Baking with my Babies!

I love baking.

My love of baking probably has something to do with my sweet tooth, which could accurately be described as Texas-sized.

I want to bake more frequently with my girls because baking is such a fun activity to share with others, especially tiny humans.

But I don't keep a lot of baking items in the house- namely, chocolate chips- because my sweet tooth will encourage consumption of said chocolate chips long before they are ever poured into cookie batter.

So when I recently came across a Facebook ad for Foodstirs, a monthly baking subscription box with Sarah Michelle Gellar as one of the celebrity faces behind the brand, I knew I had to try it.

Much like the home delivery meals that have become so popular with my mommy friends (and for good reason- they take the guesswork out of dinner!), Foodstirs sends a baking activity with everything you need to recreate their featured sugary creations at home, save for refrigerated items such as butter or milk.

This month, our baking sent us everything we needed to make chocolate chip cookies with an Easter-themed decoration. Our kit arrived about five days after I placed my order. It came with: chocolate chip cookie mix (organic!), frosting mix (organic!), frosting color mix (organic!), an egg-shaped cookie cutter, organic jelly beans, sprinkles, plastic sleeves for the frosting plus a tip for one of the bags and three postcard-sized instruction sheets. It came beautifully packaged! All I needed to supply was standard baking items (spatula, mixer, cookie sheet, etc.) and butter, an egg and plain yogurt. Easy peasy!

We started by making the cookies, an easy feat with the prepackaged mix. I let my 3-year-old do everything, from crack the egg to stir the dough. She loved it! After freezing the dough per the instruction, we baked the cookies and created the frosting while the cookies baked.

Our frosting turned out a bit runny, but she did not care. She loved stirring in the powdered color and watching the frosting turn yellow and green. She was mesmerized!

We tried our best to follow the instructions to create the gorgeous Easter basket cookies and nest cookies that the kit was designed around. Well... Our cookies weren't quite so picture-esque. But my tot got to handle the frosting and decorating of our green cookies all by herself- a task she took seriously and was so very proud of at the end! Drippy frosting or not, the cookies tasted delicious and were quickly devoured by very happy members of our family. We are even proudly sharing our creations because, really, is anything created by a 3-year-old not cute?!

We subscribed for three months total, and I can't wait to see what our next packages will contain. There are a great activity to get kids away from TVs and tablets and into the kitchen to create! Totally a win in my book.

The subscription that I paid for was $59 for three once-a-month boxes. I also had a coupon code for $10 off and shipping was free. So my final price was $49 for three months, which breaks down to about $16 per box- not a bad price in my opinion!

Curious and want to subscribe for yourself? My code will get you 15% off your first subscription:
http://221foodstirs.refr.cc/stephaniejarrett