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Online loving home kitchen: Loving Autumn Breakfast cooking class

Preparing a delicious breakfast with your children is a great way to bond and show your love in a meaningful way, even if it’s a simple meal.

Here a Royal Park Hotel chef explains how to make healthy diet muffins, fruity muesli and an autumn vitality drink, giving parents a great chance to enjoy and learn cooking with their children.

Chef’s secrets:
  • Stir in the muffin ingredients little by little to make the batter well-mixed and smooth

  • Refrigerate the cereal and oatmeal in milk for three hours to make the muesli taste smoother

  • For the vitality drink, you can replace the ice and water with honey and skimmed milk to cater for your children’s preference

Healthy muffins (a total of nine)

Ingredients (serves three)
Cream 216g
Sugar 108g
Breadcrumbs 90g
Flour 90g
Soft butter 54g
Egg 45g
Oatmeal 36g
Baking powder 9g

Muffin preparation:

  1. Preheat oven to 170°c

  2. Blend soft butter and sugar, then add egg to the batter and stir thoroughly over three times

  3. Add the breadcrumbs, flour and baking powder to the batter and stir until blended

  4. Stir in the cream little by little then add the oatmeal and mix evenly

  5. Fill baking cups 70% with batter

  6. Sprinkle cereal on top for decoration.

  7. Bake for 25 minutes.

Fruity muesli (three cups)

Ingredients (serves three)
Milk 100g
Plain yogurt 50g
Assorted Cereal 25g
Oatmeal  25g
Raisins 20g
Sugar 5g
Apple 1

Fruity muesli preparation:

  1. Mix milk and sugar thoroughly

  2. Add cereal and oatmeal to the milk and refrigerate for three hours

  3. Peel and slice apple

  4. Add apple, yogurt and raisins to the chilled oatmeal mix

Autumn vitality drink

Ingredients (for one)
Blueberry yogurt 100g
Dragon Fruit 1/2
Water 150ml
Ice A little
Blueberries A few
Mint leaves A few

Autumn vitality drink preparation:

  1. Peel and dice dragon fruit then put in blender

  2. Add yogurt, ice and water and blend for blueberry yogurt drink

  3. Pour into a glass and decorate with blueberries and mint