Easy ‘french’ recipe for kids?

[LeonoraFlorence]

My DD has to bake or cook something typically ‘French’ for homework, with help from a grown up. I’m a good baker but not the greatest of cooks. Is there anything simple we could make together?
Will also have several smaller DDs and baby around so hoping for something straightforward!
Thanks for any ideas.

Omelette ! make sure that you use butter and you could put some fines herbs in if you wanted super-French

Quiche Lorraine

Eggy bread as in French toast is what sprung to mind for me.

Tarte Tatin

Oeufs au plat, fried eggs on a plate, sprinkle with chopped parsley for an authentic French look.

Salade Paysanne, mixed leaves topped with a slice of pâté, or ham, or salami type sausage, a scattering of puy lentils and some vinaigrette dressing.

Ratatouille is also easy and lots of leeway to get it not quite right (cooking times and so on). Plus perhaps the kids know the movie?

It's got to be crepes!

[quote MustardMitt]@Mistigri can you tell me if tartine is a thing?! From what I remember it was something a kid might have as an after school snack or something![/quote]
Tartine just means bread and butter/jam/honey
Baguette with a piece of chocolate stuffed inside is a common after school snack (le gouter) but not sure it has a name.

French toast is not French lol. The yoghurt cake is traditional French kids cooking.

I was going to suggest the yoghurt cake too. My girls love making that and it’s a popular recipe with French kids.

Otherwise, crepes would be fun and a practice run for shrove Tuesday.

Quiche Lorraine
Crepes
Potatoes Dauphonoise
Tarte tatin

pain perdu=french toast
French, apparently

Thank you all! So many ideas. She could make a few things to keep us going with all those.
She’s 7, for those asking her age.

Normandy apple tart.

Pastry
Apple purée
Sliced apples

Bosh

The yogurt cake recipe is an Italian recipe too - it's in Nigella's Nigellisima book. I weigh the ingredients though because we only buy 500 g pots.

I'd go for the yoghurt cake above.

My DD was given two children's Disney cookery books for Christmas by her French grandparents. One in English, one in French. The English one is really sugary and full of bland recipes, loads of cakes and sweets etc, whereas the French one is full of crabs' legs, salmon with muesli and cranberries , bourgignon etc.

I'm English and DD loves bland food like any English kid but it did give me pause for thought that we'd never see these types of recipe in an English children's cookery book!

Sharing the pic as I love the 'cocotte du snuggly duckling' franglais!

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Croustade aux pommes

www.ricardocuisine.com/en/recipes/8579-apple-crumble-the-best

Pour les anglophones 😉

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/langues_de_chat_biscuits_51182

Langue de chat biscuits - cat's tongue, fairly easy and taste nice.

Salade Nicoise is easy to put together.
Pain perdu (aka French toast)
Crepes
Clafoutis is not difficult
Creme caramel

frog’s legs

Steak-frites, vin rouge.

Bon appétit.

@tinselandlights

I'd go for the yoghurt cake above.

My DD was given two children's Disney cookery books for Christmas by her French grandparents. One in English, one in French. The English one is really sugary and full of bland recipes, loads of cakes and sweets etc, whereas the French one is full of crabs' legs, salmon with muesli and cranberries , bourgignon etc.

I'm English and DD loves bland food like any English kid but it did give me pause for thought that we'd never see these types of recipe in an English children's cookery book!

I love this, please share more!

OP - a cheese board of French cheese. And teach her how to pour a glass of wine (maybe don't take a pic of that for the teacher). You're welcome.

Frites!