Cooking with Kids: 50+ Fun Ideas and Recipes

Cooking with kids is wonderfully fun and rewarding whether you bake dessert, whip up a fun snack, or collaborate on dinner. Most young children LOVE to measure and mix, pour and decorate.

Yes, it can be messy sometimes and the finished item may not always look quite as it would if you had cooked it yourself, but you are building memories alongside skills.

And that is always worth it.

Here are more than 50 recipes, tips, and ideas for cooking with kids.

Most of the following posts include recipes, some include links to the recipes we used, and a few are more about cooking with kids than the actual recipe. (And some are just recipes without the cooking-with-kids element.)

Enjoy!

Kids Aprons, Cookbooks & Cooking Kits!

• Pretend Soup :: A Great Cookbook for Young Kids
• Kids’ Kitchen Recipe Cards by Barefoot Books

• Cooking kits by Raddish
• A Child’s Apron (a link to our favorite tutorial on Sew Liberated)

Easy Snacks for Kids

• Fruit Necklace = Fun Snack
• Edible Art! Grape Sculptures

Baking Bread with Kids

• Mmm… Teddy Bear Bread
• Monster Bread for Dinner

• Best Ever Soft Pretzels :: Also, try Heart Pretzels for Valentine’s Day!
• Whole Wheat Bread Recipe :: Grandma’s Granary Bread

Cooking Breakfast with Kids

• Raspberry Lemon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
• Blueberry Muffin Recipe

• Pumpkin Waffle Recipe
• The Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe
• Jack-O-Lantern Pancakes for Halloween

• Popover Recipe from Pretend Soup Kids Cookbook
• My Favorite Granola Recipe

• Raspberry Oatmeal Scones
• Heart Pancakes with Sprinkles :: A Valentine’s Day Breakfast Idea

Baking Desserts with Kids

• I Heart Doughnuts (Baked not Fried)
• 4 Kinds of Homemade Doughnuts
• Cinnamon Twists :: A Variation on Our Favorite Doughnuts

• Rainforest Cookies
• Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

• An Artful Spring Nest Cake with Ice Cream Eggs
• Pretzel Nests :: Creative Easter Snacks for Kids

• Best Cherry Pie Recipe Ever
• Cherry Hand Pies :: Heart Shaped for Valentine’s Day (or Any Day!)

• Baking Strawberry Shortcake with Kids
• Blueberry Turnovers

• Apple Bundt Cake
• A Rainbow Bundt Cake to Celebrate (or try them as Rainbow Cupcakes!)

• Kids in the Kitchen :: An Anytime Celebration Cake
• Kids in the Kitchen :: Baking up a Mystery Chocolate Dessert

• Making Our Own Candy Cane Lollipops
• Bend and Shape Candy Canes!

• Peanut Butter Cups in Silicone Molds
• Chocolate-Pretzel Christmas Trees :: A Holiday Treat Kids Can Make

• Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
• Some Christmas Making, Baking, and Experimenting (Rollo-Ritz Sandwich Cookie)

Decorating Desserts with Kids

• Sugar Skull Cookies
• Mini Halloween Gingerbread Houses

• A Cake for Outer Space :: Decorating with Kids
• Cupcakes as Canvas

• Eight!  (A Child-Made Cake with Chocolate Embellishments)
• Daphne Made Her Own Birthday Cake, Too!

• Use Stamps for Unique Holiday Cookies
• Painting Heart Cookies with Food Coloring

How about you? What are your favorite recipes to cook or bake with kids?

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