Baking for children's birthday parties in special times

Cakes, tortes & co. become even more meaningful at birthdays in these special times. The birthday cake is seen as a kind of bearer of hope: when blowing out the candles you come up with beautiful wishes for the future. Together you remember previous birthdays, dream and mentally imagine future birthday parties outand focus only on yourselves as a family – you will celebrate many more great birthdays after Corona.

Baking for children's birthdays: helpful tips & first ideas

There are endless possibilities and recipes for baking for a children's birthday. They couldn't be more diverse: from a simple butter cake to cheesecake to a chocolate cake decorated with colorful sprinkles and other sweet little treats – the selection of recipe ideas is huge. To choose the perfect cake for your children, it's best to follow the interests and wishes of your birthday kids. Especially popular with toddlers are tortes, cakes and muffins in animal shapes or characters from their favorite shows and books.

The more unusual, the better! At least that's how it seems. Ultimately, however, your loved ones also like it when the cakes not only look good.They should be tasty and maybe they also hide a great surprise inside. That amazes your kids and makes you parents beam as well. Basically, you should limit yourself to only one or two cakes for your kids' birthday. Often a combination of a classic butter cake or a themed cake and a fruit cake. That way your birthday kids learn a certain balance.

If your children express the desire to help with baking, it's a lovely opportunity, to enjoy family time together and learn something new. Kids love it when they can mix ingredients, knead dough or cut out cookies. Older little bakers often even enjoy, reading recipes and following the instructions precisely. Accordingly, it is important that youalways select your recipe ideas according to the age, abilities and interests of your kids.

Recipes that you want to bake together should generally have a manageable number of ingredients and the individual stepsnot too complicated.That makes them easier to understand.Butter cakes, muffins, waffles and simple cookie recipes are particularly suitable here. Cupcakes or cake pops are also ideal for this occasion.

For birthdays you can certainly choose more colorful and more elaborate recipe ideas, but keep in mind that you should only attempt trickier instructions together as a family once you have a bit of practice.

In general, it is important that you plan enough time for your baking sessions. Whether you as parents create great cakes on your own or receive help from little hands – both take time. Because not everything succeeds on the first try. Covering and spreading icing on cakes presents many parents with major challenges, but only the practice makes perfect. When children's hands are involved in the baking, they often need a bit more time to measure and mix the ingredients – after all, they want to do it precisely.

Baking together promotes your children's fine motor skills and gives you the opportunity to converse in an engaging and thorough way about various topics. You can teach them everything about nutrition and healthy eating habits teach them. The most important thing, however, is this: you will certainly have a great deal of fun preparing all of your delicious recipe ideas!

Tips for your children's birthday party at home

The time has come: your children's birthday is approaching and you already want toplan the celebration with family and friends. But what do you need to consider and where is the best place to start? Children's birthdays are often planned like big events nowadays, but that's not always necessary. Whether spectacular or a bit more low-key – Birthday parties should above all please your children. Therefore feel free to involve your little ones in the planning.

Think together about in what form and when the party should take place, how you want to design the program and the Invitation cards you want to implement. It is important that you as parents check whether your kids' wishes are compatible with your budget. If you have thought about delicious treats, Game ideas and Decorations thought about, you're already entering the final phase. Always plan enough time for the preparatory steps into account. Whether in joint crafting or baking sessions – don't stress. Especially if something doesn't go as planned.

In general: Don't put pressure on yourselves, you will certainly know what your children like and how to host the birthday party that's best for you.

These ingredients & utensils you need for baking for the kids' birthday

If you want to bake tasty birthday cakes, muffins and tarts, you will of course need, in addition to lots of love, also the right ingredients and utensils. HABA has put together here a overview of the most important materials for your recipe ideas compiled. Maybe you already have some of these in your kitchen so you can start baking right away.

These ingredients you need:

• Flour

• Sugar

• Eggs

• Butter

• Milk

• Powdered sugar

• Dry yeast

• Icing

• colored sugar pearls & sprinkles

• Chocolate

• Cinnamon

• vanilla sugar & vanilla flavoring

• fresh fruit like bananas, apples & berries

• lemon juice & zest

• Cream

• Marzipan or fondant

• Puff pastry

• Food coloring

These baking utensils you shouldn't be without:

• Electric hand mixer with various attachments

• Waffle iron

• Dough scraper

• Mixing bowl

• Cookie cutters

• teaspoons and tablespoons

• Knife

• Baking mat

• Baking paper

• Baking tray & cooling rack

• Cake tin

• Muffin cases & tray

• Kitchen roll

• Dish towel

• Cups

• Whisk

• Paper sticks or straws

Recipe ideas for great birthday cakes

Cakes from creamed batter

Recipes for cakes made from creamed batter are especially suitable for children's birthdays. They are quick to make and don't need many ingredients - and you can customize them to your liking. Let's go!

