Easy baking recipes for kids

2024-11-6

Simple but delicious - and, above all, perfect for getting kids into the kitchen: Here are our favourite recipes for everyone who enjoys the best pre-Christmas activity there is together with young bakers.

Advent and baking – they simply belong together: First filling the rooms with a lovely scent and then filling the plates with a colourful selection of biscuits that everyone loves to dig into. From our own experience, we can say that children not only love the baked goods, they also like to help out with baking them. To ensure that baking is a success, we have written down our favourite recipes for you.

From 3 years: Cut-out butter biscuits

Younger children have great fun cutting out biscuits in every imaginable shape: not only bells and stars, but also reindeer, angels and snowmen make it onto the biscuit plate. With a simple shortcrust pastry, you’re sure to succeed.

Mix 300 g flour, 200 g cold butter, 100 g sugar, a pinch of salt and a packet of bourbon vanilla sugar with an egg (if you want even more flavour, add some ground cinnamon, lemon zest and coriander). Now comes the child’s big entrance, because now it’s time to knead! Help a little later and knead until the dough forms a smooth, harmonious whole. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave it to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Children love to help roll out the dough. Give them small pieces of dough that they can roll out themselves before they cut out biscuits with cutters as they please.
Carefully place the cut-out biscuits on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for around 10 minutes until they are a light golden brown colour. Once they have cooled, the biscuits can be decorated with icing, chocolate and sugar sprinkles – or enjoyed as they are.

From 3 years: Chocolate oatmeal balls

Some recipes do not require an oven at all. This is an advantage for children: their work is ready immediately – and nobody can burn themselves. The following recipe is very versatile and looks great on any biscuit plate.

In a large bowl, mix about 100 g rolled oats with 50 g ground almonds, 50 g honey, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tbsp peanut butter and a little vanilla paste. The children can knead diligently and then shape the mixture into walnut-sized balls before rolling them in grated coconut or chocolate sprinkles. The balls are then placed in the fridge for 30 minutes to firm up.

From 8 years: Linzer croissants with chocolate icing

At the age of 8, children can already take on more complex steps – for example, they can work with a hand mixer, mix ingredients, dress dough or glaze biscuits. Why not try it out with our delicious Linzer croissants!
To make them, you need 250 g butter at room temperature, 100 g icing sugar, 350 g wheat flour, 1 egg, a Bourbon vanilla pod, sliced lemon zest and a pinch of salt.
To make the batter, beat the butter at room temperature with the icing sugar, vanilla pod pulp and lemon zest until fluffy. Gradually stir in the egg. Then add the dry ingredients: the sifted flour and a pinch of salt.

Now you can use a pastry bag to pipe the dough into crescent shapes onto the baking paper before placing everything in the oven for ten minutes at 180°C fan oven. Leave the crescents to cool and then stick the apricot jam on the flat sides.
Once the crescents are glued together, you can slowly melt around 200 g of dark chocolate coating and dip the tips of the crescents into the chocolate coating. Then simply leave to dry on a baking rack or baking paper – and enjoy soon!