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…
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…
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 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…
How to Make Mermaid Tail Cupcakes
These mermaid tail cupcakes are the cutest — and very close to easiest — cupcakes I’ve ever made. What you need to make mermaid tail cupcakes ll you need are three things: Silicone mold Candy melts Sugar pearls How to Make mermaid tail cupcakes Melt candy melts in a microwave safe dish. Fill silicone mold,…
how to make little fish cupcakes
We’ve had our eyes on these little fish cupcakes for a while. Cute, right? Our version of little fish cupcakes is very similar, except we skipped the special eyes and just went with M&Ms. I’ll show you how we did it right here. These are the big finish for our pool party food drive birthday party…
how to make mini marshmallow flowers
SHHH. There’s a very small person sleeping right next to me, which is the only reason I’m able to post today’s cupcake recipe and how to make mini marshmallow flowers tutorial. That, and even on Father’s Day, my brave husband has taken all three of our “bigger” kids out to breakfast and to church. Alone….
super spinach cupcakes
THAT’S RIGHT, NOW I PUT SPINACH IN THE CUPCAKES. They’re festive for St. Patrick’s Day but so full of yummy vanilla goodness that the kids love them year round, and I don’t think twice about rounding out lunches with one (or even two).
Double chocolate zucchini muffins, a Muffin Madness contender
THERE’S A MUFFIN BRACKET GOING ON. It’s between Easy Peasy Organic’s sweet potato muffins and these double chocolate zucchini muffins from Mom’s Kitchen Handbook. Since we’ve already started hearing from you about the sweet potato muffins, we tried baking the zucchini first. After patiently waiting driving me crazy while the muffins baked and cooled off,…
rainbow spa birthday party ideas for girls: happy 5th birthday, elle!
ELLE IS A “VERY GIRLIE GIRL”, says her mom Amber, who blogs at Cakepops and Squats. By the looks of this amazing 5th birthday party, I’d say Elle is a very lucky girl, too! Here’s how Amber pulled off a rainbow spa themed party for five. It’s an admittedly sugar-filled affair but what we love…
Better-for-you Valentine’s Day cupcakes from a mix (chickpea variation)
YOU DON’T EAT THEM EVERY DAY so why mess with a good thing? Because in our house we’re dealing with babies. And toddlers. And neither one is a pretty sight in the company of too much sugar. Actually, Estelle hasn’t really had sugar yet and Phoebe talks a good game but after a few bites…
Healthier cupcakes from a mix and chocolate butter cream frosting (Happy birthday Estelle!)
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY ESTELLE! We took it easy this year (certain people are very tired because somone keeps waking up every night “complaining” about new teeth coming in) but still had a blast for Estelle’s big day. A family celebration, complete with wheat germy cupcakes (plus secret ingredients: applesauce and carrots) and homemade butter cream…
a Halloween party menu plus healthier Halloween cupcakes
DESPERATE FOR A LITTLE TRICK-OR-TREATING, we hosted our own Halloween party for ex-pats this weekend. The result: 13 kids, 15 adults and countless cupcakes. Costumes for the Mathews crew included one garden gnome (and if you’ve never heard a 2-year old try to say “gnome” I highly recommend it) and one flower. Monster Mash played…