nanila | Baking: Nadiya's Kitchen

I only had a chance to try one new recipe from Nadiya’s Kitchen this weekend, and it was the one for “Ovaltine Bedtime Biccies”, which Humuhumu and Keiki helped with. I’m not a huge fan of Ovaltine so I substituted my favourite hot chocolate (Twinings Swiss Chocolate Drink) instead. I have no regrets. They have a smooth texture, are not excessively sweet and are terribly morish.

Humuhumu and Keiki were varying degrees of helpful. She’s very good at cracking eggs, and pretty good at measuring out ingredients and stirring. Keiki is very good at tasting things to make sure that they’re okay. After each addition, he says, “More taste…?” They are both good at flouring work surfaces (and themselves), and of course the greatest pleasure is rolling out and cutting up the dough with the cookie cutters. Keiki particularly likes the part where bits of dough cling to the cutters and have to be removed. Half of those go back into the dough for re-rolling and the other half go into Keiki.

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Date: 2017-01-30 01:23 pm (UTC)

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rmc28

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This is adorable :-)

Date: 2017-01-30 08:52 pm (UTC)

nanila

Aw, thank you. Cooking with the children requires a lot of energy and vigilance at the moment. I'm hoping it'll get easier the more we practice!

Date: 2017-01-31 05:22 am (UTC)

fred_mouse

From my experience, they get much better at knowing what needs doing, and all of a sudden they are willing (and capable) of doing the whole thing themselves. Youngest, who is the one most keen on cooking, could probably have done a whole recipe at 11; a friend's kids, who get a lot more cooking experience, could probably have all dealt with a basic bikkie recipe at 6 or 7.

Date: 2017-01-30 01:46 pm (UTC)

gwendraith

“More taste…?”
So cute :)

The biscuits sounds delicious :)

It's irresistibly cute. He'd keep doing it indefinitely, but Humuhumu always reaches a point where she says, "I've had a lot now, Mummy, I think that's enough."

The biscuits are almost gone! :D

Date: 2017-01-30 08:42 pm (UTC)

silveradept

Hee. That sounds life a great way to get the children interested in the cooking.

Date: 2017-01-30 08:53 pm (UTC)

It is. I'd love to do it more, but I only have the energy for it at weekends because it requires fairly constant monitoring. Maybe as they get older, we can add it into the occasional weekday evening.