Cupcakes and cookies...Are there two more magical words in a child's vocabulary? This guide to baking with kids brings families together in the kitchen, igniting the passion for baking in young hearts while providing adult-friendly recipes that guarantee fun, safety, and delicious results. Explore a delightful, flavorful world of cookies (pumpkin-ginger, double chocolate) and cupcakes (red velvet, pineapple-coconut), with easy-to-follow recipes

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Whether you make them for yourself to enjoy or you give them away as edible gifts to all your friends and family members, cookies are a quintessential part of holiday time. Though classics like gingerbread men, thumbprints and sugar cookies will always hold a special place in our hearts (and on our holiday dessert table), we always recommend adding one or two new recipes to your yearly cookie baking rotation. With this special issue, you'll

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Christmas cookies: They're not just for Santa! Everybody loves to cuddle up by the fireplace with hot cocoa in one hand and a freshly-baked cookie in another. Whether you go right to the chocolate or you're more of a ginger snap fan, there's a Christmas cookie for everyone—and for all of the people you want to give simple-yet-thoughtful homemade food gifts. It's all about finding the right recipe. On our list of Christmas cookie

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As soon as you reach for a cozy sweater to greet the first frost or snuggle up under a blanket with a mug of hot chocolate, it can only mean one thing—holiday baking season is here! For many of us, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. The magic of colored sprinkles, the first bite of a chewy gingerbread cookie, the sweet swirls of frosting atop a holiday spice cake—no winter would be complete without a stunning array of festive goodies.

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Presents vocabulary words and holiday lessons using Christmas cookies as the theme of the book.

"New best friends Cookie and Broccoli are as different as peanut butter and cheese, but that doesn't stop them from taking on the first grade! Together they navigate the first day of school: finding the classroom, making new friends (all various fruits, veggies, and desserts), and silly secret greetings. When Broccoli discovers that Cookie also has shy moments, the two of them come up with the perfect solution--inviting all their classmates to join...

A fortune cookie convinces Ben he can have whatever he wants if he is willing to wait, but getting paired with eccentric former friend Walter for a school scavenger hunt leads to unexpected rewards.

"Chatty Cookie and bashful Broccoli are best buddies, even if they're as different as peanut butter and cheese! Elementary school can be tough, but as long as they have each other, there's nothing they can't handle. Uh-oh, but what happens when Cool Cucumber and his loyal followers put Cookie's and Broccoli's coolness to the test, and Cookie's hokey pokey dance does NOT impress? And worse, when Broccoli's cool math trick propels him to be the new...

Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.