I love cooking with my kids. It is a fun activity that supports fine motor skills, creativity and counting. I am a proud mom when my 4 year old princess differentiates flour and sugar. I am proud when she learns how to beat the eggs.
There are 2 tricks when cooking with kids:
- You need to find a super easy recipe to make. You cannot ask your 4 year-old child to separate egg yolks.
- You need to find a recipe that both kids can help you with. My 10 year-old measures the ingredients while my 4 year-old mixes them.
One of their favorite recipes is a simple cake with chocolate. It is a kid friendly recipe. It contains ingredients that we usually have on hand. This recipe is adapted from All recipes.
Simple Cake with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 1 cup of white sugar or brown sugar. I personally prefer brown sugar.
- ½ cup of butter. I replace sometimes with vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla.
- 1 ½ cup of flour
- 1 ¾ of baking powder
- ½ cup of skim milk
- ½ cup of chocolate chips
Make it
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Grease a rectangular cake pan
- In a large bowl, mix the sugar and the butter until the mixture becomes creamy.
- Beat the eggs, one by one
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour and the baking powder. Add them to the first mixture.
- Pour in the milk and mix well.
- You can add the chocolate chips in the mixture or leave them as decorations. The kids love to add some chips in the mixture. They like the melted chocolate in the cake.
- Cook for the 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick becomes dry.
Olfa is the founder of OurFamilyWorld: a magazine for busy parents seeking family balance. She loves cooking healthy snacks for kids.
This looks so good. Thank you so much!!
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Thanks for the feature. Enjoy the cake and cooking with kids
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this looks delicious i might just have to try making it with my daughter soon
thank you for sharing
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My kids love cooking, I just wish I had a bigger kitchen, it’s to small for all three of us at once! This cake does look simple, all I need to buy is chocolate chips and then we can try it, so thanks.
Oh and a 4 year old CAN separate egg whites if you show her how and she practices!
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Love it! Easy and yummy! Thanks for the recipe!
This looks like it would be so much fun to make with the kids. I love how it doesn’t use a whole bag of chocolate chips. It gives more for the kids to munch on while baking. LOL!
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I love cooking with my kids! My 5year old loves to crack open the eggs, and does a pretty good job at it (minimal shell fishing, lol). I’d love if you linked this up to my Foodie Friday!
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I can’t wait till my son is old enough to cook with me!
Thanks for sharing the recipe, I will have to try it!
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This sounds amazing! I’d like to try subbing 1/2 of the butter/oil with applesauce.
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thanks for sharing these kind of activities. now I have an idea what will we do this weekend with my daughter.
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That was very creative. Simple cake with chocolate chips want to bite. Thanks for the recipe.
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This is a delicious activities for a mom and her children, I want also to try this one, because my little princess love also cooking and discovering new taste of recipe…
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What a fun recipe to make with the kids. Thanks for linking up with Delicious Dish Tuesday. We would appreciate a back link when you get a minute
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Looks good! My kids love to help me cook!
Thanks so much for sharing for Delicious Dish Tuesday! We’d love it if you’d link back to one of the hosts, and please come back and share another delicious dish tonight!! =)
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I’m so making this! Thank you!
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Cooking with kids is a great activity! I like your tips for how to make it work. Even if you have a more complicated recipe, it is great to pull your kids up on a stool or in a high chair and let them watch you work. It is a great learning opportunity for them!
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Yum. That looks good! I bet my son could make this on his own. Thanks!
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What is the size of the loaf pan that you used for this recipe?
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I will have to ask the author of the post as this is a guest post, but I will let you know
Finally a simple dessert recipe my kids can pretty much make for themselves ….It looks yummy, my kids love chocolate chips…
My kids like to cook with me especially when I bake cookies, someone has to clean the bowl! They like to measure the ingredients, crack the eggs, turn on the mixer and lick the spatula!
I’m a horrible cookie baker, but cakes I can handle. This looks like the perfect recipe to tackle with my daughters. Thanks for sharing!