Thank you so much to those of you who managed to join in the first Cooking with Kids challenge, I was so nervous that no one would join in 😉
As promised, here’s a round up of all the yummy looking entries:
The lovely NotSoSingleMum made hers with sweet paprika to add a Spanish style twist to hers….
Here’s Lil Monkey having fun making his version….
I love MummyMusing’s version made by our youngest baker….
Lilly made some fab ones – with extra cheese….
Another young entrant, Freyja made some lovely ones although there were tears when she couldn’t join them in the oven….
Ella at Notes from Home made some lovely ones, although they didn’t last very long lol…
Feeding my 3 Boys’ entry wasy fab – the cheese straws actually spelled out the word ‘cheese straws’….
I love Seasider in the city’s entry – Dinosaur cheese straws….
I love the healthy twist that Mrs Green added to her version….
I couldn’t choose a winner so I asked the lovely Jen to judge it for me and after some deliberation she chose the entry from Feeding my 3 Boys, thanks very much Jen. The prize for this challenge is an Organised Mum Life Diary and a lovely childrens cookbook, so well done and again, thanks for entering everyone.
THE NEXT CHALLENGE
I decided to keep it really simple for the next challenge and go for cupcakes, because, who doesn’t love a cupcake 😉
We use a standard recipe that my nana taught me, cream together 100g butter and 100g sugar, beat in 2 eggs and fold in 100g self raising flour. Then spoon into cupcake cases and bake at about 180 c for about 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. The magic comes when they’ve cooled and you decorate them, which is this weeks challenge. You can use traditional butter icing and make fairy cakes, you could try my Nutella frosting or just do whatever you want to do – Go wild 😉
Here’s some we made earlier
Again, there’ll be a prize for the best entry so get decorating and add your pics to the McLinky below before 8 February 2011. Feel free to enter any old posts if you have any cupcakey ones.
Very interesting entry, I look forward to the next! Thx for share
Ah poo, I missed the deadline; Shame, I was really proud of what we achieved as we have dietary challenges to take into account! http://littlegreenblog.com/family-and-food/nutrit…
Hiya, couldn't get the linky to work either. My entry is here http://thesinglemumdiaries.wordpress.com/2011/02/… x
Can you add me to the Linky please? Here are our cupcakes:
http://notesfromhome.com/2011/02/07/cupcakes/
Thank you 🙂
Course I can – Thanks for joining in x
Hi I’m Juliana and I’m just surfing by. Check out my site sometime ok!
Thanks x
I was going to post a link too but the linky is closed.
Hi Angela – sorry about that ;-(
All sorted now so you can add your link x
Hi. Is it too late to enter the cupcake challenge? The linky is closed. x
Hi Lisa – sorry about that it was having a trauma.
All sorted now so you can add your link x
Congrats to the winner; I thought hers were the best too! Looking forward to getting stuck into this week's cooking challenge – thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Thanks for your support – I really appreciate it x
Thanks very much – hope you can join in x
I am a follower! I hope you will stop by my blog and follow back!
Sincerely,
Emma Michaels
http://EmmaMichaels.Blogspot.com
Great to see you here – I'll pop over and follow back x
How much chocolate for those ingredients to make them chocolate? (can you tell I'm not a cook 😉 )
Replace 25g of the flour with 25g of cocoa or so my nana used to tell me lol
Thank you, going to make these this morning 🙂
Looking forwrds to this one, we love baking cakes in this house and the boys love decorating them so expect a link from us x
Look forward to seeing it x x
That's so cool that everyone joined in! Well done you! Those cakes look awesome but for some reason my icing always turns out badly!!!!! x
Thanks very much x
Don't tell anyone but I've used ready made frosting loads of times x
Oooh I missed this one – would have loved to join in. I love cooking with my little girl – she's only 22 months but she loves it. Will have to go and hunt out a good cupcake recipe and try and find the time to join in this week. Heather.
I hope you do manage to join in – start them young lol