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A child’s birthday party is a day to show them they are special! These cakes will do just that! Creative and eye-catching, these unique birthday cakes will be sure to bring smiles to the birthday boy or girl and your guests.
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A BluApple you ask? Yes, it is a real thing! The BluApple is a wonderful invention that helps you to extend the life span of your produce!
If you are tired of wasting fruit because it goes bad before you get to eat it all, then this will help you. It is estimated that the average household wastes as 
much as $600 in wasted product each year. That is a lot of waste!
How Does It Work?
Naturally, fruits give off ethylene gas in its ripening process. Once concentrated in the refrigerator or any other storage area, the presence of that gas speeds up the ripening process even more. The BluApple provides absorption of that gas for up to three months and can be used in the refrigerator or any storage container.
The active ingredient does not “wear out” but continues to absorb the ethylene until it is full to capacity. A refill kit makes the BluApple a reusable item too.
Want to see it in action? It is the blue thing in the middle, the one that looks like an apple! 
Cute isn’t it?
Visit BluApple to learn more and get your own!
As you may or may not know, today is World Nutella Day! A day to celebrate Nutella and it’s many uses! Rachel at Cupcake Kid Cafe loves Nutella just sandwiched in between 2 pieces of bread – and I think she has had that same lunch every day since school started!
But when I started looking around – I was amazed at the amount of recipes that actually use Nutella.
Here is a what looks like a delicious recipe over at Savory Sweet Life for Nutella Chocolate Cobbler. They were inspired by a recipe found at Tasty Kitchen.
Photo: Savory Sweet Life
Ingredients
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons abaking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cocoa powder, divided
1 cup sugar, divided
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup Nutella
6 tablespoons melted butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 1/2 cup hot tap water
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, and 1/2 cup of white sugar. Stir in milk, Nutella, butter, and vanilla. Mixture will be thick like the texture of peanut butter. Spread mixture into an ungreased 8-inch baking dish. In a separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup white sugar, brown sugar, and remaining cocoa. Sprinkle mixture evenly over the batter. Pour the hot water over everything and do not stir. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until the center is slightly firm but not fluid like liquid. Spoon mixture into small bowls and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
What can the kids help with?
Let them be a part of the fun, if they are old enough let them measure out the ingredients and even use the mixer if they are up for the challenge. but here are the more simple things that the little ones can do!
1. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, and 1/2 cup of white sugar
2. Spread mixture into an ungreased 8-inch baking dish
3. Spoon mixture into small bowls and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Get your child excited about cooking! Henrietta’s Table, a restaurant that specializes in New England Cooking is offering some special kid only cooking classes. This February your little one can work with Chef Peter Davis and his sous chefs to become little kitchen experts.
The classes will be held as follows:
February 5: Ice-Cream
February 12: Breakfast
February 19: Grilled Local Cheese and Tomato Soup
February 26: Chocolate Dipped Delights
Parents can enjoy 10% off lunch while their child enjoys the class, or you can stay and watch your chef in action. The classes are held on Saturdays from 12:30pm – 2pm and the cost is $20 per child. Children 6 and up are recommended.
TO RSVP please call then at 617.661.5005 – please let them know Cupcake Kid Cafe sent you!
Visit Henrietta’s Table online at http://henriettastable.com/news_events/
Enter between 1/5/11 and 2/14/11 for a chance to win a Gift Certificate to a Wholesome Kids Cook cooking class (any class/location of winner’s choice beginning in March 2011) and baking set from Twinkleberry (apron, oven mitt, wooden spoon and rolling pin.) Prize is valued at $60. Contest ends February 14, 2011 at noon.
To enter to win visit Princeton Kids
We know that somewhere in your family is a licorice lover! I happen to be that one person in our family…but if you have a licorice lover these are the cupcakes for you! The recipe comes from a website called Kayotic so we want to give them a big shout out for such a unique recipe with such drool worthy images!
INGREDIENTS:
Cupcakes:
1 stick butter (115 gr)
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
6 oz soft sweet liquorice
1 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp water
2 eggs (room temperature)
1/2 tsp salt
Peppermint Frosting:
4 oz cream cheese
2 cups confectioners sugar
25 soft peppermint pillows (or 1 tsp peppermint extract)
DIRECTIONS:
Cream the butter and sugar for 4 or 5 minutes, until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs—one at a time— and beat until it’s creamy.
Put the liquorice in a pan and add 2 tbsp water.
Melt the liquorice over low heat while stirring occasionally. When it looks too dry, add 1 or 2 tbsp water. I used a total of 4 tbsp water.
