A little girl’s birthday party provided her sibling with a chance to bake a present that they could both enjoy. Six-year-old Raine McKeever shows us how to make her easy-peasy buns in episode seven of our video series Kids in the Kitchen.
With these buns, learning the numbers is the first thing to do. The ingredient amounts have a certain ring to them that make them easy to remember - 4-4-6-and-2.
Raine has made these buns before, icing them with butter cream and mini-eggs, chocolate and malteasers and jam and cream. You can pick you own decorations.
For this birthday celebration though, it was her sister’s name Dia and her age five spelled out in fondant.
Although the buns themselves taste yummy, Raine's mammy thinks that the bun making is really a smoke screen for getting to eat the bun mixture.
But how and ever, between counting and spelling, baking buns with Raine is practically educational.
If you have a budding baker in your house and you and your child would like to share what they're cooking up while they're home, we'd love to see or hear about it. Send your videos to ICL@farmersjournal.ie
Ingredients:
6 ounces plain flour.
4 ounces caster sugar.
4 ounces margarine.
2 eggs.
Your choice of decoration – Raine used coloured fondant.
Directions: