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Shortbread which we cut onto little men. So they are gingerbread men shortbread ☺

My 7 year-old grandson helped make meringues last week. He was fascinated by the transformation of the egg whites. Not a healthy option I know, before anyone tells me off, but it was a once in a blue moon event. He found the long cooking time rather taxing!

My DGS is 2 and a half and we love cooking together too. He was badly allergic to eggs and dairy which limited things a bit until he grew out of it fairly recently. Cinnamon cookies were first. The mix, mix, mix stage scattered flour far and wide, then rolling the dough into small balls in his hands. They spread in the oven so the shape didn't matter. Pizza with home made dough is brilliant (I know you can buy ready made dough too), and sausage rolls are always quick and easy if we buy ready made puff pastry to roll out ourselves. He loves those as a very quick and easy to make lunch or supper with fresh tomato sauce, grated carrot etc. But for a real treat, the gingerbread house we made before Christmas was the winner. COVERED in icing, then v e r y c a r e f u l l y placed jelly tots.

Just come back from a 2 month stay withDD and family in the US (new baby DGS born while we were there!). Had lots of fun baking with 2 year old DGS, we made chocolate cookies (American style) and good old British scones. He loved helping with the measuring, putting ingredients in the bowl and "helping" with the mixing. Plenty of chocolate chips and sultanas disappeared! Cooks perogative! We also made cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve which were beautifully decorated by himself! It took a bit of getting used to baking with a toddler who seemed like he had the arms of an octopus but I loved it! DD had been getting him to help in the kitchen for a few months before we arrived- he "makes" his own PB & J sandwiches already! An apron would be very gratefully appreciated!

My DGS aged 5 and DGD aged 7 love cooking with me, and with Daddy.
Favourites are rock cakes, lemon drizzle cakes, toffee apples, boiled eggs,
cutting up peppers, for a 'feast' - the list is endless, as thankfully is our patience!!

Cheese straws, or whatever shapes GSs aged 7 and 3 like - it's like play dough but tastier. Omelettes, though I do the actual cooking it always seems to them to taste better when they've done the prep cutting ham with scissors and using a sort of barrel cheese grater that doesn't bite back. If they have friends around they love assembling pizzas and eat much more veg on top than if I did it for them. We use ready made bases so cooking time very quick. Made our own chicken nuggets and they really do taste much better than bought. Cooking is one of our favourite activities.

LOVE cooking with the children. Younger ones like making choc chip cookies & jam tarts & all the usual things but now eldest is 11 we are branching out. We make bread & rolls a lot as that is such fun to watch 'grow'.
I have promised them that before they go off to uni. I will ensure they can cook for themselves- properly- no bought sauces or gravy granules!. They love my Macaroni Cheese & Lasagne so we are now working on how to make a proper Roux sauce which will give them a good basis for so many dishes. My Grandma & Mum cooked with me & I often wonder is she & Mum are watching somewhere & smiling!

My 3 granddaughters love to bake with me. Fairy cakes with butter cream and sprinkles, banana cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies and tray bakes that don't need the oven. My youngest one at 6 loves to peel vegetables and will happily eat grated carrots raw but not cooked veg at all. She often asks Gran can we make soup today. I've got enough soup for Scotland in the freezer. Great on cold wet and snowy days.

My 6yr od Grandson loves to cook, he received a childrens cookbook for Christmas and is working his way through it, so far he has made pizza's, soup and his favourite and mine, cookies. when ever i'm cooking he always likes to join in and help me, I thnk he's a better cook than I am now

My grandson and i make scones fairy cakes and cookies. He was especially proud when he won first prize at the local flower show for his decorated rich tea biscuit.

I used to bake with my 5 year old granddaughter but now that she's at school her 2 and a half year old sister has taken her place. With them both I have made buns, all in one cakes, and chocolate lollies. All these end up gawdily iced and sprinkled, but of course the best bit of all is them licking out the bowl. Photographic evidence can be provided! The 5 year old now wants me to teach her how to make pastry. This has brought back happy memories of the grey offerings that I had pummelled to death, but which I insisted had to be cooked when I was the same age!

Chocolate cornflake cakes, scones, jam tarts, fairy cakes, banana cake and not forgetting mince pies for Father Christmas! All provide hours of fun in grandma's kitchen, they even have their own cake tins to fill, take home, eat and bring back to refill! Happy days.

My 8 grandchildren are between 16 and 3 and all love baking fairy cakes iced with huge amounts of buttercream or glacé icing, and usually mark the one that they want in some way consisting of either about 20 sweets or a ton of hundreds and thousands and I have to be peace maker if someone accidentally(on purpose) eats the chosen one

I love cooking with my 3 year old and we make cupcakes (as I have a cupcake maker) as they are quick, she mixes and sprinkles the decorations on the top, we usually take them for her mum and dad to try.
She like mixing pastry too but finds it a bit hard for her little wrist, so I let her roll it out and press into tins to make jam tarts, apple tart or I cut it into squares for sausage rolls.
We also make boxed mixes too, I think children should be encouraged to make basic items but to use convenient packaged foods too as it is such a big part of our lives.
Washing up too is 'fun', although I find it less fun to clean the floor afterwards.

