It’s Saturday, which often means having to cook up ideas to keep your kids busy. How about spending the morning baking in the kitchen together?
According to a recent article in The New York Times, baking is not only fun but also enhances linguistic development. Children not only learn and discuss various ingredients but follow cooking instructions, which improves their receptive language skills.
Pinwheel pops are easy to make and your child will enjoy sifting the flour and rolling the dough. Here’s how to make them…
Ingredients
- 1-1/4 cups butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- Pink, orange and yellow food colouring
- Sprinkles
- Wooden ice-cream sticks
How to make them
- Mix butter and sugar in a large bowl until frothy and light.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla essence.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
- Gradually beat the dry mixture into the creamed mixture.
- Next, help your child divide the dough into three pieces.
- Tint each piece with a different coloured food colouring and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll each piece into a rectangle.
- Stack the three rectangles to create a thicker rectangle. Refrigerate for thirty minutes, or until firm.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
- Unwrap and cross-cut the stacked rectangles into six strips. Taper the ends of each strip, then coil the strips around themselves.
- Place 3cm apart on a greased baking pan.
- Decorate cookie edges with sprinkles.
- Bake 8-10 minutes or until set.
- Transfer to cooling racks to cool. Insert a wooden skewer or popsicle stick into each cookie while still soft.
Nutritional Data
One pinwheel contains 218 calories, 10g fat (six grammes of which are saturated), 41mg cholesterol, 217mg sodium, 29g carbohydrates (13g sugars, 1g fibre), and 3g protein.
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