Cooking Mama: Birthday Bash

Cooking Mama: Birthday Bash is a Cooking Mama mobile game developed and published by Office Create Corp. In this game, Mama is planning a party for her daughter Ichigo's birthday, and she needs the player's help to prepare some delicious dishes for the celebration.

Gameplay
Similar to other Cooking Mama games, the player cooks various meals using the touch screen. Following the instructions of the titular "Mama", the player uses their finger to perform different kitchen tasks, including chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food in pans, and arranging the final items on the plate. Each of these tasks is performed by completing a mini-game which usually lasts less than 10 seconds. The gameplay structure consists of the player progressing through a series of short minigames. At the end of each minigame, players are given a score, and at the end of a dish given a final score based on their performance over the entire dish. The game features 100 different dishes and 30 non-cooking related minigames.

Let's Cook!
The main game mode where players cook dishes. Players initially start with just a few simple recipes to choose from, with additional recipes unlocked as the earlier ones are mastered. Each recipe requires players to play through a short, timed minigame for each ingredient or group of ingredients. For example, to make a sandwich, the player would first be required to chop a cucumber into slices before the time limit elapses.

Successfully completing a recipe in Let's Cook unlocks the recipe in the Cooking Dojo.

Cooking Dojo
This main game mode provides players with a greater challenge by allowing them to replay completed recipes with stricter time limits. In this mode players are able to earn Bronze, Silver, or Gold medals based on their time to completion and mistakes made. Too many mistakes will result in a failed dish although you are given the option to replay each stage whether or not you have failed. All recipes are available for this mode. Each recipe consists of at most 6 steps, each of which can be done over as many times as the player desires before moving on to the next step.

Setting
The game takes place primarily in the kitchen of Mama's shop. Throughout the game, the player will visit different locations in the shop, including the foyer, the kitchen, the backyard, the garden, the playroom of Mama's presumed child, and the patio.