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According to Entrepreneur.com, kid’s cooking is a hot trend this year. Places like Batter Up Kids Culinary Center in Austin, TX, Le Petit Cookery in Irvine, CA, and Home Cooking in NYC are opening up all around the country. These places cater to parents who believe that cooking can be an educational experience that also promotes family togetherness.

This sounds like a great like a wonderful way to spend time together. If there are no culinary schools near you, look for cooking classes at community colleges, free universities, learning annexes, or through your town’s recreational district. Craft stores like Michael’s and Hobby Lobby have cookie and cake decorating classes on occasion.

Or you can DIY it. Get a bunch of friends and kids together, and start cooking. You could do a culinary theme, like homemade pasta and sauces. Or each family could take turns hosting a cooking party at their house. One week you could create appetizers, the next week a main course, and so on. Kidsfoods.com even has cooking party kits so each child can have their own chef hat, bandanda and apron.

One of other big trends in children’s cooking are healthy cookbooks. With the rise in obesity and the desire for more nutritional fare, these cookbooks are ignoring the usual cupcake, ants on a log, and mini pizza recipes. Once such example is California Squisine: Healthy Food That’s Fast, Fun And Squeezable for Kids:

(From their press release)
This cookbook for kids offers a unique tool in America’s battle with poor eating habits – fun. It encourages children to eat well by consuming squeezable recipes. It’s really simple. Kids have fun squeezing tasty, nutritious sauces, dips and dressings over fruits and vegetables. Then they eat their creations. No cooking is required! Children can prepare the recipes themselves or with an adult. It’s a great way for the whole family to have fun spending time together, while developing a healthy attitude toward food.

"Many kids today think a balanced diet means a cookie in each hand," says Malcolm Kushner, the cookbook’s author. "I want them to have a fruit or vegetable in each hand."

Other healthy cookbooks to consider are:

• The Healthy Start Kids’ Cookbook: Fun and Healthful Recipes That Kids Can Make Themselves
• I Made It Myself!: Mud Cups, Pizza Puffs, and Over 100 Other Fun and Healthy Recipes for Kids to Make
• The Healthy Body Cookbook: Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids

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