My kids love to bake, and recently we were sent the new Big Baking Book from Ella’s Kitchen (the yellow one.) The book includes lots and lots of easy and child friendly ideas, and we decided to go for an easy biscuit recipe made with apples called “special apple biccies”
To make these you will need:
- 150g flour
- 75g unsalted butter
- 1 eating apple cored and finely grated
- 1 egg yolk
As you can see from the ingredients these biscuits have absolutely no refined sugar in them at all so they are great even for the youngest kids.
Weighing out the ingredients is Mr Z’s favourite part, and gives lots of opportunities for practical maths (“We’ve added x-amount, how many more grams do we need?” or “We have too much! How much do we need to take out?” )
How to make the biscuit dough
- Mix the butter and flour until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. You can do this in a food processor (the book recommends this) but we don’t have one so we did this by hand which also works fine.
- Add the apple and egg yolk and combine them into a dough
Mixing is Mr R’s favourite part!
Once the dough is made, chill it for an hour.
Then it’s time to cut out fun biscuit shapes on a floured surface, which all the boys enjoy.
Once the shapes are ready, bake them in a pre-heated oven at Gas Mark 4 / 180C / 350F for 20-25 minutes until pale golden.
Very easy, tasty, and fun to make!
The full contents of Ella’s Kitchen – the Big Baking Book (The Yellow One) includes:
- Seriously Scrummy Snacks
- Lovely Lunches
- Tasty Teatime
- Fab Family Dinners
- It’s party time!
- Fun Outdoors.
There are also some fab food related crafts scattered about among the recipes which is such a good idea. These can keep the children busy while their baking is in the oven!
These ideas include: How to make a chef’s hat, fizzy volcano fun and dangly decorations with bread clay.
While our biscuits were in the oven we made our own biscuit or cake stand using a paper plate and polystyrene cups, which will be coming up on the blog very soon.
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Your boys look like they’re loving the baking! Great photos as always x
We are going to make some Easter shaped biscuits tomorrow so I am thinking we might use this recipe as your biscuits look yummy!
Apple biscuits sound great. We’ve always got apples and I’ve never added any to biscuit mix – top idea Ella 🙂
I LOVE that there is no added sugar – such a great recipe!
Your children are so adorable. They look like they had such a good time making the biscuits. No sugar in these! We’ll have to give them a go.
I need to make some of these, loving that there is no added sugar
I love the sound of that book. Those biscuits look yummy!
My son love to do baking too so i think we gonna try to make the same like your boys do. lol
I am loving this book and those apple biscuits look great too!! Something I know my toddler and younger kids would really enjoy. How cute are your boys too! Certainly love making with Mummy in the kitchen! #recipeoftheweek
I really like the sound of Apple Biscuits, we’ll have to give these a try. My kids also love the cutting out best 🙂 Thanks for linking up to Kids in the Kitchen x
never thought of apple biscuits! your boys look so happy doing them! #pinitparty
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mmmmm apple biscuits 🙂 These sound yummy and well impressed by the lack of sugar in the recipe! Definitely going to give these a go #pintorials
These look so healthy and fun to make
My kids love baking! So much fun even when it gets messy! These look like such a great idea. I should give it a try!
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Dee T
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What brilliant photos of them enjoying them-selves getting messy #MiniCreation
Anna this looks like a really super book! i love the pictures of the boys they are so hansom with cheesy grins 😉
Looks like lots of fun was had!
Thank you for sharing the recipe. Have bookmarked it so I can make with Cameron
Thank you for linking up with the Weekend Blog Hop
Laura x x x
This is a great recipe, so simple! Definitely going to try these, have pinned 🙂 #MiniCreations
What cute boys. So good to see them working away int he kitchen and having fun…. That picture of the hands is priceless!!! Thanks so much for sharing your talent!! 🙂
“hugs” Crystelle
Crystelle Boutique
I don’t have kids to play in the kitchen with, but throw in a little shredded cheddar and I’ll be all over these! 🙂 [#PinItThurs]
Ooooh, these look sooooooo nice. I’ll have to make them with my little niece, she loves cooking with me. She’s only two and I’ve got her making pizzas, jambalayas and all sorts. Training her young! I have a bunny cookie cutter that would have these so cute!
They look good with the sweet tasty apple in them, your boys look so clean in their white tops, my two would be covered!!
Lucas says – The Mother used to feed me Ella’s Kitchen when I was a baby and it was seriously yummy. This book looks awesome and the end results are even more yummier!!!!
Thanks for linking to #minicreations
I like this recipe, I’ve been planning a bake for a while. I even have those cutters like yours.
What a lovely sounding book, your boys look like they are having such a great time as well. #pastandpresent #thankyouforlinkingup
Oh this looks like a lot of fun – and I bet they were tasty too. It’s good to find recipes aimed at kids that don’t have any extra sugar – those apples are sweet enough. I’m featuring this in my Apple Tot School post on Saturday so keep your eyes peeled (no pun intended!)