It is fair to say that Mr Cooking with kids isn’t the family cook. He does make a mean chocolate muffin, though, and these apple and honey muffins are adapted from his recipe. For the last few months we’ve kept our fruit bowl on the dining table to encourage the kids to eat fruit. The … Continue reading Apple and honey muffins
Loaf cake is fast becoming a favourite of mine – its depth means you really get to enjoy the texture (and taste) and while I’ve had my fair share of disasters with cake in a sandwich tin (think the incredible shrinking cake) my loaf cakes always turn out well. I wanted to make a chocolate … Continue reading Chocolate chip loaf cake
Lime and ginger compliment each other perfectly and cheesecake is always a winner in our house (although hubby prefers chocolate flavour… that’s a recipe for another day!). This cheesecake is very easy, it only has five ingredients and both the base and topping are quick to make. The kids were happy to get involved in … Continue reading Easy lime and ginger cheesecake
I bought a pack of orange flavour Matchmakers for Christmas and then forgot about them (I don’t know how that happened!). When I found them again the kids had been asking to do some cooking and I thought that would taste good in cookies instead of chocolate chips Continue reading Matchmaker chocolate orange cookies
By the end of the Christmas holidays and despite a mountain of new toys my little people were getting bored. Time to get them in the kitchen, then! We still had plenty of Christmas chocolates to eat up but I wanted them to have a healthier snack. Easy baked bananas ticked all the boxes ✔. … Continue reading Baked chocolate bananas
We’ve been crazy busy the last couple of weeks and it seems like ages since I cooked with the kids. This weekend I wanted us to do some Christmas craft so we made cookies yesterday and decorated them today – it kept the little’uns entertained for ages! It was great to take a step back and … Continue reading Christmas cookies
The Liebster Award is away of promoting new bloggers. Bloggers are nominated by others who have received the award to answer questions and share some facts about themselves before sharing the love and nominating some of their own favourite bloggers (which i’ve done at the bottom of this post). I’ve only been blogging for two … Continue reading My 2017 Liebster Blogger Award
Saturday morning is fast becoming baking time in our house. The kids look forward to it and it means that I set aside some time to spend with them rather than running round trying to do the housework while they follow me looking for attention. The girls even played pretend cooking while these biscuits were … Continue reading Star biscuits
Cooking with Kids 