Our Smart Baby

I love cooking with my preschooler. Not only is it a great math lesson but also it is simple, tasty fun for the family. Every Halloween we enjoy baking and cooking fun meals together with spooky themes. This past week we made pumpkin cupcakes using vanilla cake mix, an extra large container of white icing, decorative cupcake wrappers, and food coloring. While the freshly baked cupcakes were cooling we made orange and green icing in separate bowls. Together, we made orange circles for the pumpkins with green, spiky leaves on top of the cupcakes. Afterwards, my preschooler enjoyed making faces on them with a small tube of brown icing I found in the baking isle of the grocery store. My son’s favorite part of this cooking project was dying the icing. He giggled with excitement as he watched the icing turn different shades of orange and green.

Karen Preston