Culinary classes for kids & teens — Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sprouts Kitchen Academy puts real ingredients, real tools, and real heat in front of kids and teens, then sends them home able to cook dinner.
Inside the class
Every class is built around doing: ingredients measured, cut, seasoned, and cooked, then eaten at the same table. The mess is the point; the plate is the proof.
Hands-on sessions where young cooks take a whole dish from chopping to plating, at a pace that fits small hands.
Ovens, scales, and timers. Teens learn dough, crumb, and structure, and leave with something they can carry home.
Grip, guide hand, a proper cut. Taught slowly, on real boards, with an instructor at the bench the whole way through.
Where food comes from, what it does in the body, and why the good stuff tastes better when you cooked it yourself.
Grouped by age
Same room, different expectations. The tools, the tasks, and the heat level are matched to the hands in front of them.
Young cooks
Simple tools and short steps, with an instructor within reach for every part of the recipe.
Tweens
Longer recipes and real responsibility: the first classes where they run a dish from start to finish.
Teens
Fewer steps explained, more steps done. Treated like the cooks they are becoming.
Camps run through the summer. Groups stay small, so every cook gets a place at the bench and time at the stove.
Summer camps
Camps take a full week and build toward a meal the group cooks and eats together. Here is how the days stack up.
The week opens with ingredients: what is in season, what to look for, and how to tell when something is good.
Knife work, measuring, dough, and heat control, practiced in small groups at the bench.
Teams plan a menu, cook it, and set the table for the whole group to eat together.
Recipes written up and packed to go, so the week keeps cooking in your own kitchen.
Packages & enrollment
Buy a block of classes or a single workshop, then pick dates that work for your family. One request gets you on the roster; we follow up with dates and what to bring to the first session.
Class block
A block of hands-on kids classes, booked as a set so skills build from one session to the next.
Request this packSeries
A run of baking sessions that move from simple doughs through to finished bakes, with scales and ovens throughout.
Request this seriesSingle session
One focused session on safe, confident cutting: grip, guide hand, and the cuts that make cooking faster.
Request this workshopSingle session
A stand-alone workshop on food, fuel, and where ingredients actually come from.
Request this workshopFull week
A complete camp week, from market morning through to the take-home recipes at the end. Days run in the same kitchen with the same group.
Sprouts Kitchen Academy
Kids and teens across Minneapolis learning to cook with their hands full and the oven on. Tell us who is cooking and which package you are after, and we will reply with available dates.
Send the details below and we will follow up with dates and what to bring to the first session.