Baking cookies with children
The best recipes and helpful tips
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What would Christmas be without cookies? We’ll tell you here how baking cookies with children can be a lot of fun and which are the best recipes.
When it smells seductively of cinnamon, the stove radiates a cozy warmth and the children’s eyes shine, then you know: It’s Christmas time again. And of course there is baking. Baking cookies with children can be a lot of fun, but it can also quickly end in chaos. We’ll tell you about baking Christmas cookies for the whole family helpful tips and tricks. We have you for inspiration for sugary, colorful biscuit creations put together our best cookie recipes for children. From classic butter biscuits and vanilla crescents to many simple recipes such as shortcrust biscuits and biscuit dough for children to creative tree decorations and gingerbread, there is something for everyone.
5 tips for baking cookies with children
Before you start baking cookies with your children, here are a few tips.
- Take a simple recipe. Complicated steps tend to bore the little ones and can quickly become frustrating. For the quick fun factor, it is best to limit yourself to one or two simple cookie recipes that you choose together with your children.
- Joint planning is generally important. This increases the anticipation among the kids and boosts their self-confidence because they are given an important task. Write a shopping list together, put all your baking utensils out together and choose the most beautiful ones Cookie cutters the end.
- Leave room for creativity and try to give your little baker a free hand in cutting out, decorating and experimenting.
- Allow enough timeso that baking cookies with children becomes a relaxed family time and there is no time pressure. So plan at least two hours for the happening.
- Security in the kitchen is especially important when baking with children. Because there is a risk of injury both on a hot oven and on kitchen appliances. To minimize dangers, keep an eye on your children. Assists with stirring, takes the hot tray out of the oven yourself and explains to the kids that trays and biscuits from the oven are hot.
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Two very special Christmas cookie ideas
If your children are a bit older or you want to bake a few special cookies for St. Nicholas, for example, these two creations are just the thing.
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Bear biscuits – almost too cute to eat
Little teddy bears hugging their almonds – how cute can Christmas cookies be? No wonder kids love them! But because the cookies are quite demanding, we recommend baking them with older children.
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Grinch biscuits
The grim green Grinch biscuits are a real eye-catcher on every cookie plate and fit perfectly into the Santa Claus boot on December 6th or make a fun substitute for place cards on Christmas Eve. Since they require a lot of tact and patience, they should be baked by teenagers first.
Decorate Christmas cookies: sprinkles, icing and Co.
For children, the best thing about baking cookies is usually the one afterwards Decorate with sprinkles, icing and co. Butter cookies, simple shortcrust biscuits and cookie cutters are particularly suitable for this. For the selection of Cookie cutter are good Stars, fir trees, hearts, reindeer, falling stars, Santa Clauses or maybe your children’s favorite characters, such as dinosaurs or fairies.
Utensils for decoration:
- Icing (powdered sugar mixed with lemon juice)
- Chocolateglaze
- Chocolate lentils
- Chocolate sprinkles
- Colorful sprinkles
- Sugar pearls
- Food coloring for coloring icing
- Chocolate or jam to fill between two biscuits
- Small wine gum
- Hazelnut brittle
Here you get even more tips on how to decorate your cookies.
Are children allowed to eat raw cookie dough?
When baking cookies with children, the question often arises whether snacking on dough is allowed. We answer the question as follows: As soon as raw eggs are processed in the cookie dough, the raw dough should not be tried. Pathogens can multiply there, which can lead to abdominal pain and nausea.
Tip: If you still like to try and nibble on in between, we recommend to make an extra cookie dough for snacking. The recipe is easy: just mix one tablespoon of butter with three tablespoons of flour and one tablespoon of sugar. Well kneaded, it can be tasted without a guilty conscience. Otherwise, the sweets for decoration, such as chocolate lentils, sugar pearls and and and offer a delicious alternative.
Video tip: Delicious crispy cinnamon biscuits made from just 4 ingredients
Our video tip for those in a hurry: the super delicious crispy cinnamon cookies, for which you only need four ingredients. If the kids spontaneously feel like baking cookies, then this recipe is sure to be a hit.
Checklist for baking cookies with children
- Find recipes
- Prepare ingredients (e.g. flour, sugar, butter, decorations)
- Put out cookie cutters
- Get Christmas music ready to go
- If desired: have aprons ready
- Get out the rolling pin
- Have a mixing bowl and possibly a hand mixer ready
- Prepare the baking sheet and parchment paper
- Have a brush or piping bag ready for the icing
- Have enough kitchen paper ready
- Have a lot of fun
Snack on cookies