So.... Whats good to cook/bake with a 3.5 year old? Any suggestions welcome.
Pizza.
3.5 year olds probably taste like chicken... so how about a curry, or a pie?
Dave
Dont have a pot big enough. Cold do a stw BBQ. Pizza is a good one.
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Ginger biscuits? You could get some Christmassy pastry cutters (bells, stars etc) and decorate with icing to hang on the tree.
My 3 year old loves making them
Fairy Cakes. In fact, anything cake based, especially with lots of icing, is always a winner.
Its really messy and involves lots of potential for licking bowls and spoons of sweet sugary stuff. All the boxes ticked 😀
Pizza, but with a homemade base, not those horrible bread things.
Yesterday morning my son (2*) baked some shortbread cookies to fuel my afternoon ride. They were awesome!
*his mum may have assisted
Dont have a pot big enough.
whooosh, splat 😆
edit: or maybe you did get it, and I didn't get your response <explodes in a recursive joke misunderstanding mess>
pizza from scratch inc dough. bit messy but after the dough its plain sailing but she should find that but fun anyway. Can also make little dough balls with garlic butter as a starter. can dig out a recipe if you want?
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Pancakes, same volume of eggs, milk, flour.
Good way of ensuring good coverage of the pan is to fill a water bottle with the mixture and squirt it in!
My daughter is now ten and cooks her own.
Sweet topping options or savoury fillings?
chocolate rice krispie cakes
easy tasty messy - all kid cooking boxes checked
Toad in the hole is always a dinner winner in our house. Kids love mixing the batter, which is the same for pancakes and yorkies 8)
Banana muffins if you want a cake option.
Most Sunday morningd in our house involve the above pancake batter with grated apple, mushed banana and cinnamon... delish.
Mince pies are easy and seasonal.
shortbread, butter sugar and flour. then dip them in chocolate...
Pizza, but with a homemade base
Is there any other type?
Don't let them do the washing up though. My 4 yr old enthusiastically helped his mum to do the washing up yesterday. Once all the pots were done he thought my (month old) mobile could do with a nice five minute soak and scrub with a scourer too! 😯
Looks like I'm back to the old brick again. Still, only 17 months of an 18 month contract before I get an upgrade 😐
Some really good ideas. The bannana muffins are a defo.
We have done fairy cakes before but want to do something propper (not pre packed as nanny likes to supply us with) and she likes to get stuck in. Best go get some bits in.
Pizza inc dough ++
Spag bol - the messier the better
Bread
Whatever their favourite food is!
I had a phone destroyed by a little one. Call them and be honest. They offered me a reconditioned one really cheap. Claim off contents insurance?
made this with my 2.5 yr old a couple of weeks ago, very tasty!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chocolate_cake_31070
Making burgers is fun with my nephews as you just chuck some mince with whatever you like in a mixing bowl. I use any/all of the following: chopped onions (to prepare for them), garlic, ginger, chilli, salt & pepper.
They get their hands in there to mix it all up and then they have to roll up balls of it and squish them a bit to make their burgers of whatever size they want.
These also taste far better than any burgers you can buy in a shop and have no preservatives etc in.
And if it's summer time, it's BBQ time!
My two boys love gutting squid... but even I think that is weird.
The River Cottage Family Cookbook is great for recipes/projects to do with kids.
Plus, just get them involved in whatever you're cooking anyway. Even if it's just stirring something, it gets them in there and interested.
Becomes really handy too. Our two made lunch for us while were were decorating the living room; we carried on painting when they got bored of using the roller and they made us sandwiches and things for lunch.
E's 8 now and can make lasagne with very little help, or bake and ice cakes from scratch.
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Yep - getting them involved with everything works well. We hav a little Ikea wooden stepladder in the kitchen so they can come and help us with most things... it invariably ends up in chaos and mess but it's great fun... and they always eat whatever they help make.
The idea of a little ladder is really good. We try to involve her in as much as we (safely) can but she gets stroppy if she cant get to the counter.
She sat in some milk once and told mommy she had done a white wee. The things they say.
Because of her being about we eat alot better (more varied fruit and veg) and at better times.
Flapjack, got a good recipe if you need one.
Agree that if they help make it they are more likely to eat it.
It's very messy but who cares, it's great *fun*. Anyway, it won't take more than half an hour tops to clean it up.