Finding the best cookbook for teens suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
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1. Teen Cuisine
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Teen CuisineDescription
Calling All Teens ...Take over the vast empty space called the kitchen and learn gourmet cooking from a master chef! Over 50 mouthwatering step-by-step recipes, from "Brilliant Breakfasts" to "Star-Studded Salads" to "Shooting Star Entrees" and "Red Carpet Desserts".Each recipe an American favorite!
* "Pizza Coast-to-Coast" section introduces pizza from three regions of the United States: New York, Chicago, and California
* More than 60 dazzling photographs by James Peterson
* "On Your Mark ... Get Set ... Cook!" format of recipes provides helpful organization
* Step-by-step drawings clarify steps whenever necessary
* Chefs tips, safety section, cooking terms, and definitions
* Kitchen essentials and kitchen equipment
* An emphasis on fresh, nutritious ingredients for healthy eating
2. Kid Chef Bakes: The Kids Cookbook for Aspiring Bakers
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For fans of the widely popular kids cookbook Kid Chef comes Kid Chef Bakesa cookbook that makes teaching kids to bake a piece of cake
When a child is ready to take the spatula into his or her hands, it can be difficult to find recipes suited to their level, ability, and tastes that also capture their interest. Catering to ambitious chefs ages 813, this kids cookbook and culinary crash course shows your chef-in-training what it takes to bake from start to finish. With tips for prepping and setting up the kitchen, tutorials fostering basic skills, and sweet recipes that parents will love, Kid Chef Bakes is a kids cookbook to inspire the aspiring chef.
More than just a kids cookbook, Kid Chef Bakes contains:
- Tips for Prep and Set-up with the right tools, equipment, and pantry essentials, including essential safety tips on how to use the oven and stove
- Hands-on Lessons with tutorials for developing basic cooking skills like measuring liquids vs. solids and separating eggs
- Over 75 Recipes with guidance to hone skills while making delicious treats that the whole family will enjoy
- More than 65 Photos with how-to shots for instruction makes this a go-to guide and kids cookbook
Recipes in this kids cookbook and learning tool include: Mini Triple Chocolate Muffins, Sprinkle Cake Pops, White Chocolate Blondies, Roasted Strawberry Shortcakes, Little Chicken and Mushroom Biscuit Pot Pies, and much more!
Learn how sweet it is to get your kids excited about baking with this kids cookbook and culinary class from mother of two and author behind the recipe blog Snappy Gourmet, Lisa Huff.
3. Clueless in the Kitchen: A Cookbook for Teens (The Clueless series)
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Clueless in the Kitchen A Cookbook for TeensDescription
This thorough and witty culinary guide demystifies the kitchen and its contents for young adults and anyone who's found themselves in front of a full fridge exclaiming, "There's nothing to eat here!" With 200 easy-to-follow recipes, Evelyn Raab shows the culinary neophyte how to make all kinds of simple and scrumptious dishes for every meal and occasion.
Revised for a new generation of students, this amusing cookbook focuses on creating whole, healthy foods using fresh ingredients. Recipes are coded with easy-to-understand icons and symbols that sort each dish into categories, such as vegetarian meals, cheap eats, couch potato, mom and family food, and cooking to impress.
Clueless in the Kitchen includes informative and entertaining chapters on:
- The Kitchen -- a guide to alien territory
- Shopping -- you can't cook if you don't have it!
- Salads, soups and side things
- Meat dishes (beef, chicken and other critters)
- Vegetarian options
- Egg, fish and pasta entrees
- Baking and desserts
- Snacks and munchies.
The book also features information and advice on meal planning, a glossary, a conversion chart and a handy index.
Whether living on their own for the very first time or just on their own for dinner, Clueless in the Kitchen is the only guide novice cooks need to create an interesting, easy, delicious and nutritious meal.
4. CookBook For Teens: Teens Cook, Easy Cooking for Young Adults - The Ultimate Teen Recipes Cookbook
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Ah. Instant noodles.
If youve made instant noodles before, then congratulations, you are already on your way to being a top notch chef. But still feeling a little intimidated by all the kitchen stuff? Dont worry, we got you. The CookBook for Teens is the essential guide for teenagers looking to step up their cooking game. This book is written with over 60 delicious, and healthy, easy-to-follow recipes, perfect for any meal, any time breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and dessert as well as important information so you can start conquering that kitchen.This book features:
- Delicious recipes for any occasion
- Interesting diagrams and infographics
- A glossary of kitchen terminology and spices
- Tips and life hacks to make cooking even easier
- Colorful pictures so you know what you are making
- A note section to mark your own personal tweaks
Time to move on from those noodles.
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5. Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat
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Teens Cook How to Cook What You Want to EatDescription
Cooking for teens, like finding the perfect gift for teen boys and girls, is almost impossible.Teenagers like what they like, and they will only eat what they like. But instead of causing mealtime strife, now they can learn to cook those foods themselves. With over 75 delicious recipes for meals at all times of the daybreakfast, snacks, sides, dinners, and dessert, tooTeens Cook is a guide to everything teenagers (and tweens) need to learn about conquering the kitchen without accidentally setting the house on fire. Written by teens and for teens in easy-to-follow instructions, authors Megan and Jill Carle give young readers advice on how to maneuver their kitchen in a language theyll understand (and actually listen to). The Carle sisters pass on their knowledge of how to decipher culinary vocabulary, understand kitchen chemistry (why stuff goes right and wrong when cooking), adapt recipes to certain dietary restrictions (like vegetarianism), and avoid all sorts of possible kitchen disasters.