Basic recipe for creamed batter cake

Required ingredients:

• 250 g soft butter

• 250 g sugar

• 4 eggs

• 500 g flour

• 1 packet baking powder

• 125 ml milk

Here's how:

1. Many birthday cakes are basically a creamed batter cake. You can adapt this basic recipe however you like — or leave it in its simple form. First preheat your oven to 150 degrees (fan). Then grease your cake tin and dust it with flour - this prevents sticking later.

2. In a mixing bowl, beat the soft butter and sugar with the whisk of your hand mixer for about 5 minutes. The mixture should become noticeably lighter and creamy.

3. Then add the eggs one at a time. Stir each in for half a minute so that all ingredients combine well into the batter.

4. Now the dry ingredients and the milk come into play: mix the flour with the baking powder. Add this mixture alternately with the milk to the batter until nothing remains.

5. The creamed batter is ready. If you like, you can refine it now. Nuts, chocolate or fruit are suitable. With lemon juice and zest you can make a refreshing lemon cake. If you like it colorful, add a few drops of food coloring.

6. Then fill the batter into the greased tin and bake it for 50 to 60 minutes. The toothpick test will tell you if it's done: stick a wooden skewer into the cake. If it comes out dry, the cake is ready.

Fun waffle cake

Required ingredients: For the waffles:

• 250 g flour

• 125 g soft butter

• 100 g sugar

• 200 ml milk

• 3 eggs

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp lemon zest

• Powdered sugar for dusting

For the cake cream:

• 250 g whipping cream

• 150 g quark

• 100 g jam, e.g., cherry or raspberry

• 2 packets vanilla sugar

• 2 tbsp lemon juice

• fresh berries

Here's how:

1. With this recipe you can turn simple waffles into a great cake that your children will definitely love. First bake the waffles: Mix the butter with the sugar and gradually add the eggs.

2. Then mix the flour and baking powder. Add this mixture alternately with the milk to the batter.

3. Preheat your waffle iron and grease it. Then put two heaped tablespoons of batter on the waffle iron for each waffle and bake each waffle 1 to 2 minutes until golden brown. You should get 8 waffles in total.

4. Then let the waffles cool well on a cooling rack.

5. In the meantime, prepare the cake cream: using the whisk of your hand mixer whip the cream until stiff.

6. Then add the quark, the jam as well as the vanilla sugar and lemon juice to the whipped cream and mix everything into a smooth mass.

7. Then stack: place a waffle one after the other on a plate and spread them alternately with the cream until you have a layered waffle tower.

8. The last layer ends with cream. Now place your fresh berries on top. Then dust your waffle cake with some powdered sugar. And the quick kids' birthday cake is ready!

Sheet cake

With a sheet cake you can make a large number of little people happy without much effort. A piece of sheet cake fits wonderfully into children's hands and is great as treat for the birthday at kindergarten.

Rainbow sheet cake

Required ingredients:

• see basic creamed batter recipe

• Food coloring

• colorful sugar sprinkles

• sugar pearls (optional)

Here's how:

1. This colorful rainbow cake is a variant of the classic creamed batter cake and is quick to make! Prepare your creamed batter as described in the basic recipe.

2. Then divide the batter into several bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to each. It's best to choose the colors of a rainbow here - the more colorful, the better.

3. Stir the food coloring into the bowls so that it's well distributed and the whole batter is colored.

4. Then put the different portions of batter onto a deep baking tray lined with baking paper. This type of tray is also called a roasting pan.

5. Take a fork and spread the colorful batter so that the colors blend into each other. Pull a few circles and waves, like with a marble cake.

6. Then sprinkle colorful sugar sprinkles over the batter.

7. Then into the oven: Bake the rainbow cake at 160 degrees for about 45 minutes. The baking time depends on how thick the batter is spread on your tray. So again use the toothpick test.

Chocolate sheet cake

Required ingredients:

• 150 g dark chocolate

• 350 g soft butter

• 300 g sugar

• 2 tbsp vanilla sugar

• 5 eggs

• 500 g flour

• 2 tbsp cocoa powder

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 120 ml milk

• 150 g chocolate glaze

Here's how:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (top and bottom heat) and line a deep baking tray with baking paper.

