Enter to win a Babycakes Cupcake Maker and cookbook that makes more than just cupcakes. It can make your entire meal in minutes.
My kids are generally pretty excited in the kitchen, especially that pink-apron-wearing one up there. If I so much as walk towards the kitchen she is asking if we can make something. The mere mention of a mixing bowl has her pulling out aprons left and right.
The kids’ enthusiasm in the kitchen makes me smile, and while sometimes I am less then thrilled about having them underfoot, I want to encourage them to love the act of cooking, creating and eating. It doesn’t have to be a profession they hope to go into later in life, but everyone must eat. I view teaching them how to feed themselves as an essential life skill, just like tying their shoes or washing their own laundry.
While I admit to being skeptical about adding another appliance to my collection, especially one that makes cupcakes, I was pleasantly surprised when a quick glance through the Babycakes cookbook revealed that the possibilities with the cupcake maker were endless, and when my four children then adopted it as their own personal oven and way to make desserts, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, well, I won’t be giving it back anytime soon.
The Babycakes Cupcake Maker is an EasyBake Oven for real food. The kids have made cupcakes baked from scratch, brownies from our favorite recipe, mini quiches as appetizers, sandwiches, pies and even baked eggs with Parmesan and herbs all with little to no assistance. For my younger kids who aren’t quite ready to use the oven on their own, it’s given them the ability to have more control over what they can create in the kitchen. Making their own snack can be a half-hour activity that produces eight mini Dijon and chive quiches (quite tasty) from leftover pie dough, an egg and a bit of milk.
The cookbook is great for giving you recipes for cheesecakes, cupcakes, pies, quiches and more, and it has served well at sparking our own creativity when using it. Plus, the freedom in having the kids make their own eggs for breakfast on a Saturday morning? Those last few minutes of sleep are precious.
THE PRIZE
One lucky reader will win a 
Babycakes Cupcake Maker and a copy of the 175 Best Babycakes Cookbook!
HOW TO ENTER TO WIN
1. Leave a comment. When did you start playing in the kitchen?
2. Follow @FoodforMyFamily on Twitter and tweet the following, and come back and let me know you did:
Enter to win a a Babycakes Cupcake Maker from @FoodforMyFamily http://su.pr/2mck08 #giveaway
3. Join the Food for My Family community on Facebook. Come back and leave a comment letting me know you did so. If you already do, THANK YOU. Just let me know.
4. Join the Plugged into Cooking community on Facebook. Come back and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
THE RULES:
This giveaway will run until Wednesday, November 23rd at 11:59 p.m. ET and is open to all U.S. residents. A winner will be chosen at random using Random.org from all eligible entries. Each reader has 4 chances to win by completing the above tasks and leaving a separate comment for each entry method completed. Chosen winner must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!
This giveaway is sponsored by Babycakes. Tips, opinions and random thoughts are 100% mine.
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I liked to bake as a kid, maybe starting around 8 or so. But I didn’t really start to “play” in the kitchen until about 5 years ago
I started playing in the kitchen when I was about 7 or 8.
I probably didn’t play around in the kitchen until my teens. My mother would try to have me help but generally ended up kicking me out using the term ‘too many cooks in the kitchen.’ I’m hoping that my children will be like yours and want to learn and I’m also hoping I’ll have a little more patience when the time comes. We’ll see!
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A classic photo is of me sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor on top of a plate. I was grinning up a the camera very proud of the sticker I had removed from a piece of fruit and placed on my forehead! I was always “helping” in the kitchen. I even had a play kitchen set up on the front porch where I would take orders through the window.
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Young….very young. Then in elementary school my sister and I would come home after school and start dinner every day. I can’t believe I still enjoy cooking!
i was around 7. my parents owned a restaurant at the time and on weekends i would go hang out with them there and help peel carrots and make cream cheese wontons
I followed on both and “tweeted”….. Just found you site. Can’t wait to try some of your wonderful recipes.
I love that you are making real food in these. I have pictures showing me help in the kitchen around 2 or 3 years old.
I started “playing” in the kitchen at about 25 years old after I started having kids and was “forced” to learn how to cook. Now my children are 24 and 26 and I am still cooking and I’m pretty darn good at it!
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I started playing in the kitchen when I was probably 6 yrs old. I would help my grandmother bake for the holidays as well as cook for the evening dinner! =D
I started playing in the kitchen around age 5, my mom set me up with my own table and chairs and let me help all I wanted.
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I started playing in the Kitchen when I was 2 or 3. I always helped my mom and did what she was doing:) I hope to enstill that in my boys as well. So far so good!
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I was in the kitchen with my grandmother (my dad’s mom) when I was very little. So much so, that her traditional Christmas cookie recipe is something that I still make today. Interesting trying to decipher the original written recipe, which I got after she passed away. If I hadn’t made them with her year after year, the recipe wouldn’t make any sense.
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I started playing in the kitchen at a very young age. I was the youngest of five, so my siblings were always busy in the kitchen, and I of course had to join in!
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I started playing/helping in the kitchen when I was around 2 or 3 and have not stopped
i started playing in the kitchen when i was 3 and would pull the kitchen stool up to the stove and “help” by saying “come on, lets be gravy” until one of my ponytails caught fire
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Started playing in kitchen about 6 helping mommy & sisters !
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Started in the kitchen when I was 8 – learning to fry my first egg! =D
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