Let's Bake: How Baking Helps Kids Learn Math

🍪 Full recipe below! Elliot’s baking cookies—but his first batch turns into a big, chocolatey goop! What went wrong? In this sweet and silly episode of the Lingokids Podcast, the gang learns that following a recipe isn’t just important… it’s also a fun way to practice math skills like measuring, counting, and fractions! 

Join Elliot, Lisa, Cowy, and Billy as they mix, measure, and make the perfect dozen—and discover how baking helps kids learn through hands-on play. 📏➗

✨ Get the full recipe for Elliot’s Auntie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies here: Full Cookie Recipe

🎧 The perfect episode for curious little chefs and future mathematicians alike!

Episode Transcript 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Me.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Are they ready yet?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
It's just one more minute and then my aunties delicious
chocolate chip cookies will be ready.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh they're ready, They're ready. Everyone, Come have a cookie.
My tummy's ready for a cookie treat. They smell so yummy.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Lingo Kids listeners, remember, never use an oven without a
grown up. I'm going to take these cookies out of
the oven.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Olay all these cookies, cool ton, we can all taste
my aunties delicious.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh chocolate chip gook.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
My Auntie's delicious chocolate chip cookies aren't cookies at all.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
They're just a.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Big gloopy mess. Oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
fun of play learning. In today's episode, Elliott is excited
to beig cookies for his friends, but his first try
isn't going how he thought it would. Stay tuned because
at the end of the episode, we'll tell you where
to find Elliott's cookie recipe so you can try it too,

(01:31):
and maybe even share with a friend. Let's see how
he's doing.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh no, no, oh no, we can't eat this big
gloopy mess.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh Elliot, we understand it's very disappointing to get a
gloopy mess instead of Auntie's famous chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I was just really looking forward to eating my Auntie's
chocolate chip cookies with all my friends.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wondering what went wrong?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Did you follow the recipe step by step?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
A recipe?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, A recipe is a list of directions that you
followed to make something. It's got a lot of fun
math in it.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Is this the recipe? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
This? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
This is what my Auntie uses when she makes her
delicious cookies.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I just didn't look at it.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Instead, I just put all the ingredients I remembered you
to a.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Bowl and mixed them up.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, Billy, When you're baking, it's important to follow the recipe,
using math and recipes make sure that we get the
tasty food that we set out to make.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hey, let's try again to make my aunties delicious cookies,
but this time will use the recipe.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's worth a try, and my Rumilly Tubby thinks so too.
So what do you say? Let's get to work?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Lingo kids listeners, who would you bake cookies with? Maybe
you can tell a friend about this story and bake together.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
We're all washed up. Now it's a recipe time.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Let's make your Auntie's delicious chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yea. This recipe says that we'll need two measuring tools
that everyone can find in their kitchens, a measuring cup.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
And a teaspoon. Let's gone okay. Now, the recipe says
that we'll need a half cup of butter.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Two sticks of butter is one cup of butter. Lingo, kids, listeners,
how many sticks of butter do you think we need
for half a cup? One? Yes, One stick of butter

(04:10):
is half a cup of butter.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hooray, let's put it in a big mixing bowl.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now we need a half cup of brown sugar. This
measuring cup says one cup on it. How full should
you fill it to make half a cup?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh? I know halfway. That's right.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Half of one cup is a half cup. I'll scoop
in the brown sugar now.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
And now.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Now we need to add a half teaspoon of baking soda.
Do you have that teaspoon?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Elliot, got it, and I've got the baking soda rate.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Now use that spoon to get a half teaspoon of
baking soda and level any extra off because you don't
want more than half a teaspoon either.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
We'll make it nice and level and put it in
the ball.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
We need one cup of flour.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
We can use the same measuring cup that we use
to measure the brown sugar, but we can fill it
up all the way to make one cup and make
it level.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
You're getting the hang of this. Make the flower level
and put it in the ball. Now for the finishing touch,
the chocolate chips.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
My Auntie's recipe says that you can add as much
as you'd like. I'll sprinkle someome in and Billy, you
can tell me one to stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Oh and look a few spilt I guess so to
eat those.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Billy says that he wants to stir up the cookie dough.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's a great idea. You can do it, Billy, Great John, Billy.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'll preheat the oven to three hundred and fifty degrees
fahrenheit or one hundred and seventy five degrees celsius Lingo.
Kids listeners, always remember that ovens are meant for grownups
to use. They're hot, so you always want a grown
up around.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now, we've just got to make all of this dough
into balls. This recipe is supposed to make twelve cookies,
which means Willie, twelve balls are a baking sheet.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Lingo, kids listeners, can you help Elliot count the balls
of dough on the baking sheet?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven and twelve.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Another word for a group of twelve is a dozen.
And these dozen balls of dough look delicious. I'll put
these in the oven for about nine to twelve minutes,
just a few more seconds.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
They smell so yummy. Ooh, that's them. They're ready, They're ready.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I'll take the cookies out.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Stand back everyone, Hey, wait a minute, what these look
just like my auntie sylicious chocolate chip cooking.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
And look, your balls of don't look like circle cookies.
Now that's right.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
While they baked, the spear shape flattened into a circle
cookie shape.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think it's time to eat.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, hen might tell me thinks so too.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's cookie dwell.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
In goo, kids listeners, Today, Elliott learned that making cookies
is not just fun, but takes math skills and following
a recipe. Did you like this story, share it with
a friend or grown up, and bake the cookies together.
You can find the recipe in the episode notes. See
you next time for more play learning fun