Weekend Baking With Kiddos

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They see me cooking, they come "meddling"!

Ayay! Happy Sunday!

It's still the weekend for the rest of the world, but ours has already gone by. We have not officially started our school year ( we may enrol for the December cycle this year), as we need to process our visa transfers first and that has but a lot of dents in the budget.

Anyhow, that does not mean that the learning stops, right? A lot of what we do in our daily lives already translates to learning, too.

One of them is cooking, or baking in this particular instance. We do lots of baking at home and Little Miss has been a regular apprentice of late. She loves to help all the time, and I do not mind. She has also already baked her first chocolate cake. That boosted her confidence in the kitchen. I told her, next time she would be the one to measure the ingredients already.

Learning Time

Part 1: Oats Cookies

A couple of days ago, I shared a gluten-free oats cookies recipe. @kennyroy, however, requested for "regular" oats cookies, which meant it had sugar and all-purpose flour. Fine, let's do it.

I prepared the dough early in the morning and put it in the fridge to chill. While waiting, the kids mentioned that they liked to have some brownies too. To save the heat of the oven, I started to make the brownie batter alongside the making the cookie balls.

Roulan, my eldest, took interest in helping. He noticed how my Little Miss has been enjoying helping me in the kitchen and wanted to help too. I gave the two of them the task of rolling the cookie balls.

What did they learn? They learned division and estimation! We did not make use of the kitchen scale, so they had to make sure that they scoop approximately the same amount of dough each time.

The cookies need to be around the same sizes to make sure that they all cook at the same time. Cue, Science Lesson!

My previous recipe yielded 6 big cookies, while the two youngsters were able to come up with 12 regular sized cookies. They successfully placed the cookie dough on the baking pan with the right amount of space from each other to make sure they do not touch each other in case they over-spread. Oh, spatial knowledge!

Yes! Perfectly cooked oat cookies! Look at that. Great job, kiddos!


Part 2: The Brownies

While the two were busy molding the cookies, I whipped up the ingredients for the brownies. They were done as soon as I finished measuring the ingredients.

We have a very small space in our little apartment, but that does not stop these curious kiddos to help out. They took over the mixing part, while I prepped the baking dish.

I really appreciate the assistance, especially when everything needs to happen all at the same time. I just hope that they perfect the cracking of eggs and do not make a lot of mess next time. LOL.

As I checked their brownie batter, I was thinking it was a bit too thick than what I was used to. You will see at the photo below, my eldest going through the recipe one more time to make sure we did not miss anything.

There! Another lesson for the day. Reading the ingredients and measurements.

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So if you're wondering what the role of my youngest, newest homeschooler in all of these, well he was the one in charge of the timer!

He set the timer on my mobile phone for 10 minutes, which was the only time needed to bake the cookies.

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After mixing the brownie batter, they finally left me alone to finish the job. They only came back when it was eating time. Lol.

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Learning Does Not Stop

There is learning in everything that we do, we just need to learn how to integrate these each time. Over the years, I have learned that keeping the children involved in the tasks is the best way for them to learn.

As always, life application and skills development are a couple of the main goals here.

There are times when it is easy to shut the kids out, and just do a particular task on our own, so we can finish faster. However, getting them involved, even if it could mean we get slowed down a bit, is important to let them have a sense of responsibility and accountability. Besides, it also boosts their confidence, when they are able to say, "Hey, I baked cookies and brownies today!"

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Manually curated by ackhoo from the Qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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Congrats to you and the kiddos! :) Everything looks delicious... :D

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