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Sesame Street B is for Baking: 50 Yummy Dishes to Make Together!

November 10, 2011 By Beth

Details …

Now parents can introduce their kids to baking with a fun, kid-friendly guide to baking from the Sesame Street gang!

A perfect companion cookbook to Sesame Street 40th Anniversary C is for Cooking (Wiley 2009), Sesame Street B is for Baking: 50 Yummy Dishes to Make Together (Wiley Hardcover; September 12, 2011; $16.95) is the ideal introduction to baking that is sure to get kids active in the kitchen. With Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby leading the way, this engaging, colorful cookbook offers 50 delicious, nutritious, kid-pleasing recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus snack time and special occasions. All of the recipe pages are colorfully designed with full-sized photos and detailed instructions that are sure to inspire kids to develop good eating habits while having fun in the kitchen at the same time!

Baking often makes you think first of “sweets,” but there are many exciting, satisfying recipes for parents and children to bake together—from French toast and muffins for breakfast; to pizza, pot pie, turnovers, and mini-quiches for lunch and dinner; to puddings, pies, brownies, and birthday cake for special occasions. Every recipe was carefully written to maximize nutrients while maintaining flavor and texture. Plus, each recipe includes one or more “Kids!” steps to get kids involved in baking in fun and easy ways.

In Sesame Street B is for Baking, Elmo and everyone’s favorite friends from Sesame Street provide educational tidbits so that young children (with adult supervision) will learn not only baking skills and a healthy attitude toward eating, they’ll practice counting, identifying shapes, and working as a team.

Most importantly, parents will get a chance to spend time with their children in the kitchen while making easy-to-prepare dishes that both kids and parents can enjoy and take pride in.  This book will lead to hours of baking fun!

Our Thoughts …

Sophie has claimed this cookbook as hers. Well until Grace is around and then she will claim they share it. I believe Sophie has no intention of sharing it though! Sophie has spent hours looking through this cookbook at the pictures in it. If Brian or I go get a cookbook off the bookcase, she will go get this one to look at on her own. She truly loves it.

Recently, I let her pick a recipe from the cookbook. She picked Ernie’s Halloween Cake recipe. I told her OK and then look at the recipe and got worried. It called for a fall squash or pumpkin or sweet potatoes. We oddly had no fall squash and we haven’t had any canned pumpkin for awhile. (I have been processing and freeze pumpkin instead.) We did have sweet potatoes though so I figured that would work and honestly wonder how we would even eat this cake.  This cake was so good though. If you didn’t know it had sweet potatoes in it, you would never know. Here is our finished cake …

And a piece of cake so you can see how it marbled.

 

I know this recipe says Halloween but you aren’t into Thanksgiving pies, I suggest giving this cake a try this coming Thanksgiving holiday!

Ernie’s Halloween Cake 

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups cooked winter squash or sweet potatoes (or canned pumpkin)
1 1/2 cups olive oil
4 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted

Directions

1) Preheat the over to 350 degrees F. Lightly green a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan. Dust the pan completely with flour.
2) In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt. In a small bowl, use a soon to mash the squash.
3) With the help of an adult, in a large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed, beat together the squash, olive oil, eggs, and vanilla until very smooth. Beat in the flour mixture until smooth. Transfer one-third of the batter to another small bowl.
4) Carefully stir the melted chocolate into the small bowl of batter.
5) Using large spoons, spoon the batters alternately into the pan. With a plastic knife, swirl together the squash batter and the chocolate batter to get a marbled effect.
6) Bake 50 to  60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the cake shrinks from the side of the pan. Transfer the pan to a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Turn the cake out onto the rack to cool completely.

You can buy this over on Amazon plus they have a great deal right now!

 

We are excited to giveaway one copy of this cookbook to one of our readers!

Details:
This drawing will end Thursday, November 24th at 11:59pm EST. The winner will have 48 hours to reply with their address. You must include your email address in the comment form so you can be contacted if you are a winner! You must complete the Mandatory Entry for the additional entries to count.

This giveaway is open to US residents only!

So how do you enter?

