Kids’ Cookbook Hands-on Fun in the Kitchen for 4-7s Annabel Woolmer Contents Introduction: why cook with young children? All you need to know How to cook with children Cooking task tips Adapting recipes for children How to use this book Breakfast fun Pink smoothie Tropical smoothie Pick ’n’ mix granola Egg mug Tray-bake pancakes Basic bread rolls Hot choc porridge Light bites Cauli�ower bhajis Easy eggs Florentine Pea green soup Potato patties Veggie muffins Baba ganoush Flatbreads Shortcrust pastry dough Mini quiches Pesto Red pepper hummus Quesadillas Roots soup Friends for tea American-style cookies Chocolate chip mince pies Fairy cakes 5 ways Victoria sponge Lemon butter�y Double chocolate Vanilla Christmas Tricolore sticks Aberffraw biscuits Fruit pops Sweet biscuits 5 ways Ginger Chocolate Citrus Vanilla Thumb-print Rough puff straws Soda bread farls Family supper Cheeseburgers Chunky chowder Creamy veg pasta bake Crunchy pesto �sh Minty lamb pittas One-pot Bolognese rice Chickadee frickadee Chocolate chilli Chorizo chicken Mediterranean kebabs Moroccan tagine Super stew Teriyaki salmon noodles Veg-in-the-hole Baked bean pasties Ratatouille Sweet endings Baked cheesecake Cherry clafoutis Topsy-turvy tart Tremendous tri�e Apple roll-ups Mud pies No-churn ice-cream Pancake cake Pink crumble Stripy mango chill Almond cake Fruity yoghurt Useful bits and pieces Measuring with cups and spoons Foodie activity ideas and resources Allergy chart Index Acknowledgements About the Author Annabel Woolmer is a mum of two and author of two cookbooks: The Tickle Fingers Toddler Cookbook, an Evening Standard and Amazon top 10 book for cooking with children, and The Tickle Fingers Kids’ Cookbook. Ever since stumbling on cooking as a way of entertaining and broadening the tastes of her 13-month-old, Annabel has cooked with children in clubs, playgrounds, schools and workshops, developing hands-on recipes even young children can enjoy making. To my two little chefs. You asked me for a book you could cook from yourselves. Here it is, with all my love xx Introduction: why cook with young children? ‘Is their diet good enough?’ This question pops into my head almost every time I think about what I’m feeding my children. It’s drummed into us as parents: they must have five-a-day, no, actually seven-a-day (who knows how many recommended portions of fruit and veg it will be by the time you’re reading this). Diabetes, obesity and tooth decay are on the rise. Even if it’s not said, I hear the implication: the parents are to blame – why aren’t they feeding their children properly? There are lots of complicated and interrelated reasons for poor diet in children such as food industry marketing, the convenience and cheapness of processed food, poor education and skills – I will leave others better qualified to go into it all. I come at this as a parent of two young children who knows what they should be eating, is comfortable resisting pester power, knows how to cook healthily on a budget, and yet still needs all the help I can get when it comes to getting them to eat a varied and balanced diet, particularly vegetables and fish. Part of the problem is that healthy eating has been made into such a big deal. In raising public awareness – which must be a good thing – we and our children are being bombarded with the message that healthy foods like fruit and veg are ‘special’ foods, something different from everything else we eat, and a source of worry if we don’t eat enough. The trouble with this is that people, especially children, are natural rebels. Anything you’re told isn’t good for you,