and he sprinkles a few chocolate chips on the insides because - well, it's Saturday! What's a Saturday breakfast without a little bit of fun mixed in with it?

Once we get the crescents filled (Like any good child-friendly recipe, there is no precision necessary!) we roll them up and bake them as to the instructions on the package. I'll be honest, the rest of the family enjoys the cinnamon and sugar crescents the best. We've actually started using cinnamon and sugar half of my son's package of crescents too! That way, there are no cage-matches in the kitchen over the last of my daughter's batch of crescents.  Not that my husband and I would ever fight over food. Not in front of our children, anyway.

I've had friends try other combinations like fruit and cream cheese, but we don't try to fix what's not broken around my house. If the kids are eating the cinnamon/sugar and peanut-butter/chocolate crescents, I won't introduce another flavor until they decide to spontaneously change their minds. 

Do you have any other ideas for crescent fillings should that day ever arise when my children change their minds about what they like for the fourteen time?