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Mystery Recipe

Mystery Recipe helps kids AND their grown-ups uncover the fun, fantastical, and fascinating sides of food. Each ingredient-themed episode builds to a grand finale: a mystery recipe cook-along. Get excited about cooking (and eating) by digging into the deliciously silly and unexpectedly educational. Hosted by Molly Birnbaum. A production of America's Test Kitchen Kids.

Nov 24 2025 | 00:38:45

We have a special treat for Mystery Recipe listeners from our friends at Radiolab's family-friendly show, Terrestrials! It's a show that uncovers the strangeness right here on Earth, hosted by Lulu Miller. In this timely episode, Terrestrials decided to call up some of their family-friendly podcast friends at Wow in the World and Circle Round to come together and tell stories about the many feathered beasts that make up the feat of engineering known as THE TURDUCKEN. The result? Three shows with 3 stories about 3 birds stuffed inside of each other! Grab your grown ups and listen as you help prepare your own family's holiday feast!

Make sure to search for Radiolab for Kids to find more episodes of Terrestrials wherever you get your podcasts.


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May 05 2025 | 00:38:08

We are excited to share a new show from the baking experts over at King Arthur Baking Company, called Things Bakers Know! It is entirely family friendly, and is a great listen for passionate bakers of any age. Hosts Jessica and David are joined by best-selling cookbook author Zoë François, who talks about the extensive chocolate chip cookie testing she did for her latest book, Zoë Bakes Cookies, as well as the surprising role cookies played in her family history. Then, Jessica and David answer your burning cookie questions in Ask the Bakers, including tips on the best chocolate to use and the necessary tool you need for consistent cookie baking. They close out the episode with a detour into space, Jessica’s soapbox on why warm chocolate chip cookies are actually bad (!), and the recipes they’re baking this week. 


Recipes and other links from this episode: 


Find Zoë’s book here: Zoë Bakes Cookies

Follow Zoë on Instagram and Substack 

Zoë’s Smash Cookies recipe (the cover star of her book!) 

Oatmeal-Date Smash Cookies recipe

King Arthur’s 2024 Recipe of the Year: Supersized, Super-Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

What David’s baking this week: Sesame Wheat recipe

What Jessica’s baking this week: Roti Canai recipe

Our favorite baking scale: Essential Digital Scale

Shop all our chocolate, from chunks to chips 

Record your question for our Ask the Bakers segment here!

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Dec 07 2022 | 00:54:01

Today's episode is an interactive cook along for the whole family. Gather your ingredients and equipment, put on your aprons and press play, and we'll walk you through each step of season six Mystery Recipe!

Grown ups we want to hear from you! If you take our quick 5 minute survey, we’ll have a coupon for you at the ATK Shop. Just head to https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7120535/Mystery-Recipe-Season-6

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Dec 02 2022 | 00:26:59

Today we've got some buttery science in Pressing Questions! Plus, we have a tall tale in our Wildcard!

Grown ups we want to hear from you! If you take our quick 5 minute survey, we’ll have a coupon for you at the ATK Shop. Just head to https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7120535/Mystery-Recipe-Season-6

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Nov 30 2022 | 00:29:12

Today Meggy is back for some true or false in Tricky Trivia. Then we're talking about disability rights with Isabel Mavrides-Calderón in Ask a Grown Up! Grown ups we want to hear from you! If you take our quick 5 minute survey, we’ll have a coupon for you at the ATK Shop. Just head to https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7120535/Mystery-Recipe-Season-6

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Nov 29 2022 | 00:09:48

Today we have a special BONUS for you! Now that we know our final ingredient, it's time to guess what the Mystery Recipe will be for season six! After we know WHAT we're cooking, we'll talk through our list of ingredients and supplies you'll need if you want to make this recipe with us during next week's Cook Along Finale!

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Nov 28 2022 | 00:26:01

Get ready for our final round of Guess the Ingredient, to find out our last ingredient for Season 6! After that we're hearing from someone who teaches us about growing up in the Scoop. Grown ups we want to hear from you! If you take our quick 5 minute survey, we’ll have a coupon for you at the ATK Shop. Just head to https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7120535/Mystery-Recipe-Season-6

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Oct 25 2022 | 00:35:05

We have a very special episode today young chefs! Mystery Recipe is participating in Nat Geo Kids’ Podcast Party: Ancient Egypt in honor of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. Together with other kids podcasts we are making an episode about Ancient Egypt. If you are interested in listening to more, check out Flip and Mozi's Guide to How to Be an Earthling from Tinkercast and their episode on camels!


This episode was originally made for ATKs grown up podcast Proof, and was written and produced by Sara Joyner.

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Oct 05 2022 | 00:30:59

Our new Intern Meggy the egg timer starts today! And is here all season to talk about accessability, and what it means to be blind or visually impaired. Then, we're joined by farm manager Mike from Siena Farms to talk about irrigation! And finally, we'll all learn a new kitchen technique from our friend Andrea in How To Time!

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Oct 03 2022 | 00:33:43

Welcome back to Mystery Recipe! Mitsy and Molly are back in the Recipe Lab with our new Official Ingredient Guesser Ava Leigh to guess our first week's ingredient. Then we'll have a tempermental guest in The Scoop with our Junior Field Reporter Champ! And finally, Kyle is back to talk about sustainability.

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