Sponsored Post: Baking with kids

Baking is an activity that I’ve only recently started getting back into. I used to bake quite a few cakes and biscuits when I lived in the UK (blame my sweet tooth for that) but after not having an oven for years after moving to Bali, I’d not baked anything in a long time.

I finally got around to buying a little mini oven when we moved house and I’m pleased to say it’s been put to very good use. I bake my own bread every few days, make pizzas including dough from scratch and cakes of course, including Maya’s last birthday cake.

Baking isn’t just about the bread or cake you get at the end of it – the process is half the fun and it’s something I love to share with my kids. Baking is such a great activity for kids of all ages and it never gets boring. Maya’s favourite dinner at the moment is home-made pizza and she loves mixing the ingredients together and kneading the dough. Making biscuits is another favourite activity for both kids and they get so excited to hear the “ping!” of the oven when the treats are ready for eating.

I used to think baking bread was hard before I tried it but now I know how easy it is and how much more delicious homemade bread is than store bought, it’s a regular activity in our house.

World Baking Day is coming up on the 17th of May and this is a great opportunity to get started with baking with your kids.

I think we’re going to have a go at making the “World’s Happiest Cake” (recipe below) for papa as he often comes back from the market with cakes and other goodies for us. Plus it’ll be a bonus if making this for breakfast really makes him happy, as he always wakes up grumpy :p

Make a pledge to bake for someone special here and share what you have baked and hashtag #worldbakingday on your social media platforms! Join the WBD Community on Facebook, follow the WDB on Twitter, Instagram and Google or even pin the WBD on Pinterest! Also, check out Blue Band’s Website! Bake for someone special on #worldbakingday! It would be great to capture the moment with photos and post them on your social media accounts!

COCONUT, MANGO LIME AND CAKE RECIPE (The World’s Happiest Cake)

Servings: 16 slices

Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 70 minutes

Cake:

225 g Blue Band Cake & Cookie

325 g sugar

4 eggs

250g self-raising flour

100g all purpose flour

the skin of 2 limes, grated

50 g dried mango, finely chopped

50 g almond pieces

50 g desiccated coconut

Syrup:

Juice of 2 lemons

60 g sugar

Filling:

55 g Blue Band Cake & Cookie

175 g of powdered sugar

1-2 tsp milk



Cake:

1. Grease a round baking dish (diameter 23 cm) with Blue Band Cake & Cookie, and cover with baking paper. Preheat oven to a temperature of 170 ° C.
2. Beat Blue Band Cake & Cookie and sugar with mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one by one. Add the remaining ingredients, mix well with a spatula.
3. Pour batter into pan. Bake until cooked for 70 minutes.
4. Remove from pan and let cool on a wire rack.

Syrup:

Cook the lemon juice and sugar until boiling and the sugar dissolved. Pour onto the entire surface of the cake.

Filling:

1. Whisk Blue Band Cake & Cookie, sugar, and milk until smooth.
2. Slice the cake horizontally into 3 pieces. sandwich the pieces together with the filling and mango puree

Topping:

1. Create glaze by mixing lemon juice with the icing sugar. Pour into the cake surface.
2. Garnish with nuts, mango, coconut, and almonds.

This post sponsored by Blue Band for World Baking Day but all thoughts are my own