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Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

Breakfast Fun: Spell Things With Your Pancakes

Tired of round pancakes? Maybe even the standard chubby pancake man is losing his charm. Mix things up with pancake letters instead, like reader Jackie who sent us these cute photos of her own breakfa...

Too Many Cooks by Emily Franklin
Book Review 2009

About a week ago we shared a kitchen tour with you. It was a big, open kitchen that usually is filled with four children under the age of 9, and it belongs to author Emily Franklin. Emily just release...

Weekend Snack: Milk and Honey Peanut Butter Balls

Do you have any recipes that take you straight back to childhood? These peanut butter balls are one of those for us. But they're not just an exercise in nostalgia: these quick, easy little snacks are ...

Blogging Slate: Are You Sick of the Kiddie Foodie Movement?

There is an interesting article by Regina Schrambling over at Slate.com, all about the growing number of precocious children being billed as celebrity-chefs-in-the-making. We're not talking about intr...

Recipe: Ginger Applesauce Cake

This recipe immediately grabbed our attention as we flipped through Picture Yourself Cooking with Kids by Beth Sheresh. A warm, fluffy cake has appeal for both kids and adults, and the directions are ...

Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids by Beth Sheresh
Book Review 2009

Do your kids help out with the cooking in your house? Whether they're toddlers or teenagers, Beth Sheresh thinks that there are lots of ways that kids can contribute in the kitchen - not to mention th...

Good Product: The Batterfinger!

We received this cartoonish spatula as a gag gift a few months ago, but it's actually come to be one of our favorite and most-used kitchen utensils! Surprised? Read on......

Children's Book Recommendation: Let's Cook! by Robert Crowther

We usually leave this type of thing for our friends over at Ohdeedoh, but we're absolutely in love with this interactive "Press-Out-And-Play" cooking book for kids! So much so that when it came time t...

Cooking with Kids: Permission to Play With Your Food

Kids can certainly be the pickiest of eaters (we know, we were one of them!), but when it comes to getting into the kitchen and doing some hands-on cooking, we've found that children are almost unanim...

Recipe: Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

There are a few recipes that we turn to every holiday season, and this is one of them. This is a workhorse of a cookie recipe. Why? Well, it has everything you need for good cut-out sugar cookies. T...