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

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

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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.

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.

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!!

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

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!

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 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.

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?!

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!

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 :-)

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

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.