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30 Kid Friendly Muffin Recipes for Cold Mornings

December 3, 2019 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Is there anything better on a cold morning than a hot cup of a coffee and a warm muffin?

Don’t think so.

I wasn’t much of a muffin eater as a kid, but once I learned how to make them as an adult, they quickly became a breakfast go-to.

My kids are nuts about muffins for breakfast too. With winter quickly approaching, I thought it would be handy to round up 30 kid friendly muffin recipes that would be perfect for cold mornings!

Some of these can even be made ahead and frozen! Just take out a bag of freezer muffins the night before so they can thaw and be ready for the next morning.

Take a look at the full list below. Be sure to let me know which ones your kids love the most!

Want to bake up more deliciousness this winter? Don’t miss our list of 25 delicious cookie bar recipes to bake at home!

30 Kid Friendly Muffin Recipes for Cold Mornings

1. Vanilla Iced Banana Bread Muffins – Look! We’re Learning!

2. Hash Brown Egg Muffin Cups – School Time Snippets

3. Double Chocolate Muffins – Spaceships and Laserbeams

4. Buttermilk Rhubarb Crumble Muffins – Happy Hooligans

5. Loaded Omelet Muffins – Kids Activities Blog

6. Pancake Muffins – Parenting Chaos

7. Lemon Blueberry Muffins – Frugal Family

8. Maple Sugar Bacon Muffins – Confessions of an Overworked Mom

9. Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins – Temecula Blogs

10. Easy Smores Muffins – A Turtle’s Life for Me

11. Mini Banana Muffins – On My Kids Plate

12. Banana Split Sprinkle Muffins – Sweet Recipeas

13. Cinnamon Iced Pumpkin Crumb Muffins – Celebrating Sweets

14. Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins – The Kitchen Is My Playground

15. Easy Berry Muffins – My Bored Toddler

16. Banana Oatmeal Muffins – Pichea Place

17. Healthy Pumpkin Muffins – Nate and Rachael

18. Orange Strawberry Muffins – Recipes From a Pantry

19. Funfetti French Toast Muffins – Sheri Silver

20. Cinnamon Roll Muffins – A Magical Mess

21. Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins – Mom Vs. The Boys

22. Apple Pie Muffins – Bunny’s Warm Oven

23. Lemon Pound Cake Muffins – Simply Stacie

24. Monkey Bread Muffins – Spaceships and Laserbeams

25. Chocolaty Chip Muffins – The Monday Box

26. Cheery Clementine Muffins – On My Kids Plate

27. Double Chocolate Banana Muffins – Peas and Crayons

28. Bakery Style Oreo Muffins – Amy Treasure

29. Nutella Muffins – Taming Twins

30. Easy Banana Bread Muffins – A Turtle’s Life for Me

Did you love these kid friendly muffin recipes? Try some of these other tried and tested kid friendly foods below!

Be sure to follow my Breakfast Ideas for the Family board on Pinterest too!

20 Delicious No Churn Ice Cream Recipes

June 6, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Can we actually have summer without ice cream?

I don’t know if anyone has attempted it, but that is one science experiment I am not interested in trying.

Once the weather gets warm, it’s ice cream time. Even if it happens to be a weird heat streak in January.

I’ve always bought ice cream from the store, because I thought I’d need an ice cream maker to make ice cream at home. And I really don’t have space to store an ice cream maker.

But once I found out about no churn ice cream recipes that didn’t require an ice cream maker, I was sold.

It turns out that you can make actual, honest-to-goodness ice cream without an ice cream maker. No churning, no ice cream salt, nothing but some good ingredients and your favorite mix-ins.

That’s a done deal in my book.

Take a look at these ways to make no churn ice cream and see if any of the homemade ice cream recipes below catch your eye!

And for more fun with icy treats, check out our roundup of 20 homemade popsicle recipes you can make too!