Add the melted liquorice to the sugar butter. Along with the baking powder and salt and beat until it’s a smooth brown concoction. Add the flour and stir until just combined.
Line a standard muffin tin with paper liners and fill them 2/3 of the way with the batter. Bake them at 350F (175C) for 18 to 20 minutes.
For the icing combine the (soft) cream cheese with the peppermint powder (or 1 tsp extract) and 2 cups confectioners sugar. It will look grainy at first…but will then transform into a firm and creamy frosting!
Now ice your cupcakes and ENJOY!
For the full recipe and an adorable printable recipe card visit Kayotic Kitchen’ s Licorice Cupcake Recipe
All images courtesy of Kayotic Kitchen.
I saw this adorable giveaway and just wanted to let our readers know about!
Named one of 2010’s coolest toys by CNBC, ChocoPot is a unique cooking experience combining an entertaining cooking DVD, a fun process and great tasting treats. The kid-friendly cooking appliance melts chocolate to create fondue or molded candy in a variety of shapes to share with friends and family.
Features:
To enter to win this Chocopot Click visit http://www.shining2save.com/2011/01/chef-kids-chocopot-review-giveaway.html. Contest ends 1/3/2011.
If you have to have it now – then you can find it on Amazon here Chef Kids Chocopot Cooking Appliance
You would love to ring in 2011 with your kiddos, but staying up past midnight just isn’t in the cards.
Celebrate instead by making New Year-themed fortune cookies together. The kid-friendly take on the classic comes courtesy of local foodie Rebecca Coleman. Her blog, Cooking with My Kid, documents the family kitchen hijinks (she’s got two wee ones), so you can expect the recipe to be as easy as three … two … one.
New Year’s Resolution Cookies
Makes two dozen
Ingredients
5 tbsp. unsalted butter
4 egg whites
1 c. superfine sugar
1 c. all-purpose flour, sifted
1 pinch salt
3 tbsp. heavy whipping cream
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Gel food coloring
1 tbsp. multicolored nonpareil sprinkles
1. Write resolutions on three-by-half-inch paper strips using food-safe ink.
2. Preheat oven to 400°.
3. Prep two baking sheets with Silpat or nonstick cooking spray.
4. Melt butter; set aside to cool. In an electric mixer, combine egg whites and sugar for one minute. Mix in flour and salt, beat. Mix in butter, heavy cream, and vanilla; beat until smooth.
5. Divide batter into two bowls. Mix multicolored nonpareil sprinkles into one batch. Add a drop of food coloring to the other.
6. Place teaspoon-size scoops of batter at least four inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Using the back of the spoon, smooth batter into even rounds about three inches in diameter.
7. Bake eight to ten minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove from oven.
8. Working quickly, slide a spatula under one cookie, lift, and flip over onto a dishtowel. Place one resolution message in the center of the cookie. Fold cookie in half and pinch at the top to form a loose semicircle. Place the folded edge on the rim of a coffee mug and pull each point down, one to the inside of the mug and one to the outside.
9. Place folded cookies in a muffin tin to hold their shape until firm.
10. Crack one open, discuss, devour, repeat.
For more kid-tested recipes, go to cookingwithmykid.com.
Here is a few more fun desserts that the kids will love to make as much as love to eat! Keep them busy while you are cooking with these easy recipes!
Turkey Cookies from Pillsbury
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DIRECTIONS
View the full recipe at Pillsbury
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A Flock of Turkeys from Taste of Home
Photo Courtesy of Taste of Home
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DIRECTIONS
Editor’s Note: This recipe was tested with Nabisco Pinwheels.
View the full recipe at Taste of Home
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Photo Courtesy of Taste of Home
Shortbread Turkey Cookies
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DIRECTIONS
View the full recipe at Taste of Home
Thanksgiving is about togetherness and being thankful for family and friends and all the things that make your life special!
Of course your children love to take part in the Thanksgiving celebrations and now you can even have them further involved by letting them be a part of the cooking fun with these great ideas!
How about a Handprint Pumpkin Pie? An adorable home cooked pie with a cut out of your child’s hand print that is then made into a turkey shape! We love this idea!
Then we have the Gobbling Good Cupcakes! These adorable cupcakes are filled with 
goodies that make them look just like that Thanskgiving turkey. Perfect for dessert for the kids or even class room parties.
Last but not least is an adorable Marshmallow Pilgrim Hat! Made of scrumptious Marshmallow, striped shortbread cookies and yummy chocolate these unique desserts are sure to be a huge hit and your kids will love helping to make these!
My name is Rachel and this is my site! I wanted a website where I can meet other kids who love to cook like me and where I can share great articles, videos and cooking related things.