is 18months too young to try and do cooking things like cakes and biscuits

[kittenqueen]

everytime i try with my dd she ends up getting moody.

maybe her concentration span isn't long enough to manage to be patient for things to bake

ignore me though, I wouldn't even try to bake with gecko

no, but do make things that are ok to be eaten raw recent mummy was biscuit baking, her ds ate so much raw mixture that 90 minutes later he started up chucking for a while, mixture contained egg and raising agent.

Ds 'started' cooking at 14mo - v. basic - then stiring, biscuits probably at about 2yrs, pizza soon after (yes, you do end up doing most of the spreading out of the dough, ahd have to rearrange the toppings out of piles, but he knew he'd made it and ate accordingly!)

i don't think ive been trying with her at the optium time such as in the earlyish morning ive been waiting till the late am or pm when shes getting a bit techy anyway

ds is 19m0 and he loves stirring, whisking (with adult hand controlling the top of the whisk...) and standing next to me when im cooking getting in the way/"helping".
although it started from him demanding to see what i was doing when i was cooking his tea, i dont think it's the production of food that he's interested in - it's just another weird adult thing that he wants to have a go at, along with talking into my mobile phone, putting the keys in the door, pressing the buttons on the cash dispenser, etc etc. so i dont think at this age they have the patience to follow a process through (ie weighing, stirring, beating, baking, eating the resulting cake) - your dd might just want to join in with one interesting-looking stage like stirring and then bugger off and play something else while you finish the cake.
at this stage i think it's more like if you're cooking they can join in a bit, rather than you cook with them as an activity. if you want her to be interested in food and where it comes from i think this is a good age to start but only in little doses (tho ds has the concentration span of a gnat, maybe your dd is better)

What about making sandwiches that she can have straight away or peeling apples with a safe peeler.