20 Delicious No Churn Ice Cream Recipes

This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.1. Blueberry Crumble Ice Cream – Sally’s Baking Addiction

2. Circus Animal No-Churn Ice Cream – Sugar Hero

3. No-Churn Banana Cream Pie Ice Cream – Crazy For Crust

4. Roasted Marshmallow Ice Cream – Frugal Mom Eh

5. No-Churn White Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream – Fearless Dining

6. Chocolate Zucchini No-Churn Ice Cream – Beyond Frosting

7. No-Churn Ricotta Ice Cream – How Sweet Eats

8. No-Churn Olive Oil Ice Cream with Roasted Peaches – Shared Appetite

9. No-Churn Cotton Candy Ice Cream – Spaceships and Laser Beams

10. No-Churn Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream – Jo Cooks

11. No-Churn Pumpkin Ice Cream – Wholefully

12. No-Churn Cosmic Brownie Ice Cream – The Domestic Rebel

13. No-Churn Mocha Marshmallow Chip Ice Cream – Baking Bites

14. No-Churn Chocolate Caramel Ice Cream – Crazy For Crust

15. Strawberry Rhubarb Ice Cream – Frugal Mom Eh

16. No-Churn Tiramisu Ice Cream – Beyond Frosting

17. No-Churn Key Lime Pie Ice Cream – Like Mother, Like Daughter

18. No-Churn Sugar Roasted Peach Pie Ice Cream – How Sweet Eats

19. No-Churn Unicorn Ice Cream – Totally the Bomb

20. Funfetti Cookie Dough Ice Cream – Inside Bru Crew Life

How to Make No Churn Ice Cream Recipes at Home

The great thing about making no churn ice cream recipes is that, not only do you not need an ice cream maker or rock salt, you don’t really need any special equipment at all!

You can mix the ingredients directly in a glass baking dish. Freeze as directed in each recipe. And then serve!

That’s truly all there is to it.

I’ve had the same Pyrex glass baking dishes for years, so I can heartily recommend these. They’ll hold up forever.

And it’s great to have two of them, because you can keep one in the freezer for your ice cream and the other free for dinner casserole. (I think I cook a meal in my Pyrex dish at least three times a week.)

Pyrex Basics 3-Quart Glass Baking Dish, Set of 2

And these adorable ice cream serving bowls would be perfect for sharing these no churn ice cream recipes with the kids!

BonBon Ice Cream Serving Bowls and Spoons

Did you love these no churn ice cream recipes? Don’t miss these other ice cream activities for kids!

And see more sweet recipes for little ones on my Sweet Treats for Kids Pinterest board!

20 Easy DIY Popsicle Recipes to Make With the Kids

May 20, 2019 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Nothing quite says “summer” like a popsicle. I remember my parents getting the big bag of flavored freeze pops during the summer and storing them in the freezer.

It was always a race between my brother and I to see who could get the rare blue raspberry flavored pop first.

I didn’t know then that you could make popsicles at home. And, since we have four children, it’s actually worth it to make a lot of DIY popsicle recipes for ourselves. That way, the kids can get involved in making them too!

These easy homemade popsicles are perfect for making delicious summertime treats together. Pick a few to try for some cool sweets your kids will love!

Read on to see the list of popsicle recipes below! And, for more summer fun, take a look at our list of 60 outdoor play ideas for summer!

20 DIY Popsicle Recipes to Make with Kids

1. Banana Popsicles Recipe – On My Kids Plate

2. Blueberry Peach Popsicles – Dancing Through the Rain

3. Strawberry Freezer Popsicles – Low Carb Yum

4. Banana Berry Popsicles – Sidewalk Shoes

5. Orange Pineapple Popsicles – Five Spot Green Living

6. Root Beer Float Popsicles – Boulder Locavore

7. Watermelon Popsicles – A Magical Mess

8. Blueberries Cream Popsicles – A Simple Pantry

9. Peach Honey Popsicles – Cookie and Kate

10. Watermelon Sorbet Popsicles – Parenting Chaos

11. Green Smoothie Popsicles – 5 Minutes for Mom

12. Kids Summer Watermelon Popsicles – Powerful Mothering

13. Strawberry Lemonade Popsicles – Yellow Bliss Road

14. Fruit Smoothie Popsicles – Lemon Tree Dwelling

15. Creamy Strawberry Lemonade Popsicles – Good Life Eats

16. Limeade Popsicles – A Simple Pantry

17. Grapefruit Popsicles – Paper N Stitch Blog

18. Strawberry Coconut Milk Popsicles – The Roasted Root

19. Chocolate-Covered Banana Popsicles – Cafe Delites

20. Mermaid Popsicles – Seduction In the Kitchen

Did you love this list of DIY popsicle recipes? Make warm weather learning fun with these other summer ideas!