Teens Cookis not only a fantastic teen giftits the perfect cookbook to inspire young adults to take interest in their diets, and empower them to try a new and tasty hobby.
6. Science Experiments You Can Eat: Revised Edition
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HarperCollinsDescription
Science never tasted so good!
Dig into a feast of funwhere youre the scientist and the kitchen is your laboratory! Discover what it takes to make sugar crystallize into rock candy, what moisture has to do with popping popcorn, and how proteins are essential in making cakes and muffins rise. And after youve tested your theories and made some amazing discoveries, you can actually eat your results!
Vicki Cobbs Science Experiments You Can Eat has stood the test of time, filling the mindsand stomachsof kids for more than forty years. Now with revised and updated material that includes clever new procedures, many new experiments, and vital information on nutrition, a whole new generation of readers can devour this cornucopia of food for thought.
7. Kid Chef: The Foodie Kids Cookbook: Healthy Recipes and Culinary Skills for the New Cook in the Kitchen
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Kid Chef The Foodie Kids Cookbook Healthy Recipes and Culinary Skills for the New Cook in the KitchenDescription
"There may be no better way to instill a love of good food in your kids than by having them learn to cook. Kid Chef helps them develop fundamental skills, harness their curiosity, and turn out tasty, family-friendly dishes."Cooking Light Magazine
Every parent knows that when it comes to cookingpractice really does make perfect. Unlike other kids cookbooks that dumb down recipes, Kid Chef gets kids cooking nutritious meals that engage their skills and instill confidence in the kitchen. Covering basic techniques and featuring tutorials for tasty recipes, this kids cookbook is sure to turn any child into a chef.
More than just a kids cookbook, Kid Chef is a learning tool that includes:
- 75+ Healthy Recipes: easy-to-follow recipes for snacks and small bites, main dishes and desserts that parents will love
- Kitchen 101: learn how to stock the pantry, create a grocery list, handle a knife, and use the stove
- Facts and Tips: from variations on your favorite recipes to fun food facts this kids cookbook covers everything
A kids cookbook for grown-up tastes: recipes for Homemade Granola, Mini Quiches, Minty Lamb Burgers, Rosemary Shortbread Cookies, and so much more!
This is an amazing cookbook for introducing children to the joys of cooking. I loved that instead of being just a collection of recipes oversimplified for children, it was a well-thought-out teaching tool.Heather Columbo, Mom to a kid chef
8. Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs
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Eat Fresh Food Awesome Recipes for Teen ChefsDescription
Finally! Here is a visually stunning cookbook for teens who are interested in cooking food that goes beyond the boring old "kids" recipes, but is the kind of foods TEENS want to eat.
With many recipes showing the step-by-step process of how the food is made, these recipes take old favorites for all times of day and year--from breakfast muffins, to mac-and-cheese lunches, to fish taco dinners, to chocolate desserts--and updates them with healthy, delicious new ingredients that are better for you (and much yummier) than fast food!
Rozanne Gold's All-Star Team (who tested each recipe and who are pictured in the book) includes boys and girls ages 9-19, siblings and friends. The kids display an amazing energy for the food --whether it's buying fresh ingredients in a farmers' market, or cooking it in exciting new ways. With the emphasis on fresh ingredients, Rozanne Gold and her cooks keep their food healthful, gorgeous and fun to make.
9. Cookbook for Teens: The Easy Teen Cookbook with 74 Fun & Delicious Recipes to Try
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Cookbook for Teens The Easy Teen Cookbook with 74 Fun Delicious Recipes to TryDescription
Become a kitchen whiz withThe Cookbook for Teens: The Easy Teen Cookbook.Even the world's top chefs had to start somewhere. This teen cookbook the perfect introduction to the art of cooking, even for teenagers who have never cooked more than a slice of toast. With this teen cookbook you will learn introductory preparation and cooking techniques, how to read recipes, and how to shop for groceries.
Once you are comfortable in the kitchen, you will learn how to make their own easy dishes, with simple teen cookbook recipes for appetizer and entres and snacks.After you have mastered the fundamentals,The Cookbook for Teens: The Easy Teen Cookbookwill walk you through preparing a three-course meal that will completely wow your friends and family.
Having a teen cookbook in your kitchen will make the cooking accessible for any teenager, with:
- 74 easy-to-follow teen cookbook recipes, such as Bacon and Cheese Risotto and Deep Dish Spaghetti Pizza,
- 25 basic cooking techniques to make you a kitchen pro
- 27 essential kitchen tools
- The teen cookbookguide to grocery shopping on your own
- 12 key safety tips for everything from chopping to baking
With easy directions and delicious recipes,The Cookbook for Teens: The Easy Teen Cookbookis the perfect resource for teens who want to start getting creative in the kitchen.
10. MasterChef Junior Cookbook: Bold Recipes and Essential Techniques to Inspire Young Cooks
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Creativity, hard work, and lots of funthats what it takes to cook like a master. Beloved television competition show MasterChef Junior fosters all of this within each of its pint-size home cooks, and what they whip up is truly impressive. This book aims to give any aspiring young chef the tools he or she needs to hone essential cooking skills, with 100 recipes inspired by dishes that the contestants served in the first five seasons, as well as timeless techniques, tips, and advice. With this book, anyone can become an excellent cook.