10 fun ideas for Christmas bakes with your kids
Deck the halls with penguin cupcakes and marshmallow snowmen! We've some genius ideas for Christmas recipes you can bake as a family
Christmas is coming – and school Christmas fairs, Christmas tea parties and Christmas kids activities all present no end of opportunities to get the the mixing bowls and icing tubes out and involve the children in a festive baking blitz.
We've pulled together some top ideas for fun Christmas bakes with children, featuring everything from penguins to reindeer to hanging gingerbread stars, cheesy stars and melted snowman cookies. They're all surprisingly easy to make – so much so that older children can attempt many of them on their own and there's loads that younger children can lend an icing-smudged hand with.
Here's our pick of the best recipes for Christmas baking with kids
1. Annabel Karmel's Gingerbread Stars
These spiced snowflake biscuit stars can be baked with a hole to let hang them on your Christmas tree. Packaged up in tissue paper, they make great edible presents, too. The child-friendly recipe is easy for older children to mix and bake themselves, and younger ones will enjoy stamping out the stars, threading ribbons though the holes and, if you're brave enough, 'helping' with the icing.
2. Good Food Christmas Pudding Rice Krispie Cakes
Kids will have great fun helping you make these fun Christmas Pudding Rice Cakes that are topped with white chocolate and festive holly icing.
3. Annabel Karmel's Chilly Penguin Cupcakes
With the genius use of Oreos and frosting-covered teacakes, you can turn chocolate cupcakes into jolly Christmas penguins. Top off with fondant scarves and cute orange M&M's noses.
4. Good Food Reindeer & Snowman Chocolate Bark
This fabulously festive chocolate bark is covered is super tasty and works well as a gift idea too.
5. Annabel Karmel's Melting Snowman Cookies
A stunningly simple idea for Christmassing-up a classic butter biscuit. Small children will love plonking on the marshmallow and spooning on the melted snowman icing body
6. Good Food Cheese Stars
Get your kids involved with making the party food this Christmas with these tasty, easy cheesy stars.
7. Annabel Karmel's Reindeer Cookies
This idea allows you to bring Rudolph, Dancer, Prancer and the rest of Santa's reindeer team to life in spicy, cinammony biscuit form.
8. Good Food Reindeer Cake Pops
Have fun making these reindeer-themed cake pops this year — they're decorated with pretzels, jelly sweets and icing.
9. Good Food Jolly Marshmallow Snowman
These sweet marshmallow treats are decorated with liquorice, chocolate and icing decorations to create some jolly snowmen!
10. Good Food Christmas Rocky Road
This rocky road is perfect for making with the kids before Christmas, or after using up leftover sweets and biscuits.
And just as a fun extra (no baking needed): Annabel Karmel's Hot Choc Snowmen
After all that baking, we reckon you and your mini helpers deserve a congratulatory mug of hot chocolate – with, of course, a Frosty-shaped twist. You heat the milk while the kids assemble the snowmen toppers with marshmallows and Pretzel sticks.
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