This is a real cookbook, not a joke. But still it is hard for me to rate. The recipes are real, and most look delicious. They can be made to look revolting, or of course they can be made more simply. They can be made with the (occasional) special ingredients, or they can be made with some substitutions.

However they are mostly either fried, sweet, or rich in meats (or all three). They often require a food processor, sometimes a candy thermometer, and skilled dangerous work that I wouldn't let a child under 12 do without plenty of help (not just supervision).

The illustrations are a hoot, with photographs that do help. There is an index. And several recipes are ones that I would try if I still was cooking for a family of active ppl, instead of ppl who are being more careful of what they eat.

So very fun. The chocolate cake recipe is glorious.

Outstanding! Real recipes for some of Roald Dahl's imaginative foods!

Frankly, I can't remember a) reading this book or b) hating it or c) adding a negative rating on Goodreads. I don't know why it's got one star. But I'll leave it up. Just in case.

Inventive food styling, but the recipes and photos are unappetizing, and only loosely related to the books.

Fantastic book for kids! So imaginative and creative. Easy read that children will find delightful!

Roald Dahl is always brilliant! His stories and rhymes are fun and entertaining! Some of my all time favorites!! Such a great way to entertain children and get them interested in reading!

Roald Dahl had a habit of having pink milk for breakfast." p123

Recipes compiled by: Josie Fison and Felicity Dahl, and Lori-Ann Newman
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Photographer: Jan Baldwin
Recipes were first published in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes, 1994, and Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes, 2001. (Not every recipe is included).
First Published in this combined edition: 2009

Introduction from Felicity Dahl.

Baldwin's photos and Blake's images merge to humorously illustrate the recipes, with Blake incorporating some of Dahl's iconic characters. Surrounding the recipes are excerpts and quotes from Dahl's books. A much nicer blending of the books with the the recipes for fans of Dahl.

"Cook's notes: These recipes are for the family to enjoy making together. Some could be dangerous without the help of an adult. Children, please have an adult with you when you are using knives, handling anything hot or using a food processor." p.3

This edition is ring-bound with a hardcover and 128 pages. It's nice to use in a kitchen, lies flat. And is lovely and colourful. A much nicer to use cookbook than Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.

The recipes range in skill from novice Peach Juice and Stink Bugs' Eggs to working with hot sugar in marshmallow or toffee, and deep frying doughnuts and onion rings. As such, this isn't a cookbook you would hand to a child and say "Go for it!". Many, if not most, recipes will require some adult supervision. However, it is a cookbook designed for a child's palette. The flavourings are simple, the ingredients readily available and approachable. But the actual success of the recipes is somewhat varied.

This would make a great cookbook to base a birthday party around, but be prepared to play with the recipes a little - test them first!

Recipes are, however, rated by ability:
1 hat = easy peasy
2 hats = you might need some help
3 hats = tricky but tasty

Recipes and matching books:
The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me
Spitsizzlers
Tummyticklers
Glumptious Globgobblers
Nishnobblers
Butter Gumballs
Sherbet Slurpers
Plushnuggets
Basically mashed banana + maple syrup baked in puff pastry. Nice flavours but quantities were out making the banana too sloppy and the pastry not big enough.
Pishlets
Again, nice flavour shame about the quantities. Oats, fruit, caramel sauce - reminiscent of a fruity Anzac biscuit but needed flour or similar to hold it together.
Devil's Drenchers
Blue Bubblers

James and the Giant Peach
Crispy Wasp Stings on a Piece of Buttered Toast
Stink Bugs' Eggs
Mosquitoes' Toes and Wampish Roes Most Deliciously Fried
Scrambled Dregs
Fresh Mudburgers and Onion Rings
Boiled Slobbages
Hornets Stewed in Tar

from James and the Giant Peach
"I've eaten fresh mudburgers by the greatest cooks there are.
And scrambled dregs and stinkbugs' eggs and hornets stewed in tar."
(paraphrased)
375g mixed (shucked) seeds - pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, poppy, pine nuts
500g granulated sugar
375ml water
juice of 1/2 lemon
1tbsp black food colouring

Toast the seeds (not poppy) on a baking sheet for 10 mins @ 200C.
Lightly butter a roasting tin,
Put sugar and water in a saucepan over a low heat and stir until all the sugar has dissolved.
Turn the heat up and stop stirring.
When it starts turning golden (about 10 minutes) add lemon juice and food colouring. (It will spit so be careful).
Quickly stir in all the seeds and pour into roasting tin. When cold break into chunks.

