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The Disney Villains Cookbook
Inspired by the Disney Villains, this bewitching cookbook for kids makes learning how to cook everything from hearty breakfasts to delicious desserts fun and downright magical.
Featuring simple step-by-step instructions and mouth-watering photos of each dish, this cookbook invites readers to craft wickedly delicious treats while enjoying captivating illustrations of Disney's classic villains and their sidekicks.
In this book, readers will
50 beginner-friendly recipes, including dishes like Kronk's Spinach Puffs, Gaston's Chicken Drumsticks, Cruella Cookies, and many moreA thorough introduction to kitchen basicsA "difficulty rating" for each recipeBeautiful food photography on every spreadCharming illustrations of the Disney VillainsAn index of dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian recipes
Featuring simple step-by-step instructions and mouth-watering photos of each dish, this cookbook invites readers to craft wickedly delicious treats while enjoying captivating illustrations of Disney's classic villains and their sidekicks.
In this book, readers will
50 beginner-friendly recipes, including dishes like Kronk's Spinach Puffs, Gaston's Chicken Drumsticks, Cruella Cookies, and many moreA thorough introduction to kitchen basicsA "difficulty rating" for each recipeBeautiful food photography on every spreadCharming illustrations of the Disney VillainsAn index of dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian recipes
144 pages, Hardcover
Published July 11, 2023
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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
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January 18, 2025
Technically a children's cookbook (it includes a Basics section that has information about cleaning up too - most adults don't need to be reminded to hang up their aprons), there are still some fun recipes in here for a fandom event for any age.
Super excited to see some more obscure villains included. So often Disney books include the more classic princess characters, but this also had Hades, Dr. Facilier, and Kronk and Yzma and more represented. And let's be honest, if there was no spinach puff recipe included for Kronk, I'd've been quite upset.
I liked that there were a lot of references for kids learning their way around the kitchen. Besides the Basics section, there was a glossary at the end defining ingredients and techniques (quite helpful, actually), helpful tips and recommended substitutions in a lot of recipes, and a handy page at the end that summarized dietary restrictions - Dairy, Gluten, Vegan/Vegetarian. And I liked the organization by meal/type of recipe. Sounds like a silly thing, but there are a lot of themed/fandom recipe collections that don't organize by recipe, but by reference, so all the Gaston recipes together, no matter what type of recipe they are. Personally, it's easier to look up the villain than to search for "fun breakfast recipes" through the whole cookbook. Just my opinion but was a plus nonetheless. And the recipes themselves? Actually a pretty good variety. Not all breakfast recipes were eggs, for example (as someone who doesn't like eggs, this has actually been a complaint for some cookbooks).
If you're looking for an adult-free kids cookbook, this wouldn't be one to choose. A lot of the recipes either have instructions that need adults for safety, or just depend on a more involved kitchen knowledge than the average small Disney fan might have. As a cookbook to make recipes from together? Definitely a solid entry.
My spinach puffs!
Super excited to see some more obscure villains included. So often Disney books include the more classic princess characters, but this also had Hades, Dr. Facilier, and Kronk and Yzma and more represented. And let's be honest, if there was no spinach puff recipe included for Kronk, I'd've been quite upset.
I liked that there were a lot of references for kids learning their way around the kitchen. Besides the Basics section, there was a glossary at the end defining ingredients and techniques (quite helpful, actually), helpful tips and recommended substitutions in a lot of recipes, and a handy page at the end that summarized dietary restrictions - Dairy, Gluten, Vegan/Vegetarian. And I liked the organization by meal/type of recipe. Sounds like a silly thing, but there are a lot of themed/fandom recipe collections that don't organize by recipe, but by reference, so all the Gaston recipes together, no matter what type of recipe they are. Personally, it's easier to look up the villain than to search for "fun breakfast recipes" through the whole cookbook. Just my opinion but was a plus nonetheless. And the recipes themselves? Actually a pretty good variety. Not all breakfast recipes were eggs, for example (as someone who doesn't like eggs, this has actually been a complaint for some cookbooks).
If you're looking for an adult-free kids cookbook, this wouldn't be one to choose. A lot of the recipes either have instructions that need adults for safety, or just depend on a more involved kitchen knowledge than the average small Disney fan might have. As a cookbook to make recipes from together? Definitely a solid entry.
My spinach puffs!
September 27, 2025
I am 49 years old, with what is apparently the cooking skill of someone at least 40 years younger, because this children's cookbook was EXACTLY my speed.
And I didn't even know that it was a cookbook for children when I checked it out of the library. What that says about me, I do not care to explore. But although I am mostly disinterested in cooking (if someone ever invents a middle-aged human chow with all the vitamins and nutrients needed by a perimenopausal woman, sold in 50-pound bags with instructions on the side about what size scoop you should dish out per meal, I will be incandescently happy and my life will immediately become 1000% easier), I DO love myself some thematically-appropriate novelty foods, and I thought this book might snooker me into actually, you know, using my stove this week.
