ilovemealplans.com

After my first baby baking experience my Mum decided to make biscuits with Baby G. It was good fun, and messy, but we were surprised by how much he loved the biscuits. For days after all the biscuits were eaten he kept asking for them.

Nanny had bought lots of biscuit cutters and Baby G chose a train, a car and a butterfly cutter to use. Forever after he kept asking “Where a train biscuit?” “Where a car biscuit gone?”

We used a basic recipe which you can add flavour to such as mixed spice, giner or vanilla. Here is the recipe which we took from a kids cookbook I used to use when I was little!

Ingredients:

• 250g plain flour
• 125g butter
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 beaten egg
• 2 tsp mixed spice

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 190°c.
2. Beat butter and sugar together, slowly add the egg and mix.
3. Sift in the flour and spice into the bowl and mix everything together to make a firm ball of dough.
4. Sprink some flour on a rolling pin and onto surface, then roll out dough.
5. Cut the dough into shapes and place on a baking tray in the oven for 10 mins.

Baby G and I had our first venture into the world of Mother and son cooking this week. We’ve done a little cooking as a family but now he’s a toddler I thought it was time that we started baking together!

We kept it really simple and made some fairy cakes and by the way how do fairy cakes differ from cup cakes? I was able to add my own little twist as I like to use Goats products and I used a soft plain goats cheese to make a sweet cream cheese topping just like a carrot cake topping. This made the cakes extra yummy!

The recipe I used is so simple:

Ingredients:

• 4 oz self raising flour
• 4 oz caster sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 4 oz butter (or goats butter) softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp milk

Method:

1. Sift flour, sugar and baking powder into large bowl.
2. Add butter and eggs to the bowl, slowly fold together until a smooth consistancy.
3. Mixture should drop easily from a spoon, add a little milk to achieve this if needed.

Cream Cheese Topping:

• 50g cream cheese
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 75g icing sugar

Method:

1. Sift icing sugar into cream cheese mix until a smooth consistency.
2. Add lemon juice, mix well.
3. Spread or drizzle onto fairy cakes.

Taste the icing, you may like it sweeter or more tart, add icing sugar or lemon juice accordingly.

cooking with kids cooking with kids cooking with kids cooking with kids cooking with kids

cooking with toddlers cooking with toddlers cooking with toddlers cooking with toddlers