NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! America’s #1 food magazine shares over 110 crumb-believable dessert recipes and hands-on activities in this kids baking book for ages 8 to 12.

Keep calm and bake on, young chefs! Take your baking skills to the next level—and enjoy knead-to know food trivia, crafts, and games for extra fun in the kitchen.

This collection is packed with tons of recipes for easy sweets and treats, designed with young cooks in mind and triple tested by the chefs in Food Network Kitchen. Kids will get all the info they need to make their favorite desserts!

Inside you'll find:

• 110+ easy to follow recipes with pro tips to help beginner chefs get started
• A visual recipe index with photos of every recipe
• Choose-your-own adventure recipes (design your own Whoopie Pies and Banana Bread)
• Crowd-pleasers like Red Velvet Brownies, Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies, Chocolate Candy Bar Layer Cake, and more!
• Amazing fake-out cakes including cakes that look like spaghetti and meatballs, a taco, and a pineapple
• Fun food trivia
• Food crafts such as decorating donuts and using candy melts
• Bonus food-themed activity pages with word scrambles, spot-the-difference photo games, and more
• Lay-flat binding and a heavy paper stock that will stand up to frequent use

This bestselling cookbook makes baking for beginners exciting—and it’s the perfect summer activity book for kids. Dye your own sprinkles! Turn dough into an edible jigsaw puzzle! You’ll come for the cookie-baking recipes. You’ll stay for the extra helpings of FUN!

The ultimate cookbook for beginner bakers, from the editors of America's #1 food magazine and bestselling authors of The Big, Fun Kids Cookbook.

This collection is packed with 150+ recipes for everyone's favorite sweets and treats, all designed with young cooks in mind and triple tested by the chefs in Food Network Kitchen. Kids will learn how to make all their favorite desserts: cookies, brownies, cupcakes, sheet cakes and more. Each recipe is easy to follow and totally foolproof, with color photos and pro tips to help junior chefs get started, plus fun food trivia that they can share with their friends. A visual recipe index at the beginning of the book includes a picture of every recipe, so kids can pick their next project: Will it be shortcut monkey bread, cherry mini muffins, black and white cookies or red velvet brownies? Or maybe a s'mores sheet cake?
Every treat in this book will surprise and delight: Kids can make a cake that looks like a taco, sugar-cookie puzzle pieces, rainbow cupcakes and so much more. They can also design their own sweets using the "choose-your-own-adventure" recipes.
This cookbook comes with more than just recipes: Each chapter ends with a fun food craft, like how to make a daisy out of mini marshmallows or how to bake a message into a muffin. Plus, The Big, Fun Kids Baking Book includes a whole chapter of food-themed activities: word scrambles, spot-the-difference photo games and more.

“This book is a must-have for all the bakers out there! It’s filled with so many fun ideas, tasty recipes and my favorite—tons of sprinkles!” 
—Natasha Jiwani, Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship Winner Season 5
 
“I love it when cookbooks are created just for kids! ‘Adult’ cookbooks can be intimidating, and kids may be nervous to start baking, but this book allows them to jump in and be creative.” 
—Trevin Alford, Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship Winner Season 7
 
“Y’all, go try out some of these new recipes and make sure to share your treats with friends! These desserts are great for any occasion!” 
—Graysen Pinder, Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship Winner Season 8

“The clean, colorful graphics and easy-to-flip spiral binding are clearly designed with beginner skills and small hands in mind. But many of the recipes include flavors sophisticated enough to appeal to their sweet-toothed elders as well, such as Cherry-Pistachio Muffins, Tres Leches Cake with Mango, and the hard-to-stop-eating Triple Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies....To ramp up the fun, there are instructions for creating new frosting colors, for dipping cupcakes in chocolate shell topping and decorating with colored sprinkles to resemble an ice cream cone, and making an edible jigsaw puzzle of sugar cookies. Trivia tidbits, culinary-themed guessing games, and pop quizzes throughout keep the brain busy while waiting for the timer to go off.”
—Susan Puckett, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Tempting photos and clean layouts draw readers into the book....VERDICT Recommended for purchase. This title would be great for families who bake as a hobby, or for a scout troop to use for projects.”
—School Library Journal

“[It includes] fun foods like a Jenga set made of blondies, and even fake-out cakes—desserts made to look like spaghetti and meatballs or a grilled cheese sandwich (complete with an ooey, gooey pudding filling that looks like melty cheese). Tidbits of food trivia and kitchen tips are mixed in, too, along with a word search and other games.”
—Mary Bilyeu, The Blade (Toledo)