Once Small gets the ingredient or tells Ben/Jen how an ingredient is made, the two proceed to sing a song, remind the viewers of what is required for the recipe, and begin to cook. Big Cook is setting up her toy farm in the kitchen, but she doesn’t have Small’s favourite animal to add.

Olive the opera singer comes to visit, Small finds out how lemons grow and they make musical muffins for their special tuneful guest.

Small flies off to get some red cabbage, and to say thank you Belinda leaves a photo album as a present. Ben is enjoying peace and quiet until Small crashes in, excited about his invitation to a fancy dress competition. Small flies off to find out where eggs come from and brings back an egg perfect for the Humpty's scotch egg recipe.

David Atherton’s My First Baking Book is a guide and recipe collection to keep little bakers busy all year. Big Cook Ben is painting a picture for a competition and it looks like Little Cook Small can fill in as the missing piece to his prize-winning painting. The cafe is out of peanut butter, so Small flies on her 'spoonmobile' to find some as they make a spider power balls recipe. Small goes off to find out about drinking chocolate, and to thank the cooks Wee Willie Winkie leaves a two presents - a new dressing gown for Small, and a lavender pillow to help Ben sleep.

The need to reduce the planet’s meat consumption is well known, so encouraging children early on is a step to normalising it in wider society. Ben's family decide to come and stay and Ben is worried he does not have enough beds for them all to sleep. Asteroid the alien comes to visit, Small flies off to see how apples grow, and the cooks make wobbly space jelly for their intergalactic guest. The dicky birds Peter and Paul visit the cafe, Small flies off to find out how strawberries grow, and the two chefs cook up tweety shortbread for their feathered guests. Food cheers us up, comforts us, brings friends and families together, gives us our identity (cultural and individual), and transcends language when meeting new people.

The revival series follows the same pattern – however, the part where Big Cook collects the ingredients is now omitted, and there is always one ingredient missing. As a thank-you, Clover leaves Ben and Small a moon-shaped mirror each, and Ben can look at his spot, which turns out to be a blob of ketchup. Big and Small cook up a delicious veggie bow bridge for today's visitors, the Three Billy Goats Gruff. They can help in the classroom as a teaching resource across the UK curriculums, linking many subject areas.To say thank you for their meal, Bob and Bill leave Ben and Small a pack of cards so they can play a game of snap. Big Cook Ben is having a bad day - he keeps dropping things and breaking them, and they cannot afford replacements.