Last wednesday, we had nothing planned and Little Bear was bored. I had some cupcake mix left over in the pantry, so I decided we should make some cupcakes! This would be the first time I allowed Little Bear to help me in the kitchen. She was so excited when I told her what we were going to do. She ran and grabbed her apron and the fun began!
I let Little Bear pour the mix into the bowl and she added all the ingredients except for the eggs. When she asked about the eggs, I had a vision of myself spending lots of time picking out egg shells, so I told her that mama would do the eggs this time.
Then came time to blend. At first she hated it. She covered her ears and said "mommy its to loud!" But eventually she got used to it. As you can see above, she really liked using the blender. However, her favorite part was putting the cupcake liners into the muffin tins. We used dinosaur liners because right now, she loves dinosaurs. I thought it was super cute that she was counting while putting the liners in.
Of course, no matter how much fun she had putting the liners in the tin, she had the more fun eating the cupcakes! She even ate 2 before I got the frosting on them. I would recommend this experience to anyone! I loved cooking with my daughter. We had a lot of fun and she liked bragging that she made the cupcakes. It was a great way to introduce measurements and bond together. I can not wait till we do it again!
Here are our beautiful cupcakes!
Here is the recipe we followed:
We used strawberry cake mix and followed all the directions on the box. However, we also added 1 extra egg, 1 box vanilla pudding, 1 teasoon vanilla extract and we used 1 cup of milk instead of water. For frosting, we mixed the strawberry frosting with the cream cheese frosting. The cupcakes were so good they did not even last through the day.
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