I was unfamiliar with the original Cooking Class cookbook until I agreed to review the anniversary edition. While I’m not one to say kids don’t belong in the kitchen, I preferred to work directly with my girls when they were younger. That said, not everyone has the skill or comfort to teach others in the kitchen. And that’s where this book comes in handy.

Cooking Class is divided into seven chapters and designed to help kids (and maybe even adults) gain confidence in the kitchen.

Chapter One: Welcome to Cooking Class
Chapter one contains all of the basic cooking lessons. These lessons include reading recipes before beginning, cleaning before and after cooking, and explaining different tools and techniques. Readers will also learn the layout of the cookbook and what different graphics mean (like the difference between one spoon and three).

Chapter Two: Breakfast Cafe
Why not start at the beginning of the day? Recipes in this chapter include French Toast on a Stick, Bursting with Blueberries Muffins, and Simple Scones.

Chapter Three: Lunch Lessons
This chapter includes recipes for lunch at home or on the go, including Quiche Cupcakes and Banh Mi.

Chapter Four: Snack Attack
These recipes, such as Buttery Biscuits, are perfect for that time after lunch but before dinner.

Chapter Five: Eat Your Veggies
The recipes in this chapter are wholly focused on vegetables and how to get more of them into your day. There’s a Salad Dressing Factory recipe that includes directions on how to make six different dressings using ingredients already in your house.

Chapter Six: My First Dinners
What’s more impressive than when a kid makes dinner for the family? Especially when it doesn’t come from a box. How does Chicken Curry sound?

Chapter Seven: Time for Dessert
The final chapter of the book is all about satisfying that sweet tooth with recipes like Apple Crisp and One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes.

I followed the recipes for the Apple Crisp and Chicken Curry. While they are easy to follow and make, the flavors were a bit lacking for me. That’s not to say they weren’t good; they just needed a boost in the flavor department.

Overall, I think Cooking Class is perfect for any child interested in learning how to cook. There are over 70 recipes, and several offer alternatives to personalize them to your tastes.

This is such an amazing cook book for kids! Easy recipes that advance as you go through it. The pictures are perfect and engaging and the recipes are clear. I even learned some new recipes! This is already in my Amazon cart because we need this book! Great job

My students are going to love this 10th anniversary edition of Cooking Class. The recipes were easy to follow. The pictures are helpful in demonstrating a technique or method. I learned a bit too even though I have taught others how to cook. Each chapter has several recipes each with different degrees of difficulty. This book is useful to a wide variety of ages and ability and can grow with a child as they master cooking techniques. I can see myself trying the recipes on my own as an adult as well. I can't wait to dive in and sample these goodies.

This is a great cookbook for children who are interested in learning how to cook, or at the very least, help out in the kitchen. I really like how the recipes are laid out in increasing order of difficulty within each section. The vibrant photos are eye catching, and very helpful for a child just learning new skills. The reminders about safety and clean up are greatly appreciated from my perspective as an adult whose child enjoyed this book.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this arc. A great introduction to cooking for children. I especially appreciated the simple to read instructions and step by step pictures to guide!

This is a kids cookbook done well! Very cute, bright and exciting!

Thanks so much to NetGalley, Storey Publishing, Storey Publishing, LLC and Deanna F. Cook for giving me an ARC of this cool cookbook!

Inhalt
Die Jubiläumsausgabe von "Cooking Class" ist ein kinderfreundliches Kochbuch, das 73 köstliche und nahrhafte Rezepte enthält, die Kinder selbst zubereiten können. Das Buch bietet leicht verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen mit vielen Fotos, die speziell für junge Köche geschrieben wurden. Von Frühstücksspezialitäten wie French Toast am Spieß bis hin zu selbstgemachter Erdnussbutter zeigt dieses Buch, dass Kochen von Grund auf mit frischen Zutaten nicht nur Spaß machen, sondern auch lecker sein kann. Zusätzlich zu den Rezepten lernen Kinder wichtige Küchentechniken wie Schneiden, Rühren, Braten und Sautieren.

Meinung
"Cooking Class, 10th Anniversary Edition" ist ein herausragendes Kochbuch für Kinder, das nicht nur durch seine einfache und visuelle Anleitung, sondern auch durch die Vielfalt der Rezepte überzeugt. Das Buch macht Kochen für Kinder zugänglich und spannend, was sich schon darin zeigt, wie die Rezepte präsentiert werden: Mit klaren Fotos und leicht verständlichen Erklärungen, die es selbst den jüngsten Köchen ermöglichen, mit minimaler Hilfe selbstständig zu kochen.

Was mir besonders gefallen hat, ist die breite Palette an Rezepten, die den ganzen Tag abdecken, vom Frühstück bis zum Abendessen. Die Rezepte sind nicht nur kindgerecht, sondern auch nahrhaft, was Eltern sicherlich zu schätzen wissen. Die Zusatzseiten mit Platzkarten, Spieleideen für den Esstisch und Aufklebern zum Dekorieren runden das Buch wunderbar ab und bieten zusätzliche kreative Anregungen.

Ein weiterer Pluspunkt ist, dass das Buch nicht nur das Kochen lehrt, sondern auch wertvolle Küchenfähigkeiten vermittelt. So lernen Kinder, wie man sicher mit einem Messer umgeht, wie man Zutaten mischt und wie man einfache Gerichte zubereitet – alles wichtige Grundlagen, die sie ein Leben lang begleiten werden.

