What cakes loved by 5/6 yr olds?

couteaux

I am visiting my cousin and her family tomorrow. They have a 5 (nearly 6) year old son and a one yr old. I thought I could bake some cakes today to take along as I cant really afford a visit to Krispy Kreme, no matter how chic their boxes look!

So, in your experience, what is the cake of choice for 5 yr olds? All suggestions welcome as I just love baking anyway, and anything I don't try this time, my OH will get to try out

Many thanks!!

Happy Friday!

thriftmonster

Chocolate Butterfly buns - 4oz each of soft marg, SR flour & sugar & 2 eggs and 1-2tbsp cocoa. Whisk it all together - electric beaters help a lot and this makes 12 standard size ones. Bake at 180C for about 15 mins. When they are cold cut a little cone out of the top of each one. Fill the hole with buttercream (4oz icing sugar, 2oz butter or marg and 1 tbsp cocoa beaten together. Cut each bit of the cake you cut out into 2 and stick like wings at an angle into the buttercream. Dust with icing sugar.

If you are short of time buy a pack of cheap fairy buns eg Tesco value and proceed with the butterflying and buttercream etc - it's a fantastic way of tarting up cheap buns.

FunkyFairy

Muffins of any sort my DD's fave is double choc chip

oddmanout

don't 5/6 year olds like all cakes? i think whatever you take the kids will love them! lovely thought though. seems better than taking a bag of jelly tots round!

Fay

This recipe looks really nice and you could customise it for the children?

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/childrens-cake,1790,RC.html

couteaux

Thanks for your replies! Mmmm, butterfy cakes, I used to love those! Also got a great muffin recipie so might just take a selection

Thanks again.

couteaux

That recipe looks lovely Fay, thanks for looking. Really like the idea of the decorations on top.

Right, better get that apron on!

Lydia_2

All five year olds love almost all cakes so anything you take will be appreciated. What five year olds love best is the chance to make cakes themselves. Even decorating a digestive biscuit gives them so much pleasure. Maybe you can give his mum the recipe for whatever you take so that he can have a go himself.

rchddap1

I was going to say that most kids love to make and decorate cakes. However, failing that anything with chocolate will probably get the thumbs up.

comping_cat

If you decorate plain fairy cakes with icing and some sweets, they will go down a storm!!! My 2 love anything with sweets on them!!!

Jay-Jay_4

Why not take some plain fairy cakes, some icing and some decorations like hundreds and thousands or jelly tots.

Make up some icing when you get there and give the child the icing, topping and a spoon........ and leave him to decorate them himself.

I know if you did that with my six yr old she would love you forever and would constantly be asking for you to come around