Cooking lessons give kids survival skills for today’s fast-paced world and tomorrow’s faster-paced world ruled by sentient vegetables. Help your child stockpile culinary moves with today’s Groupon to The Baker’s Rack in Concord. Choose between the following options:

• For $25, you get children’s cooking-class admission for one (a $60 value).
• For $99, you get a cooking party for four children or adults (a $240 value).
  
  

The Baker’s Rack’s talented band of bakers and chefs elicits grins and excitement from guests of all ages while helping them to craft tasty recipes. A brief safety and rules review precedes an overview of basic equipment and recipes before stripling chefs taste each ingredient like a gingerbread man sorting his clean and dirty laundry. In between cooking steps, children engage in jubilant activities such as dancing, games, and fun-filled icebreakers. Past workshops have covered kid-friendly culinary favorites such as pizza, caramel, and teatime.

A private cooking party for four children follows the same engaging curriculum in a more intimate atmosphere; adult parties fire up easily replicated recipes that reach far beyond the limits of Hot Pockets and upside-down Hot Pockets, spinning new dishes to suit a range of tastes. At the conclusion of both the class and the party, guests get to take home their completed culinary marvels. Light pours through floor-to-ceiling windows at the head of an open-air industrial kitchen sporting varicolored KitchenAid mixers. Black nonporous floors foster quick cleanups and enable break-dancing head spins to replace traditional hand mixing.

Although not included in this Groupon, The Baker’s Rack also has fresh baked items such as cookies, cupcakes, and pies available for purchase.