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

Oops just read the age restriction!!!! Sorry.

The GC are 10 and 9 now, so can reach the top of the stove. They make omelettes, spaghetti Bolognese, cakes, pies and crumbles. They peel vegetables and love to help cook anything.

I must say it is easier to cook by myself but they do need to learn.

We made a Christmas cake this year. GS made the cake one weeks and GD iced, marzipaned and decorated it the next.

Cooking is all about confidence, science and a few skills .

More importantly you can eat it after, the best bit.

There are cooks perks to look forward to.....licking the bowl and getting praise from the family.

Ah! The little grey jam tarts of yore! When i started baking with my GS (now a whisker short of nine) it all came flooding back - and whereas DH, as a dad, was Taster in Chief, he fell back, as grandad, into tasting the grey overworked pastry and burnt jam as if he'd never been away! And they were all, yes, DELICIOUS!! GS has now progressed beyond jam tarts (thank goodness!) to shortbread, fairy cakes, muffins and, recently, melting moments. Our forays into gingerbread have been a complete disaster though. Like his mum and uncle before him, he loves the left over cake mixture and butter cream, and has a cavalier approach with the piping bag. He's now outgrown his "nanny's little helper" apron but i'm afraid he wants one like the one i bought DS for Christmas (Help for Heroes - it had a stretcher bearer on the front, which is not meant in any way to reflect the quality of what comes out of his kitchen!). I hope whoever wins the lovely Elmer apron and books will have lots of fun,and that my GS won't grow out of baking with his nanny any time soon!

We make scones because they are quick and easy and always seem to work out OK.I can do one batch with one of them and another with the twin. They only take 10 mins to cook and so are ready to eat fairly soon. They like them "raw" ie no butter jam or cream .I always use sour milk which is a good way of up using milk that has gone off.

Gingerbread men are always popular with my two. Anything that needs mixing (and later tasting!) actually. They also like mixing in the chocolate sprinkles when I make them warm milk with chocolate 'dust'.
And they LOVE Elmer...