A tabletop cooking appliance (1) has at least one electrical heating element (3) associated with a burner, a residual heat indicator and a plate-like shaped part (2) of glass, glass ceramic or ceramic as heatable surface (2a) which closes the top of the housing of the cooking appliance as a cooking surface. The shaped part (2) forms the heatable surface (2a) and at least the front side (2b), and the shaped part (2) encloses the cooking appliance.