INSPIRATION RECIPES TO MAKE WITH CHILDREN

Cooking with our children is one of the most rewarding and fun activities what we can do with them. That they instill in you from a young age the love for cooking is one of the inheritances that we can leave them for the future, but also a way of making them more independent and that they learn to develop their skills.

Any free afternoon is good to get the whole family, children included, to prepare something in the kitchen, you will enjoy during the preparation and much more when you see the little face of happiness they have left by eating what they themselves have done.

Tips for cooking with children

To choose easy recipes, where there is part of the cold elaborations and especially that they are not very long to prepare, the children do not have as much patience as we do and if the elaboration is very tedious and with many steps, they quickly get bored.

The ideal is let them choose what they want to prepare within their possibilities, but try not only to want to choose sweet recipes, it is good that they know more flavors and that they adapt to different types of food.

If we have children of different ages distribute the works of each step of the recipe according to your possibilities. Whisk, stir, grate, stretch a dough or grease a mold with butter, they are like a fun game for the little ones.

Put comfortable clothes To avoid having to worry about staining, one of the things children like best is to smear with flour and I can assure you that it is very fun for them.

And if we also prepare meals with the shape or inclusion of your favorite pets, such as trying to put the name of LULU with some ingredient, or even trying to make the body and face shape for the bravest, they will love it!

Ideal recipes to prepare with children

Not all recipes are ideal for cooking with children, there are specific cookbooks for cooking with them, but if you don't have any there they go some suggestions to inspire you.

Cakes, biscuits, muffins and cupcakes: In this case we will let them beat and stir the masses in the bowls so that they end up decorating their own creations with colored sprinkles, chocolate noodles and even some pastry sleeves with varied nozzles. We can also make cakes without an oven like the classic cookie and chocolate of a lifetime. We can use the new LULU bear cookies that are shaped like a bear and are hilarious.

Macedonian and fruit salads: We will cut the fruit the adults and then we will place it in small containers so that they choose which mixtures they want more.

Basic Breads: If there is something that children love, it is to knead and knead as if it were a clay dough. They will enjoy sinking their hands in it and preparing small muffins stuffed with some sausage they like.

Edible plasticine: Ideal for the little ones to mold their own creations and then eat them as a bauble made in this case by themselves. You can find them in children's or pastry shops.

Special snacks: so that the snack is fun nothing better than getting out of the classic sandwich and making a different one with shapes of your favorite characters. There are plastic cutters for the bread that will make this task very easy and also can do it themselves without our help.

Any preparation however simple it will be for them to enjoy with us in the kitchen. The idea is that let's have a nice and fun time with them performing this activity in family.