Food to cook with a toddler

[anotherangel2]

My just turned two year old can assemble fruit kebabs, make a mean ham sandwich and loves baking cakes. What other things can we make together? She can’t have dairy but it fine with alternatives. I was think pizza, maybe scones but then I am running out of ideas.

Muffins? Some great sugar free recipes on line. Mine also likes helping make fresh pasta.

Cheese scones are great to do but cut them out with cookie cutters so they become e.g. cheesy dinosaurs or stars or animals. I find the dough is a bit easier to handle for toddlers/more forgiving than actual biscuits!

Sorry missed the no dairy...plain/or currant scones I guess

Melting Moment biscuits? You can use dairy free margarine.

Thanks Nikkynakkynoo DD is happy with vegan cheese but I can’t eat it as it tastes vile.

I will have a look at the biscuits CanaBanana.

Pasta maybe a bit beyond us yet whiningandwining but I prefer to bake her with at home so I can control the amount of sugar so a good call on sugar free baking.

The Tickle Fingers Toddler Cookbook is brilliant! It has savoury recipes and baking for 1 to 4 year olds. Have tried quite a few recipes successfully with my 2 year old x

What do you eat at meals? By about 20 months, mine was helping me with pretty much all aspects of food prep except handling raw meat and physically putting things in the oven. Mostly I had her helping me chop fruit and veg (I’d chop, she’d put in the pot), measuring things like rice, stirring raw ingredients, etc. So really she could help with just about anything we were making.

Cooking dinner is often a rush after picking her up from nursery so I tend to use lots of prepared frozen veg to save time so we can have dinner together.

Preparing and cooking dinner with my 3 1/2 year old is something we have enjoyed since she was old enough to sit on the kitchen side with me.
She loved asking questions now and she really gets involved. earlier on it was a case of getting messy and putting food from one place to the bowl or pan (cold) but now she is quite proficient with a small knife (under close supervision) and is learning about the food as well as cooking it with me... I've found she will try pretty much anything she prepare which is great to get her to try new things. There are times when I just need to get the food done and out to the troops but when ever I can, she helps out. We even bought her a wooden box with a height adjustable floor in it so she can stand at the kitchen counter and help without having to watch her balance as it is around her..... very cool bit of kit. It's great you're getting them into cooking early :o)

Banana pancakes! Mash a ripe banana, sprinkle of cinnamon, whisk in an egg.
Drop blobs into heated oiled pan and cook for a few minutes on each side.

My toddler loves mashing the banana and I normally stick some chopped fruit with it.