The boys always love to bake with me, and recently we have had some exciting new baking products to try out so Mr T and Mr R (4 and 2) were very keen to get in the kitchen and help me to try them out. We decided on making decorated biscuits in cute shapes, Mr T and Mr R did the actual baking and then Mr Z helped with the decorating once he was back from school.
We used this recipe from BBC food to make the biscuits, but not the icing.
Mr R loves to take over with the mixing, so I let him be mostly in charge of that and Mr T poured the ingredients in for him. When our dough was ready, we used colourful biscuit cutters from Unique Home Living. These have stars, hearts, teddy bears and sunshine shapes in four different colours. The boys really enjoyed choosing the shapes and colours that they wanted and the stars and hearts seemed to be their favourite. It’s a fun way for them to reinforce learning about their shapes and colours.
This kept them busy for a long time, pressing out their shapes then rolling the dough again and pressing some more. Mr R has been developing a lot of independence since turning 2 so he wanted to do as much as he could by himself, while I just watched and chatted to them and helped out where needed.
Once the shapes were ready, we placed them onto our new Pyrex glass multipurpose cooking sheet. I was really interested to try this out, as a big fan of Pyrex products. I had never tried a glass baking tray, although I do bake a lot of main meals in the traditional Pyrex glass casseroles. The glass cooking sheet looks so much more appealing than a regular baking tray, and I preferred it so much more. Nothing sticks to it, so there is no need for any foil or baking sheet – which means it is less wasteful and less costs as well as being prettier! We ended up making quite a lot, this is 1 of about 3 batches going into the oven.
We left all the biscuits to cool down while we picked up Mr Z from school, then we were ready to decorate. Mr Z always likes to do a fun activity after school so he was pleased to hear he was going to be decorating biscuits. We had been sent a biscuit and cake decoration set from Unique Home Living with lots of decorating bottles with different ends for icing and piping, and we decided to use Cake Angels chocolate fudge icing with this.
To get started, I loaded the fudge icing into the decorating bottles for the children to squeeze out. They did find these a little tricky to use – but I’m not sure whether a slightly runnier icing would have been easier. Cake Angels chocolate fudge icing is really yummy though, so they used a spoon to add some on to their biscuits and then used the spatula from the Unique Home Living set to smooth it out. We had lots of lovely decorations to use from Cake Angels (you may remember seeing some of these in our Sweetshop Pancakes post) so the boys sprinkled all sorts of colourful decorations over the biscuits, and really enjoyed their making decorating biscuits.
I kept some of the biscuits aside so that I could decorate them a little more tastefully! I wanted to use some of the handmade royal icing decorations I had from Cake Angels to make some cute themed biscuits, some with a transport theme (which you can see on the picture at the top) and some with a summer theme.
They looked and tasted great, and were so easy and fun to do.
Do your little ones love baking and making decorated biscuits? Let me know about any useful products you have tried lately, or any tips and ideas you have to share for baking.
Samples provided from Unique Home Living, Pyrex and Cake Angels
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All children love decorating biscuits, it’s a certain winner every time 🙂
My kids enjoy baking and getting involved with cooking in general. Baking’s a great activity to do with children.
These look so good!! I can’t wait to start baking with Amelia, I know at this age she would just throw it around the kitchen haha! x
Oh So Amelia
These look lovely- kids love baking!
This looks like so much fun, baking really is such an easy way to get creative and have fun with your children.
looks lovely, i dont bake at all, but i think its not for long as soon i will have Little L to bake for and with)
Those decorations are so cute!! I love baking with LP 🙂 x
this looks fun (isn’t baking always fun?) and they turned out great!
wow. they look so good 😉
Making biscuits is great fun isn’t it and it looks like you had some great bits to help you out!
cookies never grow old in the kitchen, all children love tomake them and decorate x
We did our cake angels cookies last night , just love the stuff they do .x
They look great! We love baking, biscuit being our favourite as they’re fun to decorate!
These biscuits look yummy!!
They look great! I love the look of the Pyrex cooking sheet, looks like a great idea x
MashaAllah they look tasty 🙂
What a wonderful post – sounds like it was lots of fun baking too! They look very good 🙂
Oh these look GREAT!!! Good job!! The boys look like they had a fab time! 🙂
Your biscuits look delicious. I have lots of pyrex dishes, the baking sheet looks like a great investment.
Yum! I can’t wait until Isra is old enough to bake with me. I love those squeeze icing tubes too. I had something similar that I used for piping cream into pastry
Fab decorations – they look professional!! x
I have just got very excited about your glass baking tray *squeal* I’ve been doing a lot of baking recently and like trying new things but good old biscuit making is ace isn’t it. I would love to make some of those beautifully iced ones. I picked up some Cake Angels products recently and have been very impressed.
Looks like you all had great fun!
Decorating biscuits (and eating them) has to be a favourite activity in our house too
We used to bake and decorate biscuits when my boy was younger – such fun!
you cant beat getting messy and decorating some biscuits!
Baking and decorating is such a great activity. 6yo loves it
Looks like your boys had lots of fun baking and eating these 😀 My J would too!
Looks like you all had fun! I love baking with the kids 🙂 x #blogclub
Ooh, they look tasty, my two love decorating biscuits and I love eating them – we make a great team 😉
so lovely! I love the little additions on them! x
Baking with kids is always fun but decorating can be very messy 🙂
OK, so what is your secret? 3 blog posts in a day, and baking?? You really are Super Mum!!
They sure look like they enjoyed making those! Yummy!
They are beautiful and it looks like such fun was had! Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve pinned this post and have scheduled to tweet shortly 🙂 Hope to see you linking up again soon! 😀 x