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For the Bake Your Favorite Book Challenge in November, we bake little elf waffle cups - a quick no-bake recipe for the Christmas party with kids!
Halloween is over and the Christmas season is fast approaching us! I too am ready for the cozy time of year when the smell of cookies wafts through the apartment and everything shines in the warm candlelight. I'm really looking forward to baking to Christmas carols with my kids and making colorful Christmas presents. But if you ask my minis, they will tell you that they are particularly looking forward to Alva moving back in with us - our Christmas elf!
And in honor of our little Christmas elf, we have chosen a very special theme for the Bake your Favorite Book Challenge in November!
Bake your favorite book – the baking challenge for minis
After it was so much fun last year to present special Christmas books as part of the Back' your favorite book challenge, I'm happy that we're starting the second round of Christmas this year with new, beautiful books!
What is the “Bake your favorite book” challenge
With the Bake Your Favorite Book Challenge, I combined two topics that are very close to my heart: baking & reading! You might think that I simply like snacking on cookies while reading, but that's not the only reason for this challenge.
Because just like baking together with your child, reading “together” or reading aloud promotes your child’s development on a variety of levels. So what could be nicer than spending time together with a delicious treat, beautiful children's books and your kids!
(If you want to learn more about how to start the Bake Your Favorite Book Challenge, I recommend this post Bake your favorite book challenge – bake 15 delicious children’s books!
Bake your favorite book in November 2021
It's November and not too long until the Christmas season begins! Around us, more and more people are starting to prepare for the Christmas season: designing Advent calendars, picking out the first Christmas decorations, pulling out Grandma's cookie recipes and creating elf doors.
A little Christmas elf will also be moving in with us again. In honor of our gnome girl Alva, we are dedicating the Back' your favorite book challenge in November to her and her elf friends!
I would like to say a big thank you to the cbj publishing house, which is supporting the Back' your favorite book challenge with the Christmas sponsorship book “Wichtel Alfred – Fuss about Christmas”.
Would you like to take part in the “Bake your favorite book” challenge with your children?
- Bake or craft to the topic of Christmas elves until November 21, 2021
- post a picture of your artwork
- with the hashtag #backdeinlieblingsbuch on Instagram,
- link and follow @backenmitminis and your contribution will be entered into the draw for the Secret Santa book, which will be raffled off among all participants at the end of the challenge together with a Secret Santa surprise!
Wie bei Like every previous bake your favorite book challenge there is also a children's book that sets the motto for the challenge and thus takes over the sponsorship for it. The sponsor for November is called “Wichtel Alfred – Fuss about Christmas” (by Outi Kaden, published by cbj Verlag).
When the first snow falls, Alfred the gnome and his friends Aada the goose and Fanni the snail are thrilled. They soon realize that there are now only three days left until Christmas. Full of anticipation, they make a list of all the things that still need to be done before the holiday: bake cookies, make presents, get and decorate the Christmas tree. But can they really manage to throw together a cozy Christmas in such a short time?
The story of the elf Alfred and his friends is a beautiful Christmas story that illustrates very well for children what Christmas is really about and impresses with its beautiful, cute illustrations.
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Recipe for our Elf waffle cups
As you already know, the minis and I like to use cup recipes for the muffins in waffle cups - recipes in which the units of measurement are not measured in grams, but in cups (We use children's cups from IKEA, capacity approx. 150 ml*). This means that even the smallest of the minis can “weigh out” the recipe on their own without much knowledge of numbers (You can find more tips in the blog post “My tips for baking with children”).
Today, however, we will “bake” with a bought cake. Of course, you can also bake your favorite sponge cake for the elf waffle cups and then process it into small elf waffle cups. (Our favorite sponge cake is our vanilla bundt cake, but the fruity orange cake suits the Christmas seasion perfectly!)
Ingredients for 8 elf waffle cups
Sponge dough
- 1 baked chocolate cake (350-400g)*
- 1 tsp Just Spices “Cookie Spice”*
- 1 tsp cream cheese
- 8 waffle cups* (the waffle cups are also available in many supermarkets)
Decoration
- ca. 100 g red Cakemelts or pink cake melts*
- white & pink sugar sprinkles*
- 8 white or pink chocolate pearls*
Baking accessories
Mixing bowl, teaspoon, saucepan & melting bowl* (cup also works) for a water bath or microwave
Preparation of the elf waffle cups
Before we can decorate the elf waffle cups, we first have to form the little hats with dough.
Cake filling for the waffle cups
- Crumble the sponge cake into very small crumbs in a mixing bowl. This works best with your hands.
- For the taste of Christmas we mixed the cream cheese with Cookie Spice from Just Spices Now mix the seasoned cream cheese well with the cake crumbs. This means the dough “sticks” together better and can be easily shaped. (Little tip: Falls euer Kuchen recht trocken ist, braucht ihr evtl. noch 1-2 TL mehr Frischkäse. Wenn ihr den Teig fest zusammendrückt, sollte er nicht wieder auseinander bröseln.)
- Now fill the dough into the small waffle cups and form an approx. 3 cm high, pointed cone over the waffle cup - the gnome hat (see instructions in pictures).
Decoration of the waffle cups
After you have formed the elf hats with the cake dough, you can start decorating:
- The first step is to melt the melts in a water bath or in the microwave according to the instructions.
- Then carefully place the filled waffle cups one after the other “upside down” with the pointed “hat” first into the liquid glaze up to the edge of the waffle, so that the tip of the waffle cup (the elf hat) is completely covered with the melts. So that the glaze can drip off a little, hold the waffle cup at a slight angle over the melting bowl and slowly turn it between two fingers.
- Now place a chocolate ball on the tip of the “Imp hat” and sprinkle the transition to the waffle cup with white/pink sugar pearls and the elf waffle cups are ready!
Preparation in pictures
These cute elf waffle cups are sure to be a fun eye-catcher at the Christmas party in kindergarten or at the next Advent café!
My kids & I wish you and your kids lots of fun baking and of course snacking!
We would be very happy if you and your kids would now like to take part in the Bake Your Favorite Book Challenge! Happy Baking!
Yours, Lia
Have you baked the recipe?
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A colorful thank you
A warm thank you goes to the cbj publishing house for the Christmas book sponsor for the “Back your favorite book” challenge for the beautiful Christmas book! Many many thanks!
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