Chuck E. Cheese Is Releasing a Cookbook — Yes, You Read That Correctly

Food & Wine ^ | January 30, 2024 | Jelisa Castrodale

[nickcarraway]

Here's what's inside.

If you’ve ever been halfway through a slice of pizza at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish I could make this for myself at home,” then first off, please get in touch because you are the kind of human being we’d like to interrogate, and second, you’re in luck, because now you can.

The original Pizza Rat, one Charles Entertainment Cheese, is releasing a cookbook, which its publishers explain will “extend the Chuck E. Cheese experience beyond the fun centers.” That sounds like a polite way of saying, “Enjoy these quesadilla pizzas and birthday cakes without having to hear the electronic death rattle of two dozen arcade games,” so … yes, bring on the stay-at-home Chuck E. Cheese experience.

The 128-page Chuck E. Cheese and Friends Party Cookbook features all of Chuck E. Cheese’s characters, including hound dog Jasper T. Jowls, anthropomorphic chicken Helen Henny, and the title rodent himself. The cookbook is perfect for planning a party menu, whether you need some Mummy Dogs, Caramel Vamples, or Scarlet Spider Brew for your next Halloween gathering, or you’re ready to wow your kids with a post-Slumber Party spread featuring Breakfast Pizza, Cinnamon Rolls, and French Toast Dippers. There are 10 different menus with appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and snacks for each theme party. And, because this is Chuck E. Cheese, there are also a dozen different pizza or pizza-adjacent ideas.

Chuck E. Cheese Unveils First Ever Cook Book for Parties CHUCK E. CHEESE Even the youngest sous chef will enjoy the cookbook, because of the games, jokes, and QR-coded links to video clips featuring Chuck E. Cheese and all of his mates. (There’s also a link to DJ Munch’s remix of “Chuck E.’s Happy Dance,” which you may or may not want to click.)

Frozen Chuck E. Cheese Pizzas Are Now in Grocery Stores — and They Come with Prize Tickets The Chuck E. Cheese and Friends Party Cookbook is available to pre-order now through Amazon, Target, Walmart, or through Chuck E. Cheese’s own Chuck E. Shop. It has a suggested retail price of $22.99 and is scheduled for release on Tuesday, March 19.

If your little ones are still too little to enjoy all of the extras the cookbook has to offer, there’s also an upcoming Chuck E. Cheese & Friends Coloring & Activity Book, which does exactly what the title implies, with 80 pages of Chuck E.-themed scenes and characters to color and craft and activity pages that kids between the ages of 4 and 8 will enjoy working on. The coloring book is currently available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Bookshop.org, with a suggested retail price of $10.99. It will be released on Thursday, March 14.

And after you’ve worked your way through all the recipes in the cookbook, and every page of the coloring book has been completed, the whole family will have to go out to celebrate. We hear Chuck E. Cheese is great for that kind of thing.

[AlaskaErik]

Who goes to Chuck E. Cheese for the food?! No one does!

[ryderann]

I love my Twinkies cookbook.

[Responsibility2nd]

Do they still throw down at the Chuck E. Cheese?

I haven’t see many threads like we used to.

[AndyJackson]

extend the Chuck E. Cheese experience beyond the fun centers

Okay, now I am ready to go full neocon let's start bombing the bastards now. Our civilization can only absorb so many blows, and that should not be one of them.

[bgill]

Countless copy cat Chuck E. Cheese recipes online.

[Drew68]

NGL, Chuck E Cheese has a decent, foldable NY-style pepperoni pizza. Just the right ratio of cheese, meat, and grease, and a marinara sauce that holds it all together without drawing too much attention to itself.

It's not anything gourmet style, and has never claimed to be. But for a slab of pie, it's really not half bad.

The catch is, you can only get it a Chuck E Cheese. The frozen stuff at the grocery store isn't even close.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I have gone just for the pitcher beer.

[dennisw]

Violent Brawl Breaks Out Between Grown Ups at Chuck E. Cheese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJoDt8wf8e4

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chuck+E.+Cheese++brawl

[Carriage Hill]

Feral ghetto rat mommas & dem kiddies go... and fight.
No one with a functioning brain goes there.

[irishjuggler]

“If you’ve ever been halfway through a slice of pizza at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish I could make this for myself at home,” then first off, please get in touch because you are the kind of human being we’d like to interrogate...”

^^^ Kudos to Food & Wine for give me my best laugh of the week.

[Jim Noble]

1) Get a piece of thin cardboard
2) Cut it into wedge shapes
3) Get the cheapest tomato sauce you can find
4) Put it on the cardboard
5) Sprinkle a processed cheese food on top
6) Heat to taste

[mass55th]

Two different Chuck E. Cheese’s opened in my neck of the woods. The first one opened around 1980. It was part of the new mall that opened that year. I took my two sons there every so often. I can’t recall when it closed. 20+ years later, another, smaller Chuck E. Cheese opened in the same area. It closed sometime in 2020, likely because of Covid.

[KarlInOhio]

To Serve Mice

It's a cookbook!

[outofsalt]

It's a kids cookbook, unlike the "Recipes of the Five Civilized Tribes"

Featuring democRAT Elizabeth Warren

[Republican Wildcat]

LOL - I thought of that when I read the headline: “Well, I bet it is more authentic than Elizabeth Warren’s recipes.”

[Deplorable American1776]

That would be like the following:

1)Stacy Abrams writing a book on dieting

2)Bill Clinton writing a book on abstinence

3)Joe Biden writing a book on winning an election without fraud

and

} 4)Greta Thunberg on writing how to be a teen expert on things like climate change.

All fiction ... 🤓