Birthday parties
Baking classes at school
How we started out
Tiny Bakers started out in 2012 as a baking program for children at nursery schools. This was since baking is a very therapeutic activity and that most of the senses are developed during baking. The little ones love these classes and fine motor skills, sense of smell, tactile sense, hand-eye-coordination, and many more are stimulated while they are having fun.
Baking has always been a passion of mine.
There was a growing demand from children who wanted to bake all different products such as different types of biscuits and cookies, carrot cake, chocolate cake and more. I therefore decided to do birthday parties for children at their homes.
Our Recipes
One of the best ways to bond with your child is through baking. You’ll be surprised at how fun and easy it is!
Try one of our Tiny Bakers recipes below.
Dipped sugar cookies
With our dipped sugar cookies, we mix our butter, flour and sugar together, thereby strengthening the finger muscles. (Fine motor skills) We roll the dough and cut out shapes , and promote hand-eye coordination and again fine motor skills. When baked, the decorating...
Egg-free dipped sugar cookies
With our egg-free dipped sugar cookies, we mix our butter, flour and sugar together, thereby strengthening the finger muscles. (Fine motor skills) We roll the dough and cut out shapes , and promote hand-eye coordination and again fine motor skills. When baked, the...
Buttermilk scones
With our buttermilk scones lesson we teach the children about dairy products and show them photos of a cow. We ask the children what products that we can eat or drink comes from milk. We then use cream and whisk it to show them how butter and buttermilk is made. The...
Lemon muffins with sticky icing
With our lemon muffins the lesson is about lemons and the lemon tree. With this lesson, we take a small lemon tree with either blossoms or small lemons already growing on the tree. We teach the children the colours green, yellow, brown of the soil , as well as the...
Coconut Cookies
With this coconut cookies recipe the lesson is about coconut. The children look at and hold a coconut, and learn that the inside is white and the outside brown. They feel the rough texture and compare it with the smooth surface of the table they work on. We then shake...
Christmas Cookies
In December we do the Christmas cookies recipe at all our schools. We use the gingerbread dough, as that is the most popular dough for Christmas cookies. Parents are, however, welcome to use any suitable cookie recipe that they want. We start our class by playing...
Pumpkin Spice Muffins
With our pumpkin spice muffins we teach the children about pumpkins . We take a pumpkin plant to the class and show the children the plant with the pumpkin flower and the small pumpkins starting to grow. We also take different pumpkins such as a butternut, gem squash,...
Beach Cupcakes
With our beach cupcakes, the recipe is about having fun. We usually do this close to the December holidays. We bake a cupcake from the dough the children mixed and decorate it with blue icing, "sand" (cookie crumbs) and a small cocktail umbrella on top. Ingredients...
Apple Muffins
Our apple muffins recipe is one of the most popular muffins of all. We do a lesson about apples, and then use grated apple in our muffin recipe. The recipe includes rubbing the butter and flour together (fine motor skills) sensory skills, as we put some cinnamon into...
Honey Bear Bread
With this honey bear bread recipe, we usually do a lesson about honey bees and honey, and the health benefits of honey. We touch on how honey is made and show the children pictures of bees and honey combs. This is a very easy and lovely recipe that you can make...
Blueberry muffins
With our blueberry muffins, we show the children a blueberry plant , and talk about the colours and what the plant needs to grow. We taste the blueberries, as some are slightly sweet and some more sour. We then make our muffin recipe to which we add the fresh...
Imagination Cookies
With the imagination cookies we touch on sensory stimulation, fine motor skills and creativity. The children smell and taste and use their hands to cut out shapes.They then decorate the cookies with icing and pick up small sprinkles to put on the cookies. They are...
Half Moon Pies
The half moon pie lesson is about shapes - we form a circle with our dough and compare it to other circles in the class. We also ask the children to tell us what circle shapes we get in nature, e.g. the sun and moon. We make our pie by putting some nutella or jam in...
Vanilla Cupcakes
With our vanilla cupcakes recipe we teach the children where vanilla comes from. Vanilla is harvested from the yellow vanilla orchid, a beautiful flower. The green seedpods are dried and we find vanilla paste inside, which is further processed into vanilla essence and...
Apple Pie Bites
During August we made a very interesting recipe - apple pie bites, which consisted of a croissant-like apple treat with cinnamon and brown sugar inside. The children learnt about apples, the apple blossom and different colours apples that we get. We learnt that a...
Strawberry Heart Cookies
With our strawberry heart cookies, our lesson is about strawberries. I take a strawberry plant to class, preferably one with flowers and or strawberries already on it. We show the children the flowers, leaves and fruit and teach them about the colours red, white and...
Our Tiny Bakers
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How to find Tiny Bakers
Head Office
Our head office is in Bronberrick, Centurion.
Retha Basham | Founder
Cell: 082 945 3567
Email: retha@tinybakers.co.za
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