Fun in the Kitchen with Novelty Birthday Cakes!
Cooking and little ones is a great combination. Many wonderful memories are created in a home’s kitchen – granted it does get chaotic and messy and sometimes a little out of control, but the lasting fun and memories make it all worth it.
Teaching your kids how to cook by starting with baking a novelty birthday cake also allows them to learn, grow and get plenty of hands-on experience.
It is a terrific strategy to teach cooking skills and techniques they can use in the future. Plus one of the best parts of making a novelty birthday cake is licking the spoon or scraping the yummy cake mix out of the bowl once your masterpiece is in the oven.
Novelty birthday cakes are a good enticement for children in the kitchen, and also give you the opportunity to teach them the basics of mathematical foundations like weight and volume and other things like estimation and time.
From a language perspective you are teaching children how to read and follow a set of instructions, plus with a bit of stirring, pouring, sifting, piping, cutting, and cracking eggs you are also making sure their fine motor skills are growing.
Kids should be very motivated to begin baking cakes. It is an adventure for them – especially if the novelty birthday cake is something they are really excited about cooking. Cakes can be created as anything you want and ideas can be taken from real or imaginary characters, a person’s hobbies, favourite books and even technology based things like iphones.
You can even make novelty cupcakes to match, or better still if a large cake is intimidating for you, just make a batch of novelty cupcakes and decorate them to have fun and practice your fun and adventurous cake making skills.
From wonderful ideas that are communicated in flour, eggs and icing, making a novelty birthday cake with children is a memorable way to spend an afternoon and also have some fun along the way.