Fazit
"Cooking Class, 10th Anniversary Edition" ist das ideale Kochbuch für junge Köche, die ihre ersten Schritte in der Küche machen möchten. Es ist ein wunderbares Geschenk für Familien, die gemeinsam kochen möchten, und ein fantastisches Werkzeug, um Kinder für gesunde Ernährung und selbstgemachte Mahlzeiten zu begeistern. Mit den klaren Anleitungen, den schönen Bildern und den vielen zusätzlichen Extras ist dieses Buch ein echter Gewinn. Ich vergebe 4 von 5 Sternen.

This is a great cook book for children (and adults) the information given is great. I like the different sections, photos and the recipes. Each section has easy and harder recipes in, very detailed information and photo's. This book is brilliant and I think children will love it. I can't wait to try out some of the recipes. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is such a cute cookbook for kids! I love that it has so many pictures to help follow along with the recipes. I also really like that there are so many ways to make the recipes creative, with adding toppings or mixing and matching ingredients.

I think this would be perfect for young chefs!

This is a perfect kid's cookbook! I love that it started with easy no-bake recipes and worked its way up in difficulty levels. It has some really fun ideas, and great, bright pictures! I especially liked the snack sections where child favorites like fruit roll-ups and goldfish are represented with homemade recipes. I'm excited to try some of these out!

Thanks to NetGalley, Deanna Cook, and Storey Publishing for the chance to read and review. My opinions are my own.

I love everything about this cook book. It gives very clear and concise instructions. It is filled with so many yummy recipes that my daughter and I can not wait to make together. A great way to create beautiful memories together.

Great kid’s cookery book. Lots of recipes with good instructions (with photographic prompts), can’t go wrong.

This book is perfect for young beginner chef! It has great directions and photos for each step of the recipe. It tells the reader in detail how to cook specific items. It's truly beginner friendly!

Cooking Class
Fun cookbook for children who want to cook. At the beginning there are descriptions for the terms and getting started in the kitchen. There is a section on how to cook and peel boiled eggs, cook bacon, make peanut butter and more. The recipes are simple and easy to make for kids with pictures of not only the food but also step by step instructions. There are some recipes that I did not think about making for snacks/meals and will be added to the food menu.
I’m not sure if it will have the exact page in the final book, but in this ARC there was reference to pita chips with no page number just (see page XXX).

*I received a free eArc copy of this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

This is a great book to use to introduce your child(ren) to cooking. It introduces basics in a fun way, and there's lots of color. Not only could it be used to introduce kids to cooking, it could be used by adults who aren't comfortable in the kitchen, people with executive disfunction problems, or college students learning how to feed themselves in the beginning. It is a perfect way to introduce and teach as it comes with step-by-step instructions with pictures..

I will be using some recipes for this, showing my 5 year old, and continuing to let her be involved in making her own meals. She is able to make pasta, and mac and cheese at her age now, but this cookbook will definitely be valuable in our kitchen to introduce her to more of a variety.

This colorful cookbook is full of basics every beginning cook needs to know. Pages have tips and tricks from young cooks (the young cooks are featured in photos throughout) and great recipes that will be made again and again. I will be purchasing this cookbook for my elementary library!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for letting me read this arc

This cookbook is a fantastic edition to any family kitchen, I liked all the educational tidbits from kitchen tools to how to set a table even how to fold a napkin. Step by step instructions and the recipes were very easy to read and follow. It was colourful and fun, this book would be a great gift for any child wanting to learn to cook.

I have two kids and am always on the lookout for recipes that the whole family will love and boy does this book deliver! Not only does it have recipes, it also teaches kids around the kitchen, and the importance of safety and good quality food. Unfortunately in today’s world kids are constantly being offered garbage food that is more of a food product than actual food. It is great this book helps kids at a young age to be comfortable around the kitchen.
I love that it is broken into 7 chapters:
Welcome to cooking class
Breakfast cafe
Lunch lessons
Snack attack
Eat your veggies
My first dinners
Time for dessert
This makes it super digestible (no pun intended 😝) as a reader, and easy to pinpoint the type of recipe you are looking for. My kids are huge into snacks and it’s great to have a whole chapter dedicated to that. It was also nice having the spoons rating system (ie one spoon is an easier recipe compared to three spoons). The pictures were also informative, especially for those just learning to read.
I would love to get a hardcopy of this book so we can keep it in the kitchen. I will definitely tell all my mom friends about this!

Special thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for sharing this with me in exchange of my honest review.

I reviewed this book before I let Zeva take over with it. I was impressed that it provides students with initial instructions on how to set up for cooking and safety tips. Each recipe gives a full overview of what items and food products are needed.

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I like how it is designed so that the kids can fully do everything independently. The detailed instructions already cover the standard questions that she typically asks when she is cooking.

I was shocked that some recipes in this kid’s cooking book were not exactly what I would picture kids wanting to make for themselves. There was a nice mixture of things they would like and fancier-style meals they could make for the whole family.

As an adult who was never taught how to cook outside of Waffle House, I also learned a few things! I like how the author did not make the reader feel dumb or assume knowledge was there for anything despite it being a 10th-anniversary edition.

If you have a budding chef, I highly recommend the Cooking Class, 10th Anniversary Edition book.

In this fun colorful cookbook young chef's will have a great time learning how to do recipes themselves. What initially drew me to this cookbook were the bright pictures and easy to follow steps. Deanna Cook selected recipes that will for sure appeal to kids from 0-99! I had a great time flipping through the pages and picking up on some helpful tips along the way.
If you are looking for a basic cookbook for your littles I would definatly check this one out! There is a good balance of recipes that kids will enjoy and parents can feel good about eating.
Not all recipes are completely independent but for sure talk about how to create independent skills in the kitchen !Thank you Net Galley for allowing me to review this advance copy of Cooking Class.
I was not influenced or paid for this honest review.