Baking with a 3yr old - not recommended!

[janeyo]

My little boy has some of his little friends coming tomorrow for lunch and play (keep your fingers crossed it is fine so I can just shove them all outside), so we decided to make some buns this morning.

3yr old washed his hands, put his apron on, got on the chair, helped beautifully with the measuring and mixing and putting the cases out... then just as we were about to spoon it into the cases HE SNEEZED ALL OVER EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

I was so cross with him, we had to throw it all away and start again!

I can see the funny side now though... and YES I was tempted for a brief second to just cook them anyway, but honest guv we didn't!

janeyo

[Flummery]

Just like the clowns in the circus - except they would have blown their noses on a sheet of pastry afterwards! I bake with my 3 year old grand-daughter on Thursdays. I work on the well tried principle that the oven sterilises everything! However, you do have to teach them hygenic principles, don't you. She loves cherry buns. Guess where most of the cherries go?

[BarleySugar]

Cooking would have destroyed the germs, as long as there was no snot Bet he would have told though, you can never rely on them to keep secrets!

[Pootle]

Its the grey 'toddler pastry' that I love most - where you have to say 'it looks delicious - why don't we save it for Daddy?'. Luckily Daddy is a lot less fussy

[Two_Sheds]

hee hee!
In a few years, he'll be drinking milk straight from the bottle and putting it back for the next person, and eating jam out of the jar with a spoon (in jar - in mouth - back in jar with a host of new germs)

[janeyo]

Ewwww...I will have to console myself that I am sure me and my brother did such dirty tricks when we were little and it didn't do us any harm!

janeyo

[jackie j]

Brings back lots of memories cooking with my kids thats why I didnt do it very often.
No paitence thats my problem.

[kirsty b]

Many a time I have answered the front door covered in flour with a grinning flour covered imp standing next to me. Memories..
Now, if it doesn't happen quick enough, she'll bugger off out with a chum half way through to play and come back in time to eat them.

[Lady Jana Muck]

My little boy has some of his little friends coming tomorrow for lunch and play (keep your fingers crossed it is fine so I can just shove them all outside), so we decided to make some buns this morning.

3yr old washed his hands, put his apron on, got on the chair, helped beautifully with the measuring and mixing and putting the cases out... then just as we were about to spoon it into the cases HE SNEEZED ALL OVER EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

I was so cross with him, we had to throw it all away and start again!

I can see the funny side now though... and YES I was tempted for a brief second to just cook them anyway, but honest guv we didn't!

janeyo

Make the most of it they dont stay little for long. Then you start all over again with the grandkids

[Nicos]

The spit which accompanies the blowing out of birthday cakes always makes me cringe.....and then I eat a piece!!!

[rustylady]

Granddaughter and I spent the very wet Bank Holiday Monday baking. She loved it, but I've now got two containers of butterfly cakes that I don't eat, cos Mum hasn't picked them up. Granddaughter also grassed me up to Mum when I let her "shave" carrots and potatoes. For those who don't do kidspeak that means she peeled them using my safety peeler. She loved it so much I had to rescue the carrots and spuds while there was still enough to cook.

[Pootle]

I have vivid childhood memories of making 'coffee' with muddy puddle water - and drinking it - yummy!

[yoanbob]

I used to make grey pastry snowmen, it was years before I realised they went in the bin after Id gone to bed, I thought they liked them!

[TPeers]

I remember making things like that.....

With rasins for eyes and buttons. If I had been good I was allowed to sprinkle a little sugar over them.

They were nice!

[di]

The spit which accompanies the blowing out of birthday cakes always makes me cringe.....and then I eat a piece!!!

a friend of mine not only has her own child blow out the candles but goes on to relight them several times to let ALL the other kiddies have a go!I rarely have apiece!