Make a Forever Memory •14 Easy Recipes to Cook with Kids

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on March 22, 2025

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14 of our favorite easy and fun things to cook with kids! Everyone will enjoy making these delicious recipes.

Do you enjoy cooking with your kids or grandkids? My kids adore helping me cook. They love to crack eggs, whisk batters, chop veggies, and more. After years of doing this, they can now make many recipes from start to finish all on their own.

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Whether you need to fill some hours over spring break or entertain grandkids on a weekend visit, cooking together is a great idea. Everyone will be so proud of their delicious creations. Let us know what you make!

Vertical 4-photo collage of our grandson Drip, Dip and Flipping (and tasting!) Watermelon Shortbread Cookies.
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Fresh Strawberry Buttermilk Muffins

With a sweet, crunchy sugar topping, a moist tender crumb and bits of delicious strawberries in every bite, these high-domed Fresh Strawberry Buttermilk Muffins are a no-fail hit, every time!

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Spring Shortbread Cookies

These easy Spring Shortbread Cookies are crisp, buttery, delicious and have a simple decorating technique that's fun to do with kids!

French Grandmother's Lemon Yogurt Cake - a fabulous cake with a really fun history. It's moist and super delicious and it can be thrown together in minutes!

French Grandmother's Lemon Yogurt Cake

This fabulous French Grandmother's Lemon Yogurt Cake has a really fun history. It's also moist, super delicious and can be thrown together in minutes!

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Better than Starbucks Blueberry Muffins

Do you enjoy Starbucks Blueberry Muffins? We think these are even better! They're moist, delicious, loaded with juicy blueberries and they rise up high, with beautiful domed tops!

Ridiculously Easy Lemon Raspberry Scones on a white pedestal stand.

Ridiculously Easy Lemon Raspberry Scones

These heavenly, melt-in-your-mouth Lemon Raspberry Scones are not only ridiculously delicious, they're also ridiculously easy and come together so quickly!

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Best Ever, Super Easy Salsa

This fresh, vibrant easy salsa is loaded with delicious South of the Border flavor and comes together in less than 10 minutes.

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Sugar Plum Fairy Shortbread Bites

These buttery, melt-in-your-mouth Sugar Plum Fairy Shortbread Bites are super easy to make with no rolling or cutting out and make a delicious, quite magical gift with the free printable labels!

Watermelon Shortbread Cookies • Free Printable Labels

These one-bowl, no-mixer Watermelon Shortbread Cookies are fun, whimsical, super DELICIOUS and have an amazingly easy decorating technique!

Easy Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza

If you're a pizza lover, this crazy-delicious, super-easy, deep dish pepperoni pizza is the stuff dreams are made of. It never fails to bring rave reviews!

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Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Chip Shortbread

If you've got 15 minutes, that's all it takes to stir up a batch of this Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Chip Shortbread. It's sweet, buttery and, in addition to being ridiculously easy, it's also ridiculously delicious!

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Super Easy Chicken Enchiladas Verde

With a few easy shortcuts, you can have these delicious Easy Chicken Enchiladas Verde on your table in less than an hour!

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Crispy, Chewy Carolina Coconut Cookies

As the name says, these Crispy, Chewy Carolina Coconut Cookies have moist chewy interiors, crisp buttery edges and lots of fabulous coconut flavor for a delicious sweet indulgence!

Vertical photo of a batch of Ridiculously Easy Snickerdoodle Scones on a white pedestal plate.

Ridiculously Easy Snickerdoodle Scones

These Snickerdoodle Scones are kissin' cousins to the beloved classic cookies with soft buttery insides and crisp cinnamon-sugar exteriors! They're ridiculously easy to put together and ridiculously delicious!

Italian Chicken Sausage Ravioli Lasagna

This make-ahead Italian Chicken Sausage Ravioli Lasagna is bursting with fabulous Italian flavor and tastes like you labored for hours! No one has to know the delicious little secret.

Thought for the day:

For I am the LORD your God
Who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you,
"Do not fear; I will help you".
Isaiah 41:13 

What we're listening to for inspiration:

You Hold Unto Me

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