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The Official DC Super Hero Cookbook: 60+ Simple, Tasty Recipes for Growing Super Heroes (10)
The DC SUPER HERO COOKBOOK is packed with simple, fun recipes designed to evoke kids' favorite super heroes and to enhance their super powers. DC Super Hero logo stencils and character cut-outs make for extra-fun food styling.
More than sixty easy, tasty recipes inspired by beloved DC characters (including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Wonder Woman--and more!) are fun for kids of all ages to prepare and to eat! From the Up, Up and Away Parfait and Green Arrow Fruit Kebobs to Holy Guacamole and the Bat Cave Chicken Stew, the colorfully presented recipes are perfect for making everyday family meals extra special, as well as for themed parties. Simple, step-by-step instructions are easy to replicate. And kids will enjoy flipping through the fabulous finish photos. Special sections on lunch box suggestions and super hero parties are packed with clever ideas. And DC Super Hero symbol stencils and character cut-outs make it easy to style every dish.
More than sixty easy, tasty recipes inspired by beloved DC characters (including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Wonder Woman--and more!) are fun for kids of all ages to prepare and to eat! From the Up, Up and Away Parfait and Green Arrow Fruit Kebobs to Holy Guacamole and the Bat Cave Chicken Stew, the colorfully presented recipes are perfect for making everyday family meals extra special, as well as for themed parties. Simple, step-by-step instructions are easy to replicate. And kids will enjoy flipping through the fabulous finish photos. Special sections on lunch box suggestions and super hero parties are packed with clever ideas. And DC Super Hero symbol stencils and character cut-outs make it easy to style every dish.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published October 8, 2013
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Matthew Mead
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Matthew Mead (c. 1630 – 1699), English minister
Matthew Mead (1924-2009), English poet and translator
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January 9, 2014
If you're looking to make a delectable dish for Princess Diana of Themyscira or you're planning to have Bruce Wayne to your bruncheon, this is not the book for you. There are no time-consuming, rare-ingredient recipes anywhere in here.
The most complex step of any of these recipes involves cutting out stencils or making shapes out of foods.
However, if it's your job to get a child interested in making food - and, really, people, you've got to start teaching your children to cook. Like, early on. My nieces and nephews can't even make a grilled cheese sandwich and I worry that if I'm ever sick and they have to go through the woods, past the wolf, to come care for me, I will wind up starving to death, not dying of my bad cold. Kids need to learn cooking skills! - this would be a great starting point.
The recipes are sort of gross as adult food but awesome as child food, like the Batarang Crackers - crackers with Batman Symbol-shaped pieces of cheese and lunchmeat. In the photo, there's a glass of some Gatorade-looking liquid and Robin's mask is on the glass. You know, to really Bat it all up.
There are healthy meals, like Green Arrow Kebobs - green peppers, Brussels sprouts (because kids love those), zucchini, broccoli, chicken sausage - and Power Ring Pasta - fuscilli pasta (which you might be able to find in gluten free?), kale, spinach, butter, salt and pepper - as well recipes covering everything from breakfast to desserts, including sugar cookies with superhero logos stenciled upon them and smoothies that have actually nothing to do with heroes until you put gold thread around the glass and call it Wonder Woman's lasso. No, they didn't take the logical jump from lasso to lassi. Yes, it's a disappointment.
Am I going to run out and buy this? No. But if I had an 8-year-old birthday party to put on and that soon-to-be-8-year-old liked DC superheroes, I'd check this out and make some of these items. Probably.
The most complex step of any of these recipes involves cutting out stencils or making shapes out of foods.
However, if it's your job to get a child interested in making food - and, really, people, you've got to start teaching your children to cook. Like, early on. My nieces and nephews can't even make a grilled cheese sandwich and I worry that if I'm ever sick and they have to go through the woods, past the wolf, to come care for me, I will wind up starving to death, not dying of my bad cold. Kids need to learn cooking skills! - this would be a great starting point.
The recipes are sort of gross as adult food but awesome as child food, like the Batarang Crackers - crackers with Batman Symbol-shaped pieces of cheese and lunchmeat. In the photo, there's a glass of some Gatorade-looking liquid and Robin's mask is on the glass. You know, to really Bat it all up.
There are healthy meals, like Green Arrow Kebobs - green peppers, Brussels sprouts (because kids love those), zucchini, broccoli, chicken sausage - and Power Ring Pasta - fuscilli pasta (which you might be able to find in gluten free?), kale, spinach, butter, salt and pepper - as well recipes covering everything from breakfast to desserts, including sugar cookies with superhero logos stenciled upon them and smoothies that have actually nothing to do with heroes until you put gold thread around the glass and call it Wonder Woman's lasso. No, they didn't take the logical jump from lasso to lassi. Yes, it's a disappointment.
Am I going to run out and buy this? No. But if I had an 8-year-old birthday party to put on and that soon-to-be-8-year-old liked DC superheroes, I'd check this out and make some of these items. Probably.
August 24, 2017
This gets 3 stars only with keeping in mind that I can easily make these recipes healthier. I mean holy food coloring, Batman! And the freaking sugar....ughh. It's quite easy to color naturally with fruits and veggies. However, I do like the recipe ideas because they are kid-friendly and I am sure will get kids wanting to eat this super hero food....way too easy to give weekday dinner a hero twist. Decent for super hero fans....and parties.
June 24, 2019
2+ but strong enough to round up.
It's not a cookbook of anything unusual, really. If you want creative recipes or super innovative decorating ideas, check out something like The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us or the Hello, Cupcake series.
