Rice krispy treats are a great idea! You can do fruity pebbles treats too!

Baking stresses me out. It's much more precise than a stew or curry. Tomorrow, stew!

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Anonymous wrote:Challah. Braiding is involved, and using a brush to brush egg on the top. Then after eating it, with the leftover challah, you make French toast.

Oh. my god it takes like 6 hours to make challah. I would do something like rice krispie treats with a 5yo.

My 5 year old loves baking challah! We do it weekly, so she has the recipe almost memorized, she loves kneading the dough, and she’s has a great time braiding it. Takes about 2.25 hours start to finish, perfect for a morning with some playtime mixed in.

Anonymous wrote:Challah. Braiding is involved, and using a brush to brush egg on the top. Then after eating it, with the leftover challah, you make French toast.

Oh. my god it takes like 6 hours to make challah. I would do something like rice krispie treats with a 5yo.

Seriously some of you guys have high expectations for a 5 yo.

Braiding challah? BORING!!
PB cookies fine but it takes 5 min max to make some fork marks.
Sugar cookies for the win!

Cookies

Seven Layer Cookies and Monkey Bread are both great recipes for kids because they can handle a lot of the prep, while the parent deals with everything hot.

Seven-Layer Cookies:

Spread in 9 x 13 pan:
1. 1 stick melted margarine
2. 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
3. 1 pkg. (12 oz) chocolate chips
4. 1 pkg. (12 oz) butterscotch chips
5. 1 cup coconut
6. 1 cup chopped walnuts
7. 1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
Bake 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees F. Cut into squares. Cool and chill.

Monkey bread
4 cans biscuits - the traditional kind, not Grands, not layers (40 biscuits total).
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 stick margarine
1 tsp. vanilla

Cut (or tear) biscuits into fourths. Mix together 2/3 cups sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Roll each piece in mixture. Drop biscuits into greased 12-cup Bundt pan. Combine remaining sugar, cinnamon, margarine, and vanilla. Boil. Pour over biscuits. Bake in 350 degree oven 40 minutes. Turn immediately out onto a plate and served warm. Can be wrapped in foil and reheated.

Good for you OP! My DD started baking with me as a young child and now at 21yo, she is an exceptional baker!

At that age, rolling peanut butter blossoms in sugar and adding the Hershey's kiss is something they can do and will enjoy. Sugar cookies can be fun, but my DD has perfectionist tendencies so that never worked well. Brownies are good because they can hand stir the batter. A PP mentioned fork marks in peanut butter cookies - a great idea.

If you do go with the peanut butter blossoms, get colorful sanding sugar (in bakery aisle at any supermarket) to roll them in. Much more fun and "fancy" than rolling in granulated sugar.

Anonymous wrote:For 5 it has to be sugar cookies. Give them some dough, a plastic knife, a straw, rolling pin, some cookie cutters, colored sugar, flour, and let them go to town. They can play with it like play dough for an hour and when they get bored you slap whatever they made on the tray. They’ll probably make a huge mess but whatever.

This. No expectations for a pinstagram perfect time and you won't be disappointed.

Also Alton Brown's soft pretzels. There are 2 steps, boiling and baking. After dumping ingredients and mixing, 5 year old can roll the rough and pick toppings (kosher salt, cinnamon sugar, everything but the bagel seasoning). My suggestion with a 5 year old, make 16 instead of 8 (smaller - better for a 5 year old). Delicious

https://altonbrown.com/recipes/homemade-soft-pretzels/

I bake with my five year old quite a bit.

Cookies are always a big hit. He likes to put the fork marks on peanut butter cookies or add toppings like peanut butter kisses. Any kind of cut out or decorated cookie.

Banana muffins, mashing the bananas, mixing and scooping batter into the muffin tin (get the silicon ones).

I made garlic knots and he helped me tie the knots and spread the garlic mix on.

Kids get really excited by recipes and the counting aspect of measuring stuff. My kid actually took my scale and was weighing objects one time.

Cookies or cupcakes.

Challah. Braiding is involved, and using a brush to brush egg on the top. Then after eating it, with the leftover challah, you make French toast.

For 5 it has to be sugar cookies. Give them some dough, a plastic knife, a straw, rolling pin, some cookie cutters, colored sugar, flour, and let them go to town. They can play with it like play dough for an hour and when they get bored you slap whatever they made on the tray. They’ll probably make a huge mess but whatever.

I want to bake something with my five year old this weekend. What is fun to make?