Online Boutique of the Week: Kids Central Kitchen Offers Healthy and Delicious Treats for Kids

homerun Frustrated by the lack of healthy, good tasting prepared snacks for their kids, Mark and Maureen Hotchkiss started experimenting with energy bar recipes in their own kitchen to come up with something to send in with their kids’ school lunches. Finding a winning recipe in their ‘Propeller Bar’ recipe, the Hotchkisses branched out and whipped up healthy and good tasting options for more of their favorite baked goods. “We then began experimenting with other favorite baked goods like chocolate chip cookies, brownies, oatmeal raisin cookies, sugar cookies, banana bread and even pancakes,” say the Hotchkisses. “We kept at it until we came up with tastes and textures our kids liked while maintaining the nutrition and health goals we were after.”

mixingbowls An unexpected side-note from the experiments? Mark and Maureen’s children and their taste-tester friends loved to measure, pour, mix, set the timer, clean up and - not-so-surprisingly - eat their creations. Realizing there was a business in all of this, Kids Central Kitchen was born. Made of whole grains and lower in fat and sugar than traditional baking mixes, Kids Central Kitchen mixes contain no trans fats, hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, artificial flavors or preservatives.