In honor of National Cookie Day on December 4, PBS KIDS is excited to share an educational and delicious cookie recipe that encourages children to communicate how they’re feeling. Talking through a range of emotions like happy, mad and sad with children through fun activities can help them develop [...]Continue Reading
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Best Gifts for Kid Bakers
Do you have a kid who can’t get enough of the Great British Bakeoff, Cupcake Wars, and other baking shows and dreams of opening up their open pastry shop or bakery someday? This is the gift list for them. Most pastry chefs say they’ve known they wanted to be a baker since they were children [...]Continue Reading
Heart-y Oatmeal Cookies – No Eggs
Refreshed from the archives - originally posted Feb. 2008 We had a Valentine Cookie Decorating Party and with no eggs in the dough, this is the perfect recipe for toddler helpers! I'm so happy to find this oatmeal roll out cookie recipe, because I have a mob of cookie cutters (a herd?) [...]Continue Reading
Thunder Cookies! Books and Baking for Rainy Days
Rainy Day Books for Kids In the Southwestern US, at the beginning of Monsoon season in the summer, it often has been dry for months. You might as well know that the first day it rains, no one will be able to concentrate. We're all too excited by those exotic drops of water finally, finally falling [...]Continue Reading
{Delicious} Gluten, Egg, Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Tomorrow is my birthday and I am making these instead of cake. Should that not be enough to convince you to give them a try, I will tell you that these cookies earned the family ranking of Telicious that's right, "Telicious" (the way James used to say delicious has stuck around.) They have that [...]Continue Reading
Extra Spicy Ginger Snaps- Gluten Free
I have gotten many requests for my ginger snap recipe. This recipe makes spicy cookies that are a bit soft in the middle with crispiness on the outside (they become less crispy and more moist after a day of storage, but they're still delicious.) It is based on this recipe, but altered to be gluten [...]Continue Reading
