This week we’re showing off how the Curious Chef 16-Piece Cupcake & Decorating Kitand sharing our thoughts…while we make and eat cupcakes of course! ;D

This kit is great for kids who like baking and decorating with frosting. The frosting spreader and frosting decorator work great and are perfect for jr. pastry chefs.

The only issue we had was with the silicone liners, because we’d never used them before and Mom didn’t read the directions thoroughly (oops!). I should’ve sprayed them with cooking oil and then we’d have had less sticking. I’ve learned my lesson!

We hope you find the review helpful and for our thoughts on other Curious Chef Kids Cooking Tools, click here. Enjoy the review!

Happy Family Cooking Everyone,

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

One of the easiest ways to get the kids in the kitchen together to have some fun is family baking time.
Curious Chef 8-pc. Gift Event Kits Cookie Kit can help facilitate this activity and today, Alex, Soph and I share our first hand thoughts on the kit.

When you open the box for this set you’ll find two cookie cutters, ours were a butterfly and a bear. There’s also a non-stick rolling pin, a cookie turner, a silicone mixing spoon and a whisk. Plus, as in most of their kits, there’s a bonus sticker set and shopping menu. When we tested it out, we used the recipe on back of box, which isn’t bad, so you might want to write that one down too, before recycling it.

In addition to helping liven-up a Saturday family baking afternoon, this kit is perfect play-date activity for your petite chef & their guest. Sophie always wants to bake something when friends are coming over, and having the custom, kid-sized tools for the job makes everyone feel special.

The tools included in the kit are great for kids as young as 3, although even a younger child with a knack for stirring would have fun with the spoon and whisk! The non-stick rolling pin is one of my personal favorites, not just for it’s non-stick feature, but because I can just throw them in the dishwasher after use. We actually have two of them–one for Alex and one for Soph.

I’ll have to say, with the exception of the cookie cutters, we use pretty much every one of the tools included in this kit on a regular basis. The rolling pin is good for fresh pasta and pizza dough–play dough too! We use the whisk for beating eggs or mixing dry ingredients and the spoon is almost like a spoon-spatula, great for scraping every last bit out of a container. We even use the cookie turner for flipping tuna burgers and fried eggs. Honestly, the least used item in the kit is the cookie cutters, but when we make cookies, they work perfectly–nice and large so the dough doesn’t stick in them. To see this kit in action, you can check out our Rollout Sugar Cookie episode of 2 Kids Cooking TV (also included above).

If seeing the Cookie Kit working its magic in the hands of my little chef’s inspires you, you can get your little chef his or her very own, you can get a
Curious Chef 8-pc. Gift Event Kits Cookie Kit, right here.

Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Alex, Soph and Mom

Yep, November 29th is the Mom’s official birthday. This year will be my last in my 30′s and I’m looking to make a great one. I have so much I want to accomplish in the next 365 days, but my main goal is to spend as much time as possible with my kids, boyfriend, family and friends while working toward getting my day-to-day life looking the way I want it to. To help me achieve this goal I’m continually looking for ways to incorporate family time into every day activities and prioritize.

That is part of the reason the kids and I do our cooking show. It gives us an opportunity to have fun together in the kitchen and goofing around on camera. Alex has fun helping tape shots and assisting with technical stuff and Soph loves planning the food we’ll make and making sure everything looks perfect. Although I do love cooking, the best part is that my kiddies are with me

Since I’m still recovering from the holiday weekend, and the Sunday Thanksgiving meal the kids and I had together (since they were with their dad on Thanksgiving), that’s all I’ve got for now.

We hope you all had an awesomely delicious Thanksgiving.

Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

This week on Two Kids Cooking TV we get into some baking. Now, there are lots of things you can bake, like chicken, fish, potatoes, lasagna, etc… BUT, a favorite baking delight of most everyone is COOKIES! And that’s what we’re sharing this week.

The recipe we’re using is from the back of the box of our favorite custom-made-for-kids-cooking-tool-making-company, Curious Chef. As you’ll see, the recipe is easy to make with the kids, plus, rolling-out, cutting and decorating cookies is always a fun way to spend some time in the kitchen as a family.

Enjoy the show and Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Alex, Soph and Mom

P.S. We’ll be sharing my review of the Curious Chef 6 pc Cookie kit that we are using in this episode, so make sure you’re following us on Facebook or Twitter !