Sticky Fingers Cooking of Northeast Florida

☀️ NEW SUMMER CAMP VENUE ALERT! 🌎🍴

Our newest camp venue is bringing kids on a delicious journey around the world through hands-on cooking experiences, where they'll explore global flavors, discover new cultures, and create recipes inspired by different countries.

🌟 New venue, new adventures, new recipes to discover.

Want to host a cooking camp? Send us a message. 📩

👨‍🍳✨ Chef Spotlight ✨👨‍🍳

Today, we're celebrating more than just culinary excellence—we're celebrating an incredible mentor, leader, and inspiration to our young chefs!

From sharing expert techniques to encouraging creativity in the kitchen, Chef Kathie continues to make a lasting impact on every aspiring young chef who walks through our doors.

Please join us in wishing Chef Kathie a very Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂 May your year ahead be filled with success, happiness, and countless memorable moments—both in and out of the kitchen.

Thank you for your passion, dedication, and the knowledge you share every day. We're grateful to have you as part of the Sticky Fingers Cooking - Northeast Florida family!

☀️ Worried about the summer slide? We’ve got a delicious solution. 👩‍🍳🧪📚

At Sticky Fingers Cooking®, kids don’t just cook — they learn through hands-on fun! From measuring ingredients (math ➕) to kitchen experiments (science 🧪), following recipes (reading 📖), creativity (art 🎨), and problem-solving (engineering ⚙️), cooking is the ultimate STEAM adventure.

Our STEAM summer camps keep kids curious, engaged, and building real-life skills all summer long — without it feeling like school.

Want to learn how cooking helps beat the summer slide? Read our latest blog: What’s the MATTER, Chef? Solid, Liquid, Gas.
https://stickyfingerscooking.com/pages/beat-summer-slide-with-our-s-t-e-a-m-powered-summer-camps

Then, stir up some summer fun and find a Sticky Fingers Cooking® STEAM camp near you! 🍓🌎🍴
https://stickyfingerscooking.com/courses?program_types=in-person&session_types=cooking-camps&theme_id=103

🎡🎉 We're excited to let you know that we will be part of Treaty Oaks Preparatory Academy's Carnival Fun. 🎉🎡

Join us for a FREE family-friendly event filled with games, laughter, activities, and unforgettable memories. Bring your family and friends and have lots of fun!

Happening:
📅 Tomorrow, June 5
📍 Treaty Oaks Preparatory Academy
⏰ 9:00–11:00 AM

See you there! 🎠🍿🎈

All summer we're highlighting our delicious summer camp recipes! This week we are highlighting a perfect recipe for Pride Month! 🌈

This week from our Kids Cooking Showdown Camp: ☀️ Hawaiian Rainbow Watermelon Poke Bowls + Steamed Rice + Wondrous Watermelon Soda. 🍚

Fun Food Story:
Poke (poh-KAY) is a classic Hawaiian pupu, or snack, and is a centuries-old tradition possibly dating as far back as the arrival of the first Hawaiians in the island chain. Back then, poke was a simple snack for fishermen of scraps of raw reef fish seasoned with sea salt and limu (seaweed) and mixed with roasted and ground kukui nut (candlenut). Historians dispute whether or not the meal was called poke then or if the name only took hold when it became popular on the mainland in the 1970s. One thing is certain—poke, meaning "slice" or "cut into pieces," is a quintessentially Hawaiian dish. Bring Hawaiʻi's favorite snack and "aloha" to your family today!

Recipe Plan Here https://stickyfingerscooking.com/recipes/hawaiian-rainbow-watermelon-poke-bowls-steamed-rice

🌽👩‍🍳 Meet our a-maize-ing chef instructors across Northeast Florida!

These culinary stars are stirring up creativity, building kitchen confidence, and making sure your kids are having a corn-tastic time in every cooking class. From measuring and mixing to baking and tasting, every recipe is a chance to learn new skills and create delicious memories.

We couldn't be prouder of these instructors who are proving that learning can be both educational and delicious! 🍴✨

📸 Give a shoutout to your favorite SFC Northeast Florida chef in the comments!

☀️🍴 Looking for a summer activity your child will actually be excited about? Our Summer Cooking Camps are happening at select schools throughout Northeast Florida!

Young chefs will enjoy a summer full of mixing, whisking, chopping, baking, and creating delicious recipes while building confidence, learning kitchen skills, and making new friends along the way. From sweet treats to savory eats, every camp day is packed with hands-on foodie fun!

👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 Spots may be limited at participating schools, so check this post and see at which schools our camps are being offered.

👉 Ready to stir up some summer fun? Register today!

Fresh flavors are officially in season! ☀️🌱

There’s something extra fun about cooking with ingredients at their peak, and June is bringing so many delicious options to the kitchen. We can’t wait to cook with these seasonal ingredients in our summer camps as kids chop, mix, taste, and explore new recipes from around the world. 👩‍🍳🌎

Need a last minute summer camp? Summer camp spots are filling fast, and we’d love to cook up some fun with your kids this season! Sign up now to join us for hands-on cooking adventures, tasty recipes, and a whole lot of kitchen confidence. ✨
https://stickyfingerscooking.com/camps

Most of our classes have wrapped up for the school year! Check out some of our “BEST OF” photos from 2025-2026! (part two!)

🌽 Recipe Review: Empowering Empanadas! 🌽

This week, kids in Sticky Fingers Cooking classes nationwide whipped up an easy, nutritious recipe: Awesome Argentinian Corn Empanadas with Chimichurri Sauce! First, our kid chefs made the empanada dough. Kids measured out dry ingredients, tore parsley into little bits, and mixed it all together until well combined. Then kids cracked an egg, added softened butter, water, and apple cider vinegar or lime juice and stirred. Next, kids kneaded the dough, adding more flour if necessary. Then kids made dough balls, put them in an oiled bowl, drizzled with a little olive oil and covered them and let them rest (naptime). On to the corn filling! Our kid chefs tore more parsley and grated cheese, then measured out and mixed in remaining ingredients. Our kid chefs loved the next step - waking the dough up from its nap! Then kids rolled out the dough, cut out a round flat circle, placed some corn filling in the center, and folded one side over, forming a half-moon shape. Kids pinched the edges, sealing the filling inside the crust. With Chef Instructor help, kids pan fried the empanadas about 2 minutes on each side until golden brown.

Then it was on to the Chimichurri Sauce! Kids added all ingredients into a food processor, blended everything together and drizzled the sauce on the Corn Empanadas! "Buen provecho" (Bwayn proh-VAY-choh) or "Enjoy your meal" in Spanish!

Lastly, kids washed it all down with the Melon Agua Fresca! Kids sliced and squeezed a lime, chopped and added cantaloupe (or other melon), sugar, and sparkling or still water to the blender. Kids blended it until smooth and then adjusted the flavors until just right! "Muy bien" or "Very good" in Spanish!

One recipe each week. Coast-to-coast smiles the whole school year! That’s the power of cooking with kids. 🌎✨