Breadmaking with the grandchildren

Monday 9th April.
Alfie again made some spicy fruit buns with me for them to take home with them.

We made 16 - smaller ones than last time. You'll need to ask my wife where the missing one is!

The cake is a gluten-free parkin for my son who has a wheat allergy. 


Sunday 8th April.

The grandchildren had a had a young friend visit them today, Elsbeth, who'd never made bread before. So it was decided we should rectify this situation and make some bread while she had the chance.The choices were pain au chocolat, jam doughnuts, iced buns or fancy dinner rolls and shapes - they chose fancy shapes that can be turned into iced buns. 

So Olivia, Alfie and Elsbeth lined up at the worktop and here's how it turned out:

A sweetened dough made with 1 mug of flour - dividing it into smaller pieces

Olivia's rolling out her dough 

There's Alfie mugging up to the camera

More dividing and shaping

Yet more...

Now there are some real shapes

Finishing touches

Clipping a hedgehog's spikes

A whirl

I think this is going to be Olivia's reindeer poo

All the finished bread - proving

Olivia's (at the top) and Alfie's bread. Elsbeth had to take her rolls home to finish them off. We'll ice these in the morning.

Whilst the bread was proving and baking, the youngsters all helped to clear away (with Olivia explaining to Elsbeth that this was the worst part of breadmaking! :) ). Still, she did it willingly enough.


I had to go over everything with a cloth and a brush, but at least they did the most of it.