Cookies for Kiddies

Kids’ cookie recipes are a great way to get them doing something creative and help then understand the importance of things like team work, organized work, time schedule, cleanliness and concentration.

Are you wondering how? Well, any kids’ cookie recipe would require the following:

• The list of ingredients
• The right equipment and arrangements
• Buying and organizing the process

Now as we begin we decide the kids to go through all phases themselves; having us right there if they get stuck somewhere. The fun begins with identifying the ingredients and at times learning or knowing new ones.

Next, the items are listed and bought from the grocer as per the required quantity. This helps kids brush up their basic math. Further the right equipments namely the oven, the baking tray, a sieve, wooden spoon, whisk, bowl and spoon have to be neatly arranged on the working table.

This helps kids realize that items need to be put in proper order beforehand for organized work.

Chocolate chip cookie recipe for kids is probably the most popular all over the world. The main ingredients would be:

• Plain flour
• Caster sugar
• Butter or margarine
• Chocolate chips
• Eggs
• Vanilla essence

The three most important things for kids to learn in this process are:

• Weighing the ingredients as per requirement
• Maintaining the right oven temperature and understanding what could be the consequences if it is neglected.
• Ensuring that work is done keeping time in mind…you don’t take all day to bake cookies!
• Finish work neatly and put away things used; in the right place only after cleaning and drying them up.

The process would require supervision but kids should feel it’s their responsibility and should work accordingly:

• Weigh the ingredients
• Mix sugar and butter in a bowl till it’s light in colour and creamy
• Break and whisk eggs adding vanilla essence
• Mix well together with the sugar and butter
• Sieve flour and mix with the mixture
• Knead smoothly adding chocolate chips
• Flatten into small roundels and place in the middle of the tray.
• Bake for 15 minutes at 180C
• When cooked they should be soft
• Cool
• Ready to eat!

Simple cookie recipes for kids could begin at home during summer or winter holidays using the most common items available or already at home. Peanut butter, almond, fruits, Christmas special, cereal, oatmeal or any new cookie recipe with a new name is good to begin with.

You would often notice that it is through these small engagements that you are able to discover your kids’ real interest and often qualities. In fact these interactions often help us see through ourselves as to how well we can co-ordinate, manage and explain things to beginners!

Making cookies has another interesting angle—decorating them! Ideas could flow like canon balls and you would be really challenged to keep up with the kids in this case!