My oldest daughter LOVES to help me with my cakes, so I asked her to turn the oven on for me. I figured it would be ok, I was only 2 feet away from her. I told her to put it on bake and set it to 325°. Well, I should have checked it. She set it to BROIL. So after about 15 minutes I started to smell something burning. I checked on the cakes and the a burnt to a crisp 
. My dd was so upset. I told her we can make more, it's no biggie. I bet she'll never do that again. But whan the day is done, no matter what, I LOVE having her help me 
That's a really cute story. Sorry your cakes were burnt though. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to "help" me make cakes!
What a special story! How old is she? I bet she is the cutest!!! What a great mom to let her help you! She is so lucky to be learning to bake at a young age.
She is 9 (10 in October). She loves to help. She's actually really good at doing shells and rosettes.
This reminds me of the first time I tried to bake banana bread when I was about thirteen. The recipe called for 1/3 cup of shortening (that's how it was printed in the newspaper). I thought it meant 1 to 3 cups of shortening so I put in TWO cups of shortening and it boiled all over the oven. What a mess!
It's those mistakes that we learn from the best! You sound like a good mom.
Carolyn
When my stepdaughter was only three, we made chocolate cupcakes together for a school party. Let me preface this story with a note about how we had just remodeled our kitchen and I painstakingly applied beautiful white wallpaper with little ivy leaves trailing all over.... see where this is going?
Anyway, I hadn't replaced the outlet cover on the outlet where I usually plugged in the KA, so we just switched over to another counter where I thought it would be safer. It was on a corner counter next to the pantry and underneath a cabinet.
Well, turns out we should have made the batter in our usual spot because the cramped confines of the upper cabinet and pantry wall made me rotate the KA to reach around and be able to lift the motor... we got so turned around and instead of quickly turning the mixer off after the suggested 4 minutes, we (she!) QUICKLY turned it to SPEED 10!
We had chocolate batter literally dripping out of the cabinet, splattered over every flat surface, all the cans in the pantry were sprayed with a coating of the batter... and did I mention that beautiful white wallpaper with ivy trailing all around? 
LOL LOL LOL
When we moved I couldn't help but notice some specs of batter that we had overlooked some three years earlier!
One of the hardest things things to convince students of is that you only learn from mistakes. If you do it right the first time with no problems, then you actually already knew how to do it.
When I teach my nephew how to do things in the kitchen, I make him read the recipe all the way through and then ask him what he thinks he should do first, etc. This is the same thing I would have done with my English students in classroom with a reading assignment, checking for comprehension. We have done math things too doubling a recipe or cutting it in half. These are some of the best times we share. He makes great fudge and his rolling and cut out cookies technique is excellent. (He learned on dog biscuits.) He is also a major fan of my new cookie scoops.
No, he has no desire to be a chef, he just likes to eat. He has figured out that if wants to eat it. He may have to make it himself.
She is 9 (10 in October). She loves to help. She's actually really good at doing shells and rosettes.
Maybe she can teach me to do a shell border. 
I can not do one!!
Well I have a 3 year old daughter that loves to eat cake! My son he's 11 and he loves to help bake cakes.. The thing is he does really well!
I am very pround of my daughter - she is 25 and has become a very good cook and baker. We started out cooking together when she was very little. When she was less than two years old she started helping with family meals. She sat on the counter and "mixed" water in a measuring cup. I let her add the ingrediants I pre-measured. I let her shape dough, and she got to eat the items she shaped! At 20 months I let her measure flour into the bread dough. We counted each cupful together, and since the measurement did not have to be perfect for bread dough, it was a great activity for her.
We did have a few accidents --- One day she measured one cup of flour onto the seat of each chair! She even put one cup of flour on the sofa!! YIKES! 
I taught her where the potatos and onions were stored, and she would choose the potatos or onion for our dinner. I discovered that she had her own ideas about where the onions should go, when I found then in my lingere drawer!
One day DH found a potato in his shoe. What priceless memories! It is still fun to cook with her, but at least I don't have to look for the onions in my undies! 
I'm wishing for a grandchild to make cookies and cakes with ...
margiebirds wrote
"We did have a few accidents --- One day she measured one cup of flour onto the seat of each chair! She even put one cup of flour on the sofa!! YIKES!"
How funny. I too started teaching my girls to bake at a young age. When Catharine was 2 and we lived in Missouri, I was making breads and other desserts for Thanksgiving then planning on doing the rest of the baking for Christmas. I just bought a 25 lb sack of flour. Maybe 2 cups were gone. When I went to answer the phone, she went into the kitchen. When I hung up, I realized she was way too quiet. I step into the kitchen and lo and behold there she was throwing handfulls of flour into the air. Her dark brown hair was white, cabnits, countertops, and floor was covered in flour. (There was only about 6 inches of flour left in the bag.) I loudly ask "Catharine Faye what do you think you are doing?" She gives me this look like you idiot, isn't it obvious and says "Mommy, I'm making it snow." My husband got a call to come home from maine where he was unloading his truck and rescue his daughter. She spent the next hr in her room then she helped clean it up. We laugh about it now but boy it wasn't funny then. Kids do the dangest things.
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