Kids – Pass the Waffle

April 24, 2022

Smith Island Rainbow Cake

I’ve heard from other parents that the rainbow cake can be a nightmare – too much cake. If you slice it thin so it’s a reasonable amount of cake, it falls apart, if you split the layers so each kid gets 2 or 3, kids complain they didn’t get the colors they wanted. Then you have this awkwardly tall leftover cake hanging around. Well, the state of Maryland has a solution for you. I baked a rainbow cake, Smith Island Style (with white chocolate icing) and it worked on 8 levels.

Food, Sweets and Treats

by Caroline Graves

June 17, 2021

Fancy Toddler Crackers

A fancier take on the simple toddler cracker recipe, with just a couple bonus ingredients that you do. They do have a slightly nicer flavour, but are not quite as simple, just due to how many ingredients involved, so I don’t make them quite as often.

Food, Snacks, Sweets and Treats

by Caroline Graves

May 18, 2021

Vegan Maccy Cheese

A hybrid of Isa Chandra Moskovitz’s Broccoli Mac & Cheese and America’s Test Kitchen’s Vegan Nacho Cheese Dip. What I’ve done here is basically double the amount of sauce by adding a medium potato blended past recognition, and some coconut oil.

Food, Mains, Savoury

by Caroline Graves

April 14, 2021

Egg Yolk Paint

This has become my top cookie decoration technique, it’s fun, the results are beautiful, it doesn’t add sugar to the cookies, the cookies stay crispy, and it’s done once the cookies are out of the oven.

Crafts and Activities, Food, Sweets and Treats

by Caroline Graves

March 12, 2021

Peeps!

Peeps! To make this a more accessible activity for a 3 year old – I found this cookie cutter method for making peeps. I prepare the sheets of marshmallow the night before and she and I cut out shapes in the morning.

Food, Sweets and Treats

by Caroline Graves

March 8, 2021

Nancy’s Favourite Playdoh Recipe!

This was sent to me by my friend Nancy, a fellow American here in Edinburgh. If Nancy says this is the best, I’ll look no further. As written this makes more than 1.5kg of playdoh – so you’ll likely want to scale it back.

Crafts and Activities

by Caroline Graves

February 28, 2021

Bubbles!

Not just soap and water, glycerin creates a moisturising protective layer that slows the evaporation process leading to longer lived bubbles. It’s as good as the stuff from the store, I make my own to keep plastic waste down.

Crafts and Activities

by Caroline Graves

February 21, 2021

Advent Calendar

Inspired by the Advent calendar my mom made for our family, I cobbled together this one for my family.

Crafts and Activities

by Caroline Graves

February 18, 2021

Stained glass rainbows (and DIY compass for drawing circles)

With a little prep work away from little busy hands, this was a good activity for our 2 year old who’s now 3. Also includes how to make a DIY compass/circle template.

Crafts and Activities

by Caroline Graves

February 14, 2021

Bunten Stuten (Raisin Bread)

A family recipe – Bunten Stuten appears to mean Colourful (sweet) Bread, similar recipes in English are called Fruit Bread. I don’t know how true this is to Bunten Stuten in Germany, instead of yeast, baking soda is used to leaven. This was a Christmas breakfast tradition growing up in our house. As I’m not a fan of raisins, I’ve swapped them for glace cherries and candied ginger.

Breakfast, Food, Sweets and Treats

by Caroline Graves

Tag: Kids