The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook
The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook: Simple Recipes & Fun Skills to Cook Fabulous Meals for your Family by Tiffany Dahle is filled with 95 delicious recipes for kids that will inspire young chefs to cook for their families, this book is a must-have for every home library.
My first cookbook, The Ultimate Kids' Cookbook, was published when my daughters were just 9 and 6 years old. It represented so much of how our family ate and our time together in the kitchen during that time in our lives.
After the publication and amazing reader response to The Ultimate Kids' Baking Book, I wanted to revisit that beloved first title and polish it up to reflect our family's growth over the last few years.
The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook is a treasured collection of the recipes I want my own kids to be able to take with them into adulthood knowing that they may use them to feed their own families someday!
If you're looking for the perfect kids' cookbook for teaching basic skills in the kitchen to make things you'll actually want to eat, this is the book for you!
Why This is the Best Cookbook for Kids
- Kid Tested, Mom Approved: My daughters helped me test each and every recipe featured in the book. They were instrumental in the selection of each one!
- A Photo for Every Recipe: I shot every single photo for every single recipe right here in our family kitchen. I believe we eat with our eyes first so the colorful dishes are made to entice your children into the kitchen to play.
- Essential Family Dishes: All the core basics you might want your child to learn are included in the book. Not only can these yummy recipes help feed your family now, they'll learn the basic skills necessary to cook for themselves when they've grown and flown.
- Budget-Friendly: I worked very hard to ensure that each recipe was respectful to the ingredients required to make it. Though cooking is fun, I don't believe in "play food." I know that hard working families don't have money to waste in the grocery budget and I want you to be able to actually eat what your child has prepared.
- Picky Eater Approved: As a mom, I totally understand the challenge parents have in both encouraging kids to try something new while also getting them to actually eat something at dinnertime. My recipes help offer new flavors to explore in a graduated sequence that allows for even very picky eaters to find something they'll love to start.
The Original Kids' Cookbook
The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook is an updated version of the original The Ultimate Kids' Cookbook featuring full-page photography for every recipe, additional new recipes, and an updated instruction format but with all the same delicious fun as the first.
Summary of the Book
Learn To Cook Amazing Meals with Tons of Fun Family Recipes
Are you ready to have a blast in the kitchen and learn how to make the best food you ever tasted? Step by step, this cookbook will show you how to cook the way grown-ups do, but with your favorite flavors!
These recipes are perfect for kids because they use simple ingredients, don’t take a lot of work and most cook in just one pot or pan. Along the way, you’ll learn important skills, such as how to cut foods with or without a knife, how to brown ground meat, how to cook noodles and how to use an oven safely.
With so many tasty choices, you can enjoy a laid-back weekend morning by cooking up a wonderful breakfast treat for everyone, such as:
- Cinnamon Sugar & Pecan Monkey Bread
- School Night Chicken Fajitas
- Better than Buttered Noodles
- Magic Crunchy Coated Fish
- Chicken Finger Dunkers
- Mix and Match Seasoned French Fries
The original Ultimate Kids’ Cookbook has been a treasured resource for thousands of families.
This new and expanded edition features 20 brand-new recipes and a totally fresh makeover, now with stunning full-page photography for every recipe and hand-lettered illustrations.
With this cookbook at home, you will have a complete guide to making nutritious and delicious meals with confidence for the ones you love most.
When you order your own copy of The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook you will have everything you need to host the BEST DIY kids cooking classes right in your very own home.
Teach your children lifelong skills that will improve their health and well being and connect with your children in a truly meaningful way.
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What Reviewers Say
"In an age when children are more scheduled and technology-obsessed than ever, Tiffany Dahle offers us an appealing invitation to reconnect with them in the kitchen. With enticing recipes, concise, step-by-step instructions and captivating photos, families will experience the joy of engaging through culinary creation. A must-have for every parent and child!"
- Melissa Bernstein, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Melissa & Doug
"A must-have book for parents that wish to help their kids learn to cook with simple and fun real-food recipes."
- Laura Fuentes, Founder MOMables
"This cookbook is beautifully designed with easy instructions to get parents and kids involved in the kitchen with family friendly dishes that will taste even better because they helped make it!"
– Gina Homolka, author of The Skinnytaste Cookbook and Skinnytaste Fast and Slow
"One of my biggest challenges as a mom is getting food to the table. Tiffany’s blog has been a huge help over the years. I am so excited about this cookbook because not only does it solve my food problems, but doubles as quality time spent with my kids. A total win-win."
- Holly Homer, KidsActivities.com, co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! & The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments
"With easy to follow directions for both kids and adults, Tiffany Dahle's new cookbook makes teaching kids to cook easier and more fun than ever before. This is the cookbook that any child with an interest in cooking is going to love."
- Mary Younkin, Author of The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook and The Weekday Lunches and Breakfasts Cookbook from Barefeet In the Kitchen
Sample Recipes
The recipes I chose to include in The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook are dishes I've made with my kids as part of our regular family dinner routine for years and years.
I formatted the book and the recipes themselves to teach basic cooking skills that build upon one another in ever-advancing dishes your entire family will enjoy actually eating.
For example, your child will start by learning the basics of a grilled cheese sandwich with just two pieces of bread and some cheese and then grow those skills to make something a little more complex like Cuban sliders with deli ham, cheese, and pickles.
They'll learn how to make a basic cheese quesadilla and then have the confidence to try a chicken-filled chicken chimichanga another day.
I used delicious breakfasts and snacks to teach core cooking skills like chopping veggies (for my veggie pizza) and basic mixing and stirring (like for making homemade granola.)
Each recipe serves a purpose or offers a unique opportunity to build confidence in the kitchen.
While this site and the recipe instructions on each dish are meant more for you as the grown-up, you'll spot beloved Peanut Blossom favorites throughout the pages of the kids' cookbook with easy-to-follow instructions that walk your beginner cook through the process as if I was standing right next to them giving them the encouragement they need.
Best Cookbook for Kid Bakers
If your child loves The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook, you really don't want to miss the companion book: The Ultimate Kids' Baking Book!
Your kid will learn how to bake 60 easy and fun dessert recipes for every holiday all year long:
Tips for Cooking With Kids
More than just buying a cookbook for kids, I'm hoping to inspire your family to truly connect in the kitchen. You're making more than a meal, you'll be making memories and giving skills that will last a lifetime.
What Real Families Say
Nothing matters more than to me than real family reviews. I LOVE getting photos of kids in the kitchen cooking from my book:
- Have the Kids Cook Dinner? (A New Kids Cookbook That Makes it Easy and Fun!) by The Artful Parent
- My Kids Agree! The Ultimate Kids' Cookbook Rocks by My No-Guilt Life
- Easy BBQ chicken pizza recipe from The Ultimate Kids' Cookbook by Family Food on the Table
- Pumpkin spice waffles review from DelightfulEMade
- A delicious review from Off the Eaten Path
- Modern Parents Messy Kids selected the book as one of her September favorites!
- The Ultimate Kids’ Cookbook {Review} by The Art Kit Blog
- The Ultimate Kids' Cookbook, a review by Elemeno-P Kids
As Seen On
- The girls and I cooked pumpkin spice waffles for our friends over at WCNC's Charlotte Today
- Recipes bring families together by Tuscaloosa News
- Cookbook encourages kids to take center stage in preparing family meals by The Paris Post-Intelligencer
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