This month, our Little Cooks Co box contained something involving strawberries, which Amelia was really excited for! The Little Cooks Co box is a children’s cooking box, with healthier recipes and opportunities to reflect on what is being learned and how these dishes are healthy. Inside this month’s box, we had two recipes (a main recipe and a fun recipe included), dry ingredients for our main recipe, a recipe and some ingredients for hand lotion and spinach seeds. As this is our third box, we also got a little cupcake badge, with a 1 on it – though Amelia felt the 1 was secretly a 7 because of how big the “hat” of the number is.
Our main recipe was a strawberry vanilla slice, which is very interesting as a concept! These bars are made of oats, with a strawberry filling and strawberries on top. Amelia spent a lot of time cutting for this recipe – chopping strawberries and slicing some neatly for the top. She really took a lot of pride in cutting on her own, and as they were strawberries, they were much easier to cut then carrots or potatoes, which she had cut most recently. She even made little hearts out of the top strawberry slices, to really make the bars super cute.
The slice itself did have optional nut butter – we used almond – and took baking and cooking time. We baked up the bars and did a slight change to the recipe. Instead of making a sort of icing topping, we added whipped cream and golden syrup – which was Amelia’s idea. The bars turned out really lovely, actually! The strawberry middle was so delicious and the oat outside reminded me a lot of a soft granola bar. All of the kids kept saying that the strawberry sauce smelled like strawberry sundaes, which made the whole thing so much more exciting.
For the other recipe, we had falafels, which Amelia kept calling “hummus pancakes” because they used the chick peas which are blitzed, like hummus is when it’s made. We chucked in a lot of different herbs and cooked them in pancake shapes on the stove top. They came out more moist then falafels I have had previously and were an interesting adventure – none of the children had ever had them before.
When it came to the other bits in the box, we haven’t had the time to make the hand lotion yet, which is actually a very interesting idea! We don’t use much hand cream with the children, apart from on spa days, but Amelia was interested in the bees wax that came in the box (and for the longest time, though it was something we were going to be eating)! She planted her spinach seeds in a little jar, and after the success of last month’s tomato plant, is excited as we do eat spinach a lot in our house. Amelia’s recipes all went into her recipe binder and she filled out her journal on how tasty and fun this was to make. Reflecting on recipes are also so important when it comes to cooking something new.
Awww this is a lovely idea! My daughter loves to bake but I am pretty disorganised so this would be a huge hit in our house.
It’s so useful, especially as you don’t need to measure anything.
I do love the sound of this baking subscripion and will be looking at it for when my granddaughter is a little older. I think teaching kids to bake is so important
It’s so important! And so fun too.
This is such a great box! My kids love to cook. They would love this!
It’s such a fun and delicious box!
This looks like such a great way to introduce kids to more sophisticated recipes and how to follow them. I will look for them because I know for sure my daughter would love this. Thanks so much for sharing.
It is! And the recipes have been so interesting too.
This sounds like such a wonderful box The strawberry vanilla slice sounds absolutely delicious.
It’s a really yummy one.
What a fab way to encourage kids into the kitchen! We love what you baked and it looks scrummy!
We all really enjoyed it.
This sounds like such a great box. My son loves to cook with me and this would have made his day as he loves strawberries.
Strawberries are a favorite!
This look super fun and perfect activity to do with kids especially during holidays and the strawberry vanilla slice looks yum
Yes, it’s so good for rainy days too.
Such a lovely box to encourage kids to bake/ cook. I can never get my falafals to come out good when I do them myself x
It is a great box to help kids feel more independent too.
This is so amazing! I think my youngest would absolutely love it!
It’s so fun to do together too.
What a great baking box! My niece would love the hummus pancakes!
They are pretty nice!
These are so cool. My daughters love to cook. I always try to encourage them.
It’s so good to support your children’s hobbies.
I am absolutely loving this and what a wonderful way to get the kiddos in the kitchen 😉 I would have loved this for my daughter when she was you her… and will have to check this out for my god daughter 😉
I hope that they enjoy it!
This is a fun box! Teaches them how to cook at an early age!
It does!