And for more ways to spend summer with the kids, follow my Summer Activities for Kids Pinterest board!

25 Dee-licious Cookie Bar Recipes

December 11, 2017 by Selena Robinson 5 Comments

I have to be honest: I’m not much of a baker. I didn’t learn how to bake from scratch as a kid, but I’ve been trying to teach my kids to bake (generally as I learn myself).

So – one way I’ve found to get over my fear of baking is to make things I actually want to eat. And who doesn’t want to eat cookie bars?

I’ve rounded up 25 super dee-licious cookie bar recipes that I intend to try this winter! (Well, maybe not ALL of them.) I hope these look yummy enough for you to try too! By the way, for some really simple and yummy treats, try our Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies!

25 Dee-licious Cookie Bar Recipes

1. This super simple Almond Cookie Bar recipe looks so easy and delicious to make!

2. Add a little “crunch” to your cookie bars with this Double Chocolate Butterfinger Cookie Bar recipe!

3. My mom’s banana pudding recipe is a family tradition, but these Banana Pudding Bars might become a close second!

4. Have you ever had caramel and walnuts in your chocolate chip cookies? Me neither. Time to try this Caramel Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe!

5. If you like caramel, you’ll love these Twix Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars – candy and chocolate in one!

6. I love Chai tea, but I never thought of making Chai Cookie Bars. These look amazing!

7. Salted Caramel Snickers Cookie Bars. Oh my.

8. I have never thought to combine toffee and marshmallow before. But that’s exactly what this Chewy Chocolate Toffee Marshmallow Cookie Bar recipe does! And it looks heavenly.

9. Cinnamon and maple are two of my favorite flavors. Both are in these Cinnamon Chip Maple Cookie Bars!

10. The Snickers bar is the best candy bar ever. How can you go wrong making Snickers Bar Cookies?

11. Red Velvet Cake is my favoritest cake in all the world. Naturally, these Red Velvet Cake Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are on my “To Bake” list!

12. Making this yummy Toll House Chocolate Chip Pan Cookie looks super easy! I imagine the hard part will be not eating the entire thing myself.

13. You don’t need a campfire to enjoy S’mores with these S’more Cookie Bars!

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Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookie Recipe

December 22, 2015 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

Looking for a super yummy, easy, fuss-free recipe? Cake mix cookies are it!

I’d never heard of making cookies with cake mix until about a year ago, but it is ridiculously, ridiculously easy. So there’s really no reason NOT to make some today, right?

After making a couple of batches, I experimented with a little “extra” ingredient and – voila! – this Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookie recipe was born! Here’s how to make some of your own!

Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookie Recipe

So, if you’re going to make cake mix cookies, then you’re definitely going to need…cake mix. I think most of us probably have a box lying in the back of the pantry somewhere.

I used Betty Crocker Super Moist Yellow Cake Mix, but you could probably use whatever flavor you want.

You just empty out the cake mix, then add in some baking powder.

Pour in vegetable oil and a couple of eggs.

Then butterscotch chips (which were also lying in the back of my pantry)…

and chocolate chips (which, as you can see, had also been lying in my pantry for some time). They still tasted good, though, so if your chocolate chips look dry, they’re okay to use. 🙂

Use a tablespoon to drop mounds onto ungreased baking sheets.

And in about 10 minutes, you have these.

Can’t you just smell them through the computer screen?

A quick note: These cookies do NOT brown on top. They turn golden (because of the yellow cake mix), but they don’t get that “cookie brown” color. So after 10 minutes, they really are done. Don’t overcook them!

All that’s missing now is a huge glass of milk.

Get the full recipe below! Happy baking!

Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 20 cookies

Ingredients

Adapted from Cake Mix Cookies VII Recipe at All Recipes
1 - 18.25 ounce box yellow cake mix
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1/2 cup butterscotch chips
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

Empty the yellow cake mix into a large mixing bowl.
Add the baking powder and stir to mix well.
Pour in the vegetable oil, then add both eggs.
Stir until combined. The mixture should look yellow and glossy.
Add in the butterscotch chips and the chocolate chips.
Mix well.
Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto two ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. (Cookies will NOT look brown on the top.)
Let cool, then serve!

And if you want even more cookie goodness, check out my roundup of 25 Dee-Licious Cookie Bar Recipes!