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Cooking with kids

104 recipes where a child can do real steps: measuring, stirring in a bowl, mashing, rolling, sprinkling. The kid steps never use a knife, a sharp tool or heat, and every recipe marks the grown-up steps.

New to cooking yourself? The first-time cook path is 10 easy recipes, in order, with the skills each one teaches.

15 recipes in Desserts, kid steps 60% or more

Recipes

Kid steps: 9 of 9

Kid steps: 7 of 10

Kid steps: 7 of 10

Kid steps: 11 of 16

Kid steps: 6 of 9

Kid steps: 8 of 12

Kid steps: 8 of 12

Kid steps: 10 of 15

Kid steps: 5 of 8

Kid steps: 5 of 8

Kid steps: 5 of 8

Kid steps: 10 of 16

Kid steps: 10 of 16

Kid steps: 8 of 13

Kid steps: 9 of 15

How a recipe gets in

We read every step. A step is a grown-up step when it uses a knife or another sharp tool (grater, peeler, blender, food processor), anything hot (oven, stove, a hot pan or pot, the microwave), or raw meat or fish. A step that comes right after cooking stays a grown-up step until the food has cooled or the work moves to a cold bowl.

A recipe is a kid helper when it isn't a hard recipe, doesn't deep-fry, and at least 2 of its steps, and at least a third of them, are kid steps. On the recipe page each step says “Kid step” or “Grown-up” and why.

On search and category pages, tick Kid helper under Who's cooking to find these anywhere.