Top tips for baking with children

SOME of my fondest memories as a child were of helping my parents in the kitchen; weighing ingredients for a batch of biscuits or a cake and getting to lick the spoon afterwards, writes Michelle Darmody.

Or, even better was when I got to gently cut the crusts from a Swiss roll before it was rolled up — and of course gobbling the off-cuts before my siblings had a chance to. Those crusts somehow always tasted better than a cream filled slice of Swiss roll later in the day.

Cooking and baking at a young age very often instills a love for either, or both, later in life and I am very glad of the early start that I got.