What do you bake with your kids?

[stridesy]

Hi thought I’d try baking with my 3year old and 11 year old this year and was wondering what other people baked.

Last year my, then 2 nearly 3 year old, helped me make mince pies. I was impressed how well he rolled out the pastry. The 11 year old should be able to do a fair amount . Peppermint creams are dead easy so the younger one could help make them and the older one could dip them in chocolate. Christmas cookies are easy too but if you want them to be flash make stained glass windows, basically make a hole in a cookie and crush a boiled sweet and put it in the hole.

We made snowman cookies. If you google them it's basically a plain sugar cookies with a marshmallow in a pool of glacé icing for the melting snowman. Add three smarties for the buttons and we bought a little tube of black icing to draw on eyes. They were very cute!

We always decorate a gingerbread house

Gingerbread biscuits (Christmas themed so trees/stockings/Reindeer and santa). Or for a very easy idea turn your gingerbread people upside down, tada - reindeer.

Pre mixed cookies so you just add the wet ingredients.

Cup cakes
Brownies

Letting them ice and decorate pre made gingerbread men, cheating I know

I was in aldi yesterday and they had pre made gingerbread dough with a bat cutter and sprinkles for £2.

We are doing this also.

Decorate the gingerbread House
Make gingerbread trees to go with the above
Sugar cookies
I have some of the bakedin kits in the cupboard too

Anything and everything. And we don’t just stick to baking.... On most non-school days we cook dinner together too.

For younger children, start of with the fun and simple recipes:
Crispy cakes
Cheese straws
Gingerbread men
Apple crumble
Pizzas
Sausage rolls
Pizza scrolls/pinwheels
Puff pastry tarts
Butterfly cakes
Frittata muffins
Rocky road
Ice lollies (we like banana pops www.eatingbirdfood.com/going-chocolate-covered-bananas/)

For children a bit older/more experienced:
Muffins realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cheesy-courgette-muffins.html
Banana bread
Cheesecake

Some of our favourite dinner recipes:
Fishcakes www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_kids_fishcakes_70996
Bean burgers www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/veggie_bean_burgers_for_53280
Cornflake nuggets realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cornflake-chicken-nuggets.html
Spaghetti cake realfood.tesco.com/recipes/spaghetti-cake.html
Mini toad in the hole www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mini-toad-holes
Enchiladas www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/my-world-kitchen-mexican-enchiladas
Bread pudding recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/leftovers/cheese-and-tomato-bread-and-butter-pudding
Pasta bake realfood.tesco.com/recipes/veggie-cannelloni-bake.html

Mince pies and gingerbread for a gingerbread house (not actually tried this one yet!). The logistics of our tiny kitchen make baking together quite stressful so the simpler the better.

Iced Christmas biscuits, cranberry and white chocolate flapjacks, and mince pies (with shop pastry) will all be made by 9 and 13 year old on their own.
They also made a Christmas fruit cake last year, but it took so long to cook they got bored and wandered off.
Things that are quick to bake and can be decorated afterwards are best, imo.

Rice Krispie nuggets recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/chicken-goujons-with-rice-pops or cornflake nuggets realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cornflake-chicken-nuggets.html

Sesame chicken noodles www.myfussyeater.com/sesame-honey-chicken-noodles/

Hidden veg pasta bake www.mrsrachelbrady.co.uk/2015/09/recipe-hidden-roasted-vegetable-pasta-bake/

Chicken meatballs www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/chicken-balls-tomato-carrot-sauce/

Last year we made reindeer cookies, gingerbread men and christmas tree shaped brownies. They really enjoyed making and decorating the gingerbread cookies the most.

This year I plan on making cookies. Iced Christmas biscuits are also good.

Candy cane hearts
onelittleproject.com/how-to-make-candy-cane-hearts/

Rudolph cakes
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rudolph-cupcakes

Melting snowman cookies
www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/melted-snowman-sugar-cookies/91c4a274-78a1-4cba-b890-52563d6cd670

Chocolate crispie cake Christmas puddings
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/christmas-pud-krispy-cakes

[quote Fivemoreminutes1]Rice Krispie nuggets recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/chicken-goujons-with-rice-pops or cornflake nuggets realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cornflake-chicken-nuggets.html

Sesame chicken noodles www.myfussyeater.com/sesame-honey-chicken-noodles/

Hidden veg pasta bake www.mrsrachelbrady.co.uk/2015/09/recipe-hidden-roasted-vegetable-pasta-bake/

Chicken meatballs www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/chicken-balls-tomato-carrot-sauce/[/quote]
This is in the Christmas topic 🎅🏻

I used to make plain biscuits in the shape of a Christmas tree, melt chocolate to ice them with, then let the girls have free rein to decorate with smarties, sprinkles, gold & silver balls, etc. They always really enjoyed doing that.

Gingerbread. We have Christmas cookie cutters and then we decorate the biscuits with icing pens.

Always have a gingerbread biscuit making day sometime before Christmas. Lots of cutters in various sizes - xmas trees, stars, snowflakes, snowmen etc.
Which they then decorate with icing, raisins and smarties!