Do you enjoy cooking with your children? If not, I know how to change that: offer to tutor a 3-hour long holiday programme lesson for 10-15 children, most of them not your own.
You will discover what a superb mum you are, because:
Your children are the only ones who know the basic safety rules around the kitchen.
Your 6-year old knows what ingredients go into soup.
When you ask how to make muffins, your child does not pipe up: “Open the packet, add water”....
Also, after three hours of helping 10-15 pairs of little hands crack eggs, mix honey with peanut butter and knead the yeast dough that “smells yucky!”, after scheduling 5 food-related physical activity games to break up the monotony of the actual cooking, after jumping in and out of the pretend fruit smoothie going whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr about a hundred times... after all that, you will definitely appreciate making the rainbow cake in your own kitchen with your own kids.
The rainbow cake is the easiest thing in the world to make. Take an equal weight of butter, sugar and flour (e.g., 200g), add 1 small egg per every 100g, add vanilla essence and a teaspoon of baking powder. Split the dough into as many bowls as you have food colouring, put a few drops of colour into each bowl, then slap the colourful dough into the pre-greased baking tray. Bake as you would a normal cake.
Looking for more recipes? Try the Kidspot Recipe Finder. That’s what I use!
You will discover what a superb mum you are, because:
Your children are the only ones who know the basic safety rules around the kitchen.
Your 6-year old knows what ingredients go into soup.
When you ask how to make muffins, your child does not pipe up: “Open the packet, add water”....
Also, after three hours of helping 10-15 pairs of little hands crack eggs, mix honey with peanut butter and knead the yeast dough that “smells yucky!”, after scheduling 5 food-related physical activity games to break up the monotony of the actual cooking, after jumping in and out of the pretend fruit smoothie going whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr about a hundred times... after all that, you will definitely appreciate making the rainbow cake in your own kitchen with your own kids.
The rainbow cake is the easiest thing in the world to make. Take an equal weight of butter, sugar and flour (e.g., 200g), add 1 small egg per every 100g, add vanilla essence and a teaspoon of baking powder. Split the dough into as many bowls as you have food colouring, put a few drops of colour into each bowl, then slap the colourful dough into the pre-greased baking tray. Bake as you would a normal cake.
Looking for more recipes? Try the Kidspot Recipe Finder. That’s what I use!
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