Cooking and Baking fun!

On a regular basis, the children will cut their own snacks and fruit under supervision and we have taken a few pictures, the first two to the left to share this with you.

As an extracurricular activity, we started cooking with children since 2020 as the children really enjoy this. We have made many “yummy” things that the children eat at the setting. If there is anything left over, then the children to their parents delight will take their cooking and baking results home, such as gingerbread mans, coconut rice, bread and even courgette cake!

Please have a look at what we have made!

A child cutting an apple under supervision

Two children are cutting an apple and a carrot under supervision during snack time

Backed ginger biscuits straight from the oven as a cooking activity

Cooked coconut rice and naan bread to celebrate Diwali

A child is steering and mixing to make dough as part of the cooking fun — A child with others watching is mixing and steering to make dough with a wooden spoon

Child is cutting up apples to bake apple crumble pie — Making Apple Crumble

A child is using a hand mixer make a cake mixture to bake cake

Recipes to try at home

Raspberry & Apple

Ingredients

100 g Porridge oats (Please soak the oats a minimum of 2 hrs prior)
125 ml Milk (Whole milk or your choice of dairy-free)
75 ml Kefir (or plain Greek yoghurt)
1 Apple (finely grated – also peeled for under 12 months)
12 Raspberries (roughly chopped – keep some whole to decorate)
1 tbsp Pumpkin seeds
Maple syrup (to serve)

Instructions

Simply mix all the ingredients together in a bowl before bedtime, cover and pop in the fridge overnight.

In the morning give the oat mixture a quick stir and add a little extra yoghurt if needed. Warm up a little in a saucepan on colder mornings. Drizzle over a little maple syrup just before serving.

Source: Nature doc