The Magic Green Crystal
A Plate of Soil with Engine Oil
Hot Frogs
Peach Juice

The BFG
The Royal Breakfast for growing giants
Grobswitchy Cakes
Frobscottle

The Roald Dahl Cookbook
Hot-house Eggs

Boy: Tales of Childhood
The Hotel Breakfast
Krokan Ice Cream
Strawberry Bonbons

The Twits
Wormy Spaghetti
This was a simple, basic tomato sauce with spaghetti. Adding grated carrot to the sauce at the last minute, and including short lengths of tri-colour spaghetti gives the look of worms. Sufficiently tasty and easy to accomplish.

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Boggis's Chicken
Nice, simple flavours but a reasonable amount of work for a very basic chicken casserole with dumplings - and my sauce didn't thicken properly.
Bunce's Doughnuts
Bean's Cider

Danny the Champion of the World
Doc Spencer's Pie

The Witches
Green Pea Soup

Rhyme Stew
Hansel and Gretel Spare Ribs

George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Marvellous Medicine Chicken Soup

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Hair Toffee to Make Hair Grow on Bald Men (for mums to make only)
Toffee Apples
Willy Wonka's Crunch Surprise
Candy-Coated Pencils for Sucking in Class
Hot Ice Cream for Cold Days
Strawberry-Flavoured Chocolate-Coated Fudge
Stickjaw for Talkative Parents
Wonka's Whipple-scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight
Luminous Lollies for Eating in Bed at Night
Liquid Chocolate Mixed by Waterfall
Fizzy Lifting Drinks
Butterscotch

Matilda
Bruce Bogtrotter's Cake

Age
Cook Together: 4+ (selected recipes while working with an adult)
Cook Yourself: 10+ (again, selected recipes according to skill level, confidence, and safety)

(ISBN 9780224085359)

A really fun recipe book written by Roald Dahl that has recipes in it from the foods characters in his books have eaten.

There's:

Snozzcumbers from the BFG

Fresh mudburgers from James & the giant peach

Mosquitoes' Toes & Wampfish Roes most Delicately fried from James &...

Lickable Wallpaper from charlie and the chocolate factory

and much more...its a really fun book for cooking with kids.

Mr. Twit, Bird Pie, and Frobscottle, are particular favorites of mine.

I found this book in the most unexpected of places: a book stand (not even a store!) at the Natsu Matsuri 2011. It just goes to show, how there are gems everywhere.

Having grown up on Roald Dahl, I quite naturally love all his books. They're humourous, yet when I re-read them after a few years, I noticed the dark humour. It's marvelous how he writes for all ages, and how you can find layers of meaning in his works.

This recipe book is a treasure. It contains excerpts from the various books, and has recipes that I dreamed of for ages, such as Bruce Bogtrotter's cake. The book also very helpfully shows you which story each recipe is from at the top right-hand side.

While some of the recipes don't fit the description of my childhood dreams, that's more than natural. All the recipes still look lip-smackingly delicious though. I'm going to buy a sugar thermometer as soon as possible!

This is a really cute cookbook for kids. Really neat idea to tie in the books with the recipes.

They are actual recipes?! (that takes the 1 star off, but it's Dahl can't rate him lower than a 4, it's a good book but its... its...REAL!!) Is this the universe nudging me to finally learn to cook? Oh well.

Quetin Blake's illustrations are wonderful as ever; they take me right back to the best of my childhood, giggling the days away with a Roald Dahl book.

Note to self:
Reread BFG and Twits. I don't remember bits and that's a SHAME.