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Creative baking with Kids – butterflies

 

Creative baking with kids - butterfly cakes and cookies #cbias

Egg-free Sugar Cookies

Cerys Parker
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Ingredients
  

  • 115 g /4oz/half cup Butter or Soft Margarine diced, at room temperature
  • 175 g /6oz/1 and a half cups Plain Flour All Purpose
  • 50 g /2oz/quarter cup Caster Sugar Superfine Sugar

To decorate

Instructions
 

  • Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until smooth and creamy.
  • Add the flour to make a dough then turn onto a floured surface and knead until smooth.
  • Wrap in film and chill for at least 30mins in the fridge.
  • Meanwhile, heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4.
  • Roll out the dough and cut using cookie cutters.
  • Place the cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack before decorating with icing sugar and sprinkles.
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Creative baking with kids - butterfly cakes and cookies #cbias

Simple Cupcake Recipe

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Ingredients
  

  • 125 g Unsalted Butter or Margarine (if using butter it should be room temperature)
  • 125 g Caster Sugar (Superfine)
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 125 g Self-raising Flour (sifted)
  • 2 tbsp Milk

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180c.
  • Thoroughly mix the butter or margarine with the sugar. This is known as creaming.
  • Once the butter and sugar are creamed together add the eggs to the mix with the milk and vanilla and stir well. Once it’s all combined add in the flour gradually until you have your cake mix.
  • Spoon the mix into the cupcake cases and put them into the oven for 15 mins. Leave to cool and decorate as you wish.

Notes

This basic and tasty recipe can be adapted and added to suit all occasions.
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At the moment we’re into life cycles and with the butterfly’s suddenly making an appearance in the garden it’s the perfect opportunity to start introducing another life cycle on top of the Frog that we are already looking at on the dinning room table. We have read and re-read the Very Hungry Caterpillar and when Collective Bias™ set us the task of creative baking I thought getting creative with some cookies and cakes were perfect bakes to go with a Butterfly theme.

Creative baking with kids - butterfly cakes and cookies #cbias

So with a check of our cupboards we wrote a list of what we needed to decorate the cakes and biscuits (staples like flour, margarine, sugar and eggs I always have) and we headed off to our nearest ASDA to shop. I love the fact that J and T are at an age where they want to be involved in the whole process and we headed for the baking aisle and J and T choose some of the many items to decorate their butterfly cakes and cookies with – check out our shopping trip in our G+ Photo Album.

Making the shop part of your creative baking with kids #cbias

I added in some glitter writing icing (glitter and icing in a squeeze tube – my idea of cookie decorating heaven) and we did a self scan with the kids helping me put the items through and brought them home to get creative baking with butterflies.

Glitter Writing Icing for creative baking with kids

Returning home T and I got baking whilst J was at preschool.

Creative baking with toddlers - butterfly cakes and cookies #cbias

We used our favourite fairy cake recipe for the butterfly cakes and no-egg sugar cookie recipe for the cookies (no eggs means that when T tries to eat it which she does regularly it is perfectly safe for her – I’m a bit wary of her eating raw eggs in cookie dough).

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T and I set about mixing up the cakes – it’s a recipe that we do a lot with J and T although J (18 months older than T) normally does all the pouring with him at preschool that meant T was pouring the ingredients into the bowl and helping me mix them up.

Creative baking with kids - butterfly cakes and cookies #cbias

Once they were cooked we set about decorating them. The butterfly cakes – traditional style with butter cream filling and then to add some sparkle some of the neon sugars that we had brought inbetween to brighten them up.

Creative baking with kids - cookies making #cbias

With the cookie cutters chosen T and I set about making the cookie dough and then cutting butterflies, flowers and even circles out – we stuck the circles together and created a lovely caterpillar shape.

Creative baking with kids - bring the very hungry caterpillar alive #cbias

When everything was cooked we set about decorating – T got her hands on the glitter icing tubes and started to draw all over the cookies with them. Adding coloured sprinkles and tiny butterflies (although I think it was a case of she ate more than she put on with those – they are a real hit).

Toddler creative baking decorating butterfly cookies #cbias

I saved the caterpillar for me to decorate and using my now favourite neon sugar crystals I decorated the head section with the bright red/pink, the rest of the body in green and added some little fluffy marshmallows for the eyes to create our own Very Hungry Caterpillar Creative Baking.

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Author
Cerys Parker

Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, teacher, mum, and home educator from the UK. She loves getting creative, whether it is with simple and easy crafts and ideas, activities to make learning fun, or delicious recipes that you and your kids can cook together you'll find them all shared here on Rainy Day Mum.

16 Comments

  1. these look so yummy! looks like your littles had some baking fun!

  2. I love these. Funnily enough I’ve been invited into school for the next few weeks to do baking themed around the Very Hungry Caterpillar with my daughter. I can’t wait. 🙂

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