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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 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.

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!

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.

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!!

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 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.

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!

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

Gingerbread men, Victoria sandwich, assorted biscuits, flapjacks are all favourites with my three eldest grandchildren (5, 4 and 3 years old respectively). All of whom enjoy weighing, mixing, levelling out and of course 'licking' the bowel afterwards. We all love sharing the chores (including washing up!)

I bake with my 7 year-old granddaughter and 3 year-old grandson and baking cupcakes is one of their favourite things to do.

I think it is a great opportunity to talk about the science and the maths and have fun at the same time.

We scoop a piece out of the middle of each cake and squeeze some jam in, then put the piece back in and cover the join with buttercream. They love to have a go with the piping bag.

They love taking them home to Mommy and Daddy.

The little one loves to knead bread, it always gets a good bashing!

When they were very young the first thing we made was jelly!
We now make Gingerbread men,cup cakes and pizza. They enjoy it also a bit of maths with weighing ingredients, lots of fun had by all.

My four year old grand daughter loves to make fairy cakes and bread rolls. We shape them into snails and crocodiles and her siblings eat them when we get home from school. She also made her nursery teacher a play dough pizza 'that inflated the teachers tummy'.

Ours are quite young so it is anything they can shape themselves or use cutters with and anything they can decorate. They really love to cook with us or anyone else. The 5 year old loves to weigh out the ingredients as well.

My four year old granddaughter loves little chocolate fairy cakes, so we make those. Just before Christmas we made two dozen and then she decorated them. The icing was chocolate butter cream and the decorations were snowmen, holly, butterflies and a variety of sprinkles. We had a little break half way through for fish fingers and baked beans. I'm amazed how long a little four year old could concentrate on what we were doing. When she got home she asked her daddy when she could come again, on her own without mummy and daddy.

My little grandson is allergic to eggs so we miss out on the fun of making the usual fairy cakes etc (we aren't having much success with decent egg free cakes yet). So instead we make pizza together. We enjoy kneading the dough, rolling it out and trying to think up as many different combinations of toppings as we possibly can. So far we have made some delicious ones but we definitely didn't like the mushroom, onion and chocolate one.....oh the endless imagination of a 4 year old eh!!!

We bake cakes, biscuits - anything that can be iced and decorated. Pizza sometimes, help with vegetable preparation, mashing potato. Thinking about it anything that makes a mess..........

I have very little interest in cooking, but our 3 year old DGD beats the eggs for scrambled egg on toast, with gusto.
Her 7 year old sister keeps threatening to teach me to make a successful cake.

My DGD is 12. She is confident on her own now with banana cake and Victoria sandwich. She sold cake at school for a young enterprise challenge and made £19, I was so proud. She makes cake for coffee morning at church.
She can do pastry with a little help.
She makes very good pancakes for us at weekend, on her own, I keep an eye on her though during cooking.
We are starting on meals now, preparing vegetables for a pasta sauce and generally helping out. Having her company is a delight.
I'm sure baking and cooking gives her confidence, it's a fantastic skill to have.

I've enjoyed baking with all my grandchildren, now aged 6-13, at different times over the years. Cookies, fairy cakes, biscuits and scones have all gone down well (literally!). They love making colourful icing, decorating with sprinkles and edible glitter. I've always encouraged them to share what they've made so they have enjoyed popping to various elderly neighbours of mine to distribute their goodies, but we always have to save some to take home at the end of the day. Such fun!!

Just made a favourite recipe with 5 yr old GS. Simple boiled fruitcake. Lots of maths in weighing and measuring, together with oven setting temperature. Stirring fruit mix over low flame sounds tricky, but works with close supervision. Best of all, it is a very good tempered recipe which is always successful and very popular.

My two are three (nearly) and 4.5. Recently, they've been making bread with me - we share the dough between us to knead and I swap my portion for theirs several times so that it all ends up reasonably evenly kneaded. They love pulling it and stretching it, and if they decide to start playing with it as if it were play dough, it really doesn't matter. I have to say that the Tiger Loaf that we made a few months back was better than any bread that I've ever made on my own

Thanks for that Lara. We have just given their little pinnies to their cousin who is 2.... haven't cooked with him yet.

My Granddaughter aged 10 is a far better cook than me now so she helps me and her mum to bake. However my Great Granddaughter is only 3 so I am teaching her to bake fairy and butterfly cakes. Obviously the best part for her is the icing and licking the bowl but she is progressing and as I mind her on a regular basis we will progress together. Next week we are attempting a lemon drizzle cake - wish us luck!

We have a future Great British Bake Off winner at out house.

He's 4 and already is a talented baker. No box mixes for us but there is one prerequisite....... Whatever we bake MUST then be decorated !!

We have cupcakes, fairy cakes and muffins that have been works or art(ish).

If you've never had an iced mince pie studded with jelly tots, let me tell you ....you haven't lived!

Iced sausage rolls are one better glossed over ( excuse the pun).

I am just waiting for the day we move onto savoury pies :-) when that day comes Grampy can be chief tester ( it's a privilege I'll forgo!) .