Were you a Baking Queen? A fan of donning your fave pinny and letting lose your creativity in the kitchen? And then you had kids, right?

Yep, it happens, lady, it happens. It happens a lot. You’ve lost the Magic of Baking. (But, don’t worry. I have a solution for you. Or Craft & Crumb do.)

Baking pre-kids is done with love, care, attention and a whole lot of creativity.

Which you think will continue when you have kids. When you share with them the joy of baking. Of bonding by creating beautiful, tasty treats together.

…Fast Forward a few years….

…and reality hits.

Creativity and attention to detail fly out of the window. Leaving you monitoring hand-washing, nose-picking, egg-dropping and spit-covered fingers being dipped repeatedly into a bowl. All through a fine cloud of flour and icing sugar.

It’s enough to put you off baking, right?

But what if I said I could give you back the Magic of Baking?

If I could give you the fun and creativity of baking. The beautiful bonding experience of making something tasty together.

…something tasty and eminently Instagrammable.

You couldn’t turn that down, could you?

Enter Stage Left: Craft & Crumb

I’ve got to put my hands up and say that it’s not actually me who will bring the Magic of Baking back into your life. It’s Craft & Crumb.

Craft & Crumb, aka Kate and Louise, are two mums who understand that you want to make beautiful cakes and treats with and for your children. But that you’re busy schlepping between school runs and drop-offs, between activities and kids’ birthday parties.

So they have created amazing cake kits to help you make the most beautiful cakes. But without the hassle.

No desperate rummaging around the back of the cupboard looking for obscure ingredients that went out of date before you even thought of having kids.

No trying to work out how you’ll actually achieve this glorious creation that’s in your head.

And no working out if craft paint really is toxic and not to be used on cakes.

Nope, Kate and Louise have it all taken care of.

…leaving you free to enjoy the special bonding experience of baking with your child…..

…and monitor the consumption of raw eggy cake mix and snotters.

Craft & Crumb Kits

I came across Craft & Crumb for the first time as I won one of their kits as a prize from Cuddle Fairy’s #Positivity Corner.

I had a choice of cupcake and biscuit kit prizes and plumped for the Magic Wand Biscuit Kit.

 

Watch your little ones make magic in the kitchen with these stunning fairy wand biscuits. Each of our biscuit baking kits comes beautifully packed with everything you need to make 10 edible fairy wands, and an extra 10-15 star biscuits! Bonus.

 

The kit arrived, beautifully presented, and complete with everything we’d need to make our Fairy Wands. Everything apart from eggs and butter. Which even I could manage to rustle up from my meagre store cupboards. Simples!

The Magic of Baking: Fairy Wands

As the instructions were so simple, the kids (aged 7 and 5) were able to do a lot of it without my helicoptering over them. (They’re also quite used to being my helpers in the kitchen)

But even really little kids would get some great fun out of this kit. At the very least, they could help cut out the cookies and decorate them at the end.

Mine were happy to wash hands, don their pinnies and, promising not to pick their noses while baking, carry on.

In terms of timing, you need to leave the pastry to chill for half an hour before you bake. And you have to wait for the biscuits to bake and cool down before you decorate.

So, we made ours a several stage process.

Which was perfect for an after-school activity as we fitted baking around homework and reading.

Or fitted homework and reading around baking, depending on your point of view.

Craft & Crumb: The Bake-Off

Without much intervention from me, Big Boy and Littlest Angel worked away like Santa’s elves, mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting.

They took it all very seriously, as if they were in a competitive Bake-Off. (Which we were supposed to be, but the other winner cried off for fear of being upstaged by our general Baking Awesomeness)

They especially loved using the cute little star shaped cutter to make the cookies. And again later, to cut out the cutesy pale pink and powder blue icing.

But the highlight for them was carefully placing the icing on the baked biscuits and decorating them using the icing glue and magic sprinkles. (all provided).

Craft & Crumb: Fairy Wands

The wand biscuits looked great.

And tasted even better.

Even the icing was good. And I’m not a huge fan of icing.

But the Big Question. The one everyone wants to ask……

….do Craft & Crumb’s Fairy Wands actually work?

Have a look and see for yourself…….

……Abracadabra!

…….

….that’s one less lippy little kid to deal with in the mornings!

Would I buy one of these kits?

So, I got my baking kit free as a prize. But would I part with my own hard-earned cash for one?

Yes, I would actually. They’re a really cute and fun activity to do with the kids.

They’d also make a great party gift. Better than yet another plastic figure or a bloody dolly for a child that you barely know.

And, speaking of parties, it seems that they now also do take-home party bags too – what a great idea!

But I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want.

I want one of the fab looking cake kits.

They look amazing, use good quality ingredients and you don’t need to shop for obscure bits that you’ll never use again.

…and you get lots of Kudos as they look far more effort than they really are!

To take a look at the amazing cake and biscuit kits from Cake & Crumb, click here. Which one will you choose?