cooking with toddlers/preschoolers

she_grinch

1 Bananas dipped in honey and rolled in hundreds and thousands,
2 Toddlers can cut shapes from toast with cutters and spread with cheese spread, marmite, honey etc and decorate with raisins, chopped salad or fruit
3 Marzipan fruit or animals, marzipan can be used like plydough and moulds easily into any shape or rolled and cut.

growingafamily

Thanks for all the ideas, please keep them coming !

pigpen wrote: »

Be very careful to check about allergies etc first though.. we have a little boy at nursery who is severely allergic to egg.. he has to have a day off if they are using eggs in cooking, or be removed to another room.. just touching them sets him off.

All the parents stay with their children it isn't a drop off and leave group, so all children are supervised by their own mum/dad which makes things much easier.

Spares4Bikes

I have a little madam who is nearly four and who loves cooking with me. I recently acquired Nigella Lawson's How to be a Domestic Goddess book and there's a large section on easy children's recipes. there's Rocky Road marshmallow cakes, plain biscuit dough, cinder toffee, buttermilk cake...the list is endless! There's also a large section on making various types of biscuits, all very easy to do. You can borrow the book from your local library.

brenda5432002

marshmallows dipped in chocolate then rolled in coconut or hundreds and thousands, top them with a smartie, or jelly sweet

jcr16

what about wrap's.

they are be great fun to fill. and then the parents and children can all eat them afterwards in a picnic style lunch.

sleepybookworm7

How about Fairy Bread. Butter a slice of bread and sprinkle sprinkles on it. Okay, it's not very healthy, but kids love it

LooniesMum

I have 2 children aged 5 and 3. I am allergic to wheat, milk and egg so everything we make at home contains none of those! Cooking without egg is not a problem for making biscuits but is a bit more tricky for cake. We have a couple of recipes that work well for cake but might be costly to do with a large group because of the special ingredients. We use Dove's Farm wheat free flour and soya milk. We have never found any satisfactory substitute for egg, although a mashed ripe banana works well in fruit cake type recipes! You could buy an allergy cook book (or borrow from the library) to get some more ideas on cooking without egg. Hope that helps!

Claire1981

Hi

Have you looked at the BBC Cbeebies website, the Big Cook Little Cook web page has quite a few simple recipes that you can print off. There's also loads of activities linked to some of the other characters on the channel, blank pictures to colour in and loads of craft ideas. I've made an In the Night Garden mobile with my little boy.

r.mac_2

LooniesMum wrote: »

I have 2 children aged 5 and 3. I am allergic to wheat, milk and egg so everything we make at home contains none of those! Cooking without egg is not a problem for making biscuits but is a bit more tricky for cake. We have a couple of recipes that work well for cake but might be costly to do with a large group because of the special ingredients. We use Dove's Farm wheat free flour and soya milk. We have never found any satisfactory substitute for egg, although a mashed ripe banana works well in fruit cake type recipes! You could buy an allergy cook book (or borrow from the library) to get some more ideas on cooking without egg. Hope that helps!

I have read that a small spoonful of vinegar can be substituted for an egg in a cake mix, although I have never tried this - can anyone confirm this might work?

sali85

hey there,

first thing that come to my mind is flap jacks, you can use non dairly butter if you want to and there ar enice and simple fr the children to make,

Oat biscuits are the same sort of thing really, same recepie as flapjack, just little more syrup and get the kids to roll them in balls etc!

polentta cake might also be good, not sure where you would find recpie for that though.

ALso what about getting some wheat free bread and making some toastie/pizza type things with them.

if i think of anything else i will let you know.