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Monthly Book Club: Cook-a-doodle-doo!

July 8, 2015 by Alli 6 Comments

This adorable book comes with a delicious recipe for strawberry shortcake, and makes the perfect choice for book club!

It’s book club time again! I’m really excited about this one, y’all. It’s adorable.

Cook-a-Doodle-Doo is about Big Brown Rooster – the great-grandson of the Little Red Hen. In the story, he enlists the help of an iguana, turtle, and potbellied pig, to make a strawberry shortcake. Unfortunately, his helpers are far from being the next iron chefs. My little monkeys giggled through the entire book, laughing at how the animals create all kinds of silly mishaps in the kitchen.

Cook-a-doodle-doo! Great book club idea!

They do all kinds of silly things, like trying to “beat” an egg with a baseball bat. In fact.. it kind of reminded me of Owen. It just seemed like stuff he would do 🙂

Monthly Book Club - Cook-a-doodle-doo! Comes with a yummy strawberry shortcake recipe!

They practiced their cutting skills with plastic knives – Sophie was pretty good! Owen… was mostly interested in eating and playing.

In the back of the book there’s a recipe for strawberry shortcake, which we made. It was delicious! Just how my mom used to make it – not with the gross spongy cake you find in grocery stores, but with a yummy homemade biscuit. I did change a couple things… I mashed up the strawberries into a chunky sauce, and added a bit of sugar. And I added a bit of sugar and vanilla to the whipped cream. You don’t have to do that, but it certainly makes it taste delicious!

While we were cooking, Soph wanted to make the same mistakes the animals made. I told her we better not 🙂 But she did assign out parts – I was the iguana, Owen was the turtle, and she was the pig (who kept wanting to sneak bites)!

Make this delicious strawberry shortcake from the book Cook-a-doodle-doo!

It was such a cute book, and a really fun activity! My little monkeys love to help in the kitchen, so this was right up their alley. The recipe was simple and easy to follow, so they could do a lot of the steps by themselves. And I’ve certainly been enjoying the leftovers 🙂

 

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Comments

  1. Gwen says

    July 8, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    This is such a fun book I loved it also. Love those cute monkeys!!

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  2. Michelle says

    July 8, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    We’re definitely going to have to check this out! My kids love Dragons Love Tacos and the Day the Crayons Quit. Your kids are adorable!

    Reply
    • Alli says

      July 8, 2015 at 8:22 pm

      Thanks, Michelle! It’s certainly a cute book, my kiddos loved it 🙂

      Reply
  3. Cynthia @craftoflaughter says

    July 8, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    I will definitely be adding this to my to buy for Christmas list!

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    • Alli says

      July 8, 2015 at 8:22 pm

      That’s great, Cynthia! Hope you like it 🙂

      Reply
  4. Michelle says

    July 15, 2015 at 1:39 am

    The CRAAAZIEST thing happened today. We were at the library for our summer reading program weekly craft and my kids kept trying to pick out books. Since we already have like 5 thousand library books at home, I kept telling them “no no no, we’re just here for the craft!” Then, all of a sudden, I turn around to find my 13 month old pulling this EXACT book off the shelf and onto the floor. What are the odds?! Anyway, we brought it home. It’s super cute and we’re definitely going to try the recipe.

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