In this mode, players put their minigameing ingredients, peeling, stewing, tearing, and more. The player is ranked at the end of each task.

Majesco Entertainment Announces Cooking Mama Franchise Sales Reach 1.6 Million Units Domestically". Majesco Entertainment. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on April 8, 2008 . Retrieved February 4, 2016.Cooking Contest: The player can compete with friends over wireless multiplayer with up to 4 friends. Villoria, Gerald (September 20, 2006). "GameSpy: Cooking Mama". GameSpy . Retrieved February 4, 2016. Fahey, Mike (May 11, 2009). "Cooking Mama Sells Four Million...Domestically". Kotaku . Retrieved May 11, 2009. Released on November 25, 2010, the player can help Mama babysit a group of adorable babies in this cuddly spin-off. Modes included are:

Released on March 2009 for the DS, the Player tends to a Garden with Mama. Much like the original Cooking Mama, this one features simple, limited game-play elements. It also included a real-time feature, meaning the Player had to keep an eye on their garden and tend to their plans multiple times to ensure they grew.A free app for Apple iPhone OS that was released on May 1, 2009. The game is a watered down version of the first Cooking Mama game and only featured one recipe: Hamburger Stewed in Tomato Sauce. A fourth sequel entitled Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic was released for the 3DS in fall in the US and November 11, 2011 in the UK, followed by Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! in 2013. Another 3DS title, Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop, was released in Japan in 2014, but it wouldn't be released worldwide until 2017. In 2015, Cooking Mama: Let's Cook! was released as an app game worldwide, and is still receiving new content to this day.

Mason, Lisa (October 2006). "Cooking Mama (DS)". Game Informer. No.162. p.114. Archived from the original on January 19, 2008 . Retrieved February 4, 2016. Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop didn't mess around when it came to making world-class desserts. While at its core, this sequel to Cooking Mama simply took the formula and slapped a bakery theme on it, the coolest thing about Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop was learning about new sweets you might never have heard of. The second Nintendo DS game in the series Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, was released in November 2007. Along with new recipes, this title expands the total number of different minigames and adds several new gameplay modes.A third sequel for the DS, Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop had a hands-on demo available at E3 2009, and was released in America on October 20, 2009. Challenge: A harder version of Let's Cook, where the player will fail a recipe if they make any major mistakes. Completing a dish can require playing one minigame, or as many as a dozen. The player's performance is rated when each dish is finished, based on the average result of each minigame. Depending on the final score, the game may award the player a bronze, silver or gold medal. The highest medal earned for each dish is recorded and displayed next to each item on the selection screen.