2. Let the dark chocolate melt in a pot over a water bath.

3. After that beat the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until creamy.

4. Then gradually add the eggs.

5. In the next step mix flour, cocoa and baking powder, and sift everything alternately into the mixing bowl. Also add the milk gradually.

   Tip:If the cake batter seems too stiff or too runny, add some milk or flour.

6. Finally add the melted chocolate to the cake batter.

7. If you have created a creamy chocolate batter, spread it now on the baking tray lined with baking paper.

8. Now the chocolate cake goes into the oven for about 35 minutes.

9. Let the baked chocolate cake cool well before covering it with melted chocolate glaze and decorating it with sweets like chocolate lentils, colorful sprinkles and pearls.

10. And there you have your chocolate cake for the birthday child.

Fruit cake

With delicious fruit your kids' birthday cake becomes a fresh fruity taste experience. A few vitamins are also hidden in there – it doesn't get any better. Your kids will surely like the following recipes.

Banana cake with apple

Required ingredients:

• 280 g flour

• 1 tbsp baking powder

• 3 large ripe bananas

• 60 ml rapeseed oil

• 1 egg

• 1 pinch of salt

• 1 apple

• some milk

• raisins (optional)

Here's how:

1. First, beat the egg with the oil in a mixing bowl until frothy.

2. Next, mash the bananas and add them with the flour and baking powder to the mixing bowl. Now mix all ingredients together until you have a thick cake batter.Tip:If the cake batter seems too dry to you, simply add some milk, that should make it more pliable.

3. Next peel the apple and cut it into small pieces. Stir these into the batter. If you like, add a few raisins.

4. Now pour the batter into a well-greased loaf tin. Then place the cake in the oven at 170 degrees (top and bottom heat) for about an hour.

5. After the banana cake with apple pieces has cooled, decorate it with birthday candles and other great decorations that will make children's eyes shine.

Fruit cake with sponge base

Required ingredients:

• 1 pack sponge base

• 1 packet vanilla pudding

• 500 ml milk

• 5 tbsp sugar

• fresh fruit

Here's how:

1. A fruit cake with a sponge base is suitable for all kids who love fresh fruit like cherries, strawberries or exotic fruits like mango and kiwi. You can make this recipe in no time.

2. First cook a vanilla pudding. Mix two tablespoons of milk with the pudding powder and stir into a smooth mass. Heat the remaining milk in a small pot.

3. As soon as the milk boils, take the pot off the heat. Stir the pudding into it with a whisk. Put the pot back on the stove and bring the pudding to a boil while stirring. This usually only takes a few minutes.

4. Let the pudding cool well afterwards. Ideally place a piece of cling film directly on the pudding to prevent a skin from forming.

5. In the meantime chop fresh fruit. Choose the varieties that the birthday child likes best.

6. Then carefully take the sponge base out of the pack and place it on a cake plate. Spread the base with the cooled vanilla pudding.

7. Now place the fresh fruit on top. Only candles are missing – then this kids' birthday cake is ready!

Themed cakes & decorative cakes

If you surprise your children with a themed cake, they'll surely be amazed. You can pick up your kids' favorite themes. If you have chosen a theme for your kids' birthday chosen, an appropriate cake should of course not be missing. From animals to mythical creatures to hobbies – let your creativity run free!

Butterfly cake

Required ingredients:

• see basic creamed batter recipe

• Food coloring

• colored chocolate candies

• Chocolate decorating pen

• 250 g soft butter

• 500 g powdered sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Here's how:

1. This sweet butterfly cake is easier to bake than you might think. First you need a creamed batter cake baked in a round tin. It's best to follow the HABA basic recipe for creamed batter. While the cake cools, you can prepare the buttercream for decorating.

2. For this you need soft butter, some vanilla extract and finely sieved powdered sugar. Beat the butter and vanilla extract with the whisk of your hand mixer to a soft cream. This takes about 5 minutes.

3. Then add the finely sieved powdered sugar spoon by spoon. It's important to sieve the powdered sugar first so no lumps form.

4. Once you've worked the powdered sugar into the butter mixture, only a drop of food coloring of your choice is missing. For butterflies, delicate pastel shades are best.

5. Then assemble: release your round creamed batter cake from the tin and cut it in half horizontally. Place the two halves together so that the rounded sides touch. This results in the shape of butterfly wings.

6. Then spread the cake with your buttercream.

7. Now it's time to decorate: dress your butterfly with colored chocolate candies or sugar sprinkles. Draw the antennae simply with a decorating pen.

