The best children's cookbooks

Cooking is a pleasure, but also an activity that can be shared with family and especially with children! If you are looking for activities to keep them occupied, what could be better than finally letting them get their hands dirty? Here is a selection of the best cookbooks that will make you want to cook with your little bits!

Pastry, step-by-step lessons for children

Produced by chef Philippe Urraca, elected Meilleur Ouvrier de France, this pastry book offers many gourmet recipes explained step by step and perfectly illustrated.
Chouquettes, cookies, tiramisu or even marble cake, the youngest will finally be able to put themselves in the shoes of a great pastry chef for their greatest pleasure!

Why we love it:
The recipes are easy to understand, well detailed, fairly short and accompanied by pretty illustrations. Baking becomes very fun here!

Pastries, step-by-step lessons for children, € 19.90

The Larousse Junior in the kitchen

This cookbook brings together more than 80 recipes suitable for children, from classics to the most delicious: gratin of macaroni with gouda, mini cakes with cheese and bacon, Carambar pie, apple crumble, charlotte with Tagada strawberries. .

Why we love it:
Divided into six parts, it allows you to make the right recipe depending on the occasion: back to school, Christmas, Carnival, Easter, holidays, and birthdays.
Its spiral format makes this book very handy and the laminated pages allow quick and easy cleaning!

The Larousse Junior in the kitchen, € 14.90

Roxane's workshop, his best recipes

Since participating in the Best Pastry Chef show in 2015, his youtube channel Roxane's workshop now has over 3 million subscribers! It mainly offers original and very very very colorful sweet recipes!
We find in this first book, the emblematic recipes of the Youtubeuse like the rainbow cake or the pizza cookie. But there are also 40 new recipes such as: unicorn cake, Mickey chocolate pop cake, lollipop brownies, Oreo ice cream without ice cream maker, Kinder Bueno cupcakes, unicorn marshmallow, chocolate pancake cake, and many more more … An ideal book for gourmets!

Why we love it:
Surprising recipes as beautiful as they are good that will make children but also parents salivate!
The step-by-step tutorials are clear and illustrated.

Roxane's workshop, its best recipes, € 13.90

The Rainbow Cake

Too easy the pastry!

11 desserts easy to make by the youngest, such as chocolate chip cookies, vanilla mousse, or even the crunchy red fruit. The steps of each recipe are perfectly illustrated and the child very quickly understands what to do at a glance.
The necessary equipment and ingredients are presented at the start of the recipes, with a nice photo of the "finished" dessert.

Why do we like it?
The dosing pans which work on the principle of the yogurt pot, make it easy to make the right dosage of the ingredients without weighing anything.

The pastries of the world

This spiral easel book brings together over 100 easy and fun recipes to introduce children to the culinary culture of the world! Cakes, pies, cookies or puddings, children (but also the whole family) will have the pleasure of tasting pastries from more than 50 countries. 1 sheet represents 1 recipe to be made in 4 illustrated steps.

Why we love it:
The level of difficulty is specified and there is also a little "world info" on each recipe to learn more while cooking.

The pastries of the world, € 14.95

Children, my first cookbook

70 recipe ideas, from the simplest to the most elaborate, to be made according to your age and level. Daily menus, from starter to main course and finally with a good dessert!
Each recipe is illustrated and details the steps precisely.
Salmon rillettes, tomato cake, cheese burger, marinated salmon with lime, rolled cookie, apple turnovers or chocolate cream, your children will amaze you!

Why do we like it?
This book is both comprehensive and easy to understand thanks to the step-by-step explanations. However, it will not suit the youngest but will delight children who are already comfortable with reading.
There are also basic cooking tips, such as how to break an egg easily.

Children, my first cookbook, € 9.95

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