NOW CLOSED If your child(ren) could cook or prepare you anything on Mother's Day, what would it be? Share your favourite child-friendly recipes with Waitrose.com and win a £250 online shopping voucher

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The folks at Waitrose.com have asked us to find out what you'd like your child(ren) to cook or prepare for you on Mother's Day - it could be child-friendly baking recipes, or more elaborate ones that they would need help with.

Waitrose.com want to gather a Mumsnet Mother's Day recipe collection - everyone who adds a recipe to this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £250 Waitrose.com online shopping voucher (see note on terms and conditions below).

Please note your recipes may appear on Waitrose.com and/or in an email MNHQ will be sending out just before Mother's day.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw
MNHQ

The prize consists of a £250 online voucher for use on Waitrose.com. Vouchers terms of use will apply. If you win the prize draw and Waitrose.com do not deliver in your area, as an alternative Waitrose will provide £250 in vouchers for use in store.

The recipe for the brioche is brioche spread with marmalade, 3 free range eggs, 2 tablespoons of caster sugar, 1 cup of double cream, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence.

Mix liquid ingredients together with sugar arrange brioche in dish, pour over mixture, bung in Preheated oven. Serve with custard for extra calories . very simple for a child to do with a little supervision.

As my husband will be doing the organising this I am almost sure that he will make his pancakes!

I will lie upstairs whilst i hear them rattle downstairs

The smell of good coffee will draw me downstairs

My daughter will put out all the yummy spreads - maple syrup; chocolate spread / wedges of lemon / brown sugar

Husband will cook some lovely organic back bacon as well

All served with smiles ....

Recipie

110g/4oz plain flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
50g/2oz butter

Sift; mix; heat pan; cook (moan about first one never being right!)

I would have asparagus with hollondaise. Scallops. And Boodle's Fool as the unhealthy option!

I also asked my mum what she would like me/us to make and she said a coconut sponge cake. Am off to find a recipe and will post when I've found one

It was the penguins, I tried the Hash Brown casserole and I think I must have done something wrong as wasn't nice at all. I'm notorious for my lack of talent in the kitchen!

I found this one on the Waitrose website.

Yum

DS has announced he & DH are cooking Mother's Day lunch 'and it doesn't involve lasagne'. So. Lasagne for dinner then.

Banoffee Mush

Crush a digestive biscuit in a bowl.
Add a generous dollop from a tin of boiled condensed milk (available ready boiled)
Add half a chopped banana.
Add a good swirl of the cream of your choice ( double, single, squirty)
Sprinkle with whatever chocolate is available (cocoa powder, flake, grated galaxy, choc sprinkles)

Yum bloomin yum!

Can be made by anyone for anyone in about 30 seconds.

Boiled eggs and soldiers! Easy to eat in bed

DS, now sadly studying abroad, used to make me Spaghetti alla Vongole for Mother's Day! So easy to do too

For two people>

150/200g spaghetti

Jar of Vongole (small sweet clams) - (I get mine at Carluccio but only once a year on account of the price!)
Cherry tomatoes
Chives finely chopped
One Knorr Fish Stock cube
Olive oil
Garlic
Good splash dry white wine
A few chili flakes (optional

Dissolve stock cube in olive oil on low heat in a large frying pan, add crushed garlic to taste, fry gently, add white wine and allow to reduce by at least half. Quarter the cherry tomatoes and add to pan with chopped chives and chilli flakes - remove from heat. Cook spaghetti and drain. Return frying pan to heat - fairly high and add spaghetti. Toss to mix ingredients, check seasoning and pile into a bowl. Serve with a glass of ice cold Prosecco and dream of being in Venice!

When do you add the clams lentillyfart?

River cottage 10 minute chocolate cookies. Dd can make these easily aged 5, require no use if food porocessors or the like, jus lots of yummy ingredients. Can be made to go with daddy's fool proof crime brûlée from same book, or, wrapped in tissue paper and ribbon to open at breakfast.

My dd (4) would make this 'cake', which is the one DH always had as a child (LaTrucha marvels in having found MIL's one slatternly trait )

1 pack of digestives
Chocolate sprinkles and/ or chocolate sauce made with melted chocolate in cream
custard from a packet.

Build in layers until it roughly resembles a cake.

Funnily enough, I'm the only one that eats it!

My children (aged 7 and 8) make Pita Bread Pizzas for me for lunch.

Small round Pitas, tomato puree, chopped pepper and mushrooms and any other toppings of choice (chorizo is popular here). Spinkled with dried powdered garlic and basil. Top with grated cheese or crumbled goats cheese.
Toast under the grill until cheese starts to bubble.

They also make a mean fruit salad to follow:

1 fresh pineapple (if you have one of those fab things that slices and cores them - otherwise, one tin).
2 chopped nectarines
2 chopped apples
1 orange
2 chopped kiwis
(add any other fruit you like)

Serve with Yeo Valley Honey Yoghurt.

A lovely fresh fruit salad with all my favourite colourful fruits - strawberries, melon, blueberries, lychees, (none of that apple and orange in a fruit salad nonsense) served with greek yoghurt.

Thank you for all your recipe ideas and comments, we've done the prize draw and congratulations go to....

Snakeonaplane

You have won a £250 Waitrose.com voucher - I'll PM you to get your details.

Hooray, was having a crap dayweekand this has cheered me up no I flamin love MN, Thank you so much!!