How to bake a cake with your kid
By cashmere
Cooking with Kids
Get them involved
Baking is an activity that you enjoy and it is also something that can be used as quality time with your kids. getting them to help you in the kitchen is a fabulous idea.
Not only are you spending time with them and making memories that they will cherish for a long time, but you can actually teach them maths while in the kitchen.
Make them count the number of eggs that need to be broken. The number of times you need to sieve the flour. The number of spoons of baking power or essence or cocoa powder that need to go in. You get the idea.
Plus children love to get their hands dirty with food. I know mine enjoys being given a spoon and being told to mix it all up. There is blend of joy and determination on that little face as he concentrates to get the mix just right.
He doesn't enjoy playing with the dough with his hands any more. That's because he is a bit fussy about getting his hands dirty. Proper little parsi boy, he is!
My husband can't cook to save his life. Instant Maggie Noddles are the extent of his culinary skills. I hope my son will do better, and his wife will be happier with his culinary skills, but that would be another hub!
Most kids love to help the mom in the kitchen. It gives them a great boost in confidence when they can complete a task handed over to them. It is not an activity that you should indulge in every day, but make an event out of it.
I remember helping my mother with the marzipan flowers and leaves on a cake the shape of a basket of flowers. It was one of her more popular designs. Every one loved. Most of all me, specially since I got to actually help create it!
Here's an alternative recipe!
Switch on oven, get utensils, and ingredients.
Remove blocks and toys from table.
Grease pan, crack nuts.
Measure 2 cups of flour. Remove Rehaan's hand from flour.
Wash hand, remeasure flour.
Put flour, baking soda, and salt in sifter.
Get dustpan and brush up pieces of bowl Rehaan has knocked off.
Get another bowl. Answer doorbell.
Return to kitchen, remove Rehaan's hands from bowl.
Wash Rehaan. Answer phone.
Remove salt from greased pan, look for Rehaan.
Grease another pan. Answer phone.
Return to kitchen and find Rehaan.
Remove his hands from bowl.
Take up greased pan and find layers of nutshells in it.
Head for Rehaan, who flees knocking the bowl off the table.
Wash kitchen, floor, table, walls, and dishes.
Call Baker. Relax
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Did this ever happen to you?
See results without votingHere's a recipe you can use
Vanilla Cake
The cake recipe is simple and the color can be your child's favorite. Mine is usually pink or green. (Don't ask!)
Ingredients
One and quarter cup refined flour or maida
One cup cream or you can use butter
One cup sugar
4 eggs
One teaspoon vanilla essence
Pinch of baking powder
A few drops of food color.
Method
In a large bowl add the sugar and the cream (or butter).
Use the handbeater to mix them up well.
Now add the eggs one at a time and mix.
Add the vanilla essence to the mix and blend the cake batter well.
Use a separate plate to sieve out the flour in.
Add the baking powder to the flour during sieving to mix it in well.
Once the sugar,cream and egg mix turns creamy and is blended well, add the flour in spoon by spoon.
Now fold in the flour in the mix with a light hand in a circular motion with the spoon.
(Kids really love adding the flour)
Then add the food color and mix well so that it blends in with the full batter.
Grease a baking dish and pour the cake batter into it.
Pop it into the microwave for 4 minutes.
Let it stand in the microwave for another 10 minutes.
Get out the knife, forks and plates!
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Comments
This is a great hub. Kids love to help in the kitchen and, aside from baking cookies, baking a cake is about the epitome if a good time. My grand kids have always liked helping me bake anything; waffles and pancakes are two other good choices. They can be extremely helpful, if you spell out exactly what they are to do, as you've suggested.
Hi cashmere, this is an adorable idea. I especially like the idea of having children focus on numbers and measurements to practice math when working with the cake ingredients. The cake looks great. I'll try the vanilla cake recipe sometime.
thats a great way to keep kids entertain while learning at the same time.
Mine is too engrossed in eating to say Yummy! Reena.
Yes, Alekhouse, after a while they get pretty good at anticipating what you want as well.
Journey, it helps a great deal.
Hope you try it out some time beauty tips
This is an excellent hub...
"FOOD FIGHT!!!" I can hear the little cooklings now!! I book marked this recipe.. hmm a cake and no box? unheard of in my house!! Thank you!!
My daughter loves to bake and I think little hands made the work lighter (maybe?) and more fun. Thanks for sharing and maybe, I will be brave enough to try the alternative vanilla cake recipe:)
Thank you Men AD
Candie, that food fight is possible when you have more than one kid...Thankfully I've got only one.
Anglnwu, it is fun baking with kids isn't it!
used to do that when the kids were little. not baking though but cooking simple recipes. they love to get involved.
I never taught my son to cook, then he got a job in a restaurant and learned how to make great scrambled eggs. He's never cooked for me tho, so as long as he can cook for himself, it's all great.
"Very nice and a great project to do with your little one!"
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bingskee, am sure they enjoyed it as much as you did.
Candie, at least you know he's not going to starve...
ESAHS thanks.
I usually use nuts in my cake. :)
Logic, i have enough nuts in the house!
But seriously if you want to just add them in while folding in the flour.
This cake is very versatile and adapts well to most changes.
Nice
Thank you
Do you have a recommendation for baking in an oven? (Time/temp) We don't have a microwave. Thanks!
It will take about 25 to 30 minutes in an oven at 180 degrees centigrade. You'll have to convert that to Fahrenheit if your oven works on that measurement.
Thank you! 356 degrees Fahrenheit (I'll round off to 350)
No problem. Just poke the cake in the middle with a fork to see if its done. If it isn't another ten minutes should do it.
Reena Daruwalla 2 years ago
HMmmmm and the 'yummy mummy' as they wolf down the warm cake; well that's just icing on the top istnt it :)