Big Cook Little Cook
Big Cook Little Cook is a program for kids on CBeeBies. Cooking, songs, silliness and fun with Jen and Small. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 50 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2026.
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Big Cook Little Cook
Jen and Small cook up a delicious froggy fruit salad for Ferdinand the Frog. Ferdinand loves it so much he gives them some ribbity royal presents to say thank you.
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Jen brings a boat into the cafe and teaches Small about sailing. Meanwhile, Small finds out how aubergines grow. They use them to make Wayne the Whale a delicious plate of food.
Small is trying to grow a sunflower so she can enter it into the tallest sunflower competition. Big Cook's Big Cookery Book gives them a sunflower-inspired recipe for Straw-berry the Scarecrow.
Jen amazes Small with her tap-dancing skills. Small finds out how ginger is grown and ground. Plus, the two chefs cheer up a lonely gingerbread man with some gingerbread friends.
Children’s cookery series. Jen starts a kitchen disco in the cafe while they bake cakes, but the radio runs out of batteries. Meanwhile, they cook a delicious robot fridge cake for Ruby Robot.
Children’s cookery series. Small is guarding her final biscuit, but Jen wants to eat it too! Big and Small cook up a delicious veggie bowl bridge for today's visitors, the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Series 2
Jen has brought in the board game snakes and ladders but has lost the dice. Camar the crocodile comes to visit, and the two chefs make courgette crocodile for their snappy guest.
Small is pretending to be a detective as something has eaten all the salad in the garden. Wiggly Woo the worm comes to visit, and the two chefs cook a delicious worm crumble for their wiggly guest.
Jen’s brought in her special marble collection to show Small. Larry the lighthouse keeper visits the cafe, Small sees how baked beans are made, and the two friends make starry breakfast sky.
Small is entering the local talent show, but she’s forgotten the words to her song. Meanwhile, Mike the music man comes to visit, and the chefs serve a delicious risotto drum to their talented guest.
Jen makes a rain stick using rice, and Small wants one too. Isaac the inventor visits the cafe, Small flies off to find out how popcorn is made, and the chefs cook up cheesy corn clouds.
Series 1
Children’s cookery series. Small has a new recorder but is having trouble learning how to play it. Jen and Small cook the Pied Piper something tasty and tuneful.
Big Cook is setting up her toy farm in the kitchen, but she doesn’t have Small’s favourite animal to add. Meanwhile, Old MacDonald visits the cafe, so Jen and Small cook him some cauliflower sheep.
Series 2
Small tries to make a sad Jen laugh after she breaks her pastry brush. The dicky birds Peter and Paul visit the cafe, and the chefs cook up tweety shortbread for their feathered guests.
It’s treat time in the cafe, and the chefs want to eat ice cream, but the freezer is too cold to go near. Walter Wizard visits them, and the two friends whisk up cauldron soup for their magical guest.
The chefs are having a scavenger hunt in the cafe, finding spiky things. Hattie the spiky hedgehog comes to visit, Small finds out how flour is made, and the two chefs whisk up hedgehog rolls.
Jen and Small are finding it hard to hear each other today. Olive the opera singer comes to visit, Small finds out how lemons grow, and they make musical muffins for their special tuneful guest.
Series 1
Children’s cookery series. Jen and Small want to cook pillow samosas for Princess Sprout, but they have run out of peas. Small flies on her spoon to find some in order to make the perfect recipe.
Small wants to be the first at everything in the cafe, including greeting today's customer Bounce the Bunny. Jen and Small decide to make Bounce a rabbity carrot cake.
Jen is birdwatching on a kitchen safari, while Small guesses which birds and animals they can see. Eric the Explorer visits the cafe for something to eat, so they cook him something unusual.