Our Tiny Bakers Recipes
Our Cookie Recipes
Our Cookie Recipes
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...
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...
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...
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...
Plain Shortbread Cookies
Our plain shortbread cookie recipe focuses on fine motor skills, as we first have to soften the dough with our hands, as well as rolling it out and cutting out shapes. We also learned about different shapes and colours. A big part of the recipe is also about...
Jam Thumbprint Cookies
We use coconut in our jam thumbprint cookies. During the this lesson, we take a coconut to class. The children learn what a coconut tree looks like. They feel that a coconut is rough with hairs on the outside, not smooth like a banana, that the...
Gingerbread Men Cookies
With our gingerbread men lesson the focus is body image and the ginger plant with the ginger root. At a young age children have to learn the different parts of the body as well as spatial orientation, which is basically their position in the space around them....
Cranberry Orange Cookies
With our cranberry orange cookies, we do a lesson about cranberries. I show the children photos of cranberry bushes and cranberries. The children taste dried cranberries and look at the colour of the ripe berries. They learn that cranberries are very...
Our Cupcake Recipes
Our Cupcake Recipes
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...
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...
Red Velvet Cupcakes
When we do the red velvet cupcakes lesson, we teach the little ones about beetroot. We take a beetroot with leaves to the class. We cut the beetroot open and show the children the colour, as well as the colour of the leaves and educate them about how beetroot is...
Chocolate Cupcakes
When we bake our chocolate cupcakes, we do a lesson about cacao. We show the children what the cacao tree and cacao pods look like, as well as the cacao beans. We explain that cacao beans are crushed to form a fine cacao powder that we use in baking. The children...
Our Muffin Recipes
Our Muffin Recipes
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Orange and Carrot muffins
We made orange and carrot muffins for this class. With this lesson we take a small orange tree to class. I usually wait until May when the orange trees bloom. We show the children the tree and the blossoms and that small oranges form once the flowers fall...
Banana Bread in a Mug
IngredientsDough 1 small banana 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp milk 1 egg 2 tbsp coconut 4 tbsp self-raising flour 4 tbsp sugar (white or brown) ΒΌ tsp cinnamon Pinch of saltIcing 400 g icing sugar 130 g butter or wooden spoon 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla essence Sliced...
Sweet Potato Muffins
Sweet potatoes are extremely healthy. They are an excellent source of vitamin A , vitamin C, manganese, copper, pantothenic acid and vitamin B6. Additionally, they are a good source of potassium, dietary fibre, niacin, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and...
Our Pastry Recipes
Our Pastry Recipes
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cinnamon Buns
When we make cinnamon buns, we teach the children where cinnamon comes from. We show them photos of how it is harvested from the bark of a tree, and show them the cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon. We roll out our dough, then cut it into rectangles, brush some...
Our Pizza Recipes
Our Pizza Recipes
Mini Pizza
With our mini pizza recipe, we do a lesson about tomatoes. We show a tomato plant to the children, and they learn that plants need water and sun to grow well. We show them that one gets different shapes and colours tomatoes, and that we make a sauce from...
Pinwheel Pizza
When we make the Pinwheel Pizza recipe, our lesson focuses on wheat. We show the children what the wheat plant looks like, and that we can grind the wheat to form flour for baking. We usually take a mortar and pestle to class to demonstrate this. We show...
Our Savoury Pie Recipes
Our Savoury Pie Recipes
Flourless savoury pie
With this flourless savoury pie recipe we teach the little ones about eggs. We show them where eggs come from and talk about what chickens eat, and how many eggs are laid per day. Each child breaks open one egg and mixes his/her own recipe. Eggs are a very good source...