baking advice?

Question

i want to bake with my kids but im rubbish at it any really easy recipes ideas and any easy ideas how to measure easily without scales? please help i havent been blessed in this department!

Answer 1

Very easy cake recipe:
2 eggs
1 cup of shugar
mix them
add: 1 cup of cream
mix them
add: 2 cups of flour + 2 teaspoons of baking powder + vanilla
mix them
Bake about 30-40 minutes
The temperature about 200 C (392 F)
This is realy very easy recipe. For the first time I made the cake completely myself when I was 7 years old.

Answer 2

There are many things you can bake with children. Rice krispies / Corn Flakes cakes or Rice krispies & marshmallow cakes. Neither of these need any real cooking. For the first two melt some good quality chocolate and then mix in the krispies / corn flakes and put in small baking cases until set. For the second lot melt marshmallows and a packet of soft toffees together in pan and then add rice krispies and mix. Put into small baking cases and leave to set. Other alternatives are the packet mixes which are easy and usually foolproof or the best bet of all is to invest in a childrens cookery book. These usually have some excellent simple recipes. Most of all have fun!

Answer 3

Ah, this brings back memories of me and my mom, in the kitchen. I still have the scars...

But you want to bake WITH your kids, so it's a different thing entirely. What you might do is go with mixes from the store. Most of them are pretty simple to make, require very little by way of ingredients, no special tools, very little measuring...plus, if it gets screwed up, it is the mixes fault, and not yours. That's the story...go with it. Cupcakes, brownies, pies...quick and easy.

Now, if you want actual baking...bread and rolls. Small amounts, such as a single loaf or two, a couple dozen rolls...can be done using measuring cups, tablespoons, the like. Scales are generally only used for large amounts. This is because a cup of flour may weigh differently depending on humidity, packing/sifting, etc. Recipes are found everywhere and most ingredients can be found in a normal kitchen.

Added benefit-It makes the house smell oh so nice, requires nothing but a bowl and a sheet pan or loaf pan, and is fairly forgiving.

Just don't forget the rolls in the oven for a couple hours. Unless you NEED hockey pucks (we lost the game).

Answer 4

If you want to bake with kids my advise is to stick to cookies and muffins, or brownies. Neither take much skill or many ingredients.

Drop cookies are crazy easy. All you will need for tools is a set of measuring cups and measuring spoonsand a cookie or pizza pan. Same with the muffins. Either case you won't have difficulty's techniques or exotic ingredients.

My personal favorite recipes to do with my kids Chocolate Chip Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, or Oatmeal Cookies. For Recipes resources if you are in the US my favorite cookbook is Betty Crocker. The recipes are simple, easy to follow with good directions.

Answer 5

here is a great fool proof peanut butter cookie recipe
preheat oven to 350
Mix 1 cup peanut butter (what ever kind you prefer)
3/4 sugar
1 egg
drop by the spoonful on a cookie sheet, press them down a little and bake for 10-15 minutes.

You can very easily double, triple, etc this reicpe. You can also turn them into peanut butter and jelly cookies by making a indentation in the the cookies before baking and dropping a spoonful of jelly. Bake as normal.

Answer 6

There are TONS of cookbooks for baking with kids. I mean, obviously start with very easy recipes, etc. But the thing is, these books cater the food just to children, so they have a lot of fun while baking the end result will be something they want to eat!

Answer 7

Are you using British measurements (use of scales)? You can try using American recipes with cups, tablespoon, teaspoons etc. without mention of weight or use of scales. You can start by using cake/cookie/brownie mixtures from a box. They're the easiest. Then, you feel more confident you can start using recipes with flour, baking powder and sugar. You do have to add eggs and butter to your mixture though. But, the instructions are very clear and simple.
You can try Dr. Oetker, Duncan Hines and others.

Answer 8

Cup measures are generally good if the scales arent handy. Tho try this simple and tasty recipie for Mars Bar squares.

1)Melt in a saucepan a little bit of butter

2)Get the kids to break up about 3 or 4 Mars bars and put them in the pot, stirring until they melt

3)Once it is all melted, turn off the heat and pop in a handful of Marshmallows, stirring them in until they melt. Add in enough cornflakes to be coated in the mixture.

4)Pour out into a greased square tin and leave to cool (put in the fridge)

5)...if u can wait long enough for them to cool, you can drizzle over chocolate on the top and then cut into squares....volia....you have a sweet gooey bun! The kids (and you) will love them

Answer 9

No Bake Choco-Peanut-Oatmeal Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup milk
2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
3 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
3 cups rolled oats
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
Wipe 1" wide band of butter around the rim of a 3 quart pan to prevent boil-over.
Combine milk, sugar, cocoa, butter and peanut butter.
Stir and bring to boil over medium heat. Let boil for 1 1/2 minutes, do not stir.
Remove from heat. Stir in oats and vanilla. Stir until oats evenly distributed.
Drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper. Cool. Makes 4 to 5 dozen.

Answer 10

Here's a good website for you. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_cookingwithchildren1.shtml
I think it might be a good idea to get hold of a cookery book specially written for children. There are a number on the market. My mother taught cookery and didn't use scales at school because her pupils couldn't have coped, and I never use them myself, which people find odd, but when I have tried using scales it has just ended in disaster (and extra washing up). One teacup of flour is 4 oz or 100 gr; a packet of butter or margarine divides easily into 2 oz or 50 gr sections, one tablespoonful of sugar is roughly 1 oz or 25 gr. Ordinary people in the third world don't use scales: they just grab handfuls or pour dollops and the results are great!