Pizza
Pizzas are entertaining and a gives you a jump on supper.Each child can make their own.
Aprons or tea towels wrapped around, and off we go.
Roll out the pizza dough, (either made or from an un-frozen package). (If you are short on rolling pins, then a glass bottle will do, as long as the child is careful. Some recommend filling a plastic bottle with water.)
Add tomato puree or sauce (homemade, jar or squeezy tube).
Add different grateful Cheeses of choice (mozzarella, gouda, cheddar, etc.) (Perhaps, if the cheese is not already grated an adult saves small fingers tips by grating?)
Add the extras such as ham, pineapple, olives, peppers, chopped tomatoes, (grilled or raw)
And herbs from a bottle or fresh – basil, oregano.
Cupcakes
If you don’t have Mary Berry or your cook book at hand. Weight the eggs, and use that weight for the butter and sugar, adding a little extra for the flour.
Beat the sugar and butter. Add vanilla essence and or a couple of tablespoons of treacle.
Add the eggs with a tablespoon of sieved flour to stop it curdling.
Add the rest of the sieved flour, slowly.
The children can ‘help’ make the cupcake mixture and dollop it into cupcake wrappers.
Whilst the cupcakes are cooking they can make some icing – chocolate? Vanilla? Orange?
Once the cakes have cooked they can add a spoonful of icing, or, a swirl if you are a dab hand with the icing bag. Some may prefer jam instead of icing.
Add cake decorations:
- Berries
- Sprinkles
- chocolate chips,(or shaped animals)
- chopped up sweets
- grated chocolate/mars bar, crumbled crunchy/maltesers
Biscuits
If you prepare the dough, biscuits gives them the chance to cut out their favourite shapes, (mine is a sail boat).
You may want to ‘invest’ in novelty e.g. dinosaur, and seasonal cookie cutters such Christmas, Easter, or Halloween …. comes round every year.
Eggs ‘hiding’ on Easter Day….
Marble cake – marble-ous
You or the children could prepare the basic vanilla cake (pretty much the same as cup cakes).
Divide the cake mixture into the different bowls and add food colouring.
One child per bowl.
Use teaspoons with different dollops of cake mixture to build up the multi-colour cake, trying to avoid the same colour too close – harder than it seems especially with ‘helpers’.
If you wish to decorate, see above for cup cakes.