Cooking with kids can be messy, but so fun, and so very rewarding for them. You are teaching them a life skill. But, are you teaching them to clean up afterwards too? I'm over at 5 Minutes for Mom with a few tips for teaching kids to cook and clean up, and sharing a yummy recipe for gluten-free boysenberry thumbprint cookies.
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Disclosure: This blog post was sponsored by Disney-Hyperion.
If you are looking for the best weekend or afternoon treat for your little ones then have I got the thing for you.
You know how much I love pairing craft projects or food with books and movies, well today I'm sharing two new Mo Willems books with you, We Are Growing and The Cookie Fiasco. They are the first two books in the new beginning-reader series Elephant & Piggie Like Reading. Of course The Cookie Fiasco made me crave cookies, and we all know cookies and milk must go together, so I give you this:
Yes, that is a giant gluten-free chocolate chip cookie milkshake. Perfect for enjoying while you read.
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There are definitely moments that I'm all about quick and easy in the kitchen. Sure a lot of the time I like to bake from scratch, but I've been known to resort to boxed cake, cookie and brownie mixes when I'm lacking ingredients or time.
So when I was contacted about Duff Goldman's holiday baking line Duff Goldman by Gartner Studios, I said sure, send me a box of something and I'll whip it up and give it a try.
And then a delivery arrived of cookie and cake mixes and I couldn't stop at just trying one, I had to try them all. Of course.
The thing I love about these mixes is they take you out of your comfort zone. Most boxed mixes are just a flavored cake, your basic white cake, yellow cake, chocolate cake, chocolate chip or sugar cookies etc., but these mixes show step-by-step instructions so you can make fun layered cakes and swirl cookies that are so easy to do.
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Do you decorate cookies with your kids over the holiday season? It's one of the things that Miss M absolutely loves to do. It is such a great way for us to spend quality time together, from teaching her how to mix and bake the cookies, to decorating them.
I'm showing you how to set up a simple cookie decorating station over at the Nestlé site Simply Celebrate.
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Do you have as much leftover Halloween candy as I do?
I'm showing you an adorable way to use some of it today over at The Centsible Life with these gluten-free turkey cookies, perfect for Thanksgiving.
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Don't you just love warm chewy chocolate chip cookies? I do. I whipped up a batch of these over the weekend.
Ingredients:
(note: this recipe was based on my original one, with a few changes)
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