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Happy lil ❤’s are baking #2

What did you bake with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing what you bake with your children so we can inspire each other. Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about them and if you include the details, try them out 🙂

This week we used a dinosaur baking mould that our wonderful friend Fraggle gave Master D for Christmas.
Fraggle’s namesake
We made this patty cake mix:
100 g butter
200 g sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
250 g self raising flour
Beat butter and condensed milk until pale and creamy.
Add eggs and milk, followed by flour.
Bake for around 25 minutes at 180°C (around 350°F I think…)
This was our first time using a silicon baking mould, so they turned out a tad browner than normal.
Master D decided the dinosaur should be pink with lots and lots of sprinkles (again with the edible glitter)!
Not the prettiest cake, but he did taste yummy 🙂
Roar!
We can’t wait to see what you are baking!

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Happy baking, Kelly
January 12, 2012 by

Happy lil ❤’s are baking!

When I was little I used to bake with my Mum and Nana. I’d stand on a chair so I could stir the bowl. And I loved getting to lick the spoon! Sound familiar to anyone?

Now baking with my little ones is part of our weekly rhythm.

I’d love for us all to share what we bake with our little ones (and not so little ones) and hopefully inspire each other! Family favourites, new recipes, traditional or cultural recipes – you name it, we’d like to read about it and if you include the details, try them out 🙂 Below is a linky list to join in the fun and start sharing.

So to kick us off, one of my favourite biscuits to make was (and still are) Yo Yos.
You need:
1 cup self raising flour
1/2 cup custard powder
1/3 cup icing sugar
2/3 cup (170 g) butter
Mix all the ingredients together until you have a stiff dough.
Roll the dough into balls and then slightly flatten them with a fork
(I always loved getting to squish them and Master D does now!).
Bake at 170° for 15-20 minutes.
They taste great joined together with jam or butter icing.
This time however we just used a simple icing and sprinkles.
Don’t kids love sprinkles they’re like *edible glitter*!

These biscuits make me think of the treats the Magic Faraway Tree kids would have eaten.

We can’t wait to see what you are baking! 

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Warm wishes, Kelly

January 5, 2012 by