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!)

This discussion is sponsored by Hachette and will end on 21 September

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Flapjacks always go down well, with lots of added fruit, seeds and nuts

fairy cakes and chocolate krispy cakes are favourite in my household :)

Flap jacks but I always seem to burn them!

my older kids have just mastered a Victoria sponge and are so happy doing it with me just watching, now they are experimenting with adding chocolate chips or cinnamon to the basic cake mix and enjoy doing it.
They also love getting the biscuit or cake mixes and reading the instructions and it is also teaching them to work together which is a real bonus.

Definitely banana bread (with extra melted chocolate in the middle)...it's simple, fun, quick and delicious!

Banana loaf is great. Best way to use up the bananas that are overripe. And even better, my daughter can make it all by herself.

we love baking banana scones and shortbread biscuits

Ours is simply fairy cakes with lots of different toppings... As with most people a lot of the ingredients get eaten before they even in danger of reaching the oven! :)

Pancakes with a multitude of toppings grin

we love doing the simple cup cakes

Rice crispy cakes are easy with little ones. Melt chocolate and butter and rice crispies.

We love tray bakes here - tiffin, brownie and flapjack go down a treat!

Cupcakes

chocolate cup cakes - always a favourite

Chocolate brownies

Either just basic cupcakes with glitter and sprinkles on the top or rice crispie buns with chocolate or marshmallows

Homemade hobnob style biscuits, shortbread and pizza dough.

Really must get them to try making a simple sponge cake soon, although they enjoy icing/decorating the ones I make.

We love baking fairy cakes and decorating with icing and various toppings!

Our two favourites are choc chip cookies (we try to make them really nice and gooey!) and either fairy cakes which my DDs love to decorate with lots of sprinkles, or a victoria sponge cake.

fairy cakes!

Simple cup cakes with icing then I let them decorate how they want with sprinkles eyc

The little ones love to make meringues - they're so simple to make just 50g of sugar per egg white and whisk until stiff. They love to decorate them with fruit too.

When baking with the kids, I think its easy to stick to a simple basic fairy cake recipe.

4oz Self Raising Flour
4oz Butter/Marg
4oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs

Once baked just mix up some icing sugar and this can be customised with colours by using the food colourings and they are free to decorate them as they wish. They can stick a chocolate button on top of the icing sugar, grated chocolate, or a marshmallow. Anything really whatever takes their fancy!

We like making hedgehog rolls for dipping in soup. We have the recipe from a kids cooking book.

Basically it is a normal white bread roll recipe rolled unto tear drop shapes. Then use a pair of scissors to snip some spikes and finally place 2 olive slices for the eyes.