Customer Reviews

The Toddler Cookbook

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I thought I would love this cookbook - my toddler and I love to cook together - but it was really disappointing. There are only 18 recipes - and that's including no brainers like "Fruit skewers" and "Homemade lemonade". It's too slim a volume - wish it were twice as big, and with recipes to teach kids how to prepare healthy meals. There are a couple of decent recipes (like chicken dippers and salmon fishcakes) but they are nothing new in our repertoire of kids food - they are also already included in Karmels 'First Meals' which is better than this book. The step by step photos are nice, but doesnt change the fact I wish I hadn't made this a purchase - its a good bet for taking out at the library once and then returning. For step by step kids cookbooks, Mollie Katzen's illustrated books (like Pretend Soup) are great - easier for kids to follow and very healthy (she's part of the veggie Moosewood Collective).

The title of the book is a bit misleading as this is geared more for preschoolers (4+) due to the level of difficulty of the recipes.

There is a wide assortment of recipes including: caesar salad (no eggs), bread rolls, pita pizzas, (roasted) cherry tomato sauce, chicken dippers, chicken satay, almond fishcakes, corn quesadillas. For desserts: multicolored meringues, tropical ice pops, mini banana muffins, peanut butter rice krispi bears, oat bars, butter cookies, fruit plate with dips (on artist palette, very original), mini lemon cheesecakes (made with yogurt, heavy cream and no eggs) and lemonade. There's also an interesting section on how to organize a cooking party.

Also a plus, a picture glossary of the equipment children will need to cook plus the ingredients they will need. Beautiful layout, clear instructions, and it's food that could be served to grownups as well.

Parents be advised, some instructions are questionable, such as grating cheese on a box grater (ask an adult to help in tiny letters) and a child holding on to a hand mixer her moms is using (eer, no way). This is a British cookbook adapted for the US so you'll find US standard measures, as well as metric (weight) and temperatures in Fahrenheit / Celsius (can be confusing to a child).

This is an excellent cookbook although parent supervision is advised for some recipes.

This cookbook has easy to follow directions and great pictures. ONLY issue I have is that alot of the items to cook are NOT things my child will eat (fish cakes) and some of the ingredients I am not able to get in my rural area. If we lived in large city, this might be easier to use, As it is, it sits on the cookbook shelf collecting dust. I think book looks great and had high hopes...

My boys age 7 & 4 have loved cooking from this cookbook. I appreciate that the recipes actually taste good and are fairly healthy. I disagree with its title, but think it is a small but great kids cookbook.

I am hoping to start cooking together with my 3 year old daughter so I was happy to see a cookbook called "toddler" cookbook. I was hoping that the recipes in there would actually be easy enough for a toddler to do a lot of the steps. However there's no way a toddler could successfully do things like crack eggs and separate the whites from the yolk, or slice things with a knife or do some of the other steps required. I still look forward to trying the recipes and I can do those steps for her, but I was hoping it would be recipes where a toddler can do all the steps with just a bit of help instead of just watching mom do stuff. Other than that the recipes are beautifully illustrated with step by step instructions.

For years I have looked for a great "cooking with kids" cookbook and this is my favorite so far. The recipes aren't the most creative or interesting, but it got my son wanting to make some pretty healthy recipes. The pictures in the book are really well done and even made salad look appealing to my picky eater. [...]

we found this book from the library.i have few of karmel cookbook.so far my daughter who is 5 love this book as she n her brother 7 browsed,they kept telling me to make those gorgeous looking meringue and the fish cake.i gave a 4star becos it have good illustration n its just like other kids cookbook.and the price is right too.

Nice, large, colored pictures! Very inviting for the kids........easy "cooking" for the little ones. A GREAT BUY!!

The Book was in really good condition. I really liked this book, pictures go along with the instructions.