Baking recipes for children (2024)

Kids and adults alike will love this creative dessert. Make your own tangy and sweet raspberry ripple ice cream and sandwich between crunchy digestive biscuits. Genius.

Try this raspberry ripple and diggestive ice cream sandwich recipe

Dark chocolate, peanut butter, a very simple but delicious traybake. Children can help press the base down in the pan (and bash the biscuits if you don’t use a food processor).

Try this peanut butter squares recipe

The swirled, two-toned icing will makes these pretty cupcakes stand out at a children’s party. They will have fun experimenting with the huge range of coloured paper cases and sprinkles too.

Try Mary Berry’s vanilla cupcakes recipe

Calling all chocoholics. This indulgent malteser squares from Eric Lanlard is deliciously moreish. Packed full of milk and white chocolate and crunch Malteser's and biscuits, it's the perfect easy baking project for little ones.

Try Eric Lanlard’s malteser squares recipe

Quick and easy to make, the combination of buttery puff pastry, juice apples, and cinnamon is delicious. Children will love to get involved using pastry cutters and decorating the tarts with apple slices.

Try this spiral apple tarts recipe

These chewy, vanilla-rich cookies are quick and easy to make. Ideal for when people turn up unexpectedly for afternoon tea, they are always a mainstay of rainy day baking sessions with children.

Try Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s chocolate chip cookies recipe

A chocolate cake is hard to beat and this deliciously easy recipe from Tana Ramsay is sure to tempt the whole family. With a beautifully light sponge, children will love to lick the bowl too.

Try Tana Ramsay’s chocolate fudge cake recipe

Bring some nostalgia to your afternoon tea treat withthese delicious jammy dodger biscuits. The buttery biscuits sandwiched together with deliciously sweet jam are great for children to help out with too.

Try this jammy dodger’s recipe

Soft, moist and oozing with purple juice, blueberry muffins are the culinary equivalent of a comfort blanket. Easy to make and deliciously moreish, these are a great baking project to do with children.

Try this easy blueberry muffins recipe

This recipe is perfect for a children’s tea party treat, and is also a great way to get mini gourmets interested in cooking. They can make both the shortbread biscuits and the strawberry icing too.

Try this strawberry shortbread recipe

The perfect treat for a children’s party, the soft sponge and creamy icing of these cakes will appeal to junior taste buds, and they are also small enough to fit into a tiny hand. For chocolate cakes, replace two tablespoons of the flour with cocoa powder.

Try this butterfly cakes recipe

Deliciously moist and studded with jewel-like juicy cherries, these mini cakes are hard to resist. Perfect served for afternoon tea, they’re sure to go down well with children.

Try this cherry and lemon drizzle cakes recipe

Traditional brownies must be chewy, chocolatey and dense. Nuts aren’t included in this traditional recipe, but you can add walnuts or pecan nuts if you like. For an extra-chocolatey taste, you can put chocolate chips into the mixture before baking.

Try the Hummingbird Bakery’s traditional brownie recipe

Packed full of ginger and deliciously crunchy, children will love decorating these adorable gingerbread man with icing and chocolate buttons.

Try this gingerbread men recipe

Pie pops are perfect for a children’s party or picnics. Filled with sweet cinnamon apples, tie a colourful ribbons around each stick for a celebratory addition.

Try this apple pie pops recipe

Peanut butter and chocolate are made for each other. This recipe results in cookies that have a crispy edge and a gooey centre. Cook them for a little bit longer if you prefer a more biscuity cookie.

Try this peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies recipe

This delicious take on plain banana cake is made all the more delicious by the presence of chocolate and muscovado sugar for a sweet result.

Try Nigel Slater’s chocolate muscovado banana cake recipe

Some might be fancier, but no sponge cake beats the simple perfection of a Victoria sandwich. Easy to make, children will love spreading the jam and cream between the two buttery sponge cakes.

Try this Victoria sandwich cake recipe

Short on time but fancy doing a spot of baking with the family? Flapjacks are the perfect option. The combination of sweet golden syrup, oats, and a dash of lemon is delicious – perfect for a party.

Try this flapjacks with a little lemony flavour recipe

Cupcakes are the perfect baking project for children to help with and these light, airy, and deliciously refreshing lemon bakes from Queen of cakes Mary Berry are easy to make and sure to go down a treat.

Try Mary Berry’s lemon cupcakes recipe