Barbie Fun to Cook Book [Hardcover]

Cynthia O'Neill (Editor)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up

Treat your best friend to a beautiful Barbie birthday cake or a cool sundae! Help out at home and impress your family with Perfect Pasta or some Dippy Chicken! Not much time? Try a Two Minute Treat! Inside find recipes for all of Barbie's favorite foods. Simple step-by-step photographs show young chefs how it's done, and each delicious and nutritious recipe features a helpful tip from Barbie! With over 25 recipes and more than 200 photographs, this fun and yummy book introduces Barbie's recipes and why she likes to make them. Includes cooking-skills advice and kitchen safety tips.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

For youngest readers, the blonde bombshell hits the kitchen in Barbie: Fun to Cook by Fiona Munro. From "A Fruity Feast" at brunch to "Nacho Nibbles" and "Super Sundaes" that will clinch the success of any sleepover, Barbie offers step-by-step instructions ("I love cooking and it's easy when you know how!"), with color photographs plus ingredients and tools needed to complete each recipe.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: DK CHILDREN; 1st edition (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789473356
• ISBN-13: 978-0789473356
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,495,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Safety tips are also included, September 17, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Barbie Fun to Cook Book (Hardcover)

Recommended for girls age 5-8, Fiona Munro's Barbie Fun To Cook is an illustrated, step-by-step cookbook for creating short, simple, nutritious dishes. Extensive color photographs of the ingredients, preparation steps, mouth-watering finished dishes, and of course Barbie herself make every cooking technique easy to grasp and fun to learn. Safety tips are also included, though very young children should of course have adult supervision in the kitchen. Highly recommended to help teach youngsters the joy of cooking! From Sunshine Breakfast, Chunky Chocolate Cookies, and Pick-Up Pizzas, to Dippy Chicken, Burger Bites, and Best-Ever Brownies, Barbie Fun To Cook is a welcome addition to any youngster's cookbook shelf!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Way to Go Barbie you Cookingrl!, August 25, 2001

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie Fun to Cook Book (Hardcover)

My first question is: "How does Barbie stay so skinny eating all this delicious food?" On the other hand, who cares...just pass me the brownies. Can I say, Barbie does look cute in an apron as well. Children love to learn how to cook. It is only when we get to be adults that we find out it is a bit of work. Not too much, but it does take more effort and your mom and dad are not there to pick up after you. I just hate that!!!!

So, what is Barbie cooking? You will find recipes for all her favorite foods. Simple step-by-step photographs show you how to make fruity freezies. They are great for the summer and you could make them now. This is a really fun cookbook even a "girl-at-heart woman" can enjoy. Remember making those chocolate cakes and eating them as fast as you made them in your "light bulb" based oven? Well, here you are using a real oven and kids sure have grown up!

I would advise adult supervision around the stove, but my mother let me start cooking at a very early age. I am sure she was nearby, but I was so intrigued with cooking...I just remember my poor dad scrubbing burnt pans...(Until I learned how to watch what I was doing and not leave things on the stove while I was outside playing. Hey, I was only 7) The recipes include: A Fruity Feast, Sunshine Breakfast, Mini Muffins, Sandwich Stacks, Aprinana Cake, Chocolate Cookies, Fuity Freezies, Lemon Cooler, Super Shakes, Rainbow Fruit Snack Sticks, Cute Cookies (and they are cute!), Birthday Cakes complete with butterflies (Martha would be proud of Barbie), Chocolate Dipped Fruit, Mini Pizzas, Burger Bites, Dippy Chicken (Thai Chicken with peanut dip), Perfect Pasta with tomato sauce, Stuffed Baked Potatoes, Nacho Nibbles, Super Sundaes, Brownies and Two Minute Treats (popcorn, banana sandwiches, salad, celery with fillings, apple boats with cheese sails).

Barbies appear on each recipe and tell you why you "just must" try their recipes. "Here are two ideas for a fabulously fruity brunchtime treat." says Barbie. She then gives pictures of all the ingredients with their names and then shows step-by-step phographs of a real kid helping her cook. This is totally a girly, girl cookbook.

~The Rebecca Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Great first cookbook for little girls, September 5, 2009

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Maria Barron "Busy Mama" (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie Fun to Cook Book (Hardcover)

My daughter really loves the cookbook. It has a lot of photos of Barbie cooking and shows detailed steps on how to prepare each of the dishes. It was a perfect introduction to safety and hygiene for the kitchen and simple recipes.