The name says it all; cooking games are actually engaging brainteasers and mind benders that are interactive, although virtual, ways of basic to expert cooking. These culinary art-inspired games, numbering by the hundreds, are geared in particular to kids so that they can have fun preparing and learning about food.

Listed below are some cooking games that may inspire some ladies to better ways to spending your next girl's night out while having maximum fun at the same time.

Cooking in Reverse

Not as messy as you think! Instead of the usual cooking games style of cooking something from a list of ingredients provided to you, you actually have pick your brains listing down the ingredients from a given dish. Sure its easy to tell the main stuff like chicken with broccoli served with noodles. Try to get your friends to join you and see who can get closest to the actual list of ingredients used.

Mixing Courses

If you want something that will get you to think really creatively, then how about mixing courses? It will demand new but still appetizing ways on your part of how to serve breakfast staples at, say, dinner and salads this time around instead of a run-of-the- mill cake. These variety of cooking games is all about you getting people to run after your mouthwatering veggie pizza and orange juice crossbred with filet mignon.

Cooking Mama on Nintendo DS

What is this game like on a Nintendo DS? Surprise, this newcomer to the genre of cooking games does not have 'levels' or 'stages,' nor 'heroes,' or even a name. The main menu offers exercises in this virtually oriented cooking skills, which is sensible. You are not expected to know right away how a stylus is used to baking the perfect cake! Any of the basic dish preparation and cooking skills may need to be studied once more by Nintendo DS users, from grilling to marinating. When you are truly ready, you get your first crack at unlocking the first recipe in a long list (well, so okay, there are indeed stages, somehow). Don't think its a matter of do-this do-that instructions-following game; each recipe actually has a time limit! Overall, this is a very engaging game that kids may unfortunately find too dragging, since there are sometimes blocks of text to digest.

There are also a lot of cooking games on the Internet that resemble Cooking Mama. In some games your increased cooking abilities and higher scores mean more and more advanced recipes that can be opened for viewing and playing. Along the way, recipes can be as simple as fried stuff like eggs or bacon up to variations like cabbage rolls. Find out here how to make desserts like cream puffs. Exploring your own style in the culinary arts is highly encouraged since you can come up with your own combinations of various ingredients.

The possibilities are endless when you have fun food and friends in the equation. What's more, will especially appreciate more facts about the food that you would rather avoid. And its a good way for the kid and the supervising parent to have time together. Have fun!