One of my very favorite hobbies is cooking and baking. Especially around the holidays I seem to be in the kitchen even more than usual and I love to try new recipes. I also love having my kids in the kitchen with me. I really want them to grow up, and know how to cook and bake. Thankfully they both really enjoy it and love learning new things. Hayden is almost 7 and he is getting really good at being my little sous chef. He can also make a few things by himself that he is super proud of!
MasterChef Junior is one of our favorite TV shows to watch together, and it is back for a 4th season. It premiers on Friday, November 6th at 8/7c on Fox. MasterChef Junior gives the best junior home cooks in America the chance to showcase their culinary abilities and passion for food through a series of delicious challenges. Each episode, host and award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay is joined by acclaimed chef Graham Elliot and our newest judge Christina Tosi on the MasterChef Junior judging panel. Hayden is always so inspired by what good cooks the kids are, and so am I! It is so impressive what amazing dishes they create.
To help all kids get in the kitchen and be excited about cooking MasterChef Junior has launched a new line of MasterChef Junior Inspired Cooking Sets for kids! These tools are really high quality and are not just toys. They are for real cooking or baking.
Hayden has loved his Cooking Essentials Set and has had so much fun using it to help me cook in the kitchen and to create some of his own yummy recipes. The Cooking Essentials Set has really awesome tools that I have even borrowed a few times to cook with. They are awesome tools! The Cooking Essentials Set comes with 9 cooking essential tools:
- Apron
- Cutting Board
- Mixing Bowl
- Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
- Spatula
- Spoon
- Tongs
- Recipe Cards
Cooking is such a good opportunity to spend quality time with my kids and also help teach them. Hayden is reading, doing math, and problem solving all while making something delicious. He has helped me make dinner a few times with his new tools and even surprised me one night saying he was going to make dinner!
If he ever has a choice for dinner he will usually choose breakfast for dinner. He loves his breakfast food and is on a pumpkin pancake kick right now. Which is totally fine with me because I love pumpkin, and I love all of the awesome nutrients my family gets from it.
He made whole wheat oat pumpkin pancakes start to finish with little to no help from me. He is able to measure out all his ingredients, pour mix, and flip the pancakes all on his own. I love watching him get such a great feeling of accomplishment when he is all done. He is so thoughtful about what goes into the meal. He added a side of eggs, grapes, and asked me to help him make some smoothies for everyone. It is so fun eating together as a family and especially when it is a meal that he has made!
The MasterChef Junior Inspired Cooking Sets would make such a great gift this holiday season. They are real cooking tools for kids ages 6 and up. They will help your kids love to cook and bake even more and bring the family together! Make sure you and your family also catch the premier of Season 4 MasterChef Junior on November 6th at 8/7c on Fox!
Right now one (1) Mom Spotted reader has the opportunity to win an MasterChef Junior Inspired Cooking Set. To enter use the Rafflecopter form below. Good Luck!
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About Megan
What a great giveaway. My children are master chef jr fanatics 🙂 Our favorite recipe to bake together is sugar cookies and bread.
My son has never been much into cooking or baking, but his favorite thing to make used to be a grilled cheese. He would experiment with different types of seasonings on the bread.
We like to bake banana bread together.
My son recently learned how to make scrambled eggs and enjoys making them into breakfast burritos.
The all time favorite that they like to bake is chocolate chip cookies!
Definitely cupcakes are a favorite!
My three year old wants to help me cook every meal she would love this!! But the forms not appearing for me 🙁
S’more brownies!
We love to make Mexican Pizzas
Brownies lots and lots of brownies
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Banana nut muffins are outface!
hands down chocolate chip cookies.
Brownies or cupcakes are fun and easy for us.
We like to make pizza
My son loves to cook everything with me, he loves stirring 🙂
my grandkids and I love baking any kind of cookies
Whatever I make most of the time my kiddos want to help.
My daughter likes to help out in the kitchen with making tacos. She does a great job of chopping veggies.
We love to make pizza and muffins together!
We love to make homemade pizza
My son loves making banana bread
She and I make egg muffins for breakfast
We always love to make cookies together on special occasions. It’s as much fun making them as it is eating them.
shaped sugar cookies that we later decorate
My kids LOVE making pudding with avocado 🙂
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I love to make sugar cookies with my grandkids.
