Cook Books for CHILDREN to cook from - Ages 10 and 13

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The 14 year old really likes Baking. These are for my nephew and neice in the US, so they don't have anythng form the UK. All ideas v v welcome! Have to buy today or large parcel won't make it in the post.

I would think a 14 year old could follow any recipe, really?

I would say age 14 she could cook from any adult book - there is one I saw by Mary Berry the other day that looked good for baking - will go and get a link

this one or there is another called 'fast cakes'. I don't think they would be too difficult.

Thanks so much FaZ

Do you think slater's real fast food in paperback is too poncey?!

No, sounds great.

I think Real Fast food sounds very good

there is also a teenage boy chef - is he called Sam Stern? Will search

any of the top 3 here

he is quite cute isn't he?

We've got one called Kids Kitchen, which would be great for the US because the measurements are in cups etc. It's got cakes but also some delicious savoury recipes. Might be a bit young for teenagers, but my 10 and 8 year olds love it!

My dd13 regularly uses Sam Stern's "Cooking up a storm", she's having "Get cooking" for Christmas.

Lovely idea, but cook books don't travel well at all - different weights and measures, different tastes, different ingredients in the supermarkets. Try buying a US book.

Brilliant - thanks to All. Did Sam Stern and Mary Berry in the end. Think I@ll save slater for neice's 15th next year. I know about measurements and cups etc all being but their Mum, my sister in law is American and used to it and has converters etc and since they're American but are fundamentally half English think the conversion effort is worth it for heritage sakes etc. Specially since my bro is dead, if that doesn't sound too awful a thing to say here.

Thanks Again!

we have one called Easy Peasey, great because there's none of that make the food look like dinosaurs nonsense, and the food actually tasted good. You know, proper food.
There's another one in the same seires which is all cakes and sweet things, but still quite healthy.