Baking with kids can be a rewarding experience if you come into it with the right mindset. Children are sweet, excitable, and usually eager to help. You’ve probably experienced this in your kitchen: as soon as you bring out your ingredients, they’re hovering, asking to help, and filled with questions.
If you look back into your childhood, cookies were probably the first thing you learned to bake from your mom, dad, or guardian. Those moments are filled with delightful memories, which you’re doing when you allow your children to stay around and help make delicious cookies.
In this article, you’ll learn about using kits to
make it easier to bake with kids or let them cook on their own if they’re of age. We’ll also give you tips to help make the process more enjoyable and less stressful for you and them. Keep reading, and don’t forget to share with everyone you know!It would help if you made peace with the fact that making cookies with kids may be messier than you’re used to. But you can control some of the mess in two ways: choosing easy cookies for kids to bake and assigning helping tasks according to their age and experience in the kitchen.
Of course, using a kit takes out a lot of the mess, because kits come with pre-measured ingredients – you simply cut and pour into your mixing bowl. The hands-on instructions with pictures are made for children of all ages to follow quickly, and many complicated steps are simplified for children of all ages to follow.
Here are some tasks children can help out with according to their ages when making kids’ cookies:
2-4-Year-Olds
Preschoolers can help to crack eggs into the bowl (help them to remove shells). They can roll the cookie dough into balls and flatten with their fingers, transfer cookie dough into the cookie sheet, and help to turn on the oven with supervision. They can help with clean-up – discarding litter, wiping, and putting dishes in the sink. Once done, they can help with easy decoration.
5-7-Year-Olds
Early grade-schoolers can use a mixer to combine ingredients, stir in additives like raisins, sprinkles or chocolate chips, roll out cookie dough with some help, and use cutters to shape cookies. They should be able to frost/decorate cookies unassisted if they’ve been baking with you for some time.
8-10-Year-Olds
If you’re using a kit and your child has some baking experience, your child should be able to use baking kits with minimal supervision by this age. It would help if you still were on-hand for help when needed, but you need only provide everything they need and then watch. Be careful with the steps that involve heat – like taking out cookies from the oven or melting chocolate to make the frosting.
Bonus Tip
Above ten years, your child should be able to bake unsupervised, especially if they’ve been working in the kitchen for a few years. They can also clean up after themselves. Always take every opportunity to allow them more tasks as they master others.
Here are some easy recipes with kits that you can try with your children:What child doesn’t love chocolate? These chocolate chunk cookies are a great way to introduce your child to the world of cookie desserts for kids. They are crispy, delicious, easy to make, and full of chocolate – yum!
Like all our other kits, the
chocolate chunk cookie baking kit comes with everything you need to make twelve delicious cookies. Dry ingredients are pre-measured and packed in sanitary vacuum-sealed packages. There’s a complete shopping list for the wet ingredients and baking tools you need, and a child-friendly activity book to keep the kids engaged while waiting for cookies to come out of the oven.
Chocolate chunk cookies are a more straightforward kids’ dessert option, especially for younger children. They don’t need to be rolled out – you simply make the mixture and spoon it onto the baking sheet. The cookie flattens as it bakes, and the white and dark chocolate chunks melt to make a delicious ‘filling’.
You can let your 7-10 year old make these kid-friendly cookies as their first project to make all by themselves. Of course, you should still stick around in case they need your help!Emoji cookies are just a little more complicated because of that last additional step – sticking the emoji faces onto the cookies. Our easy emoji cookies baking kit comes with completely edible pictures to make it easier for younger children to make the recipe. Once the cookies are baked, they can slather frosting on the surface and simply place the stickers at the center – children as young as preschoolers can help with this.
If you’re looking for the next step after baking delicious chocolate chunk cookies, try our
emoticon cookies, which are simple sugar cookies with frosting. You can use this kit to teach children how to mix and apply icing, following out clear recipe instructions with pictures for younger children to follow.
The short, exciting lesson with a game board and dice can be used to keep them occupied while the cookies bake and long afterward – no more ruminating an entire day in front of some screen. Every kit can make 12 edible cookies with pictures, so order more kits if you’d like to make a whole batch for a party or to store for later.
Every kit contains dry ingredients in sealed packs – sugar, vanilla sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, confectioner’s sugar, edible emoji stickers, circle cookie cutters (that you can use for other cookies), and a game board and dice.In the spirit of teaching kids about diversity and inclusivity, enjoy these delicious positivity cookies in our all-new positivity cookie baking kit. It is our job as parents and older adults to demonstrate kindness and equality to all those around us because there’s a small audience for everything we do.
If you’re wondering how to start
teaching kids’ diversity and equality, you can order our cookie kit and having your lesson about cultural diversity with kids in the kitchen. In this environment, you can use colorful flower cookies and meaningful kids’ activities specially designed to encourage conversations around this subject.
Positivity cookies are not just for children to bake and enjoy, they offer an opportunity for learning and growth, especially when it comes to learning vital life lessons. We live in a world where people look different, and from early, children must learn how to appreciate cultures and colors different from their own equally.
You can also use these cookies when entertaining a group of children near you. Each kit gives eight cookies to share, so order as many as you need to cover the whole group. Friendship is sweet – celebrate by making our delicious positivity flower cookies with your kids.Every way of baking with kids is an excellent way to bake with kids, but our kits offer you a better way to make the process less messy and more fun. You can line surfaces with newspaper to contain the mess and make clean-up afterward easier.
Finally, pace yourself and don’t expect perfection the first time you try it out. Just like with all other lessons, consistent baking will teach your children all the lessons they need over time.
Happy baking!
