Any ideas on fun and easy recipes to make with my two neices (aged 5 & 4) who are coming to stay?

Queen cakes

4oz SR Flour
4oz Sugar
3oz butter
2 eggs

mix.....around 20 minutes at 180C

This one is fun & safe for any age. Just get instant pudding, use 1 3/4s cup of milk, separate into paper cups, add a popsickle stick & freeze. They taste better than regular fudgesickles & you get more variety.

Another goodie is mix confectionary sugar with softened butter until pie dough consistency. Put some of the sugar on wax paper & roller & roll out in a rectangular shape. Spread peanut butter all over the top.

Use the wax paper at the bottom to roll it into a log. Slice & eat.

Neither take long or pose any danger. But boy do they taste good & leave alot of good memories.

you can make cornflake cakes as already suggested but to make it a bit more interesting add a little butter to the melted chocolate and other ingredients like chopped biscuits, sultanas, chopped nuts, chopped cherries etc

Chocolate chips

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

2/3 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar

Place the butter and brown sugar in a frying pan and melt until it boils or bubbles. A cast iron pan works well because it's heavy and will be less likely to scorch.

1 can pineapple slices
maraschino cherries (enough to fill centers of pineapples)

Place pineapples in the butter and sugar mixture. Put cherries in the center of the pineapple. Cut the slices of pineapple into halves and line the sides of the frying pan with them (standing up on edge).
Prepare a box of yellow cake mix following the directions on the box to mix the batter (do not bake in a separate pan; follow instructions below).

Pour the batter over the pineapple and cherries.

Bake at 350°F degrees. When the cake is done, loosen the edges with a butter knife. Remove from heat and allow to sit five minutes, then turn it upside down on a serving dish.

Optional: Instead of using a cake mix, you can prepare the batter from scratch using the recipe below, or any recipe for yellow cake.


Scratch Cake:

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk

Combine ingredients and beat 1 minute. Pour batter over pineapples and cherries (same as above). Bake at 350°F and follow same steps as above.