"FROGS in bloooooood!!" is not perhaps the most genteel thing to come from the mouth of a 2-year-old child, especially when it is repeated with such evident glee.

However, the sheer delight with which our daughter helped make "frogs in blood" (actually kiwi fruit in raspberry jelly) soon dispelled any fears I had about the recipe being a bit on the gruesome side.

This cookbook is full of Old Testament stories "made into food" and while the recipes - loaded with sugar and sweets - may not be to every parent's taste, your off-spring will love them.

Published by Marshall Pickering, "a HarperCollinsReligious imprint", there is more than a whiff of "hey kids, the Bible is fun!" about the whole venture, but don't let that put you off.

If you want, you can skip the OT extracts that come with every recipe and just follow the cooking instructions, which are well-presented and very straightforward.

From Babies in Baskets to Daniel's Roaring Lion Tarts, the recipes are fun to make and sweet to taste.

Now, where did I put that bloooooood?

Jim Collins