More than a decade ago, a clever grandma shared with me a recipe for bacon and eggs she assured me all kids — and most grownups — would gobble right up. One they’d enjoy helping prepare, too.

I first tried that recipe in 2011 with my eldest grandson, Brayden, who was 3 at the time (and nicknamed Bubby here on the blog).

Sure enough, the ‘bacon and eggs’ were a hit, as you can see in the post I published way back then.

Fast forward to now — 12 years after Brayden enjoyed the faux-breakfast fun. I recently set out to see if Benjamin and Robert (and PawDad) might be equally enamored with the imitation breakfast confection.

Bottom line: Indeed they were!

When I posted pics on social media of Robert and Benjamin enjoying the surprisingly successful and oh-so-simple snacktivity, a few folks asked me how to do it. With that in mind, here are the directions … as demonstrated by Benjamin and Robert.

What you need (for 20 “servings”):
40 stick pretzels

40 or so yellow M&Ms (plus more for nibbling while “cooking”)

three cubes of vanilla candy coating OR about one cup of white chocolate chips

What you do:
Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Arrange 20 pairs of pretzels sticks (the bacon), spaced relatively equally apart.

While kids arrange pretzel pairs, an adult melts the vanilla candy coating or white chocolate chips in a small bowl in the microwave in 30-second increments to prevent overcooking (it gloms up fast when overdone, then it cannot be used).

Once candy coating is melted, drop a small amount — a half tablespoon or so — of coating on the center of one set of pretzel sticks (this is the “egg white”). Fairly quickly, drop two yellow M&Ms onto the coating for the “yolks”. Or one M&M, or three, or more, as the one dropping yolks decides. No need for perfection.

Continue with the remaining sets of pretzels, dropping coating followed by M&Ms, one set at a time. (If doing this with older kids —who require less help dropping the M&Ms and move more quickly — you could likely add coating to all the pretzel sets at once then quickly add all the “yolks” without worrying the candy coating will begin to set before all are done.)

Next, admire your work, then carefully place the baking sheet in the refrigerator to “cook” for about 20 minutes.