8. And your themed butterfly cake is ready!

Safari cake

Required ingredients:

• see basic creamed batter recipe

• 1 jar raspberry jelly

• 1 kg white fondant

• Food coloring

• some powdered sugar

• some water

Here's how:

1. Two round creamed batter cakes of different sizes serve as the base for this great birthday cake. Bake them as given in our basic recipe and let both cakes cool well.

2. In the meantime take care of the safari animals. Unpack the fondant and cut off about 300 grams. Cut this portion into several small pieces. Color the pieces now with food coloring – as you want to design your animals. For example, a yellow piece becomes a lion, a gray piece an elephant. It's best to wear rubber gloves so your hands don't get colored.

3. Then shape: using your fingers and tools like cutlery or toothpicks form funny safari animals. You can also focus only on the animal heads – whichever you prefer.

4. Now prepare your cake. For this, cut your creamed batter cakes lengthwise with a large knife so that you have four cake layers in total. Spread these with half of the raspberry jelly. Stack the layers and spread the remaining jelly on the surface of the cake so that you end up with a fully covered cake.

5. Now continue with the remaining fondant. Color it as well as the small pieces with food coloring and knead it well until the color is distributed. Then dust your work surface with some powdered sugar and take a rolling pin. Roll the fondant out very thinly.

6. Now place the rolled-out fondant over the entire cake – it's best to use your forearms for this so it doesn't crack. Smooth the fondant with your hands until the whole cake is evenly covered. Simply remove excess with a knife.

7. Now decorate: fetch your safari animals and position them wherever you like. Moisten the spot with a little water and press the animals lightly on. The water slightly dissolves the fondant and becomes sticky. This way you attach the animals in place.

8. If you like, you can use more decorations like candies or buttercream. Design your themed cake as you please! One thing is certain: your birthday children will be amazed.

Your children's party buffet: bake savory treats & sweet goodies

A children's birthday usually lasts longer than just a few hours. To make sure all guests and sweet-tooths are well supplied, a kids party buffet HABA has here great and simple ideas for savory as well as sweet compiled for you. There is guaranteed a recipe for every taste.

By the way, the treats are also suitable as take-home treats for kindergarten and school, to properly celebrate your children's birthday there as well.

Sausages in puff pastry

Required ingredients:

• 400 g puff pastry

• 20 mini sausages

• 300 g snack tomatoes

• Mustard

• Ketchup

• Mayonnaise

Here's how:

1. Unroll the puff pastry on your work surface and cut it into 36 thin strips. You need two strips of puff pastry for each sausage.

2. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees and now take the first little sausage to wrap it with two strips of dough.

3. To give your sausages space for funny faces, leave the top end slightly free. Do the same with all your other sausages.

4. Bake the sausages in puff pastry — also called sausage mummies — in the oven for 15 minutes.

5. Take your mummies out of the oven and give them eyes. For this take a wooden skewer whose tip you dip into mayonnaise. Then dab the eyes onto your sausage mummies.

6. Now you can serve and eat your sausages in puff pastry. Enjoy!

Pizza muffins

Required ingredients: For the yeast dough:

• 300 g flour

• 1 packet dry yeast

• 1 tbsp sugar

• 1 tsp salt

• 3 tbsp olive oil

• some butter for the tin

• some flour

For the filling:

• 200 g chopped tomatoes

• 1 pinch salt and pepper

• ½ tsp oregano

• Topping of choice (e.g., salami, vegetables etc.)

• 100 g shredded cheese

Here's how:

1. First put flour, yeast, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl.

2. Add 180 Milliliters of lukewarm water and olive oil and knead all ingredients with a dough hook at the highest speed for about three minutes until a smooth dough forms.

3. Then cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let the dough rest in a warm place for about 45 minutes.

4. In the meantime simmer the tomatoes, which you season with salt, pepper and oregano, in a pot for about five minutes.

5. Now chop your toppings. Whether salami in thin slices, drained sweetcorn or bell pepper in small pieces – you are completely free here.

6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (160 degrees fan) and grease your muffin tin well.

7. If your dough has risen, place it on your floured work surface to knead it again and roll it out into a rectangle (approx. 20 by 40 centimeters).

8. Then spread your cooled tomato sauce over the dough, leaving the edges free.

9. Now top your pizza dough with the toppings of your choice that you prepared earlier.

10. Now roll the pizza dough up from the long side. Cut the resulting roll into 12 equally sized pieces and place the swirls in muffin cups.

