There's a lot to do when preparing for the Easter weekend - dyeing eggs, making Easter decorations and preparing treats is always part of it. When it comes to baking and decorating desserts, the little ones always want to join in. Baking with children at Easter is fun, which is why we have put together lots of easy recipes and baking ideas that you can make at home.
Baking with children at Easter – how can the little ones help?
If you celebrate Easter with children, they might want to join in with the Easter baking. Depending on their age, the little ones can help with various activities in the kitchen. Stirring and mixing with your help in preparing the dough, as well as decorating with sprinkles, are good tasks for small children. Children aged 4 to 7 can prepare the baking ingredients, choose colors for the desserts, mix the dough and decorate the finished treats. Eight to eleven year olds can be trusted with setting the oven temperature, breaking the eggs and measuring the baking ingredients. Children aged 12 and over can do it themselvesKnead doughand decorate with piping bag. However, don't forget that when baking with children you should always pay attention to the safety of the little ones!
Delicious recipes
If you want to bake with the kids, you should opt for simpler recipes that the little ones can not just watch, but actually participate in. Delicious muffins with themed decorations, crispy Easter cookies with fun icing, yeast dough bunnies and simple cakes and tarts for Easter are ideal for baking with children.
Cupcakes und Muffins
Small muffins or cupcakes are part of every celebration and can be prepared and decorated as desired. You can easily make simple vanilla muffins for Easterbaking with childrenand decorate them as Easter baskets, bunnies or chicks. You can use a simple sponge cake recipe for this.
For these cute bunny cupcakes, you can use your tried and tested sponge cake recipe. If you don't have one yet, here are the ingredients for the basic recipe.
- 250 g soft butter
- 250g sugar
- 4 Owner
- 500 g Flour
- 1 packet of baking powder
- 125 ml milk
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar.
First, sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl and set aside. Then cream the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until creamy. Next, add eggs one at a time to the dough and stir in. Continue adding the flour-baking powder mixture to the dough alternately with the milk and stir in briefly.
Pour the dough into muffin cups and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 20-22 minutes. You can prepare a simple frosting with cream cheese and powdered sugar. Then spread the frosting on the cooled cupcakes and roll the icing in colored sugar.
To make bunny ears for the cupcakes, you will need marshmallows and clean scissors. To do this, cut the marshmallows diagonally in half and roll them in the sugar. Then attach the bunny ears to the cupcakes using toothpicks to create the bunnies.
Using icing in matching colors and piping bags, you can decorate the cupcakes with eyes and noses and create complete bunny faces. These pretty bunny cupcakes are not complicated to make and are perfect for Easter baking with children.
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You can make cupcakes and muffins with any batter you like, such as carrot cake batter, which is perfect for Easter. The children also enjoy fun decorated desserts and can help create various figures made of fondant or marzipan.
Easter cookies recipe
Easter cookies are a popular Easter snack that you can bake with the little ones. Kneading dough, rolling it out and cutting it into any shape is a lot of fun and ensures funny moments. The children can let their creativity run wild when decorating the cookies.
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If you are baking cookies for Easter with children, you can get cookie cutters in matching shapes. Eggs, chicks, bunnies or small lambs are perfect for this. A little tip: you can use a few chocolate drops to turn the egg cookies into quail eggs.
Another delicious idea for Easter baking with children are these small cookies. They can be prepared quickly and can be shaped and decorated by the children. Here are the ingredients:
- 125g soft butter
- 125g brown sugar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 1 No (Gr. L)
- 400 g Flour
- 1 packet of baking powder
- colorful sugar sprinkles
- small chocolate eggs.
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The children can take the finished dough with a spoon and then shape it into small balls. Then place one chocolate egg per cookie in the middle and press lightly. Finally, bake the cookies for 13-15 minutes at 160 degrees and enjoy the little treats.
Healthy cookies
If you want to eat healthier with your family, then you can bake healthy cookies for Easter with children. Use ingredients such as oat flakes, spelled flour and coconut oil. You can use various nuts and dried fruits as decoration and decorate the cookies creatively.
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Although most cakes for Easter are a little more complicated and are more for adult hobby confectioners, there are also simple recipes for a delicious cake or cake for Easter. The easiest way to create a bunny-shaped cake is to use two cake layers.
Prepare dough
For this cake you should first bake two cake layers. You can either use a ready-made baking mix or use a simple recipe. For example:
- 6 Owner
- 12 EL MEHL
- 12 tbsp sugar
- 12 EL Kill
- 1 packet of baking powder
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar.
Cut correctly
After baking, allow the cake layers to cool completely. Then you need a sharp knife with which you should cut one cake layer. To ensure children's safety, do not let them work with sharp knives!
asDesign and decorate the bunny
Use a fork to mark the contours of the cuts. You should cut the cake base into two bunny ears and a bow tie. Finally, connect the individual parts together and spread the bunny cake with buttercream or another icing of your choice. When it comes to decorating the bunnies, you can leave the task to the children.
Easter rollsbake
Yeast dough can be used to bake delicious rolls. The dough needs to be kneaded well and children are happy to help with this. Various figures can then be formed from this and decorated with decorations of your choice.
Bunny buns for Easter
Simple bunny rolls can be made from well-kneaded dough. To do this, roll the dough into a sausage and cross the two ends as shown in the picture. You can then decorate the baked rolls with icing and sprinkles.
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Cinnamon rolls can also be made into pretty Easter bunnies. You can design one snail as a head and roll out another and shape it like rabbit ears. Then use raisins and almonds to make eyes and teeth for the bunnies.
Osternest-Muffins
If you are looking for pretty decoration ideas for Easter muffins that you can make with the children, then these simple Easter nests are perfect for you. To do this, you should first bake simple muffins for Easter with children and cut out the middle.
DessertsasDecorate Easter baskets
To decorate the muffins as Easter baskets, you will need some buttercream, coconut flakes, green food coloring and egg-shaped candies. First fill the coconut flakes in a mason jar, add a few drops of food coloring and shake the jar well. Then fill the muffins with butter cream, green coconut flakes and small eggs and the Easter baskets are ready.
chickMacaronsfor Easter – recipe
The popular French macarons are a great idea for sweet Easter desserts. If you would like to make macarons, you will find a simple and delicious recipe below. For this you need:
- 200 g Mandelmehl
- 200g powdered sugar
- 4 egg whites (divided into 2)
- 50g water
- yellow food coloring
- Lemon puree
- Royal icing in yellow, orange and black.
Dough for macaronsprepare
First preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Then sift the almond flour and powdered sugar in a bowl. Add 2 egg whites and mix until a kind of porridge is formed. Using a hand mixer, beat the other 2 egg whites in another bowl to form the egg whites. In the meantime, put the sugar and water in a saucepan and cook until the syrup begins to simmer. Then add the syrup to the egg whites, mix with the hand mixer at full power and add the yellow food coloring.
In the next step, add the yellow meringue to the porridge and mix well. Then fill the mixture into a piping bag and pipe biscuits of the same size onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes and let them cool on the baking paper.
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Now you can start decorating. In the pictures you will find a simple idea on how to easily make a chickRoyal Icingcan be made in different colors. When you're done decorating, brush the halves of the macarons with lemon jam and stick them together.
Fun desserts
You should try to make the desserts as creative and fun as possible. A great idea would be to decorate strawberries as carrots and create a small garden with chocolate cake.
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To decorate the strawberries as carrots, you should first prepare a glaze and color them orange with food coloring. Then dip the strawberries into the glaze, let them cool and place them on the chocolate cake.
