Easy Bakes for Children

Ever wonder what to do with your children on a rainy weekend, or struggle for easy recipes if they want to join in the cooking process? You’re not alone! Many parents can panic when their children ask to help cooking but as long as you ensure you do all the tricky cutting and make the recipe as simple as possible it can turn out to be a lot of fun and you can pass the cold winter afternoons by making scrummy treats with your children.

 

Pressed Picnic Sandwich

This recipe can be modified to suit your kids tastes but and it is so easy to assemble and a fun way to make sandwiches. Just fill a large ciabatta role with whatever fillings you like and slice up to make fun finger sandwiches for everyone to enjoy.

Recipe and image from BBC Good Food

 

Easy Peasy Pizza

You can’t go wrong with pizza, everyone loves tucking into a slice of the cheesy good stuff. If you fancy making them instead of cooking a shop bought, this particular recipe is brilliant to follow when making with the kids. What’s more, you can make bite sized pizza’s to make the eating experience fun as well.

Recipe and image from Baking Mad

 

Greek Vegetable Kebabs

So many parents find it hard to feed their children vegetables and are constantly thinking of interesting recipes and ways of hiding veggies in one way or another. However you don’t need to do this, if you just involve your children in the cooking process they are bound to want to eat whatever creation they make. So why not try these delicious veggie kebabs by Jamie Oliver?

Recipe and image from Jamie Oliver

 

Tiny Teddy Cars

If you have an extra few hours on a Sunday afternoon and want to make some little treats for the children’s lunchboxes, these tiny teddy car cakes are brilliant and add the fun factor to their lunches as well. Get the children involved and you have a great activity for a rainy winter afternoon.

Recipe and image from Kidspot

 

Easy Kids Cupcakes

Just like the tiny teddy cars, here is a recipe for cupcakes to make with the kids if you have slightly less time to spend on elaborate decorations. Just do various different icing flavours and colours and hand over to the children to enjoy decorating the cupcakes with!

Recipe and image from All Recipes

 

Rocky Road

Once again, here is a great recipe for rocky road. Kids love this and for the adults it is so simple, just bung all the ingredients together and let it set in the fridge. Choose whatever sweets you like for the top and you have yourselves a delicious chocolaty fridge cake!

Recipe and image from Baking Mad