NOW CLOSED: What do you bake with your grandchildren? Tell us and win an Elmer apron and book set.

Anything that can be eaten within 20 minutes of starting! Grandson, aged just 3, always asks to make scones and the other day i heard heard him telling his mum that you had to get air into them. Doesn't stop him hammering the living daylights out of them though!

My 4-year old DGS likes making Spider-Man fairy cakes (from a packet), or Scooby-Doo ones if Spider-Man is not available.

Without resorting to a packet, we've made rock cakes (using a recipe I was taught in my first year at secondary school) and at Christmas made mince pies with almond pastry - though he refused to eat any of them.

He just LOVES to cook!

I like to bake a nice plam pudding, always adds a shine to the day when you get a nice crispy top, nice! (wink)

Mostly cakes, cookies and pizza. The most fun time was with my GS at 2.25 year and my GD at 2.0 years. We cooked chocolate fairy cakes and all was going really well and the cousins were happily cooking side by side. At the end there was the fun licking of bowls...to my horror my little GD started going red and blotchy all round her mouth ...turned out to be an allergy to raw egg white! Fortunately not severe and subsided quickly...phew! Might need to rethink my cooking exploits!!

What a pleasure it is to do any cooking with grandchildren and a privilege to begin to develop within them a love of cooking and baking. Whatever we cook, whether it's sweet or savoury, the best thing is to see the delight on their faces as the finished product is removed from the oven and the pride on their faces as they take it home to share with Mummy & Daddy. Particular favourites are scones, apple crumble and Welsh cakes.

3 yr old is already a whizz at using rotary potato peeler (hand peeler too difficult for tiny hands) for Sunday lunch roasties. In the last week she has helped to make:

Chocolate cake
Hummous
drop scones
ginger bread men
ginger biscuits
gravy
yorkshire puddings

and before I forget she has also helped pluck 2 brace of pheasant and 1 of partridge. We used this as a way to show how feathers work, and where food is stored (crop) prior to being ground down (gizzard) and going thru stomach. Not remotely phased by this and now she understands the basics of the digestive system. (Her mother is feather phobic so stays out of the kitchen at this point!)

Whenever she sees I am about to cook something she insists on drawing up a chair, hopping up onto it and offering to help. I tie a teatowel around her in place of an apron and we crack on.

Knife skills will follow.

I love sharing my pleasure of cooking as well as the journey of most of our food from garden to plate.

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Thank you so much, that's brilliant, and congratulations to Tiggypiro too. I just love Gransnet!