Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Keep children busy with some baking during school holidays; they can help you make these easy recipes – both sweet and savoury – and enjoy the results as a treat. Try our throw-it-all-in rocky road, old-fashioned flapjacks, blueberry muffins and lots more…
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Peanut butter
Air-fryer muffins with peanut butter and blueberries
When it comes to your air fryer, don’t neglect sweet options like these fluffy peanut butter and blueberry muffins. Bake for a lazy brunch.
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Birthday cakes
Panda cake
This happy little panda is, to everyone’s delight, completely edible. Our panda cake is perfect for birthday parties and special celebrations.
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Afternoon tea
‘Banana’ cake
Seriously a-peel-ing, this cartoonish banana illusion cake is bound to make a statement at birthdays, special occasions and bake sales.
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Afternoon tea
Garden cake
Bring the outdoors in with this pretty 'garden' cake. Cover sponges with a generous layer of buttercream, then festoon with edible flowers.
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Easy cakes
Kim-Joy’s bubble-tea frog cake
Calling all bubble tea fans! Kim Joy's easy cake is infused with black tea, layered with tea buttercream and topped with brown-sugar boba.
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Christmas baking
Snowman empire biscuits
Snowman empires offer a festive twist on this Scottish biscuit. Ideal for Christmas baking with kids, they pair shortbread with a jam filling.
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Teatime traybakes
Blackberry, brown butter and almond squares
Looking for a simple traybake? These almond and blackberry squares are so easy to make, but the brown butter adds an extra level of fancy.
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Raspberries
Raspberry and sesame cheesecake danishes
These easy pastries are like a cheesecake in danish form, with raspberries, a cream cheese base and sweet-salty sesame caramel.
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Scones
Cottage cheese and chive scones
Cottage cheese gives these deliciously savoury scones a subtle tang, amped up with a little kick of chilli.
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Baking recipes
Honey flapjacks
These simple honey flapjacks are the perfect vehicle for showcasing the complex floral flavours of a good-quality honey.
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Savoury bread
Simple wholemeal loaf
Learn how to make a rustic loaf with our simple recipe. This free-form bread uses a mix of wholemeal and white flour for best results.
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Cookies
Banoffee pan-bang cookies
Banoffee pie fans, meet your new favourite cookie. These pan-bang cookies are laced with milk chocolate, banana chips and gooey toffees.
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Cookies
Chocolate orange pan-bang cookies
Chocolate orange fans will love this zesty take on pan-bang cookies. These wrinkly cult cookies are a guaranteed hit and easy to make.
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Baking recipes
Date and walnut loaf
This classic date and walnut loaf may keep for a few days in the tin, but you won't be able to resist it warm from the oven with butter.
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Irish
Spotted dog (Irish soda bread with sultanas)
Spotted dog is an enriched soda bread made with sugar, sultanas and egg. Cherie Denham shares her recipe for this Irish farmhouse classic.
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Scones
Cheese and mixed herb scones
Cherie Denham's cheese scones are the ultimate treat with vegetable soup – a marriage of tangy cheese and herbs strewn over a soft scone.
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