Customer Reviews

The Princess and the Frog: Tiana's Cookbook: Recipes for Kids (Disney Princess: the Princess and the Frog)

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This book is great! My family and I are from southern Louisiana and New Orleans and I was pleasantly surprised to see how authentic the recipes were. There are a mix of real louisiana food recipes and cutesy kid recipes relating to frogs and such (such as cupcakes decorated to look like frogs). I think its totatally worth buying.

I've always enjoyed cooking with my kids, and I've bought my fair of kids' cookbooks. Movie tie-in aside, this is a great cookbook, featuring recipes from New Orleans, where our Disney princess resides in the midst of the jazz age. There are pictures of each recipe, the print is large and simple (easy for the budding chef to manage -- whether he or she is eight or thirty-eight). In addition to photographs of each recipe, the movie's characters appear throughout the book.

I love New Orleans and Cajun cuisine, and there's a fair representation here -- from the classic Muffaletta sandwich to Jambalaya to Red Beans and Rice (using canned beans -- forgive them -- but no kid-chef could stand to wait 3 hours for their creation to come together.

There are also more whimsical projects such as "Froggy in the Water" cupcakes -- adorable.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this book had some wonderful authentic New Orleans recipes in it. The book also includes photographs of the completed meals, which adds to the great visuals of the book. I bought this book for my five year old daughter, who loves the kiddie recipes in it. We have actually made the frog cup cakes already. They were easy to make and absolutely adorable. I have actually added this book to my cookbook collection. I highly recommend purchasing this book, you will not be disappointed.

This cookbook is adorable which is why I bought it for my 4 yr old niece. But instead of kiddie recipes, the ones in the book are more adult friendly. The only thing that makes this a children's cookbook are the pictures from the movie. I am going to give it to my 10 yr old daughter and do the recipes with her.

My 4 year-old daughter received this cookbook from my mom for Christmas and we made Charlotte's Coffee Cake on page 11. The instructions for the recipe were very simple & easy to follow. There are steps in the cookbook that really give smaller kids a chance to 'use their hands' with the help of an adult, of course. I measured out all the ingredients and had my daughter put them in the bowls. This recipe in particular includes a cinnamon filling and my daughter was able to put all the ingredients in the bowl and use her hands to mix up the filling. My 20 month old son even got to help out by putting some of the mixture into the bowl too.

I looked through all the recipes and there aren't any exotic ingredients, everything can be found at your supermarket and don't require a lot fluff. Since this is a cookbook geared towards kids I think it is a perfect way to start teaching your child how to cook and bake and become familiar with the kitchen. By having both kids in the kitchen, it also shows teamwork, cooperation & sharing and they can even learn counting with measuring the ingredients. Moreover, it gave us all a chance to bond in the kitchen - I'm usually shoo-ing them out. The final product was pretty tasty and since my daughter wants a Princess & the Frog party for her birthday, we'll probably be using plenty of recipes from the book.

This cookbook is easy to use and tasty to eat. The recipes are "based" on what the characters in the movie would had made in real life (eg. The Shadowman, The main character, Mama Odi, Juju...etc.) By the title of the recipes, there is a "frog rating". Five frogs is the hardest and you need to do it with an adult. One frog is the easiest and kids can do it by themselves. The book includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and drinks.

The princess has gotten herself a winning Beignet recipe, as well as banana french toast, gumbo, jambalya, as we tried all of these recipes while snowed in over the holidays. i had to add seafood in to the gumbo recipe because of personal preference. But overall, it was a great Louisiana experience!

My husband and I got this book on our last vacation to Disney World and we love it! We use it all the time and everything we've made has been very tasty.

P.S. You don't have to have kids to love it ;)

but it had less recipes than I expected and they weren't all that great. Fun for a fan of Tiana though.

My little girl loves all things pertaining to The Princess and the Frog since we saw it at the theater last winter and at the age of (almost) 5, she has developed an interest in helping out in the kitchen. So when she found this book on the shelf at Barnes and Noble, she lost her mind. I'll admit that I was skeptical... skeptical about whether she would really want to cook or just look at the pictures... and skeptical about the recipes. Those of you that have spent any time looking at kids' cookbooks probably already know that the recipes are usually kind of a gag. Literally.

I was VERY pleasantly surprised, therefore, to discover that the recipes in the book are fantastic! They are all southern comfort foods that most people would actually want to eat. [Examples: Eggs in a Nest, Po' Boy Sandwiches, Red Beans and Rice, Mud Pie... Yum!]. All are simple enough for a small child to participate in the preparation of or for an older child to make on their own (with supervision of course!). In addition to character art from the movie, there is also a full-color, full-page picture of each dish to help kids see what the finished products are. And there are just enough recipes for variety without overwhelming little chefs: approximately 4 in each category of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinks & Sides and Desserts.

I was also pleasantly surprised that this book actually did inspire my daughter to cook! Even my son has joined the fun, Disney Princess theme notwithstanding. So far they have made breakfast, lunch and a smoothie from the recipes in Tiana's Cookbook and are actively planning what they want to make next. And again... these are recipes and foods that actually taste good - to adults and children alike. Now that's a winner!

The Bottom Line: What a lovely surprise to pick up what I assumed would be an average hunk of Disney marketing junk and find that instead, I picked up one of the better children's cookbooks out there!