Sorry, Lara, but neither prize is suitable for me, all being vegetarian and the youngest being 8, so I will not tell you that my grandchildren love baking with me, particularly my grandson.
He makes quiches, chocolate cakes, Victoria sponges, marmalade buns, apricot and date slices, bakewell tart. His sister makes cupcakes, but they have to be chocolate, being a chocoholic.
He also makes bread, the old fashioned way now as my breadmaker died.

We baked pretend ice creams ! Yes we used bought ice cream cones, put some jam in the bottom, half filled with sponge mixture and carefully propped them up using cooking foil to cook. Once baked we piped buttercream in a swirl and put a cherry on the top.
Tilly aged 5 loved teasing her mum , brother and sister with an ice cream!

Brother Harry aged 7 made pretend pizza, using a shortbread base and once cooked spread with a little creme fraiche, decorated with currants (as olives), Cherries (as tomato), kiwi (as green pepper) and grated white chocolate (as cheese). His Auntie played along with the deception!

I know -I'm just a big kid myself!

My 6yr old GS is not so much a baker but definitely a future chef. He loves to make dinner for his little brother and mum and is a dab hand at Pasta with a tomato, vegetable and tuna sauce ; Cauliflower cheese with bacon; Fish in creamy veg sauce with boiled eggs and noodles; Chicken and veg satay with rice and Macaroni cheese with ham and mushrooms and a cheaty ceasar salad.
He does as much as possible himself chopping, grating, mixing etc and the only thing he needs help with are the very hot bits. DD and I are of the same opinion that if children are exposed to 'danger' early, in the right environment, they will know how to deal with it. A sharp knife used properly is much safer than a blunt one.

Chocolate crispies with 2 year old Lauren always result in much melted choc plastered on face and a few crispies munched. She is not too keen on the finished items as she is a very fussy eater but there is a lot of enthusiasm for adding sprinkes and mini choc buttons. Hope to progress to fairy cakes sometime but I can't match the quick fire efficiency of micro waved melted choc and the pack of rice krispies out on the table with a bowl and a spoon to stir before the moment passes in favour of Pooh bear on the tv.

I bake with my 3yr old grandaughter. We make 'rubbish' cake! We get all the broken biscuits that have been lurking at the bottom of the tin for ages. We mix them with some raisins, dried cranberries ( and anything else of that sort that you fancy-nuts, mini marshmallows etc), add some honey, mix together. Then press the mixture into a baking tin, melt some chocolate and spread on top and put into the fridge for an hour or so to harden.
Delicious! (And you get rid of lots of bits nd pieces that you would have felt guilty throwing way!)

Just had dinner mostly made by DGS aged 11. Spag bol - the real stuff, complete with diced carrots, celery, etc. Delicous. We also make our own pasta together.

the CHristmas favourite is to decorate the gingerbread houses I make for each family. DGS does it all on his own. DGDs aged 3 and 5 did a magnificent job this year, 5 year old left to her own devices with disposable icing bag full of Royal icing; 3 year old needed a little help. Pretty smashing.

Yes I bake with DGCs but we also make everything from pasta and pizzas to Victoria sponges and fairy cakes. Usually decorated but not always.

Made Easter biscuits with my 18 month old granddaughter. She enjoyed the mixing and did a good job pummeling the dough & pressing iyt the shoes but was mire keen to eat the currants than use them as eyes in the Easter bunnies & chicks

As I only usually see my grandaughter once a week after school for 2 hours we make sugar cakes :-), drop scones, cooked on the top of the Aga, she does the dropping, then comes the sugar bit, cover them in caster sugar and eat them all up, in her case with a cup of milky tea :-)

Gingerbread men, biscuits, fairy cakes graduating to Victoria sandwiches with GDs. One, about 12, announced an hour before she was to go home that it was her other GM's birthday and she needed to make her a cake. She just did it before she was collected, (shades of Bakeoff!) VS complete with iced birthday greeting, 100% her own work. Much appreciated by other GM. The same GD, for her first work experience at 15, trawled every cake shop near her home and finally found one willing to take her on. She was taught to decorate with swirled and piped cream, given responsibility and very much enjoyed it. GSs go more for making individual mug cakes and meals in mugs. Prize would be great for 1 year old GD who just loves food!

My little GD is only 18 months old but I do feel I should start doing this sort of thing with her. Any ideas for quick baking so she won't get too bored before I've even got the ingredients out?!

My grandfather was a baker, he used to say he went to work when he, "was half past eight", really meaning he started working at the age of eight and a half.
When we bake bread, buns or Chelsea rolls, I always think he is watching us to make sure it all turns out.

My 10 yr old GS and 4 yr old GD are my most interested bakers and intense kitchen sessions have as well included my now lumbering GS 13. My kitchen is very tiny and we all have to work together in one very small corner. And my 4 yr old is very tiny so often as not she is on the counter top to be able to "see" and mix. One day she fell into the eggs.

The key is to remain fearless, even when they throw the entire recipe out by adding items in unexpected ways; it is amazing what has actually worked!

Should we be baking a cake there is always much bidding for who gets to lick what bowl, spoon, mixer blade. All must be shared equally!

Who knew that a cake can still rise when the leavening is added after the mixing is done? That four handfuls of "sparkles" are better than a teaspoon.

It is a lesson they teach you, when you might think it was you trying to teach them.