Eager to teach your children a love for baking? There's no better way to get your toddler into the kitchen than with their favorite meals. If you're ready to introduce your little chef to the ways of cooking, these super easy baking recipes for kids are the perfect place to start. Plus, they're delicious.
Whether you choose to make a mouthwatering pizza or irresistable cookies, your kids will love helping out. Inviting your little ones into the kitchen for the first time is an exciting experience. However, you must start them off with simple tasks. Sometimes, cooking can be a little too hands-on for little ones, especially around dangerous kitchen equipment like stoves and knives. Fortunately, simple baking recipes like these are a great way to gauge your child's skill level and introduce them to the basics. Let's get started.
Baking Recipes for Kids
Hawaiian Pizza with Honey Whole Wheat Crust
When searching for a recipe that the entire family will love, it's hard to go wrong with pizza. Pizza is a staple meal in many households due to its delicious taste and endless topping options. Because pizza is easy to customize, it's a dish that even the pickiest eaters often enjoy. When searching for kid-friendly recipes, pizza is a great dish for all ages to get involved with.
For young children, pizza is the ideal meal to assign age-appropriate tasks for. Young children can start gaining experience in the kitchen with simple tasks like handing ingredients, helping to read the recipe and adding toppings to the pizza crust.
Toddlers can experience beneficial sensory play by kneading the pizza dough, rolling it out, or mixing the ingredients. More experienced young chefs can take the lead when it comes to pizza making by measuring the ingredients and even adding their flair to the recipe.
Make an easy, kid-approved pizza recipe with this Hawaiian Pizza with Honey Whole Wheat Crust. Colorful and tasty, it's loaded with Canadian bacon, cheese and pineapple. Plus, Whole Wheat Flour and Medium Grind Cornmeal are used to create a more nutritious version of a kid-friendly favorite.
Sweet and Spicy Crispy Chickpeas
The way to a kid's heart? A tasty snack, of course. Children love snacking at all times of the day. To ensure that your family stays healthy and strong, it's essential to provide wholesome and natural snacks. Introducing healthy meals to children at a young age is an excellent way to teach them how great nutritious foods can taste. It may also help them make healthier choices in the future.
For the ideal healthy and delicious snack recipe, call the children into the kitchen this summer and make these Sweet and Spicy Crispy Chickpeas. Chickpeas, a.k.a garbanzo beans, are loaded with nutritional benefits.
This flavor-packed chickpea recipe turns this legume into a mouthwatering snack to be enjoyed by all ages. Easy-to-make, your little chef will love helping drizzle olive oil and spices over these beans before baking. Pack them in your kid's lunchbox as a healthy snack or add them to a fresh salad and dress with homemade dressing.
M&M Party Cookies
No kid-friendly food list would be complete without a great cookie recipe. Let's face it; cookies and kids are the perfect pair. They're both sweet, full of personality and sure to put a smile on your face whenever you're feeling down. Now, when it comes to cookie recipes, there is an endless amount to choose from. Chocolate chip, turtle cookies, sugar cookies and holiday cookies, there is a cookie recipe for just about everything. With all of the delicious options available, finding the perfect cookie recipe to make with your little chef can be quite challenging. To help simplify your cooking experience, we found the ultimate kid-endorsed cookie recipe: M&M Party Cookies.
Full of flavor and everything that kids adore, this recipe puts a tasty twist on a classic chocolate cookie base. The chocolate chips are replaced with M&M's and colorful sprinkles are added to create the perfect party snack. The ideal dessert to keep around the house or bring to your next school function; these cookies are easy to customize for any holiday or event. Simply change up the colors of the candies and sprinkles. Kids will love helping personalize this fun dessert. Just make sure you don't go overboard. The options are endless.
And there you have it, three delicious and easy kid baking recipes that you children will love helping you make. Whether you choose to create tasty pizza or delicious cookies, the time you spend making these recipes with your children is priceless. From everyone at Bob's Red Mill, happy baking.
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