My kids LOVE to help in the kitchen. One of the first things we started with were muffins! From a practical standpoint, making their own snack cuts down on work for me. They love to mix, whisk & pour, and usually fight over taking turns to help mommy. If you need some tips to get started, check out my tips for baking with toddlers. We talk about ingredients, work on counting, smell things, and then do all the toddler appropriate tasks too. Here’s a list of our top toddler approved muffins, I just know that your kids will have fun making them with you, and eating them too!
Top Toddler Approved Muffins
Cranberry Orange Muffins
These by far are my son’s favorite muffin. He loves picking out the cranberries to eat, then devours the rest of it. The ingredient list is simple, and they come out perfectly cooked with a. nice brown top without being overdone every single time. This is our perfect fall muffin.
Sweet Potato Muffins
At first you will be nervous about making a muffin with a sweet potato base, but after you eat one, you’ll be so glad you did! These muffins are a little more dense, but packed with all the goodness that a sweet potato offers, and a great way to get a picky eater something good!
Healthy Applesauce Oat Muffins
This was one of the first muffin recipes we tried and now a staple in our house. Having oats and natural unsweetened applesauce, with coconut oil & whole wheat flour made me feel a little better about snack time. My kids will demand 2 or 3 of these at a time during snack they love them so much.
Carrot Oatmeal Greek Yogurt Muffins
This is another great way to get some vegetables in to a pick eater’s diet! These muffins remind me of a carrot cake without the frosting, which even though frosting is amazing, sugar with crazy toddlers is not. I love the healthy ingredients, and using maple syrup, coconut sugar, and almond milk, make it a muffin I feel a little better about giving my kids on a regular basis.
Perfect Banana Muffins
Have you let your kids mash bananas yet? Get a bowl and some ripe bananas, and I promise you they will have a blast! Typically mine fight each other over whose turn it is, and pass it back and forth, dipping fingers in to taste as they go. This is a nice, simple recipe that your kids will really have fun with and love to eat.
Time to Eat!
While the muffins are baking, let the kids go wild destroying the playroom or give them a fun sensory bin to explore. Soon enough, they’ll hear the oven timer go off and know it means their creations are done, and they can gobble it all up as soon as they cool. A cold glass of milk on the side. After that you can definitely put them to work to help you clean up the mess!
What recipe are you excited to try? We have so many favorites, and I’m constantly on the hunt for more. Check me out on Pinterest to see my muffins board, and let me know what you think of these!
Happy Baking!
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