Mandatory Entry: Leave us a comment about who your little baker is.

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NOTE: We were sent a review copy of this book in support of this review. No other compensation was received. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are our honest opinion.

Filed Under: Giveaways, Kids, Promotional, Recipes, Reviews, Simply Family, Simply Food Tagged With: Ernie's Halloween Cake recipe, giveaway, recipe, review, Sesame Street B is for Baking: 50 Yummy Dishes to Make Together!, sweet potatoe cake recipe

Comments

  1. Lisa @ Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy says

    November 11, 2011 at 9:42 am

    that is a cute book and a yummy looking treat!!!

  2. Marthalynn says

    November 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    My little baker is my son. I love that he is already taking an interest in food and just being in the kitchen. And he’s a huge Sesame Street fan!

  3. Marthalynn says

    November 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    I follow you on GFC 🙂

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  9. Lindsay @ Lindsay Blogs says

    November 14, 2011 at 8:07 am

    This looks great! I’d love to find more ways to incorporate veggies into our diet and this cake is definitely a good way to do that!

  10. Shannon Baas says

    November 15, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    my 10 year old niece.

  11. nicole says

    November 16, 2011 at 10:21 am

    My six year old loves to help me bake.

  12. Kristi C says

    November 16, 2011 at 11:04 am

    My baker is my 5 year old son.

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    November 16, 2011 at 11:05 am

    tweet http://twitter.com/#!/5memb/status/136837124338089984

  14. Kathy S says

    November 19, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    My little baker is my great-niece.

  15. Maureen says

    November 19, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    My little two yr old nephew wanted to “help” me in the kitchen making my brother’s cake for his birthday. He was so puffed with pride when people stated that the cake was delicious and wondered who had made it and his response was that he had.

  16. Kerrie Mayans says

    November 20, 2011 at 2:33 am

    My lilte baker is Alex who is 5 years old.

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    November 20, 2011 at 2:35 am

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  23. Jessica says

    November 20, 2011 at 11:19 am

    My little bakers are my little sisters. My dad remarried and had two more kids. I am 23 and they are 5 and 7. One thing we love to do together is bake! This would be really excited for them if we won.

  24. Valerie Mabrey says

    November 21, 2011 at 12:07 am

    My little baker is my granddaughter
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    November 21, 2011 at 12:09 am

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  33. Casey Lynn Everidge says

    November 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    my little baker is my daughter Kailyn 🙂 she loves helping me bake everything!

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    November 21, 2011 at 11:14 pm

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  40. Renee G says

    November 22, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    My son Justin is our little baker.
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  41. Renee G says

    November 22, 2011 at 9:37 pm

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    November 22, 2011 at 9:37 pm

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  43. Renee G says

    November 22, 2011 at 9:40 pm

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  44. Renee G says

    November 22, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    Follow as Renee G on gFC
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  45. amy deeter says

    November 23, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    my daughter britney
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  46. amy deeter says

    November 23, 2011 at 12:28 pm

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  48. shawna says

    November 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Both of my little girls like to help me bake.

  49. erma says

    November 23, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    My daughter loves to bake.

  50. Ed Nemmers says

    November 23, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Samson is the little baker!

  51. meme says

    November 24, 2011 at 1:12 am

    my little baker is my 5 year old who is always helping me in the kitchen and who would love this cookbook

  52. meme says

    November 24, 2011 at 1:14 am

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  57. Jen Harriman says

    November 24, 2011 at 9:20 am

    All my kids love to help me out with the cooking. Last year I started baking like a crazy woman & even my few week old baby would hang from me in a sling “helping” haha

  58. Jen Harriman says

    November 24, 2011 at 9:23 am

    I like your facebook page. Jen Harriman

  59. Jen Harriman says

    November 24, 2011 at 9:24 am

    im a gfc follower! Jen H

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    November 24, 2011 at 9:25 am

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    November 24, 2011 at 9:25 am

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  66. Vanessa says

    November 24, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    I have 23 bakers since I’m a school teacher 🙂

  67. Sand says

    November 24, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    My niece is my little baker.

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