Children's Books get Kids Cooking This Christmas
Holiday Baking is a Family Affair With These Kid-Friendly Cookbooks
Dec 9, 2008
They beg to crack eggs and stir cookie batter, but kids in the kitchen can arise quite the clatter -until now. Cookbooks for kids make holiday baking more fun, less mess.
While baking up sweet treats and savory side dishes to fill tins and dinner table spreads this Christmas and Hanukkah, kids don't have to sit on the sidelines. There's plenty of quality cookbooks available at local libraries and bookstores, aimed at getting young ones involved in festivities centered in the kitchen. Here's a starter list of ease-to-read, kid-focused holiday cookbooks.
Get Cooking
- Jessica Strand's Kids in the Holiday Kitchen offers the youngest readers an easy make-it-yourself guide to cupcakes that mask as Christmas ornaments, "Snowballs in the Forest" pizzas perfect for smaller tummies, and dozens of other lively pages that tout mouth-watering, easy-to-follow recipes that make for kitchen fun, not frustration, for first-time "helpers".
- Serving up delectable dishes with an anecdotal helping of holiday heart is author Joan Nathan, in what's become a staple for many families since it was first published in 1995. The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen: 70 Ways to Have Fun with Your Kids and Make Your Family Celebrations Special is a heartwarming, easy read that pairs the meaning of the season with simple recipes and craft ideas to engage children.
- The Kids' Holiday Baking Book: 150 Favorite Dessert Recipes from Around the World by mother-of-seven author Rosemary Black (food editor, New York Daily News) brings families a smorgasbord of yummy sweets that make great holiday treats, and fond memories for children who love to roll up their sleeves.
Simple Reads to Spice up the Holidays
- Everything Kids' Cookbook: From Mac 'N Cheese to Double Chocolate Chip Cookies - All You Need to Have Some Finger Lickin' Fun might be a mouth full, but Sandra K. Nissenberg's interactive read - featuring scrumptious recipes alongside trivia and puzzles, make for a fun read and fantastic time in the kitchen.
- Emeril Lagasse hit a home run with his Sweet Potato-Praline Marshmallow Casserole and dozens of other recipes with loaded with kid-friendly pizzazz and colorful illustrations, in Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup! The first 30 pages in this 242-page young-chef's cookbook teach young ones about kitchen rules, tools and other safety precautions, too.
- Dr. Suess runs the kitchen in Georgeanne Brennan's Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook (Random House), a zippy read for kids (and parents, too!) that caters to a diverse palate. Recipes like "Yots in Pots" and "Schlottz Knots" are named after and inspired by the wacky, beloved Dr. Suess book, and promise to up the fun factor for any family sharing the kitchen.
- Families also can author their own holiday cookbooks - and have the kids help pen it. Unorganized, tattered and old hand-wrtten recipes passed down generation to generation find a home through The Family Cookbook Project. More than 20,000 families have contributed their recipes, including kid favorites, to help preserve kitchen traditions and share them with friends and relatives of all ages.
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