Festive baking with little hands ...

 

Amongst the festive features at home, this always appears in the kitchen. 

Festive cookie cutters make such a beautiful display on the kitchen windowsill with their pretty colours, shapes & sizes. 

The footed trifle bowl is perfect for keeping the cutters together while the little windowsill lights  give it all a welcoming glow at night. 

That cookery book is one I refer to often over Christmas - it has the most delightful recipes & images. 

This is little scene reminds me to schedule in some baking time ... 

My followers know of my love of baking with the younger generations, passing on valuable skills & hopefully a love of baking & cooking as the confidence to have a go develops to enjoy it. 

I have had the festive cookie cutters out on the window to remind me to fit in some baking. It is so easy to get distracted by everything else going on so this visual reminder is perfect. 

This was some of the traditional baking with the godsons over the years. They really looked forward to a night of baking & eating the makes ... 

The little ones have done some festive baking with me in the run up to Christmas in previous years & I was delighted that they were keen to do some again this year. 

I admit to buying in the prepared gingerbread dough from Aldi this year.  Two little packs of chilled, ready made dough helps to keep baking relaxed. 

I was going to make chocolate gingerbread dough but the two little prepared packets were brilliant because it cut down on the prep needed & we could get right down to it. 

The large silicone baking prep sheets are excellent to work on because they are large enough to contain the cutters, rollers & baking tray too. 

The festive cookie cutters are always enjoyed & the gingerbread dough rolled really well & soon there was 2 full baking sheets of shapes ready for the oven. 

The springerle  embossed rolling pins once again were very effective at leaving an imprint on the dough. 

The rollers are also light enough for little hands to use & they enjoy seeing the imprinted shapes appear. 

Once baked & cool, they were decorated with icing tubes & festive sprinkles.  A good one was chosen by each to be put on the Santa treat plate. 

It is such a great time baking together, the joy of passing on skills is so valuable. 

I hope you found time for baking too. 

Thank you for stopping by, it is appreciated. 

Dee 🧑‍🍳🧈🌲