DK Mom and Me Cookbook

Easy with Great Variety of Taste.

I like this cookbook for preschool aged children who do not yet read because there are pictures of the ingredients. We can explore the recipe and instructions together vs me reading to my son. The recipes are appropriate for cooking with my 3 year old.My criticism is that beyond the obvious gender bias of the title, the children pictured are mostly female. I chose this book because it was the best I found with illustrations that a 3 year old could understand, but wish there were a version with less of a gender bias.

Most recipes are not practical and require purchasing special items to make desired items. So, it was frustrating when she wanted to make recipes and we did not have required ingredients.

I would love a cookbook for kids that has more healthy based recipes. This one isn't bad...great beginner. But there are quite a few recipes I'll skip right over with my daughter. It's a good start for her to get to know cooking terms and measurements since there are pictures. It's a great entry level cookbook.

I bought this to cook with my son's. The recipes are not kid friendly for the most part as they require quite a bit of adult support and the adult ends up doing more than the kids. The first recipe I made was the Cupcakes. I noticed the ingredients appeared fairly simple or sparse, but I figured I'd see what happened. As I was mixing everything, it was VERY dry as in no way this is going to bake. I was fairly certain it was missing milk as a primary ingredient so I added about half a cup and they turned out fine, but if I wasn't paying attention this could've been a burning disaster in my oven. Just not well thought out at all.

Super cute cookbook! Have this as a birthday gift to a 4 year old. Loved how the tools you need list showed pictures so even the non reading kids can be part of reading the recipe.