Publisher Description

Following the best-selling book Cooking Class, this delightful baking cookbook for children ages 8 12 features 50 easy-to-follow, kid-friendly recipes. Lively step-by-step photos teach bakers-in-training how to knead dough, make biscuits, decorate cookies, and produce a perfect pie, along with essential skills like following directions and accurately measuring ingredients. Kids will learn to make both sweet and savory treats and will use fresh fruits and vegetables in recipes such as Bursting with Blueberries Muffins, Zombie Zucchini Bread, and Peachy Keen Crumble. Bonus goodie bag stickers, pop-out gift tags, and bake sale signs encourage kids to share their homemade delights with pride. 2017 NPR's Best Books of the Year 2017 IACP Cookbook Award Winner 2017 National Parenting Product Awards Winner 2018 ?Mom's Choice Award Gold Winner 2019 New York Times "Best Cookbooks for Kids" Also available in this series: Cooking Class and Cooking Class Global Feast!

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Bake Up Some Kitchen Fun! Learn to make your favorite baked goods for every meal of the day - and plenty of great snacks, too. Bonus features include cookie-cutting templates & decorative stencils, gift tags and labels, toothpick flags & cupcake toppers, bake sale price cards, and lots of fun stickers!

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Bake Up Some Kitchen Fun! Learn to make your favorite baked goods for every meal of the day - and plenty of great snacks, too. Bonus features include cookie-cutting templates & decorative stencils, gift tags and labels, toothpick flags & cupcake toppers, bake sale price cards, and lots of fun stickers!

Author Biography

Deanna F. Cook is the award-winning author of cookbooks for kids, including the best-selling Cooking Class, Baking Class,and Cooking Class Global Feast! She served as the creative development director at FamilyFun magazine and has been an editor at Scholastic, Disney, and Kidstir.com. She lives in western Massachusetts and can be found online at deannafcook.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Welcome to Baking Class! Lesson 1: Bake Like a Pro! Lesson 2: Gather Up the Right Tools Lesson 3: Stock Up on Bakery Basics Lesson 4: Baking Vocabulary Lesson 5: Measure Carefully Lesson 6: Kitchen Safety Lesson 7: Serve Up Some Special Treats Chapter 2: Good Morning Treats A Toast to You! Mix & Match Toast Toppers Toaster-Oven Tarts Pumpkin Patch Muffins Bursting with Blueberries Muffins Carrot Applesauce Bites Fancy French Breakfast Treats Cranberry Orange Scones Chapter 3: Crackers & Quick Breads Crunchy Tortilla Chips & Nachos Quick Croutons Puffy Popovers Crispy Cheese Squares Buttery Biscuits! Silly Sticks Crackin' Corn Bread Mix & Match Under the Sea World Monkey Munch Banana Bread Zombie Zucchini Bread Chapter 4: The Bread Bakery Garlic Bread Sticks Easy-Peasy Bread Dough Simple Sandwich Loaf Braid Away Bread Sweet Cinnamon Rolls Mix & Match Bread Art No Need to Knead Bread It's a Party! Pizza Dough Chapter 5: The Cookie Jar Chocolate Chip Cookie Factory Awesome Oatmeal Cookies Sweet & Simple Sugar Cookies Mix & Match Cookie Craft Snickerdoodles Crispy Gingersnaps Coconut Macaroons Brownie Magic Lots of Lemon Squares Chapter 6: Save Room for Pie! Dig in the Dirt Pie Farmers' Market Fruit Tarts Perfect Piecrust Mix & Match Piecrust Shapes My First Blueberry Pie Teeny Tiny Apple Pies Peachy Keen Crumble Go Bananas Cream Pie Chapter 7: Cake & Cupcake Factory Cocoa Cake-in-a-Mug Very Vanilla Birthday Cake Buttercream Frosting One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes Mix & Match Cupcake Decorating Party Say "Cheese!" Cake After-School Apple Cake Mini Strawberry Shortcakes Index

