Baking With Kids

Messy screen-free fun for toddlers with the added bonus of baked goods!

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In an attempt to keep the kids happy and quiet I’ve found we spend at least an hour a day in the kitchen. If its not baking its another form of messy play or splashing about with the sink.

At best baking with kids is a stimulating and diverting screen free activity which encourages sensory development and aids knowledge of cause and effect, increases curiosity and is an all round brilliant way to enhance cognitive skills.

At worst its a really messy way to enjoy something yummy- so its win win

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Christmas Tree Cupcakes 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Is there such a thing as too much buttercream? I thought I was being reserved by sticking to a small yet tall spiral for our version of Christmas tree cupcakes but apparently this may still be a too much buttercream for a class full of 4 year olds 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤣 Plenty of cupcake recipes on the blog- these are chocolate with vanilla bean buttercream 😍

Can I be a pudding? Grabbing some quick photos of these rice crispy puddings (see my stories) when Luna decides she wants to be a pudding too 🤣 Snowed under this week with a Christmas to-do list longer than my arm so these rice crispy puddings were a lovely simple treat for the nursery Christmas party. It's 250g melted chocolate with 100g rice crispies and spoonful of golden syrup (optional) spoon into cases and top with a drizzle of white chocolate and a few holly sprinkles when set 😊

Snowman Blondies ⛄☃️❄☃️⛄⛄☃️❄❄☃️☃️ Sometimes I have a picture of how things will look in my head but the end result is an abstract, nightmarish relation to my vision...much like these snowman blondies 😂 I pictured a cute white chocolate version of the reindeer brownies but instead have these psychopathic, crazy-eyed, angular snowmen 🤷🏼‍♀️ They do taste good though so that's a plus 😂 If you want to make a less terrifying version the Blondie recipe is up on the blog (link in bio) ⛄☃️❄☃️⛄☃️❄☃️⛄⛄

Goats cheese & Caramelized Onion Christmas Tree 🎄🎄🎄 I've been a bit awol this week with a million and one Christmas things to do so cheekily sharing this tree we made almost exactly a year ago 😁 Recipe below 👇👇👇 There's a few sweet versions of this pastry tree about but we've gone for a savory option to combat the amount of sweet treats around currently. You can either use 2 sheets of ready rolled pastry or if you'd prefer to make your own there's an easy recipe in our site (link in bio). Roll out 1 sheet of pastry and cover in caramelized onion chutney (we used @lidluk delux version) then grate over 200g hard goats cheese. Place the second sheet of pastry over the top and cut into a tree shape. Score 1/2 inch sections up each side of the tree and twist to form branches. Brush with some beaten egg. Bake at 180°C/ gas mark 6 for 20 minutes of until risen and golden.

Christmas Pudding Lollys 🎄🎅🤶🍫 Oooh I do love an easy chocolate lolly for a rainy day activity! These pudding lollies are as simple as they look, a blob of milk chocolate topped with a smaller blob of white chocolate with some sultanas and holly sprinkles pressed gently in 😀 This is however one of those activities where you may want to widen your parameters on what a Christmas pudding looks like... as per the last photo 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Candy Cane Fudge! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!! Because among many other reasons we can rework our rainbow fudge into these festive treats! It's the same simple 3 ingredient rainbow fudge from the blog (link in bio) but we've only used red food paste and rather than colour, added a drop of peppermint extract to the plain layers. We tried to get lovely neat candy canes cut out but this did proove a bit fiddly with the kids. Luckily this fudge is just as pretty in blocks! You can freeze these ahead for perfect festive gifts 😍

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