Annabel Karmel has teamed up with CiTV to release 'Annabel's Kitchen', a 30 part entertainment series on cooking with children.

Annabel and her team, Jimmy, Pearl and the Singing Cupcakes, are here to take you and your children on a culinary journey of exploration and come up with winning solutions in a humorous and light-hearted way, proving that cooking really can be child's play.

This series, a first of its kind, not only has children using their imagination to create delicious food, but also combines fun storylines and adorable characters all in the magical surroundings of her loft apartment.

Each week, the children come and hang out with Annabel in her loft apartment and Annabel, Jimmy, Pearl and a host of hilarious guest characters help the children overcome a different food related problem in an entertaining way. The kids watch and learn as Annabel does what she loves best - inspiring children to make their favourite meals and try something new.

Watch out for Jimmy's marvellous mechanical aids - there's every cooks dream, the Fruit 'n' Vegetabilizer, which slices, dices, chops or squeezes any fruit or vegetable into whatever shape you'd like. The Cookatron is a cunning oven where food is cooked to perfection in seconds. And finally, the ultimate food critic, the Yummy Scrummy-o-meter, which sniffs food for deliciousness.

Jimmy is Annabel's often unpredictable intern from the South Pole, a calamity-prone, fish-mad penguin who's made his home in her fridge. He's incredibly enthusiastic about food, cookery and, indeed, absolutely everything he does, as well as being a bit of a madcap inventor, too. He's devoted to Annabel and, however his crazy, hare-brained schemes turn out, they always start with the intention of making her life easier.

Pearl is Annabel's right hand penguin who commutes in daily on her scooter from the zoo to run the Kitchen. She organises the webbed site and helps Annabel find the perfect recipe to suit every occasion. She's confident, organised and reliable - the very opposite of Jimmy - and takes it very hard when things go wrong. Annabel has often been heard to say she doesn't know what she'd do without her.

Watching over everything and providing a singing commentary on kitchen activites, are Candice, Dionne and Lola - three of the most pampered, vain and ditsy princess cupcakes in the land. They're also gorgeous (that's certainly what they think).

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