Tonight I baked Cinnamon Streusel Orange Muffins with my Lil Man. We had an awesome time working together! I have to admit, I missed my weekly cooking date with the Princess Chef so I've rearranged our weekly plans a wee bit to add in a cooking date with her, as well. The Lil Man was super excited about helping in the kitchen and determined to be very independent...and did very well with it! We found the recipe online HERE and followed it to a tee, although next time we'll probably personalize it a bit, using the comments of others as a guide.
As always, the first step is to find a WONDERFUL ASSISTANT for your cooking adventure...
then don your aprons and wash your hands.
Next, we pull out everything we'll need and set it out so it's easy to access.
For this recipe, we used 2 different mixing bowls as well as 2 little glass bowls.
The first mixing bowl was for our dry ingredients and the 2nd for our wet ingredients.
After stirring the dry ingredients thoroughly and whisking the wet ingredients thoroughly,
Lil Man carefully poured the moist ingredients into the dry.
Then he stirred them until it was mixed well, but not lumpy.
At this point we turned on the oven to preheat it to 350.
In one of the little glass bowls Lil Man mixed the filling ingredients together
and in the other he mixed the streusel topping.
We filled a 1/4 cup scoop about half way with batter to measure it into the {greased} muffin tray
so that the muffin cups would be just under half full.
Next, we sprinkled about a teaspoon of filling onto each muffin cup.
Then we topped them off with the rest of the batter and generously added the streusel topping.
They baked at 350 for 25 minutes and came out DELICIOUS!
Here are our "outtakes" from tonight...the Quality Control team wanted to taste the vanilla extract.
Linked up with: Tasty Tuesdays, Tuesdays at the Table, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Delicious Dishes, Delectable Tuesdays, Raising Homemakers, Tuesday Night Supper Club, Balancing Beauty & Bedlam,Hearth and Soul Hop, {TITUS 2}SDAYS, Mangoes and Chutney
I love how you make time to cook with your children. That's a time that they'll cherish for sure and they'll learn such a valuable skill too. I still remember how much I learned cooking with my own mother. Your son did a great job with those muffins. Looks like he'll be a good cook just like you. I linked up with chicken divan. I'm also going to be having a new linky party on my blog called "Sweets for a Saturday." It'll open up on Friday night and I do hope you'll come by and link these up.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post - it's wonderful that you spend time in the kitchen with your children like that! Your photographs are so cute! I also really like the sound of the recipe too. Thanks for hosting the linky!
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable little helper you have there! That apron is a killer! SO cute! You got my attention with cinnamon, streusel, and orange. Oh yeah, these will be on my breakfast table by week's end.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea to have cooking dates with the kids! And those muffins look awesome!
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I love your little assistant! Way to train your son to help out in the kitchen! His future wife will be so appreciative :)
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ReplyDeletedelicious muffins
you are so patient to cook with your kids!! i do, but i am not a huge fan. one of those "i need to teach them, but really don't want to" things for me.
ReplyDeletei found so many great recipes tonight!! just happened to bump into your blog!! thanks for hosting such a great yummy posting!!!
Genuine kitchen family time :) Love it! Looks so yummy, too!
ReplyDeleteLove the post. My boys are the age now where all they wanna do is lick the bowl....
ReplyDeleteYour muffins look great and thanks for sharing with the Hearth and Soul hop.
What a handsome helper you have. Those muffins look like great fun to make and eat.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweetie. If I had a helper like that, I'd be baking muffins every day. Thanks for sharing with the Hearth and Soul hop.
ReplyDeleteIsn't is fun cooking with your children? I truly love seeing
ReplyDeletemy daughter cut/chop &stir..She takes such pride too.Wonderful
pictures of your children/young chefs.
Looks like he did an awesome job!
ReplyDeletetwo darling kids who cook...what a lucky lady you are! these look wonderful i am a struesel addict! thank you for sharing with tuesday night supper club!
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