Review

"What do we like more than homemade goodies? When kids can make 'em themselves! The new book Baking Class helps them do just that with cute ideas and step-by-step how-tos perfect for any aspiring chef." -- FamilyFun "What's the phrase - kid-tested, mother-approved? Two years ago, my then-9-year-old worked her way through Cooking Class, Deanna F. Cook's previous book, with little to no intervention from me. This year's charmer has been the same story. It's a teach-yourself-to-bake book with vast kid appeal, thanks to big step-by-step photos, clear instructions and adorable, easy recipes (cranberry orange scones, teeny tiny apple pies, sugar cookies, macaroons). At the back are stickers, labels and - be still my beating heart - stencils so that you can sugar-powder your cookies into art." -- T. Susan Chang, NPR's Best Books of 2017 "Spiral-bound, with glossy, easy-to-clean covers, these cookbooks are bright and colorful, with recipes that range in difficulty from very easy (mug cake, salad dressing) to more complicated (crepes, spring rolls). They are perfect for children who want a thorough introduction to the kitchen, including basic rules for safety, vocabulary, setting a table and -- you're going to love this, parents -- cleaning up. They are written for children ages 8 to 12, but again, younger ones will find something for them here, too." -- New York Times "Roll up your sleeves and get out the oven mitts for Baking Class: 50 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Bake! This colorful, spiral-bound guide, presented by the aptly named kids' cookbook writer Deanna F. Cook, features easy instructions paired with helpful pictures. There are eye-catching recipes for crispy cheese squares (think Cheez-Its) and brownie pizza, plus adorable bread art (bake an octopus or a snail) and cake and cookie decorating ideas, all rated for difficulty using a scale of one to three rolling pins. Who knew you could put designs and initials on toast using foil shields? A section on the basics gets young bakers started, and additional bonuses include stickers, bake-sale tags and design stencils to use with confectioner's sugar." -- BookPage "This colorful baking guide offers detailed illustrated directions to help kids make a wide range of baked goods, including muffins, breads, cookies, scones, biscuits, pies, cakes, and cupcakes. Color photos accompany each step of every recipe, as well as several pages of baking basics that introduce common cooking terms, safety tips, and tools. The recipes are rated with one, two, or three rolling pins to indicate their level of difficulty. Along with the 50 recipes, the book features sidebars and extra pages of cooking tips and variations. For example, the recipe for "Silly Sticks" includes a sidebar that describes five other easy ways to use puff pastry, and the "Sweet and Simple Sugar Cookie" recipe is followed by four pages of decorating ideas and tips. While most of the recipes require the use of an oven, a few, such as "A Toast to You," can be made in a toaster oven, or in the case of the flour-free "Cocoa Cake in a Mug," even the microwave. The book also includes a table of contents and an index for handy reference. VERDICT This attractive and well-organized baking guide for kids will make a nice addition to most nonfiction collections, and a good gift for young baking enthusiasts." -- School Library Journal "Highly visual, photographing each step along the way to creating crispy cheese squares and "dig in the dirt" pie (chocolate ice cream topped with cookie crumbs, painted candy ladybugs, and gummy worms, and frozen overnight)." -- Publishers Weekly "Crammed full of joy and fun, this cookbook teaches kids baking fundamentals while they whip up their favorite treats. The only way this book could be better is if it did the cleanup, too!" -- Stacie Billis, author of One Hungry Mama and Make It Easy "Here's a book for kids to sink their teeth into! They'll build confidence in the kitchen while turning out wholesome and delicious baked goods." -- Jenna Helwig, food editor at Parents magazine and author of Smoothie-licious

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"What do we like more than homemade goodies? When kids can make ''em themselves! The new book Baking Class helps them do just that with cute ideas and step-by-step how-tos perfect for any aspiring chef." -- FamilyFun "What''s the phrase - kid-tested, mother-approved? Two years ago, my then-9-year-old worked her way through Cooking Class , Deanna F. Cook''s previous book, with little to no intervention from me. This year''s charmer has been the same story. It''s a teach-yourself-to-bake book with vast kid appeal, thanks to big step-by-step photos, clear instructions and adorable, easy recipes (cranberry orange scones, teeny tiny apple pies, sugar cookies, macaroons). At the back are stickers, labels and - be still my beating heart - stencils so that you can sugar-powder your cookies into art." -- T. Susan Chang, NPR''s Best Books of 2017 "Spiral-bound, with glossy, easy-to-clean covers, these cookbooks are bright and colorful, with recipes that range in difficulty from very easy (mug cake, salad dressing) to more complicated (crepes, spring rolls). They are perfect for children who want a thorough introduction to the kitchen, including basic rules for safety, vocabulary, setting a table and -- you''re going to love this, parents -- cleaning up. They are written for children ages 8 to 12, but again, younger ones will find something for them here, too." -- New York Times "Roll up your sleeves and get out the oven mitts for Baking Class: 50 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Bake! This colorful, spiral-bound guide, presented by the aptly named kids'' cookbook writer Deanna F. Cook, features easy instructions paired with helpful pictures. There are eye-catching recipes for crispy cheese squares (think Cheez-Its) and brownie pizza, plus adorable bread art (bake an octopus or a snail) and cake and cookie decorating ideas, all rated for difficulty using a scale of one to three rolling pins. Who knew you could put designs and initials on toast using foil shields? A section on the basics gets young bakers started, and additional bonuses include stickers, bake-sale tags and design stencils to use with confectioner''s sugar." -- BookPage "This colorful baking guide offers detailed illustrated directions to help kids make a wide range of baked goods, including muffins, breads, cookies, scones, biscuits, pies, cakes, and cupcakes. Color photos accompany each step of every recipe, as well as several pages of baking basics that introduce common cooking terms, safety tips, and tools. The recipes are rated with one, two, or three rolling pins to indicate their level of difficulty. Along with the 50 recipes, the book features sidebars and extra pages of cooking tips and variations. For example, the recipe for "Silly Sticks" includes a sidebar that describes five other easy ways to use puff pastry, and the "Sweet and Simple Sugar Cookie" recipe is followed by four pages of decorating ideas and tips. While most of the recipes require the use of an oven, a few, such as "A Toast to You," can be made in a toaster oven, or in the case of the flour-free "Cocoa Cake in a Mug," even the microwave. The book also includes a table of contents and an index for handy reference. VERDICT This attractive and well-organized baking guide for kids will make a nice addition to most nonfiction collections, and a good gift for young baking enthusiasts." -- School Library Journal "Highly visual, photographing each step along the way to creating crispy cheese squares and "dig in the dirt" pie (chocolate ice cream topped with cookie crumbs, painted candy ladybugs, and gummy worms, and frozen overnight)." -- Publishers Weekly "Crammed full of joy and fun, this cookbook teaches kids baking fundamentals while they whip up their favorite treats. The only way this book could be better is if it did the cleanup, too!" -- Stacie Billis, author of One Hungry Mama and Make It Easy "Here''s a book for kids to sink their teeth into! They''ll build confidence in the kitchen while turning out wholesome and delicious baked goods." -- Jenna Helwig, food editor at Parents magazine and author of Smoothie-licious

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