Here at WoodenToyShop, the office is often blessed with the aroma of freshly baked cakes or biscuits. This week we have been celebrating National Baking Week by eating piles of plain chocolate chip and golden syrup cookies baked by our resident head cook Rob. As we contemplate the expansion of our waistlines and the need to buy larger trousers, we also recognise that while children love baking alongside Mum and Dad, grownups are often grateful for the kind of non-messy baking that keeps the kitchen spick and span. With that in mind, we hope you will enjoy the following WoodenToyShop Guide to Children’s Baking Role Play Toys.
Aprons and Cloths
Many years ago my Home Economics teacher taught us that the secret of success in the kitchen started with preparation. We were not allowed to enter the Home Economics kitchens without aprons and thanks to Bigjigs, your little sous chefs can get all kitted out with the Bigjigs Chef Set which is available in either blue or pink. These fantastic sets come with matching gingham chef’s hat, apron and oven glove, a wooden rolling pin and four metal cookie cutters (star, bell, butterfly and Christmas tree).
Click on this image to buy the Chef's Set.Mrs. Hoare, our teacher, was also very big on cleanliness. Quite right too! The Bigjigs Kitchen Cloth Set comes with a blue and white striped apron, four cloths and pink polka dot oven gloves. Surely this clever set will help the grownups teach the little ones the importance of cleaning as you go!
Equipment for Junior Bakers
Pots, pans, mixing bowls, scales and wooden spoons: junior bakers need the right tools and equipment and we recommend the following selection.
The Bigjigs Kitchenware Set comprises stainless steel mixing bowl, whisk, saucepans, utensils and an oven glove.
The Young Chef’s Baking Set has just about everything you need to create your culinary masterpiece:
- Mini mixing bowl.
- Loaf tin.
- Whisk.
- Rolling pin.
- A set of measuring spoons.
- Six cookie cutters in various shapes.
- Fairy cake/muffin tray.
- Oven glove.
A brilliant play set for any junior baker.Of course, measuring out your ingredients is a key part of the baking process and for this we recommend the Bigjigs Food Scales which will also be perfect for anyone with a play shop!
Although some of us old-school types prefer a wooden spoon, a mixing bowl and some elbow grease, no modern kitchen is complete without the ubiquitous food mixer and the Le Toy Van Honeybake Mixer Set is a fantastic addition to the Honeybake range and features a beautiful blue toy mixer which comes with flour, sugar, milk and an egg to get you started. This is a firm favourite amongst our customers.
Ingredients
The WoodenToyShop kitchen is filled with useful ingredients. If the clink of milk bottles settling on the doorstep gives you a warm nostalgic glow then the Bigjigs Wooden Milk Bottles and Carrier will be a welcome addition to your kitchen.
Drinka pinta milk a day!These Bigjigs Wooden Eggs are a stunningly realistic wooden version of the kitchen and baking staple.
These are wooden. Honest.The Le Toy Van Eggs and Dairy Set even contains some wooden goat’s cheese. Now you don’t see that very often!
Cakes, Cookies and Biscuits
Our unrivalled selection of play food includes some brilliant baking sets:
The Le Toy Van Honeybake Cookie Set features a baking tray, rolling pin, oven glove and a cookie shape cutting sheet. Children will have lots of fun decorating the cookies which come with colourful toppings that attach to each cookie with Velcro.
Alternatively the Melissa and Doug Slice and Bake Cookie Set comes with twelve sliceable cookies and toppings, a baking sheet, oven glove, wooden knife and spatula and a cookie tube.
If you prefer cupcakes to cookies, than how about this wonderful Melissa and Doug Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set which comprises a cupcake tray, cupcake cases, cupcakes, icing toppings, coloured markers for the icing, oven glove and candles for each cupcake. This is a baker’s dream!
What a fabulous selection of wooden baking toys! In the week that applauded John Whaite when he won the brilliant Great British Bake Off and we dream of entering next year’s competition, we hope that some of these wonderful toys will inspire future generations of home and professional bakers.
