Kitchen science: A snail's shell grows in a spiral, a little bigger with every turn. Roll a tortilla up round its filling and you get the same swirl.
Snail Roll-Ups for kids: the whole recipe
Snails are slow, but these ones are ready in fifteen minutes. That's fast for a snail! This easy no-cook recipe is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.
Ingredients
2 tortillas
¼ cup cream cheese
2 tablespoons strawberry jam
8 grapes
16 pretzel sticks (or gluten-free pretzel sticks)
16 candy eyes (optional)
Tools
A plate, A cutting board, A butter knife, A sharp knife (grown-up).
Steps
Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
Spread ¼ cup of cream cheese over 2 tortillas laid flat on a plate, right to the edge.
Smear 2 tablespoons of strawberry jam on top of the cream cheese.
Roll each tortilla up tight, like a sleeping bag.
Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts each roll into four thick wheels with a sharp knife.
Stand a wheel on your plate, swirl facing you. That's the shell!
Push a grape against the shell for the snail's head.
Poke 16 pretzel sticks into the grapes, two on each head, for antennae.
Press 16 candy eyes onto the grapes, two on each head.
Make a snail from every wheel. Look, they're sliding!
Safety notes
Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
Cut grapes in half the long way for little ones under 4.
Hard or chewy candy is a choking risk for little ones under 4: leave it off for them.
Read the label on packets for allergies.
Sticky fingers.
Kitchen science
A snail's shell grows in a spiral, a little bigger with every turn. Roll a tortilla up round its filling and you get the same swirl.
Make it your own
Use cream cheese and sliced banana inside, with no jam.
Make the shell with sunflower seed butter and jam, like a sandwich swirl.
Use a blueberry for the head if you run out of grapes.