If you love rainbows, you’ll love these Rainbow in the Clouds Cupcakes with colorful stripes inside and out! That’s why I included it in my book, Cupcake Cookbook for Kids. Start with our vanilla cupcake batter below and add vanilla frosting (We have an EXCELLENT vanilla frosting recipe in the cupcake cookbook but if you…
Rainbow Surprise Pound Cake
This might look like your average loaf cake from the outside but wait until you cut it open! A rainbow surprise waits inside. That’s why I included it (along with 23 more delicious ideas) in my book, Kid Chef Junior Bakes: My First Cookbook. Take a look at how fun — and simple — this…
12 Fun Summer Cupcake Ideas for Kids
These fun summer cupcake ideas are perfect to make for a get together, sleepover or even a sunny Saturday at home. Best of all, each one is easy enough for kids to help with. Most of these are included in my book, Cupcake Cookbook for Kids, and the rest are detailed below! Bears at the…
How to Make a Gingerbread Tree
Tired of your gingerbread houses falling apart? Enter, the Gingerbread Tree. Easier to make than a house, but still just as fun, we’ll show you how to bake and construct a Gingerbread Tree. Busy parents of littles can’t be trying to construct a house that only wants to crash, no matter how many gumdrops…
Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce
My mother-in-law introduced us to homemade hot fudge sauce and we’ll never go back! Impossibly thick, rich and decadent, this hot fudge sauce is also a great gift idea. What You Need to Make Hot Fudge Sauce You don’t need any special equipment. Just a pan, a whisk and some jars for storage. My MIL…
Double Chocolate Reindeer Cookies
We’ve made reindeer cookies with snickerdoodles but these double chocolate cookies are my family’s favorite. The recipe is simple and easily doubled. Easy Christmas cookies for kids don’t get any sweeter! What You Need to Make Reindeer Cookies Mini pretzels Candy eyes Red M&Ms (the holiday bags with only red and green are perfect but…
Super Moist Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
These incredibly moist chocolate cupcakes are my daughter Estelle’s favorite recipe from my newest book, “Cupcake Cookbook for Kids“. We made them for her ninth birthday, then again, and again. The tender cupcakes are so perfect when topped with this subtle and not-too-sweet peanut butter frosting but you can add any type of frosting you…
Creamy Dreamy Orange Cupcake Recipe
This orange cupcake recipe is so sweet and creamy, giving Hostess Orange Cupcakes a run for their money. Straight out of my book, “Cupcake Cookbook for Kids“, this cupcake recipe includes a 2-ingredient filling you’ll fall in love with. Best of all, they’re simple enough to make with kids. Really! How to make this orange…
easy red velvet cupcakes
These easy red velvet cupcakes are fresh from the pages of my new book, Cupcake Cookbook for Kids! I’m so excited to share all the fun (and still doable) ideas in this book, starting with the silkiest red velvet cupcakes you’ll ever have. And bonus: they’re so easy your kids can make them. I love…
Rice Pudding with Sweetened Condensed Milk
Can you make rice pudding with sweetened condensed milk? You certainly can! We’ve recently discovered the joy of chocolate rice pudding (starting with leftover but perfectly cooked brown rice) but dare I say it, I love this sweetened condensed milk rice pudding AT LEAST as much. Maybe more. Because you only need 3 ingredients. And…
Simple Chocolate Rice Pudding (Starting with Leftover Rice)
Did you know you can make a simple chocolate rice pudding from leftover rice? Well, you can. And it’s so good that your kids will want to eat it for breakfast. And that will be fine because this simple chocolate rice pudding is basically brown rice and milk with a bonus egg–and it all starts…
Easy Cupcake Ideas: Chocolate Coconut Bird Nests
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and that’s true for our series of Easy Cupcake Ideas, including Chocolate Coconut Bird Nest Cupcakes! These cupcakes can be made with a variety of pantry staples but this is my favorite method. What you need to make chocolate coconut bird nests Cupcakes (from a mix or try…
Easy Cupcake Ideas: Little Lambs
Here comes a new series just in time for birthday season and it’s called…easy cupcake ideas! To start off, we’ve got little lambs. The fun of easy cupcake ideas is that they’re adorable AND doable, even when kids want to help. You can count on every idea here being one that you can easily source…
The Hot Fudge Lava Cake Recipe So Easy Kids Can Make It!
This is it. the Hot Fudge Lava Cake recipe that’s SO easy even kids can make it! Also, it’s delicious. How to make my favorite simple lava cake recipe… And most exciting of all…this is an excerpt from my brand new book, Kid Chef Junior Bakes! I’m so excited to share this with you,…
Easy Blueberry Cobbler with Frozen Blueberries
We’ve made 10 cobblers in the last few weeks, testing every possible cobbler recipe idea I could think of and landed on this one. Because it’s the best: Easy Blueberry Cobbler with Frozen Blueberries! This easy cobbler recipe is so good, I included it in my second kids’s cookbook: “Kid Chef Junior Bakes“. How to…
Lemon and Blueberry Puff Pastry Tart from “Super Simple Baking for Kids”
Our kids have started taking turns cooking dinner on Sunday nights. It’s adorable and guess which dessert they’re all dying to make again? This Lemon and Blueberry Puff Pastry Tart from Super Simple Baking for Kids! I say AGAIN because my little rascals helped test every single recipe in my book, Super Simple Baking for…
Fool-Proof Christmas Cookies for Beginner Bakers
With a holiday break coming in 8 short hours (not that our kids are counting down or anything), we’ve got Christmas cookies on our minds! Here are my favorite Christmas cookies to make with kids because they’re easy to make–with adorable results every time! If you don’t have time to make them yourselves, then consider…
Jack-O-Lantern Apricot Hand Pies for Halloween
The sweetest way to make your kids squeal is only 3 ingredients away. How to make Jack-o-lantern apricot hand pies for Halloween Roll out pie dough, using your favorite homemade recipe or a sheet from the store. One large pie crust makes 5-6 hand pies. Use a glass to cut 8-12 circles (depending on how many…
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies: The Simplest (Gluten-Free) Recipe Ever
If recipe testing has taught me anything this week, it’s this: Not everyone likes peanut butter cookies. For example, two and a half of my kids. (One can’t decide. Because #kids.) But if you like peanut butter cookies these are the peanut butter cookies for you. Actually, if you like peanut butter cookies that your…
The World’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
After all this time, we’ve finally got a chocolate chip cookie recipe on the site but it’s not just any recipe. It’s THE BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe I’ve ever had. It’s included in my book, Super Simple Baking for Kids, so you can bet we tested and tested this recipe. I can safely say…