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I love making Italian iced cookies or gingerbread cookies with my kids.
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My daughter and I usually only bake things together. Mostly cookies.
Love to make chocolate chip cookies with my grandson
My 7 year son loves this show and it is the reason he became interested in cooking. Our favorite recipe to make together is meatloaf as he enjoys the mixing of the ingredients all together to form the loaf.
I like to make brownies with my son.
the like to help with brownies or cupcakes
The kids love to make their own pizzas with their favorite toppings!
My daughter loves to make anything in the kitchen, and in her play kitchen. She helps out with all meals!
Chocolate chip cookies are the go to
my granddaughter likes to make sugar cookies and then frost them
My son loves to cook. We recently made home made meatballs and pumpkin bread.
My son and I always enjoyed making chocolate chip cookies. So fun & delicious!
I love baking cookies with dd! She loves to help especially with licking the bowl clean and eating the cookie dough! LOL
Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!
Cookies for me and my boys too.
I like to make all kinds of things with my kids. Last night we made lasagna roll ups. It was a hit! Cinnamon rolls are also popular. Basically anything you roll out, roll up is good 🙂
love to make brownies together
We like to bake and cook all kinds of things together, but our favorite is baking cookies.
I love baking brownies! It was always my favorite thing to bake as a kid and it’s nice to pass that joy along!
My kids have always loved to bake with me! They love making banana bread & chocolate chip cookies most of all!
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My daughter, grand daughter and I love to make pancakes. She is 6 now and has always been a big help with mixing and eating.
I have been baking with my daughter for years as I also do with my Granddaughter. About 30+ yrs ago, my husband took noodles and rolled them for something different and we called them Lasagna Roll ups and after passing the recipe through friends and family it has really become a favorite household dinner. I’m not sure when they were actually invented, but we love them. It’s a great dinner we make for Duke University Lutherans students. Quick and easy. Cakes and Cookies seem to be my Granddaughter’s favorites even though she helps in the kitchen as much as she can.
My boys love helping me make chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies!
My daughter loves to cook anything, but one of her favorites is microwave scrambled eggs because she can do it on her own start to finish.
My daughter loves any recipe that she gets to use the manual eggbeater – pancakes and waffles are the best!
My favorite is oatmeal cookies but my daughter would probably say scrambled eggs!
Banana and Pumpkin Breads are my favorite to do with the littles because its a quick recipe and not a lot of actual kitchen time. They love to watch the loaves rise and then cut up while warm and serve with cream cheese frosting. So it’s actually frosting AND breads.
Baking cookings, homemade pizza, and applesauce!
We love to cook together as family, our favorite is bake any kind of pizza,from scratch.
We also enjoy baking chicken pot pie and cookies.
I love making banana bread.
My kids love to help me make pancakes or french toast!
We love making cupcakes and pizza
The kids love to make chocolate chip cookes.
One of our faves is Applesauce bars. The kids like to help make & bake them & eat them too 🙂
Our daugher will race to her step stool whenever she hears the sounds of baking/cooking prep in the kitchen. Doesnt matter the dish, she’s ready to help!
We love to make cookies and cupcakes!
We love finding new recipes each time. It keeps it interesting.
My 2 granddaughters (sisters) love to help me bake chocolate chip cookies.
My kids love to make and eat chocolate chip cookies
I like to make pizza and cupcakes with my grandson.
I like making French toast with my grandkids and decorating cookies and cakes.
My son loves to bake cookies with me. We just made peanut butter cookies and molasses cookies.
THAT SET IS TOO CUTE
My grandkids love to bake cookies with me they like peanut butter cookies with Hersey Kisses on top.
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I like to back Christmas cookies with my grandchild.
i like to bake cookies with the kids
Chocolate Chip cookies are our favorite! Thanks so much for the chance!
We make cupcakes often and the kids love to decorate them.
We love making cookies cupcakes fudge they love it so much
Chocolate Chip cookies
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our favorite recipe is Spaghetti with meatballs.
My kids like baking cookies with me..and making pizzas!
My wife and I have been looking for this set to buy our grandkids for Christmas. We have looked all over. Does anyone know where you can buy this as a set?
Cut-out cookies – and decorating them is fun!
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My family loves to make chicken quesidillas. Thank you
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