11. Now your pizza muffins go into the oven. Bake them for about 20 minutes.

12. When your pizza muffins are golden brown, remove them from the oven. Let them cool well before serving.

Pizza

Required ingredients:

• 200 g flour, type 550

• 50 g semolina, durum wheat

• 1/4 cube yeast

• 160 ml water, lukewarm

• 1 tsp salt

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• ready-made tomato sauce

• 1 tsp oregano, dried

• Salt

• 70 g sausage (chorizo), whole

• 1 ball mozzarella (buffalo mozzarella)

Here's how:

1. First, thoroughly combine flour, semolina and salt for the pizza dough. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water, let it rest for 5 minutes and then add to the flour mixture. Knead the ingredients with the dough hook of the hand mixer, in the stand mixer or by hand until an elastic dough forms, this takes about 10 minutes. If the dough is too firm, add a little warm water, if the dough is too runny add a little flour. Only then knead in the olive oil. Wrap the dough in cling film or cover with a dish towel and let rise for at least 30 minutes.

2. While the dough rises, cut out Christmas shapes from baking paper such as stars or fir trees.

3. In the meantime season the ready-made tomato sauce to taste with a little garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, oregano and a touch of thyme and rosemary.

4. Brush a baking sheet generously with good heat-stable olive oil and preheat the oven to 300 °C (top and bottom heat). Knead the dough again by hand and roll it out on a floured board roughly to the size of the tray from the middle outwards. The dough should be rolled out about 3 mm thick.

5. Place the paper templates on the dough and carefully cut around them with a knife. Knead the leftover dough together and roll it out again. Shape unused dough into small balls and bake pizza rolls from them.

6. Place the cut dough on the tray and brush it only very thinly with the homemade tomato sauce. Slice the mozzarella and place it on the pizza. Cut the chorizo into fine pieces and distribute on the pizza. Bake for about 10 minutes. Tip: delicate items like fresh herbs e.g. oregano should be added only after baking.

Tip:Prepare the pizza dough the evening before the pizza meal and let it rest covered in a bowl overnight. This not only makes the pizza-baking day more relaxed but also makes the yeast dough light and fine-pored.

Potato waffles

Required ingredients:

• 600 g potatoes

• 150 ml milk

• 3 tbsp butter

• 75 g flour

• ½ level tsp baking powder

• 2 eggs

• Oil for the waffle iron

Here's how:

1. First wash the potatoes thoroughly, then peel them and boil in salted water for about 20 minutes.

2. After cooking, drain the water. Add milk and butter and mash the potatoes into a purée-like mass.

3. Now mix flour and baking powder together and stir both together with the eggs into the mashed potatoes.

4. To bake your potato waffles, preheat a waffle iron and brush it with a little oil.

5. Then put a heaped tablespoon on the waffle iron for each to get tasty potato waffles.

6. Remove the finished waffles from the waffle iron using two forks and arrange them on a plate for your guests.

Cookie Monster muffins

Required ingredients:

• 350 g flour

• 3 eggs

• 2 packets vanilla sugar

• 130 g butter

• 200 g sugar

• 1 packet baking powder

• 100 g shredded coconut

• blue food coloring

• 170g powdered sugar

• 1 tsp cocoa powder

• 75 g marzipan

• 130 ml milk

• 75 g chocolate chips

• 8 chocolate cookies

Here's how:

1. First color the shredded coconut blue. To do this mix ¾ of the food coloring with the shredded coconut in a bowl. Knead everything evenly with your hands.

   Tip:To prevent your hands from getting too stained, it's best to wear gloves.

2. Then prepare the eyes for your Cookie Monsters. For this, mix powdered sugar and marzipan (except for a small piece that you'll need for the pupils). From the two ingredients make 32 eyes. Mix the leftover marzipan with cocoa powder to create the pupils. Then stick them on your previously shaped eyes.

3. Now it's time for the batter. For this put butter, sugar and vanilla sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk everything frothy. Add the eggs one after the other.

4. Also add the flour and baking powder to the muffin batter and keep pouring in some milk. Mix and stir all ingredients until you get a smooth batter and can fold in the chocolate chips.

5. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees. Put your muffin batter into your muffin cases so that only 1/3 of each is filled with your smooth batter. Bake the Cookie Monster muffins for about 20 minutes until golden brown.

6. When your muffins are baked, let them cool completely.

7. Once step six is done, mix the remaining food coloring with some water and powdered sugar. Then spread the mixture on your muffins so you can roll them in shredded coconut and it will stick well to the surface.

