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Dinner With Kids

A weekly illustration by Tara Carmichael

No-Churn Churros Con Chocolate Ice Cream

Churros con Chocolate Ice Cream is cinnamon, chocolate, creamy, basically incredible! Especially since you can make yourself with this easy no-churn recipe.

Chocolate Churro Hearts with Boozy Salted Dulce de Leche

Celebrate your love this Valentine’s Day with crispy chocolate churro hearts dipped in boozy salted dulce de leche sauce.

Smoky S’mores Trail Mix

We are knee deep in road trip season. Up to our elbows in camping time. Hiking, biking, and all that outdoorsy stuff is happening, like now. So what better time than to have a new trail mix recipe to take along for the ride? The standard peanut, raisins, and M&M’s are good (although I prefer mine in cookie form) but let’s class up the joint for a minute. Let’s combine the two foods most associated with camping into one big bowl of yum—and I’m not talking about beanie weenies people. Let’s take: Roasted Salted Pistachios Graham Cereal Smoked Almonds Mini Marshmallows Cacao nibs Dark Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans Roasted Salted Macadamia Nuts Toss them in a bowl and make s’mores

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Soft Ricotta Banana Bread

Soft, rich slices of sweet ricotta banana bread made with creamy butter, ripe bananas, vanilla, a pinch of salt, and ricotta cheese.

Sugar Cookie Hot Chocolate

Learn how to make sugar cookie hot chocolate with white chocolate, a dash of almond and lemon extract, and of course extra whipped cream and sprinkles.

How to Make Paper Flowers for Day of the Dead

Step-by-step instructions on how to make paper flowers the beautiful decorations popular in Mexico for all sorts of celebrations. An easy craft for anyone!

Mexican Hot Chocolate Waffle Iron Sandwich

A Chocolate Waffle Iron Sandwich is a fun snack: Chocolate sandwiched between two slices of buttered country bread & toasted in a waffle iron until melted.

Jicama Pops

Healthy Jicama Pops are thick slices of crunchy jicama speared on wooden sticks, drenched in lime juice then sprinkled with coarse salt and chile powder.

For posterity’s sake

For whatever reason, last Saturday I set about taking pictures of the kids. Not the get-together-and-say-cheese type, but close-ups. Here’s what happend.

Ginger Mint Cooler

This Ginger Mint Cooler is a super refreshing zero-proof drink with a bright green hue from fresh mint. Serve over ice with a few ripe raspberries!

The Sunday 10 | 10 Easy Classroom Valentines

10 Easy Classroom Valentines for elementry age kids. Adorable ideas that are fun and (as long as you have a color printer) pretty easy to pull off.

Sunday Rocks|10 Best Children’s Books for Christmas

The 10 Best Children’s Books to get your little ones this Christmas. These are our favorite picture books of 2014, best for ages 3 and up.

Super Easy Sugar Skulls for Dia de los Muertos

These simplified, super easy Sugar Skulls are basically foolproof and are perfect for little ones to decorate for Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead.