What are your go-to bakes to make with the kids? Tell us to win a £100 John Lewis voucher + signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake

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Join Douglas on a honey hunt in the seventh Hugless Douglas adventure from David Melling.

The sheep are baking honey cakes and Douglas can't wait to taste them. He's sure that food without honey just isn't yummy. But can he ever be tempted to try something new?

To be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake PLUS a £100 John Lewis voucher, just tell us - what are your favourite bakes to create with your children? (include the recipes if you can!)

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Gingerbread people are a favourite but we also love muffins with a teaspoonful of Nutella in the middle - just put a spoonful of cake mixture in the case, add a teaspoon of Nutella and then top with more cake mixture and bake as normal - yummy

Given the choice, ds would make condensed milk flapjacks, however they have now been banned apart from for extreme endurance sports as they are both too nice and too calorific.
We like making blender muffins, rainbow cupcakes (ds more than me), and apple cake

I have a lovely recipe for farmhouse carrot cake that my kids really enjoy making, licking the bowl and then eating with a big glass of milk. Yum!

We do the basic 6oz marg, 6oz caster sugar, 6oz SR flour and 3 eggs. (Collecting the eggs is a highlight as I keep chickens and guineafowl) Sometimes we make butterfly buns, but usually bake as a traybake and have great fun decorating with icing and sprinkles and small sweets.
We also enjoy making pasta too.

Simple choc flakes....melted chocolate, some butter and corn flakes. Fridge until set. Easy and the kids love making and eating!

My daughter's favourite is tiffin. I like a Victoria sponge. Want to try a carrot or banana cake though!

Gingerbread men are always a big hit with the kids, as are cupcakes (topped with colourful chocolate chips/glace cherry bits/'hundreds & thousands').

Our latest passion is home-made Chocolate Muffins . The following recipe is adapted from the 'BBC Good Food Guide' -->

INGREDIENTS:- In a Bowl - 125g Plain Flour / 25g Coco powder / 1tsp baking powder.
In a Jug - 1 egg / 60g sugar / 2tbsp oil / 100ml milk.
For the icing - 500g icing sugar / 1/2-1 tbsp warm water.

METHOD:-

1. Preheat the oven to 160C - seive the bowl ingredients into the bowl.
2. Mix the egg, milk, oil and sugar together in the jug.
3. Pour the egg mixture into the bowl (add chocolate chips now to make double chocolate muffins) and mix until combined but still lumpy.
4. Spoon mixture into cake cases and put the tray in the oven at 160C for 20 until set and cracked at the top. If not quite set put back in for a further 10 mins.
5. Whilst cooking make up some icing by adding the water to the icing sugar slowly and bit by bit until the consistency of golden syrup is at the preferred level. Add more icing sugar or water if needed.
6. Once muffins are done leave them to stand for 5 mins, then cover in icing and EAT!

We love making fresh bread, all the kneading is very therapeutic! It's good to experiment with a range of toppings - cheese, herbs, seeds, roasted tomatoes/peppers. Nothing beats home-made bread fresh out of the
oven 😀

We also love making giant chocolate chip cookies - great for birthdays etc as they can be iced with a special message

Cornflakes or rice crispie buns, easy, great fun and she loves to lick the bowl

We love to make Annabel Karmel cookies. So easy.
INGREDIENTS
100g butter, softened
100g light brown sugar
1 egg
150g porridge oats
75g self-raising flour
A pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
50g dried apricots chopped
50g raisins
100g plain chocolate chips

Ginger biscuits or a savoury bake with carrots and onions. DD loves rubbing in fat, anything to get messy!

Free From Spicy Fruit muffins:
PURE
Organic sugar
Free range eggs
Cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice
natural dried fruits - raisins, sultanas, apricot pieces
Gluten free plain flour
baking powder

Bish, bash, bosh - 15 minutes of tasting yumminess with good stuff in!

We really love baking muffins made with ready brek instead of flour
Much healthier and so much fun as we then decorate with fondant letters that we've carefully made
We then give to each person and
Such a simple and effective way to encourage children to bake and have so much pleasure

Basic vanilla cupcakes in our house.......simple but perfect.

I bake regularly with my little people, so have lots of favourites, but my eldest (at the ripe old age of 4) is a dab hand at making chocolate biscuits. Here's the recipe we use:

250g butter, softened
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla extract
250g plain flour
50g cocoa powder

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and bake for 12-15 mins.

simple fairy cakes are always winners which is just same oz flour,margarine,sugar and then half amount in eggs. the best butter cream ive made is from mary berry and its 400g icing sugar and 300g marg and splashes of milk to mix. this with the kids is brilliant! to make different falvours sub some of the flour with cocoa or camp coffee.

krispie cake which is rice kirspies marshmellows and toffees in equal amounts.
a tray bake sponge with lemon water icing and then loads of sprinkles on top.
friedge cake.melt down golden syrup,sugar,marg,add coco and drinking chocolate and then stir through digestive biscuits.leave in the fridge to cool.

don't be all healthy,baking is about treaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
oh and and they love it if they ge their own pinnies.
and its really easy to get them to wash up if you make it seem part of the fun.
enjoy it with them.if it make a mess embrace it.baking with the kids is the best times of their lives and yours.the best memories have come from there for us.

Anzac biscuits:

3 oz each oats oats and desiccated coconut, 4 oz plain flour, 6 oz caster sugar all mixed together in a bowl. In a saucepan melt 3.5 oz butter with 1 tbsp golden syrup. In a small mix half tsp bicarbonate of soda with 2 tbsp boiling water and mix into the butter mix. Add to the dry ingredients and bring together. Form into balls and bake for 15 minutes at gas 4.

We do brownies - I use Lorraine Pascale's recipe for Oreo brownies
Recipe here
And the BBC Good Cakes and Bakes Recipe here - very adaptable- add white choc chips, orange zest etc. and we have fun decorating with icing sugar, white chocolate stars etc.

We also make chocolate slabs for presents - great fun to do and loads cheaper than buying. The possibilities are endless, we usually melt and swirl a combination of different chocolate - white/ dark/ milk or white choc coloured with food colouring, and then top with things like freeze dried raspberries, dried cranberries, pistachios, mini chocolate eggs etc

And don't get me started on Mug cakes!

I love baking with the kids and some of my favourites are chocolate chip cookies of different kinds, brownies with cookie dough and banana bread/muffins. YUM!

Gingerbread men, cup cakes, tray bakes for sweet things and pizza dough for savoury. Pizza dough is brilliant as you can also "decorate" it afterwards with ham peppers tomatoes etc. bread rolls are also good as you get the excitement of watching the dough rise whilst you do other things .

The all in one mix for chocolate banana cake. Bananas can be frozen when over ripe and used later. For special treat, add butter icing. Can be a big cake or small cakes.

My DD(4) loves to make anything with us, but her most requested recipe is chocolate chip cookies.

2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs
8 oz. chocolate chips

Mix all the dry ingredients. Cream sugars and butter together. Add vanilla. Add eggs, mixing after each one. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix. Add chocolate chips and mix.

You can make them any size, you just have to adjust the time. However the original recipe is for huge cookies. Scoop cookies into 1/4 cup measuring cup and flatten lightly with your hand. Bake at 170 C, 12-15 minutes.

Biscuits of any flavour but particularly chocolate, vanilla and mixed spice (Dad doesn't like ginger!). Cupcakes are a favourite too (especially the icing) and we recently added Danish pastries using ready-to-roll puff pastry to our repertoire which were a great hit. The pictures show last years Xmas cake with the houses made out of biscuits and decorated by my grandsons and the elder grandson's Valentine present for his Mum.

Fairy cakes and bread pudding are what my kids like making most. My bread pudding is always popular with others too.

My children know a basic sponge recipe and we change it to whatever we want - lemon drizzle, chocolate etc. They love cooking and especially decorating cakes.