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🍪 Christmas baking with toddlers and preschoolers

Your little one stirs, shapes and sprinkles, you handle the oven: easy Christmas recipes with jobs that hands aged 3 to 5 can really do.

Baked French toast for Christmas morningAn overnight French toast bake with red berries and cinnamon. Assemble it the evening before and bake it on Christmas morning. Perfect for a family brunch. Christmas biscuits to decorate with kids (easy recipe)Easy butter biscuits that hold their shape, so kids can cut stars, trees and stockings and decorate them with icing. Simple steps, tips for little hands. Christmas chocolate lollies to make with kidsMake chocolate lollies with your children. Melt chocolate, pour circles and decorate with stars and sprinkles. A lovely homemade Christmas gift too. Christmas cupcakes to decorate with kidsLight vanilla cupcakes with buttercream, decorated as Christmas trees and snowmen. Step-by-step recipe with tips for decorating them together. Christmas lunchbox ideas for school: wrap treesA festive Christmas lunchbox for school with wrap Christmas trees, cucumber stars and fruit. Quick to make and easy to prepare the evening before. Christmas tree pizza to make with kidsA pizza shaped like a Christmas tree, decorated with broccoli, peppers and tomatoes. An easy Christmas tea for kids, who add the toppings themselves. Easy Christmas dessert cups that kids can makeChristmas desserts in glasses with red berries, creamy vanilla cream and biscuit crumbs. No oven, made ahead and so easy that children can make them alone. Gingerbread men to bake with kids (easy recipe)Spiced gingerbread men with honey and cinnamon to to cut out as people, stars and trees. An easy dough children can roll out, with simple icing. Gluten-free Christmas biscuits without eggCrisp gluten-free Christmas biscuits made without egg, for cutting out and decorating. Easy to make dairy-free, with tips to avoid cross-contamination. Healthy Christmas muffins with apple and carrotMoist muffins with apple, carrot, banana and cinnamon and only a little sugar. A healthier Christmas snack for children that also fits in the lunchbox. Healthy Christmas snacks for kids: fruit trees and moreFun, no-bake Christmas snacks for children, from a fruit Christmas tree to banana snowmen and cracker reindeer. Quick ideas for parties and film nights. No-bake snowballs: a Christmas recipe for toddlersSoft banana and oat balls rolled in coconut snow. No oven and no added sugar, a Christmas recipe that toddlers can make themselves with a little help. Pancake Christmas tree: a fun breakfast for kidsA fun and easy Christmas breakfast for kids. Stack little fluffy pancakes into a Christmas tree and decorate with fruit. Ready in 30 minutes. Proper hot chocolate: 4 Christmas variationsProper hot chocolate made with real chocolate, plus four Christmas variations for kids: snowy white, gingerbread spice, chocolate orange and spoons. Reindeer bread rolls to bake with kidsSoft milk bread rolls shaped like reindeer, with raisin eyes, a red cherry nose and pretzel antlers. Fun for Christmas breakfast or the lunchbox. Snowball biscuits rolled in icing sugarMelt-in-the-mouth snowball biscuits with ground hazelnuts or almonds, rolled in icing sugar. Children roll the balls themselves. Nut-free option too. Vegetable Christmas tree platter with a yoghurt dipA healthy Christmas snack for kids. Build a Christmas tree from broccoli, peppers, cucumber and tomatoes with a fresh yoghurt dip. Ready in 25 minutes.