Whenever I am stuck for something to do with the boys I fall back on those four old faithfuls; eggs, sugar, flour and butter. A batch of cupcakes makes all three of us happy, especially when it comes to the decorating part. Arguably the best bit.
‘Cake decorating with the kids’ is a book full of decorating ideas for parents and kids to tackle together. It covers cakes, biscuits, cake pops… from a themed dessert table for teacher to a Jackson Pollack style celebration cake. I’ll definitely be making the bee biscuits and the teddy bear’s picnic cake out of the 30 ideas to choose from. Probably aimed at parents with kids aged 5 and upwards with some harder designs for teens. In fact, this is a great cake decorating book with those with or without kids and luckily I have 2 to give away. (I’m keeping my copy, sorry.)
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- Only open to UK participants over the age of 18. Sorry to anyone from further afield or younger readers.
- There are 2 books available as prizes worth £14.99 each. There’s no cash alternative to the prize and the prize is not transferable. No part or parts of the prize may be substituted for other benefits, items or additions.
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Holly Bell 
This is fab!
Looks great, would love to do this with my neices.
Fab prize. My kids would love it.
Having 5 children, of which 3 are baking fanatics like their mum, this would go down a storm :) x
I would love this book to get busy with my little beauty.
love baking and baking with the kids xx
My little boy is only two and is already a baking nut like mummy! This book looks fantastic and im sure if packed full of fun ideas!
Sounds a great book I love baking and Im sure there would be plenty of creations we could make as a family
Looks Great!
fab giveaway love baking and especially cakes
Fantastic Prize
this looks brill, my daughter loves cooking and making cakes,
My daughter would love this x
Would love to win this
Thanks for offering this prize, looks like a great book for when the grandchildren come to stay!
Lovely prize, thanks
Great prize
Looks like fun with the kids
We love baking and decorating in our house!
This book would be fantastic for some ideas for the children to spend some quality time with Gran
Would make a fab present for my sister
Looks like a lovely book – I’d love to use it with my niece
I can’t wait to start baking with Pickle, but certainly need inspiration!
Looks like a lovely book, my daughter would love it!
My 3 boys would love to help mammy with some receipes out of this
Looks like a lovely book
these look lovely
Looks like a lovely book
looks like a great book
love to win
fabulous looking book, be fab for when my lb is big enough to help :)
I work as a Nursery Nurse with 5 and 6 year olds and we have a cooking session once a week. I’d love to try out some of these ideas with them, I’m sure they’d have great fun!
Looks like a really good! My little one is just getting to the age when we can start baking together so this would be amazing to win!
looks great x
This book looks like it will lead to loads of fun
My 3 year old loves baking with me, would love this book as it looks like we’d both enjoy it!
looks fab x
This looks like a brilliant book!
looks great – that butterfly cake is so pretty. My stepdaughter loves to decorate cakes and my toddler daughter likes to join in so this could be very good fun.
This looks a fab book, would love to win :)
i love making cakes with my liitle one and this book looks fab
My little lad loves to help ‘cook’, mainly with plasticine!
what a great prize :O) would love to win this
Book looks lovely, loads of ideas for baking with my grandchildren.
Great prize
I love to bake, and am introducing my 16 month old to baking. This looks fantastic, would love to win a copy :)
My girls would love this so much :)
Just the book to get my little one into baking :)
Trying to get my toddler into baking, this book looks lovely. sam @happyhomebird
I only have an eleven month old, but you can never start too soon :)
Looks like fun!
I’m ace at baking but my decoration always lets me down, with this book, my son can take over!
Fantastic prize! Would love to win!
Looks good, thanks!
Simon.
I love baking with my oldest and can’t wait until the little one can join in :)
This book looks brilliant :)
What a great way to spend time with the kids!
My kids love baking but im running out of decorating ideas so this would be perfect!
this looks fun
Would love to win this book :)
Id love to win this as when i was little my nan used to always bake and decorate cakes with me so id love to do the same with my daughter :-) x
Our last cookbook was about decorating gingerbread men, it was quite tricky for little ones.
Would love to sit down and do some cake decorating with my lil girl, be a good way of practising for me too!
I’d love to win a copy of this to put in my Niece’s Xmas hamper! xx
would love to be able to cook and decorate decent cakes for once! x
My little ones love to bake with me!
great prize. my daughter and i could have loads of fun in the kitchen with this book.
looks a great book to try out with my daughter
Book looks fab – would love to try it with my 8 year old !!
My babies would love this, they love baking with mum!
Ooo. this book looks lovely :) x
Loved you and your baking on GBBO!! Can’t wait to look through your e-book when I have free time to bake.
Hi. Great book, would love to win this. My 3 year old daughter loves baking with me.
I need this book lol. I know the importance of baking / cooking with children, but I don’t even know the difference between a boiling pan and a frying pan! Dexter deserves to make cupcakes with mummy!
Would love to win – my daughter has definitely got the baking bug so would be great to get some new decorating ideas.
My neices would love this as very into any sort of cooking
Great prize
thank you for the great giveaway
Would love to win this!
Looks fun!
how fab!! my daughters would love this, were always making buns, cupcakes ect so would be a great help :)
that looks a great book x
Awesome giveaway, Please enter me for this!