Especially with the excuse to eat my dinner in front of a movie!
Alas for that last part, because this book's only flaw for me is that the recipes are VERY loosely associated with the Disney villain each claims to represent. I'll give it a point for the Spotted Scones to represent Cruella de Vil, because okay, chocolate chips are a cute idea for dalmatian spots and the book/movie IS set in England... but they don't actually represent Cruella, just the concept of the film. An actual Cruella recipe would be something like a black and white cookie. And the Black and White Bean Salad that comes later in the book and is also supposed to represent Cruella doesn't work, either, because black beans aren't really black.
The two recipes that my partner and I tried have even looser connections to their Disney villains. You're supposed to cut the Baguette Breakfast Beaks into triangles to represent Maleficent's raven familiar, but other than the fact that it's kind of gross to make an egg dish to symbolize a bird, cutting it into triangles is literally the only connection. And a baguette cut into triangles doesn't look like beaks? Captain Hook's Stuffed Shells is even worse, because even though the description notes that "Captain Hook and his crew would no doubt appreciate a warm plate of this ocean-themed dish," the absolute only ocean-themed part of it is the jumbo pasta shells. No nori, no seafood, no ocean colors, no crumbly textures to represent sand... just baked pasta with jumbo pasta shells.
Y'all, my grown-up autistic ass can barely accept this as even remotely on-theme. There's no way you're going to get a kid with any kind of neurological pathways to buy into it.
HOWEVER... the two recipes that my partner and I tried were DELICIOUS. And SIMPLE. And infinitely repeatable in a menu rotation. And super easy to riff on with whatever ingredients you have on hand.
The best part, though, is that the recipes are so clear and intuitive that you just have to make them while looking at the recipe exactly once, and then you can make them forever. The baguette bake is just beaten eggs, whatever veggies sound good, and a bunch of cheese baked in a hollowed-out baguette. I threw in some diced peppers and onion and chopped spinach and halved cherry tomatoes, and my partner and I killed an entire baguette's worth between the two of us. The stuffed shells is just a carton of ricotta, a beaten egg, whatever veggies and herbs sound good, and a bunch more mozzarella and parmesan layered casserole-style with cooked pasta and marinara sauce and baked. I threw in a ton of sauteed kale from my garden along with scallions and a shocking amount of fresh parsley, and my only regret is not going even harder on the greens because my partner and I FEASTED!
Seriously--if this is what cooking is actually like, then I can actually do it, and I actually enjoy it!
We watched Ted Lasso while we ate our stuffed shells, though, because that recipe is absolutely NOT Peter Pan-themed.
And I didn't even know that it was a cookbook for children when I checked it out of the library. What that says about me, I do not care to explore. But although I am mostly disinterested in cooking (if someone ever invents a middle-aged human chow with all the vitamins and nutrients needed by a perimenopausal woman, sold in 50-pound bags with instructions on the side about what size scoop you should dish out per meal, I will be incandescently happy and my life will immediately become 1000% easier), I DO love myself some thematically-appropriate novelty foods, and I thought this book might snooker me into actually, you know, using my stove this week.
Especially with the excuse to eat my dinner in front of a movie!
Alas for that last part, because this book's only flaw for me is that the recipes are VERY loosely associated with the Disney villain each claims to represent. I'll give it a point for the Spotted Scones to represent Cruella de Vil, because okay, chocolate chips are a cute idea for dalmatian spots and the book/movie IS set in England... but they don't actually represent Cruella, just the concept of the film. An actual Cruella recipe would be something like a black and white cookie. And the Black and White Bean Salad that comes later in the book and is also supposed to represent Cruella doesn't work, either, because black beans aren't really black.
The two recipes that my partner and I tried have even looser connections to their Disney villains. You're supposed to cut the Baguette Breakfast Beaks into triangles to represent Maleficent's raven familiar, but other than the fact that it's kind of gross to make an egg dish to symbolize a bird, cutting it into triangles is literally the only connection. And a baguette cut into triangles doesn't look like beaks? Captain Hook's Stuffed Shells is even worse, because even though the description notes that "Captain Hook and his crew would no doubt appreciate a warm plate of this ocean-themed dish," the absolute only ocean-themed part of it is the jumbo pasta shells. No nori, no seafood, no ocean colors, no crumbly textures to represent sand... just baked pasta with jumbo pasta shells.
Y'all, my grown-up autistic ass can barely accept this as even remotely on-theme. There's no way you're going to get a kid with any kind of neurological pathways to buy into it.
HOWEVER... the two recipes that my partner and I tried were DELICIOUS. And SIMPLE. And infinitely repeatable in a menu rotation. And super easy to riff on with whatever ingredients you have on hand.