What this does offer is a collection of recipes and decorating ideas that super-busy parents can do, or even that kids can do themselves. A lot of the ideas are simply playing with the natural colors of foods and making simply shaped cuts (Green Lantern's sign out of bell peppers, for example). For those who aren't particularly creative, or for younger ones who don't have the experience, this is a fun collection.
It's not a cookbook of anything unusual, really. If you want creative recipes or super innovative decorating ideas, check out something like The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us or the Hello, Cupcake series.
What this does offer is a collection of recipes and decorating ideas that super-busy parents can do, or even that kids can do themselves. A lot of the ideas are simply playing with the natural colors of foods and making simply shaped cuts (Green Lantern's sign out of bell peppers, for example). For those who aren't particularly creative, or for younger ones who don't have the experience, this is a fun collection.
April 29, 2014
This book was so much fun we hated to give it back to the library. Each recipe incorporates vintage superhero figures and it really looks like they had as much fun photographing it as we did reading it. My son absolutely loved these photos.
That being said, the actual text wasn't anything creative or particularly helpful. They rely heavily on logoing (stencils are included), but the amount of food coloring used in these recipes was insane. While super kid-friendly, they were not particularly healthy (though the book doesn't claim to be). Also, some of the recipes didn't actually include step-by-step instructions (like the grilled cheese recipe just told you to take your favorite bread and cheese and heat them in a skillet on the stove). I realize that's a very easy food to make, but since this book is geared (I assume) to getting kids in the kitchen, step-by-step instructions would have been helpful.
I liked that they included some ideas for using store bought ingredient or making your own; however, I felt the book relied a little too much on additives and food coloring for this day and age.
Worth checking out though for the good ideas - if you were having a hero themed party, this would be awesome inspiration!
That being said, the actual text wasn't anything creative or particularly helpful. They rely heavily on logoing (stencils are included), but the amount of food coloring used in these recipes was insane. While super kid-friendly, they were not particularly healthy (though the book doesn't claim to be). Also, some of the recipes didn't actually include step-by-step instructions (like the grilled cheese recipe just told you to take your favorite bread and cheese and heat them in a skillet on the stove). I realize that's a very easy food to make, but since this book is geared (I assume) to getting kids in the kitchen, step-by-step instructions would have been helpful.
I liked that they included some ideas for using store bought ingredient or making your own; however, I felt the book relied a little too much on additives and food coloring for this day and age.
Worth checking out though for the good ideas - if you were having a hero themed party, this would be awesome inspiration!
February 5, 2014
IF you were putting together a superhero-themed birthday party AND you were feeling especially uncreative - to the extent that it might not occur to you to buy a Bat-Signal-shaped cookie cutter or blueberry ice cream - you would need to probably check this book out of the library.
The DC team has come up with some ideas ranging from Okay (bundles of veggies wrapped in gold thread like Wonder Woman's lasso - I suppose so that they'll tell the truth? "We are not really baby carrots! We are normal carrots that have been cut down and tumbled in a drum! Take it off!") to Oh God (granola + goldfish-shaped graham crackers + milk = Atlantis Cereal, which is apparently what Stoner Aquaman eats late at night).
Your kids will want you to bring it home though, because the pictures are super cute. Loads of action figures heroically hoisting sandwiches, that kind of thing. The design and styling are clean and zingy, with lots of Golden Age drop-in art. Who knows - maybe your kid will even be inspired to try to make Power Ring Pasta (fusilli, spinach and kale, butter) or Robin's Breakfast Bar (baked granola bars made with melted marshmallows).
The DC team has come up with some ideas ranging from Okay (bundles of veggies wrapped in gold thread like Wonder Woman's lasso - I suppose so that they'll tell the truth? "We are not really baby carrots! We are normal carrots that have been cut down and tumbled in a drum! Take it off!") to Oh God (granola + goldfish-shaped graham crackers + milk = Atlantis Cereal, which is apparently what Stoner Aquaman eats late at night).
Your kids will want you to bring it home though, because the pictures are super cute. Loads of action figures heroically hoisting sandwiches, that kind of thing. The design and styling are clean and zingy, with lots of Golden Age drop-in art. Who knows - maybe your kid will even be inspired to try to make Power Ring Pasta (fusilli, spinach and kale, butter) or Robin's Breakfast Bar (baked granola bars made with melted marshmallows).
October 3, 2014
I was disappointed with this cookbook. I was hoping for more than just decorations in the shape of the famous symbols of DC superheroes. That being said, there are some cute ideas if you are hosting a superhero themed birthday party or something. The format is bright and colorful as it should be. The directions seem decent but kids will likely need adult help for sure.
January 9, 2015
This has some great recipes for kids. There are some really creative and cool superhero inspired dishes! Some of the designs need some parental experience to use stencils and character cut-outs. You can pick this book up at the Colona Public Library! ~Ashley
January 12, 2015
In elementary school, I checked this book out of the library every single week.
I never made anything in it. But the concept of the Flash giving apple crisp instructions just jacked up my little fourth-grade world.
I never made anything in it. But the concept of the Flash giving apple crisp instructions just jacked up my little fourth-grade world.
September 12, 2016
It's all the recipes that you already make, but with food coloring, icing gel and edible pigment powder! Holy Cheap Gimmicks Batman! That's a lot of paprika you're using to stencil your logo onto a sandwich!
February 12, 2015
comes with stencils and stickers, great if you're doing a kids birthday party.
February 26, 2015
A cookbook for making superhero-themed treats for children. Cute, but not great. A bit unimaginative.
April 11, 2015
recipes look easy to make kids like it....and the added bonus of teaching them about super heros
December 3, 2015
Mucho más creativo que otros libros de cocina para niños. Además trae unas plantillas para decorar cosas bien bonitas.
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