How cooking with the family helps kids learn

Now is a great time to get your kids in the kitchen. The current community restrictions may have limited outdoor family activities, but it created opportunities for more intimate bonding sessions at home like cooking with the children. A sweet way to spend quality time with them is over delicious food and creamy desserts!

Family time in the kitchen

Cooking with kids can get messy, but the experience they gain along the way is worth the extra cleaning. When you cook as a family, it’s a special time for you to reconnect with one another. It’s not always easy to carve out family time given the amount of work and school tasks on everyone’s plates. However, when you properly schedule it like any other activity, you can find that it’s not as hard to fit in as you think. For example, how about starting Sweet Saturdays every weekend where you and your kids can whip up easy-to-make cakes or cookies? This can give everyone something fun to look forward to every week.

Family time isn’t just about doing things together either, it’s about being together meaningfully, mindfully present without distractions from gadgets and the likes. It’s the time to get the kids to open up and really talk to you, to ask how their day is, what made them smile that morning, or what their favorite foods are recently. It’s a time for simple conversations that would make a big impact on their relationship with you as they grow up.

The kitchen as a place of fun and learning

Cooking is an ideal bonding moment because it requires everyone to give their attention to one another and to their tasks, yet it is still fun and educational. The kitchen can be a fun place for kids to play and learn. When you explain how a recipe should be followed, they learn how to listen better. Showing them how to measure ingredients can help improve their math skills. Working their way around food encourages them to use all their senses and their creativity.  You can keep the conversation flowing with a few questions here and there to learn about your child’s thoughts and feelings at the same time. Cooking together builds trust within the family, gives the children a stronger sense of responsibility, and boosts their self-confidence.

If you need kid-friendly recipes, try making desserts for starters. There are plenty of creamy treats made with NESTLÉ All-Purpose Cream that are easy to create with your kids. NESTLÉ All-Purpose Cream gives any dish, like pies, cakes, or even flavorful shakes, just the right amount of thickness and richness, so it’s the perfect partner to making deliciously creamy desserts.

Now grab your aprons and get ready for a fun cooking session with your little chef with this kid-tested “No-Bake Banofee Pie” from NESTLÉ All-Purpose Cream.

No-Bake Banofee Pie

You will need:

• 1 pack chilled NESTLÉ All Purpose Cream 125 ml
• 2 cups Graham Crackers
• ¼ cup salted butter, melted
• 2  lacatan banana, sliced into rounds
• ½ cup caramelized condensed milk

Follow these steps:

1. Crush the Graham Crackers and mix with butter. Press on an aluminum pan to form a crust.
2. Cook condensed milk slowly over low heat cook for about 30 minutes until slightly brown. Cool.
3. Layer bananas on top the crust. Drizzle bananas with caramelized milk.
4. Whip NESTLÉ All Purpose Cream until stiff and double in size. Cover bananas with the whipped cream.
5. Sprinkle with Graham crumbs and topped with more whipped cream. Chill and serve.

When kids are involved in the cooking process, they not only learn valuable skills and gain a sense of accomplishment, they also make delightful memories with you. The dishes may not always turn out picture-perfect, but your children will surely remember the good times spent making them for years to come. 

Check out other easy, delightful, and creamy recipes that the whole family can enjoy on https://www.createwithcream.ph/