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10 baking recipes to keep the kids entertained

By TASTE, 23 March 2020

Group account director Kelly Cloete shares how she’s keeping the kids entertained (and herself sane) with a round-up of baking recipes they can handle nearly entirely by themselves.

Group Account Director Kelly, who is mom to Gus, 8 and Sophie, 9, is finding out that in order to stop quarantine from turning into 'quaran-scream' while working from home, she’ll have to let the kids loose in the kitchen.

‘My kids have always loved baking but to be honest, I am bit too much of a control freak to really let them take the lead and have always relegated them to pretty basic tasks. When my 8-year old took to making his morning smoothie himself last week, stick blender and all, I realized I have to let go a bit. By this age, they can pretty much do everything in a basic recipe, so I’ve pulled together 10 recipes I know they will be able to handle (supervision when it comes to getting things in and out of the oven, of course). Bonus – they are practicing maths skills by weighing and measuring ingredients and testing their ability to follow instructions (hopefully the recipes have better luck than I do in that department!). Even younger kids (from 3) can get involved with rolling out dough and cutting shapes.’

Traditional French crêpes with lemon and cinnamon sugar

Pancakes are a crowd-pleaser, and by 9, kids are pretty adept at using a pan.
Get the recipe here.

30-day bran muffins

With this genius 30-day muffin recipe, they can make the mixture once, then have fresh muffins on call for snacks for the next month.
Get the recipe here.