Let’s cook with children!

Many chefs consider cooking to be one big experiment, which in turn leads to new dishes being created over and over again. It is important for parents to teach their children to respect food from a young age, as it is an important “dowry” for life. Parents who cook at home and take the time to cook for their children have children who are interested and curious about cooking, but who also become, in later years, people who take cooking as a compulsory household chore and eat home-cooked meals. Perceptions of cooking are highly individual – parents who love cooking pass on this pattern to their children, and vice versa – parents who offer their children semi-prepared or “fast food” meals unconsciously teach them eating patterns that they continue to experience in adulthood.

Food preparation

• Children who can prepare their own food are more independent and self-reliant. This way, they can satisfy their food cravings at any time. Through cooking, children strengthen their technical skills, creativity and imagination, while expanding their food repertoire and becoming gourmets. Cooking is also a great stimulus to develop fine motor skills and knowledge of numbers and letters – children learn many things unconsciously when reading recipes, weighing and selecting food.
• Children can be involved in cooking from a very early age – when they are young, you can sit them in their highchair and invite them to watch you cook. The child will follow your every movement and step, subconsciously memorising and later being able to realise it himself.
• It is important to teach children how to eat healthily by eating 5 meals a day: breakfast, snack, lunch, snack and dinner.
• Include all six food groups in your daily diet: vegetables, fruit, cereals and cereal products, milk and dairy products, meat and meat products, and fats.

To encourage cooking play, different children’s kitchens are a great way for children to play and learn new things. Meet the beautiful Wooden Kitchen Lily, Woody, 102,5 CM, perfect for all children.

Kitchen Contains:

• built-in oven,
• cooler,
• the hob,
• microwave oven
• kitchen sink with mixer taps.

The dimensions of the kitchen are: length 113 x height 102.5 x width 31.2 cm. Suitable for children from 3. years of age and upwards.

A simple recipe for delicious Nutella chocolate muffins that children can make with the help of their parents:

Ingredients

• 220 g flour
• 1 bag of baking powder
• 200 ml of milk
• 80 g cocoa
• 100 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 90 g melted butter
• Nutella
• edible chocolate for the topping
• coloured specks

Procedure

Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa and vanilla sugar in a large bowl. Stir. In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, milk and melted butter. Stir each separately, then pour the liquid mixture over the first mixture and stir well to remove any lumps.

Place the muffin tins in a muffin tin and fill them 1/2 full with the mixture, then add a teaspoon of Nutella, which has been heated a little beforehand to make it runnier. Then fill the mould to 4/5 full.

Bake at 180 °C for 15 minutes.

Allow the muffins to cool, make the chocolate topping, pour over the muffins and sprinkle with sprinkles.