I want to cook with my 2 year old

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But have no idea what to make or how to make it . Please tell me in simple terms how to do rice crispy cakes (do i need cooking chocolate or normal chocolate etc etc) and what else we could do.
I'd like things to do where he could safely do most of it himself (except the hot stuff), with guidance, so no raw eggs please.

I do pizzas with mine - I make the sauce and slice the toppings and they spread it around. dd has always been a v enthusiastic cheese grater.

Raw eggs - tbh salmonella in UK eggs has pretty much been wiped out. I would think raw eggs were fine for cooking with small children. Muffins are quite easy.

Rice crispy cakes - I'd just use ordinary chocolate. I think you can add golden syrup but I don't usually bother. Or melt a Mars Bar.

Make a sandwich.

DS likes to help with most cooking - for instance he will have a go at chopping veg with his table knife whilst I do the rest (or we do the peeling and chopping together with hand on hand guidance), he stirs his pasta or sauce cooking (again with tactile supervision), puts toppings on pizza. Nice to do 'normal' food rather than just cakes as that can get into a bit of a cake making and eating rut imo.

Rice crispy cakes just need normal milk chocolate, melted in the microwave, and then stir in as many rc as it will take

Normal chocolate
raisins
rice crispies
melt chocolate in microwave (doesn't takke long) in a big bowl

Allow child to add other ingredients.

Form into balls in fairy cake cases and leave to set in fridge.

Have a large gin and vow never to allow a toddler in your kitchen again

you could ice biscuits? make jelly baby Jesus is a manger biscuits? we do pizzas too.

The problem with choc crispies IMO is that the choc gets v hot.

As soon as he's able to manage scissors (which may not be yet, but it'll be sooner than you'd trust a small child with a sharp knife), he will be able to cut up things like bread and ham and cheese slices for sarnies.

Cooking choc is vile, just melt some normal gradually in a microwave, stirring till the lumps are out - if you're careful it should only need to be a little above blood heat and then stir in the crispies and dollop into paper cases (and floor, and into mouth) and scrape and lick and... oooh... lovely but messy!

oh yes, spreading icing and adding 100s&1000s and smarties etc is good (unclean) fun.

try this book
or
this one
I haven't got anything to do with either. honest guv

I read the title as, I want to cook my 2 year old

I'm probably not going to be much help, especially as I can't even got the 'just add water/eggs' Thomas cakes right, lol. Although, I can do crispy cakes and banana choc chip cake!

Fair cakes
Chocolate chip banana loaf (yummmmmmy)

I weigh all the ingredients and put them in little bowls etc and get her to add in the big bowl, she can stir and put into the bowls.

We also did stuff like spag bol, I'd brown the mince, she'd sit on the counter (far away from hob) and help peel mushrooms and cut them (with a chlids knife, so they looked a bit butchered, but she enjoyed it!)

Do you really? God I hated cooking with mine when they were toddlers.

Iced the Xmas cake with them tonight tho, but they're 6 and 8 and actually helped

Make sponge cakes or plain biccies and then let him loose with a bowl of white glace icing and assorted sweets and sprinkles do decorate them with (Askeys do sprinkles without artificial colours in most supermarkets)

Buy ready-to-roll puff pastry and let him dollop/spread on pesto and sprinkle over grated cheese. Fold in half and re roll then cut into strips or shapes with cutter and bake.

Can help with making sandwiches.

I've had my DD sat on the kitchen counter with me (don't shoot!) since she was about 15 months, but you may have to resign yourself to involving him more in the assembly process than anything more complicated to begin with, otherwise you'll probably never want to do it again!

Jobs my 2.5yo 'helps' me out with in the kitchen include:

• tenderising meat with rolling pin.

• grinding spices/crushing nuts with mortar and pestle.

• cracking eggs and beating (always have to pick out bits of shell.)

• mixing and pouring.

• bashing biscuits.

• rolling out dough.

• chopping soft fruit/veg(with butter knife.) Pears, bananas, strawberries,cucumber, peeled apples, mushrooms, potatoes, cauli and celery all work.

• squeezing citrus juices. (has been known to get some in eye though, as well as the floor, counter and wall.)

DS has 'cooked' crumbles, no bake cheesecakes, banana splits, fruit salad, sandwiches, scones, guacamole, tzatziki, hummus, pancakes, muffins, omlettes, pizzas, cous cous, fajitas and pasta cheese bake alongside me.

Agree with previous poster who said it's more about assembly though.

If it all gets too much, just put them at the sink to 'wash the dishes.' DS loves it.

Just let him join in with whatever you are making at lunch time or tea time.

Or get a children's cookery book for ideas.
Maybe something like these from amazon?

I only ever make gingerbread biscuits with ds. I use the recipe in Tana Ramsay's book.