White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Our girls love baking - and our younger daughter very kindly made us a batch of these tasty cookies before she went away on her school camp.

Here's the recipe:

1/2 cup butter                                1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup sugar                                    1/4 cup oatmeal

1 egg                                              1 1/2 cups (8oz) chopped white chocolate chunks

2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375F (190C).

Beat butter and sugar together then add egg and vanilla. Mix well.

Sift dry ingredients and stir in the oatmeal. Add these dry ingredients and the chocolate to the butter mixture.

Mix well then roll into balls and flatten onto a non-stick baking sheet.

Bake for 8-10 mins.

We try to let our girls bake and cook as much as possible to get them to learn and gain confidence in the kitchen.  Plus, as I've already mentioned in another post - baking provides lots of excellent numeracy skills practice too!

So go on - set your kids off in the kitchen - what a great skill for them to learn!

Chocolate Christmas Biscuits

Today our girls did some Christmas baking. They made some yummy biscuits. Here's the recipe:

100g margarine

1 egg

2 cups plain flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 tsp baking powder

Method

Using electric beaters, beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy, then add egg and beat well.  Sift together flour, cocoa and baking powder, then add to the butter mixture. Mix to form a soft dough.

Roll out the dough and cut shapes from it. Place on trays and bake for 10-12 mins at 180C.  Cool.

The girls are getting good practice with their measuring, and also reading the instructions.  Both are learning fractions, so it's good for them to be reading and measuring in fractions of cups!

Of course choosing and cutting out lots of different shapes for the biscuits is always fun.

Every time they bake something, their confidence grows in mixing, measuring, cracking eggs etc.  Pretty soon they'll be able to bake by themselves and surprise us with tasty treats!!

Are your kids doing any Christmas baking?