This Cookie Will
Make Your Kid Smarter
Not because of the recipe.
Because while kids bake, they practice focus, patience, sequencing, problem-solving, resilience, and confidence.
Those skills don’t suddenly appear in adulthood.
They’re built through small everyday experiences starting in childhood.
The cookie is just the beginning.
The starting point for LITTLE bakers (ages 2-6)
The perfect activity for LITTLE bakers (ages 2-6)
A fun baking + educational activity for LITTLE and RISING bakers
If you want to
raise resilient kids
in an overstimulated world, this is for you.
LITTLE
Bakers (ages 2-6)
STEP 1: READ TOGETHER
Start with Allegra Bakes a Cookie storybook and introduce your little one to baking, sequencing, and problem-solving through storytelling.
STEP 2: BAKE TOGETHER
Bake the Chocolate Chip Cookie from the recipe in the book, and practice patience, following directions, measuring, teamwork and resilience together in the kitchen.
STEP 3: THINK & PLAY
Continue the learning with the Allegra Bakes & Thinks activity workbooks featuring puzzles, drawing, sequencing, and hands-on activities designed to build executive function skills through play.
STEP 4: BUILD SKILLS TOGETHER
Visit allegrabakes.com/bake-along and follow the free bake-along video to make the Vanilla Buttermilk Cake together at home.
RISING
Bakers (ages 7-12)
STEP 1: START BAKING INDEPENDENTLY (with adult supervision!)
Visit allegrabakes.com/bake-along and follow the free Vanilla Buttermilk Cake bake-along video designed to help older kids build confidence and kitchen independence.
STEP 2: LEARN ADVANCED SKILLS
Enroll in the Macaron Tower Building Class online where Rising Bakers learn everything from sourcing ingredients and tools to baking, decorating, packaging, and presentation through videos, printables, and guided instruction.
STEP 3: CONSISTENTLY BUILD BIGGER SKILLS
Enroll in the next group baking program beginning October 1 and continue building creativity, resilience, focus, and real-world confidence alongside a cohort of young bakers. Additional courses include learning to create 3D printed tools to aid with baking and design.
For LITTLE bakers ready for more
Get new recipes, activities, and bake-alongs delivered as your LITTLE baker grows.
Read & Bake
Allegra Bakes
a Cake
Practice with
Allegra Bakes
& Thinks
(activity & coloring)
Advanced skills for RISING bakers
Watch your RISING baker build a Macaron Tower from start to finish.
Yes, your kid will
make this
by themselves
Using this
framework
This isn’t really about baking.
Yes you’ll make cookies (and they’re delicious).
But what’s actually happening is your child is learning how to:
Slow down
Follow steps
Figure out what to do next
Keep going when something doesn’t work
All without it feeling like a lesson.
It looks like baking.
It’s actually life skills.
