Recipes to do with the children?

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Anyone got any nice recipes that I can do with my girls throughout the holidays & maybe ones they’ll enjoy getting involved in.

We always bake cupcakes & it’s getting a bit boring now.

Mine used to enjoy making scones. They're good because they learn a combination of skills and lots of stages they can help with. - just do the rolling and cutting, or the rubbing in and mixing .plus you can do savoury as well as sweet, and use for lunch/tea/snack.

Pizza is a good one, sort of baking!

Pancakes - you can get them to help put out /add toppings - fruit/yoghurt/honey/ jam for sweet, ham/cheese etc for savoury

Easy granola - oats/oil/honey/seeds/dried fruit they can mix and you bung in the oven

Wrap pizzas - again they can add the passatta / toppings

Fruit kebabs- depending on DC age you chop the fruit and supervise them skewering !

Have fun

Quick bread rolls that you can make into different shapes.

My two like making macaroni cheese and can make it without help now, also they like to make rainbow pasta salad

Bread
Pizza
Victoria sponge
Chocolate cake
Milkshakes
Fajitas
Pancakes
Pies

How old are they? If old enough to be using knives with supervision I'd be getting them cooking simple meals that they enjoy eating (or even if you do the chopping they can do the weighing, stirring and other prep)

There are bound to be simple recipes for kids online.

Cheesecake
Biscuits

Any recipe you are making.

Try the tickled fingers kiss cook books, they are great. There are 2 depending on age

Shortbread biscuits, nice and straightforward for children.

BERO coffee kisses, a bit more complicated, plus buttercream to make.

Shortcrust pastry for jam tarts, easy & ingredients not too expensive.

Fruit crumble.

We make flapjacks here. Nice and easy and handy to have in for snacks.

Falafel

Rock buns

Pavlova. It's a high impact low effort smasher and what kid doesn't like cream and meringue.

I use nigella's recipe in her feast book, don't bother with the coconut and use any fruit topping you like.

I make it with my boys all the time, they like whisking the egg whites and adding the sugar, and cutting up the fruit and whisking the cream.

Also apple pie with pre made short crust pastry. Usually loads of leftover pastry and they can cut shapes into it and decorate the top, or make jam tarts. Easy peasy.

Bread - turned into a loaf, pizza, buns or, if you are feeling adventurous, bagels.
Flatbreads made with flour and yoghurt -Jamie Oliver has a recipie.
Eggy stuff - scrambled, omelettes, boiled
Pancakes and Americian pancakes
Scones
Muffins, cookies, brownies, rocky road.

Girls are 6 & 3

So many fab ideas I think we’ll be doing a few of these thanks everyone!

My girls love making rocky road (I use nigellas rocky road crunch bars) and banana muffins - especially good when you have bananas needing using up! We actually use a nigella recipe for those too - the banana butterscotch muffins but replace butterscotch with a mix of dark and white chocolate! Very tasty
Also the girls love decorating pizzas - jus rol so ready made dough with a jar of pizza sauce which would mean they could pretty much 'make dinner' by themselves if you chop up some toppings.

Scones
Fruitcake
Biscuits
Cookies
Eggnog
Muffins
Pizza
Cakes of different kinds
Pancakes
Toast
Pies
Trifle
Rock buns
Tarts
Flapjacks
Crumbles
Milkshakes
Fruit kebabs
Icing
Wraps and paninis
Sausage rolls
Salads

Get them to assist you with food preparation. Ask them to weigh, have them measure out the stuff and so on. Involve them as much as possible. Teach them about food safety and how to cook meals independently too. Demonstrate how to cut out shapes and the like. Decorate cookies as well. Make batches of stuff and try icing in addition.

I recommend buying one of the Dorling Kindersley children's step-by-step cook books. I can't recommend them highly enough. The recipes are great (edible for adults too!) and cover all the basic cooking techniques. All of the recipes are laid out and photographed beautifully, step by step, and are clear and simple to use. We still use some of the recipes now the DC are nearly adults!

With a 3 year old some 'assemble' type foods so if you make the mince, veg and potatoes for a shepherd's pie then they can assemble it cold, either as a big family pie or as individual small ones.

SHortbread is easy and if you don't have cutters roll it into a sausage and cut into 2 cm pieces and flatten with a fork.

Things made with egg so omelettes, scrambled maybe baked.

If you are near an Ikea their 'toy' pans and utensils are actually scaled down working utensils, I use them with my raclette.

Another vote for Vero book, at age 6 we were doing rock buns, scones, drop scones and melting moments from there.

Also muffins are excellent, once you are confident with basic quantities you can add any fruit/flavourings, which gives chance to experiment wildly with combinations.

On the savoury side, pasta bake, omelettes, any sauces e.g. chilli or curry are all quite easy. Plus cheese scones or cheese straws.

Bero book of course!