The best part, though, is that the recipes are so clear and intuitive that you just have to make them while looking at the recipe exactly once, and then you can make them forever. The baguette bake is just beaten eggs, whatever veggies sound good, and a bunch of cheese baked in a hollowed-out baguette. I threw in some diced peppers and onion and chopped spinach and halved cherry tomatoes, and my partner and I killed an entire baguette's worth between the two of us. The stuffed shells is just a carton of ricotta, a beaten egg, whatever veggies and herbs sound good, and a bunch more mozzarella and parmesan layered casserole-style with cooked pasta and marinara sauce and baked. I threw in a ton of sauteed kale from my garden along with scallions and a shocking amount of fresh parsley, and my only regret is not going even harder on the greens because my partner and I FEASTED!
Seriously--if this is what cooking is actually like, then I can actually do it, and I actually enjoy it!
We watched Ted Lasso while we ate our stuffed shells, though, because that recipe is absolutely NOT Peter Pan-themed.
August 9, 2023
This children's cookbook features a variety of different recipes. They're split into chapters for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, beverages, and dessert, and although the instructions are pretty basic and presume a helping adult's familiarity with work in the kitchen, there are pages near the beginning to teach kids about some basic cooking techniques and safety concepts.
Each recipe relates to a different Disney villain, and there's a wide variety of villains represented here. Some of the recipes are directly related to the character or story, while others are more of a stretch, but they're cute and fun, and they represent a wide range of different foods. There's a lot of healthy and substantial stuff here, not just sugary treats.
I noticed that there were a lot of options here for people with different dietary restraints, and I was surprised and delighted to find that there's a page in the back that identifies which recipes work for diary-free, gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. Also, since most of the recipes are pretty basic and don't have a lot of ingredients, people could also do substitutions for recipes not included on the list.
This book is great for Disney fans of all ages, and the recipes are good for both everyday meals and parties. Even though some of the themes are a stretch, I would definitely recommend this, and I appreciate the variety of dishes represented and the thought towards dietary restraints.
Each recipe relates to a different Disney villain, and there's a wide variety of villains represented here. Some of the recipes are directly related to the character or story, while others are more of a stretch, but they're cute and fun, and they represent a wide range of different foods. There's a lot of healthy and substantial stuff here, not just sugary treats.
I noticed that there were a lot of options here for people with different dietary restraints, and I was surprised and delighted to find that there's a page in the back that identifies which recipes work for diary-free, gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. Also, since most of the recipes are pretty basic and don't have a lot of ingredients, people could also do substitutions for recipes not included on the list.
This book is great for Disney fans of all ages, and the recipes are good for both everyday meals and parties. Even though some of the themes are a stretch, I would definitely recommend this, and I appreciate the variety of dishes represented and the thought towards dietary restraints.
November 4, 2023
They might be Disney villains but some of these recipes look purely delightful.
Most of the recipes however will definitely need an adult supervision or assistance. (Not that that is bad. I think it is vitally important for families to be in the kitchen together creating memories together)
Recipes worth highlighting:
Baguette Breakfast Beaks
Kronk's Spinach Puffs
Muffuletta Sandwich
Captain Hook's Stuffed Shells
Cruella Cookies
...but again....not many kids like spinach ;) So maybe I should say these were MY highlights.
Most of the recipes however will definitely need an adult supervision or assistance. (Not that that is bad. I think it is vitally important for families to be in the kitchen together creating memories together)
Recipes worth highlighting:
Baguette Breakfast Beaks
Kronk's Spinach Puffs
Muffuletta Sandwich
Captain Hook's Stuffed Shells
Cruella Cookies
...but again....not many kids like spinach ;) So maybe I should say these were MY highlights.
February 18, 2024
Some good information about the villains to remind one who hasn’t seen the movies in some time. Great photos and charming ideas. Lots of piping and other tricky techniques that might be challenging/frustrating for kids and grandparents, too.
October 28, 2025
Mid. Many of the savoury dishes are a stretch but could probably work in a villain-themed party. Wish there was a section compiling recipes for specific villains such as Maleficent and Cruella. -- It does have Kronk's spinach puffs!
September 19, 2023
Interesting - but nothing I would make - not even for children's programming.
November 12, 2023
Such creative and fun recipes and SO MANY of them are vegan and vegetarian friendly. It's so refreshing and encouraging to see that in an officially licensed mainstream cookbook.
March 4, 2024
This cookbook has user friendly recipes with great character tie-in
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June 24, 2025
Full points for lovely photos, but there are way too many recipes with 12-plus out-there ingredients (purple potatoes?) for the hand-holding tone and audience of this book.
August 18, 2025
good. nice mixture of easy and more challenging recipes. also incorporates a bit of artwork for crafty kids
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January 13, 2025
A children's cookbook of recipes inspired by various Disney villains such as Captain Hook's Stuffed Shells and Cruella Cookies. It has safety and cooking tips. A fun collection, though some do seem a bit complicated for kids.
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