Sounds like a really good book – I’m sure my daughter would love to help me make some of the recipes! My son, on the other hand, being only 3 has the attention span of a goldfish, so I might have to keep the book for a while until he’s a bit bigger!
Would love one of these books! x
looks a great book x
Sounds great :) My six-year-old cousin will love it, he enjoys making cakes!
fab prize, xx
What a great prize. I could do with some inspiration and I’m sure my little boy would love to help bake some of these recipes
great book – would love a copy!
Looks so much fun!
Would love to do this with the kids
Wow book looks amazing! My kids love decorating cakes – so far only done painting with food colouring! Lovely prize x
this looks nice
what a lovely prize
Would love to win thanks
This could be just what i need to get my toddler more interested in baking itself and not just the finished product!
This looks like an excellent book! x
This book looks like so much fun!
What a fabulous book, would bring something new to the kitchen and I love anything that makes cooking fun..
Fab competition – Love to try these recipes Probably about my level if child friendly…
Great Giveaway – The kids love cooking and love trying new recipes x
With a step-son and two nieces I’m sure this book would come in handy!
cool prize
This looks so beautiful! Even a possibility for us! Love baking with the kids. Winning this would be a dream come true.
I agree that my kids favourite part of cake making is the decorating, we would love one of these books
I would like to share this with my 14yr old daughter. Not sure who will be teaching who!
This looks so much fun! I would love to win this. :)
Please enter me in the draw. I would love to win this.
We need some inspiration – would love to win.
Yes please, always looking for new things to do with the kids
ooo please
thanks.
Book looks fab, my girls and I love baking xx
I love adding to my collection of baking books
My 2 year old grand daughter likes to bake with her mummy, this book would be great for them to share.
Would love to win this book.I love to spend time with my grandchildren teaching them to cook
@gholmes724
Please enter me in the draw – thank you x
I love cooking with my 2 and they’re always so proud of what they’ve made :)
Fab prize, I love encouraging kids to bake and they always enjoy it. This book would be a great help with new ideas
Made some cupcakes with my niece yesterday and she loved it. Still trying to get my nephew involved but he is not that impressed. Yet!
My little boy and I love baking – making bread and pizza is his favourite – I am sure he would love to bake some cookies and cakes too.
Thanks for the great giveaway.
Looks like a brilliant book
We love baking together though our decorating is rather basic, maybe this book will inspire us to be more adventurous?
lovely – one of my favourite things to do with my 3 year old
I used to love baking with my children & they are now doing the same with theirs.I
its a great way to get children interested in cooking, all the great chefs started with something basic, so who knows we may have a budding world renown chef on our hands.
Great giveaway, please pop my name in the hat
This looks great, we love to decorate cakes here
Ooh, I would love this. My kids are only 4 and 2 and cake decorating is one of third favourite things! Though from the latest batch of grey cakes they definitely need a book to inspire and guide…!
Another giveaway! Amazing!
love this. My kids are always helping me bake and decorate.
This looks fab. My kids love helping me bake espically whe I let them loose to decorate by themsleves.
My daughter loves baking so would love a chance to win this x
We love making cakes so this would be fab! Please count me in
I would love to try these cupcakes out with my new class in September! I love cooking with my class – it’s a fab way to apply literacy and numeracy skills! Would be great to have an excellent resource of child friendly bakes :)
This is probably the right standard for me, I’m so bad at decorating!
I’m always cooking with my girls, at age 12 1/2 and 3 1/2 they both love it equally as much although who gets to lick the spoon is somewhat troublesome :)
Love baking with my boys, fingers crossed x
Lovely review and giveaway – thank you!
Fantastic! My daughters (and I!) would love this :) x
Looks a fab book. My boys love baking. Boys will be boys and the have the attention span of fleas so quicky recipes are a must. We have many tried & tested recipes that we love but new child friendly ideas would be great so we would definitely enjoy the book :-)
We’re a dairy free family but I’d sure love the book to adapt the recipes!!!!
Sploshy x
ah, a book on cupcake decorating would be awesome! I have all the books on making cupcakes, but none on decorating…
ooo! I’d love this for when my little one gets older and possibly to use with my class in school xx
I agree cooking or baking is always a great way to entertain and so much fun!
What a great idea for a book!! My 6 year old son and I bake something every Sunday whilst Daddy is at work – he’ll be able to make cakes/biscuits etc at uni……….. never mind the meals as long as the good stuff is doable!!!! lol!!! I LOVE baking and any inspiration is invaluable! xx
i so agree…those four faithfuls create so much happiness…my little girl and i love using them to bake cupcakes.yes please…we’d love inspiration from your brilliant book.
Pick me!
I’m sure I would have so much fun with that
I would love to have one of these books as our decorating skills are limited to icing and choc buttons on cupcakes!!
Great prize, looks fab xx
Lovely, would love to use this with my nephew, think my little one is a bit young at the moment but would be great when he gets bigger too!
Looks fab!
looks like a good book fingers crossed!
Loved the cakes your little uns made earlier – so cute! We finally braved baking with Lara (2.5) last week and it was great fun, not sure what I was afraid of! Must follow your example and let her get stuck in!!
Hehe can I win as first entry?! Oh no too slow!
I love cooking with my children and we are always looking for new ideas to cook.
thanx for a grreat competition xxx
Ohh…yes please!