My daughter (who is 4) loves to cook/bake.  When getting ready for dinner I often think about what things she can do to help me cook. If I’m not organized about it it can get kind of whiny because she wants to help so bad and she say “let me do it!”

This week we had a little mini birthday party for a friend and she got to make the cupcakes. We used this great recipe from an older Betty Crocker cookbook called a Dinette cake. Supposed to be a small sized cake for a few people it’s perfect for making exactly 12 cupcakes.

The original recipe used shortening but for this recipe you use just oil. You make it with regular all purpose flour but can make it with cake flour too by just reducing the amount of flour by 1/4 cup.

I let my daughter do all the mixing and pouring into the cupcake liners. All I did was measure ingredients the and place them in the oven.

We iced them with a simple buttercream (butter, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla).

They were a big hit with the family and it was so fun for her to make.

The recipe was also published in a 1998 issue of Taste of Home magazine (love that magazine) and you can find it online here.

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