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{Summer Sweets} Watermelon Slush

August 13th, 2010 · 75 Comments

Without a doubt the best purchase I’ve made this summer is our sno cone maker. I keep these great natural fruit concentrates in the fridge and we can just come home, pop a few ice cubes in and voila — an icy, refreshing sweet treat in seconds with no added sugar. The best part of […]

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Tags: at market · cooking with kids · dessert · drinks · fruit · recipe · sweets

Kids Cook Monday: Strawberry Cream Tart

May 3rd, 2010 · 9 Comments

The folks behind the Meatless Monday campaign (HealthyMonday.org) have added a new weekly challenge to their menu: Kids Cook Monday. The newly-launched website contains kid-friendly recipes and videos of parents cooking with their kids. Naturally, FoodieTots is thrilled to support the cause — you can see some of our kid-tested recipes on the site already. […]

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Snowflake Coconut Cake with Maple Snow Cream

February 14th, 2010 · 11 Comments

What to make when you’ve been snowed in for days? Snow cake, of course! When I proposed baking a cake the boy first suggested chocolate. I talked him into a “snow” cake instead, a.k.a. coconut. We used Ina Garten’s coconut cake recipe, though I used unsweetened coconut instead of the sweetened she calls for. Really, […]

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Tags: baking · cooking with kids · cooking with toddlers · dessert · recipes · sweets

Banana Pecan Coffee Cake (and a blizzard)

December 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

I haven’t had much time in the kitchen lately, as you might have guessed by my lack of posting. After a long and stressful month, I desparately needed some therapeutic time in the kitchen, breathing in the sweet fragrance of butter and sugar creaming in the KitchenAid. So I was thrilled when I heard there […]

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Tags: baked goods · baking · sweets

Banana Mini Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting

February 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments

We were invited to a toddler pre-game playdate on Super Bowl Sunday and brought these mini cupcakes. The bananas added enough sweetness that I was able to reduce the sugar in the recipe by half; the frosting of course more than compensates for the not-too-sweet cake. I called it Nutella frosting, but I actually used […]

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Tags: cooking with toddlers · dessert · recipes · sweets