Simple Recipes to Cook with Kids
These easy recipes for kids to make are a great way to get kids in the kitchen cooking and baking with you!
Cooking with kids is so fun and a great way to spend special time with kids. Its also a really great way to teach them life skills, confidences, and valuable life lessons.
Cooking and baking with kids is such a fun and rewarding experience! Not only does it supply amazing 1:1 time with children, but it also helps them be more curious and interested in trying the food they help you make.
Below you will find very simple recipes that are perfect for small sous chefs to help you with! These are grouped by ages, and each recipe gives specific tasks that kids of different ages can do.
Review my guide on how to cook and bake with kids to find age appropriate skills, and head over to my guide on knife skills for kids, too!!
Simple Recipes to Cook with Kids
These easy recipes are perfect to cook and bake with children! With few ingredients and age appropriate steps, these are great recipes to teach kids to cook with you!
Viking Bread Recipe
PERFECT FOR AGES: Toddler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Kids can help measure all the ingredients, mix the dough, and shape the rolls.
This Viking Bread Recipe is an easy but hearty and delicious yeast free quick bread that is the perfect side dish to almost any meal. Simple enough that it is the perfect bread to bake with kids in the kitchen!
The Best Quick Focaccia Recipe
PERFECT FOR AGES: Toddler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Your little sous chef can help measure and mix all the ingredients, create the dough, help shape the dough (and use their little fingers to create all the fun indent marks!), and add the toppings.
This quick focaccia is the perfect bread to serve alongside soups, pastas, and more. Tender, with great flavor and a crispy bottom, this quick focaccia recipe is everything you want it to be.
Brownie Batter Dip
PERFECT FOR AGES: Toddler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Get help rinsing the black beans, measuring the ingredients, and adding everything to the food processor. Also make sure you get help pushing that “on” button!
This brownie batter dip is an amazing, decadent dip recipe that will have your kids begging for more! But this is more than just a great tasting snack – easy black bean dip is a great healthy snack!
Rainbow Pizza + How to Get Kids to Eat Their Veggies
PERFECT FOR AGES: Preschooler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Kids can help pick out which produce to use, help prepare the dough, spread the sauce, add the veggies, and sprinkle on the cheese!
This rainbow pizza has a special place in our meal rotation lately. It is perfect for a quick meal (lunch or dinner!), and its also a sneaky fun way to get your kiddos to eat their veggies.
Swedish Chocolate Coconut Balls
PERFECT FOR AGES: Preschooler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: This is a great recipe for measuring! Kids can also help roll the balls and coat them in the coconut!
This no-bake recipe for Swedish Chocolate Coconut Balls (also known as Chokladbollar), is very simple to make, and the perfect make-ahead dessert that you can do with a child.
Easy Cocadas Recipe - Mexican Coconut Candies
PERFECT FOR AGES: Preschooler and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: This is a great recipe for learning to open cans, measuring ingredients, and using a cookie scoop!
Cocadas are coconut treats from Latin America. These soft, chewy coconut mounds are mixed with dulche de leche and studded with macadamia nuts. Cocadas are like macaroons, but much better!
Rainbow Veggie Breakfast Egg Muffins
PERFECT FOR AGES: Elementary and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: This is a great recipe for learning to prepare produce! Have your helpers pick which veggies to use, wash, dry, and slice everything, grate the cheese, crack the eggs, and whisk the eggs with the milk!
These Rainbow Veggie Breakfast Egg Muffins are a quick and easy breakfast for busy mornings. A healthy breakfast kids and adults alike will love!
Easy Bananas Foster
PERFECT FOR AGES: Elementary and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Have your helpers measure all the ingredients, slice the bananas, add the ingredients to the pan, stir, scoop the ice cream and serve the dessert.
This easy bananas foster recipe is a simple and quick dessert that is perfect for families to enjoy together. Sauteed bananas are drenched in a gooey sauce of caramelized sugar and spices, sprinkled with walnuts and then served over vanilla ice cream. Bananas foster without rum is kid friendly and ready in 10 minutes.
French Toast Bake
PERFECT FOR AGES: Elementary and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: This is a great recipe for cracking eggs, learning to whisk liquids, using a knife, and creating a fun streusel topping!
This decadent yet easy French Toast Bake is a lovely way to breakfast on a special holiday or any day you want a special treat. It’s custardy, filled with cinnamon and toasted pecans, and a gorgeously easy recipe.
Cheese and Jam Turnovers
PERFECT FOR AGES: Elementary and up
HOW KIDS CAN HELP: Kids can help measure and mix the dough, grate the cheese, knead the dough, use cookie cutters to cut the dough, spoon in the jam, and seal the turnovers together!
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