Nursery Cupcakes

[GPatz]

DS is leaving Nursery and we thought it would be nice to mark his leaving by taking in some cupcakes for staff and children. Nursery have agreed this, provided there are not any nuts in the cakes and have advised that children won't be able to eat them on the site. To get around some of this, is am going to put each cupcake in an individual bag for ease of taking home, but the nut thing is worrying me slightly - I'm going to buy the cupcakes from a supermarket and apart from checking warning labels and avoiding cakes with nuts and those made in factories using nuts, is there anything else I should avoid?

I think that’s fine as it’s up to the parents to give to their child. So they would be able to assess the risk them self.

Putting them in individual bags is a good idea. I’m speaking as a teacher who’s had many a stressful home time made more stressful by having to hand out 30 individual very squishy cupcakes!

I'd give the staff the packet, I'm a teacher and it's always handy to have so parents can check the ingredients themselves if they're unsure. So many children have dairy intolerances that aren't monitored as well as a nut allergy.

I agree @Theprimroseswereover but better than the parent who brings in a tray bake that's uncut and no napkins etc

I would want to check the packaging myself. I wouldn’t go so far as to try to buy ones that say they aren’t made in a factory that uses nuts as it’s tricky and if a child has such a severe nut allergy then they probably wouldn’t be allowed them anyway.

It’s a part of life that they can’t eat certain things and the parents will know how to deal with it.

I would also avoid any cakes with decorations made with gelatin- so jelly sweets etc- -as this is made with animal products. I know my DDs nursery banned any cakes/traybakes with these types of decorations to avoid any children not being allowed them.

My DS has a peanut and egg allergy. So he couldn’t eat a cupcake anyway. I’d appreciate the gesture though (and then eat it myself later). DS probably wouldn’t care. I’d just give him something like some haribo if he seemed bothered.

I think if we’re talking about nursery age kids then as long as you aren’t handing out cakes with actual nuts in, then that’s as far as you need to go. Ones that are guaranteed completely nut free are very expensive, and to be honest I wouldn’t trust you to make that decision for my child (no offense, just the truth) so unless i specifically saw the packet I’d just not give it to him. I assume most parents of kids with allergies feel the same way.

Also are there actually any children with but allergies there? A lot of nurseries just ban nuts outright anyway