Summer Activities

Baking is a fun and creative way to keep your kids entertained this summer. Come rain or shine, we have loads of fun ideas for easy family baking fun that everyone can get involved with. And the best thing about them is you can get creative and enjoy the sunshine at the same time.

Try these easy summer recipes
For BBQ loving dads, our Grilled Summer Fruits with Chocolate Marshmallow Sauce recipe is perfect to show off grilling skills and kids will love the gooey chocolate, marshmallow and fruit combination.
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Mums will love our Summer Mess recipe. It's quick and easy and the kids can get creative; the yummy fruit, meringues and sweet treats can simply be refrigerated rather than baked in the oven, ideal for those really hot days.
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Waiting for your baking to cook in the oven?
Download and print off our wordsearch pages and try to find all the words before your baking is ready to take out of the oven.
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Make your ice creams more fun this summer
Try dipping your ice cream cone into our Continental Chocolate (melted) and then dip into Hundreds & Thousands or Chocolate Strands to create fun colourful cones.
Alternatively just cover your ice cream with our sprinkles for a great topping.

Have a look at our top 5 tips for summer baking
1. Create a family cookbook - Every time you bake together as a family, take photographs of the finished creations and add them into a home-made album.  Kids can design the cookbook and even invent new recipes.

2. Baking play dates - Baking is the perfect way to keep your kids and their friends entertained over the holiday. Experiment with fruity ice lollies, cool personalised cookies, and decorated cakes.

3. Baking projects - Take a fun baking theme like Dinosaurs for a baking project - create dinosaur shaped cookies then use red, orange and green designer icing to bring the fire breathing monster to life.  Other themes could include Nature, The Beach, Animals and Family.

4. Include children when you are preparing for a picnic - The day before the picnic, help them make all their favourites and even personalised some cupcakes.  Give them a small hamper or bag to fill up with their own goodies.

5. Bring out the adventurer in your children - Let your kids’ inner Indiana Jones shine by asking them to create a treasure hunt using the treats they have baked by hiding them around your house and garden. Give clues to find the next treat.