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Anchor Butter: child aged 4-11? Bakers needed to get creative with their children - £300 to be won for feedback NOW CLOSED

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AnnMumsnet · 23/03/2015 14:31

Anchor has asked us to find 250 Mumsnetters with a child aged approx 4 to 11, to get baking with their children using Anchor butter. Selected testers will be send an exclusive Anchor baking kit – containing a coupon for 250g of Anchor butter, an apron, wooden spoon and bowl to help get you started.

Here's what Anchor says: "We’d love to see what MNers can create with our rich and creamy block butter. We know it's perfect for all types of tasty bakes, whether it's making the pastry for your homemade chicken pie, or millionaires shortbread for that weekend treat with the kids. At Anchor we've been making block butter for over 125 years, to bring bakers high quality, rich and creamy butter and we’d love to know what think of it"

Plenty of recipe ideas here – including delicious ginger biscuits or does anyone fancy Cheese Scones for a snack?

MN recipes here – including yummy banana cakes from MNer forkhandles and who could resist Marslady's Lemon Drizzle Cake!

This product test is open to all UK Mumsnetters with at least one child aged around 4 to 11 years old.

Testers will be asked to bake some of your family’s favourite bakes or to try something new with their children between 13-26th April. You will be asked to leave your feedback on a feedback thread on Mumsnet and to also complete a short survey about your views of Anchor butter. Please only sign up if you are available during this time period. We’d also love to see photos on the feedback thread of your creations and ‘action’ shots of the preparation!

We are looking for some testers who would be willing to make a video of the experience – please indicate in the sign up survey if you would like to do this. Video testers will all be sent an additional £50 voucher for John Lewis as a token of thanks. Please note the videos will be edited and will then be featured on Mumsnet, on the Anchor website and on social media.

If you would be interested in signing up – please add your details here and we will be in touch with selected testers soon.

All who take part and who add feedback as required will be entered into a prize draw where one tester will win a £300 John Lewis voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

Anchor Butter: child aged 4-11? Bakers needed to get creative with their children - £300 to be won for feedback NOW CLOSED
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k8vincent · 23/03/2015 16:47

I guess it would be good for me to have to set aside my control of the kitchen surfaces and let the kids get flour and sugar everywhere!

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MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 23/03/2015 20:59

My dd likes to bake but she makes such a mess, I have to let dh take charge! I wouldn't bother with Anchor though, it's hideously expensive now and it's not British either. Waitrose do a 500g block of butter for fraction over the cost of 250g of Anchor.

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MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 23/03/2015 21:07

My apologies, I've just checked and although it's parent company is NZ it is now made in the UK for the UK market. Apparently this has considerably altered the taste. So, was the NZ butter better then? Hmm

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AllThePrettySeahorses · 24/03/2015 07:13

Pity - my little girl's 2 (well, nearly 3) so too young, but she loves baking. All I do is put the weighed ingredients in bowls for her so she can add them and make easy biscuits, scones and fairy cakes almost by herself.

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AnneOfCleavage · 24/03/2015 13:27

Done. DD and I love baking together - it's our special time, just us. Any excuse for us to bake is great hence the sign up Grin

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AnneOfCleavage · 24/03/2015 13:50

Eek. I put the wrong age. DD is actually a year younger than what I put (her birthday isn't for aaages) Blush will that matter?

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confusedofengland · 24/03/2015 13:55

I love to bake together with DS1 & DS2 - I also have DS3, aged 13 months, who sits in his highchair brandishing a wooden spoon while we bake Grin I find it's great for teaching them all sorts of things, apart from just the baking - numbers (weighing), colours/art (icing), taking turns (to crack eggs/weigh things out etc) & we also love to spend the time together. We all love licking the bowl & spoons & tasting the end result, too Grin It's DS2's birthday over Easter, so I'm hoping to do some special Easter/birthday baking with them then.

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dizzyem · 24/03/2015 21:08

It would be great to get both my daughters involved in baking, especially over Easter :)

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TengoSueno · 25/03/2015 10:48

We are planning on making a chocolate fudge cake and maybe some simnel. I do love a good bake.

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HammeringBird · 26/03/2015 11:44

Done. DS loves any cooking and baking so we would love to do this.

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AngelBlue12 · 27/03/2015 08:46

Would love to do this have signed up :-)

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Caillou · 28/03/2015 03:52

I would have loved to take part in this with dd who loves baking, but she is 3.5 :(

Any chance I can still sign up pretty please?

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Candyperfumegirl · 28/03/2015 09:52

Would love to be a part of this testing panel, planning on doing lots of cooking and baking wi my daughters over easter :)

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AnnMumsnet · 28/03/2015 10:39

Caillou - yes - the age is just a guideline really, we can have some flexibility on this...

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Caillou · 30/03/2015 03:59

Thank you Ann, I have applied, fingers crossed now

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VickyRsuperstar · 30/03/2015 13:29

I have applied as my kids love baking!

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5madthings · 31/03/2015 11:35

Have filled it in. The madthings love baking, esp ds2 he is 12 but little so looks younger.

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5madthings · 31/03/2015 11:43

Madthing2 with last year's easter cake and pops, he spent ages with the decorating and has great ideas for this year's easter cake. Madthing5 wants to make some more unicorn poop biscuits apparently... At least they are quick and simple. I fancy making some cheese scones.

Anchor Butter: child aged 4-11? Bakers needed to get creative with their children - £300 to be won for feedback NOW CLOSED
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MummyBtothree · 09/04/2015 18:24

Yay! Looking forward to receiving my Anchor baking kit & getting creative with the tiddly peeps Grin

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PopTarts · 09/04/2015 18:32

Yayy, we love baking here so looking forward to the pack Grin

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Theimpossiblegirl · 09/04/2015 18:51

Thanks for selecting us. The email said nothing about videoing so I'm assuming we're just doing the standard product test.

DD can't wait to get baking.
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Spirael · 10/04/2015 10:57

We've been chosen for this - thank you! DD1 loves baking and I expect DD2 (10 months) will love sticking her fingers in the mix. Grin Now we just need to work out what delicious treat to make.

Impressed at the speed of delivery, our pack has just arrived! Though the wooden spoon is plastic. Wink

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5madthings · 10/04/2015 11:57

We have been chosen as well :)

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MrsJohnHarrison · 10/04/2015 14:04

We've been chosen too! Grin I'm going to have to relinquish control of the kitchen now as my two love baking 'on their own'WinkShock

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5madthings · 10/04/2015 14:14

Our kit has arrived, madthing5 is very impressed though the bowl is currently a helmet... Looking forward to doing some baking.

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