8. For the Cookie Monster muffin mouth cut a small indentation at a suitable spot to place a cookie in.

9. Finally stick the eyes you made at the beginning onto your Cookie Monster muffins.

10. And the funny muffins for your birthday party are ready.

Confetti cake pops

Required ingredients:

• 400 g flour

• 300 g butter

• 3 eggs

• 200 g sugar

• 200 ml milk

• colorful decorations

• 10 g cocoa powder

• Chocolate couverture

• 3 splashes of lemon juice or flavoring

• Cake pop sticks or paper straws

Here's how:

1. First whisk the butter together with the sugar in a mixing bowl with a hand mixer until frothy. Carefully add the eggs gradually.

2. Then come flour and baking powder. Knead your batter well so that it doesn't become too stiff and shows a smooth consistency.

3. Then divide your cake pop batter into two bowls. To one half add the cocoa powder, to the other a little lemon juice or flavoring. This gives you a dark and a light batter.

4. Now preheat your oven to 170 degrees. Put both batters into your cake pop molds. The cake pops must be in the oven for about 30 minutes.

5. In the meantime prepare the chocolate glaze. For this melt the chocolate couverture in a hot water bath.

6. When your cake pops are done and cooled, skewer the balls onto your sticks or paper straws to dip them in the liquid couverture. Immediately afterwards sprinkle colorful sugar sprinkles or other decorations on your cake pops. This achieves the confetti effect.

7. And your edible party balls are ready!

Animal-shaped cookies

Required ingredients:

• 250 g flour

• 125 g powdered sugar

• 1 pinch of salt

• ½ tsp grated lemon zest or lemon juice

• 1 egg

• 150 g butter

• Cookie cutters in animal shapes

Here's how:

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Knead into a smooth shortcrust pastry.

2. Wrap the dough in some cling film or a large beeswax wrap. Now let it rest in a cool place for about 30 minutes.

3. When the half hour is up, knead your shortcrust dough once again vigorously before rolling it thin on a floured work surface.

4. Now use your cutters. Cut out as many cookies as your shortcrust allows.

5. Place the cut-out cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (top and bottom heat).

6. Bake your cookies for about 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown.

7. Once cooled you can decorate them with tube food colorings or chocolate couverture as well as sugar pearls and co.

8. Pack your finished animal-shaped cookies into a pretty tin that you then make available for your guests. Enjoy!

Baking for different celebrations

Homemade baking is not only suitable for children's birthdays. In many families baking with children is also a tradition for other occasions. Above all, Christmas baking as well as at Easter and Halloweenare highlights of the year – for young and old. At HABA you will also find concrete baking ideas for these topics. Get inspired!

Yeast bunnies & egg wreaths: baking at Easter

Whether tasty yeast bunnies, hearty wild garlic bread and boiled eggs – for the shared Easter breakfast and festive meal there are many delicious treats to bake yourself. In the Easter bakery you'll really get into the mood for the Easter festival.

Which sweet recipe ideas you can implement and how to best plan the joint Easter celebration with your children you can find out on the HABA theme page about Easter with kids. Browse through the tips, ideas and instructions and be inspired to create your own tasteful variations.

Baking with children at Christmas

When Christmas is just around the corner, the delicious scent of tasty cookies, gingerbread and stollen are simply part of it. With festive Christmas recipes you and your loved ones perfectly for the Christmas season. What makes the tradition of Christmas baking so special andwhich recipe ideas are easy to bake yourself, HABA has revealed on the corresponding theme page. Grab the great ideas and be inspired for festive treats for the whole family.

Image credits

Baking utensils, eggs, rolling pin, whisk, sieve, bowl © Pixel-Shot - stock.adobe.com

Rainbow sheet cake © Lynne Ann Mitchell

Chocolate sheet cake © ffolas - stock.adobe.com

Banana-apple cake on plate, sliced © alex9500 - stock.adobe.com

Fruit cake with sponge base © pilipphoto - stock.adobe.com

Butterfly cake decorated with colorful chocolate candies © san_ta - stock.adobe.com

Safari cake © famveldman - stock.adobe.com

Pizza muffins in paper liners © manyakotic - stock.adobe.com Potato waffles © mizina - stock.adobe.com Cookie Monster muffins © Martin_P - stock.adobe.com

Confetti cake pops © beats_ - stock.adobe.com

Animal-shaped cookies © lunaundmo - stock.adobe.com