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One of our favorite activities! I agree with @Cole: that if you do some of the more boring parts by yourself you might keep your LO's attention longer. M loves to have her own small bowl. I measure things out and put them into her bowl and then she gets to dump them into the big bowl. She also has her own scoops, spatula, etc, to play with while I'm doing most of the actual baking. She likes to hold the recipe and pretend she's reading it to me. We talk through every step. She's getting pretty good at stirring things without making much of a mess. This morning we made this cake for my dad's birthday tomorrow:

http://www.mspimama.com/2011/02/busy-day-chocolate-cake.html

(I'm dairy / soy free while BFing my son - but the cake's not too bad!).

Dd loves being in the kitchen! We bake anything really. So far we've made cookies, muffins, bread and Apple pie. Pizza is also really fun because you can give them a small piece of dough to roll out and that can occupy them for really long!

It's re important to teach kitchen oven safety! Dd actually is really good at cracking eggs. We just do it at the sink and wash hands immediately after.

She prefers cooking over baking, but the only baking we've done is mixes she's an excellent potato washer!