Articles For Mom

How to Make Painted Christmas Cookies

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:57:55 PST

How about trying your hand at painting your Christmas cookies this year? While at first glance they may seem difficult to accomplish, painting Christmas cookies is easy enough for children to help with. Christmas cookie paint is actually a simple mix of egg yolk, water, and food coloring. After you've rolled out the dough and cut the shape you want, just paint on some playful designs, and bake your cookies as always. A couple of techniques can be used to place the designs on the dough. You can paint freehand or take a smaller cookie cutter and gently imprint or press the design to paint.

Make a Black Widow Spider Cake

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:56:00 PST

Try this clever black widow spider cake which oozes its guts out when you cut into it. Great for kids halloween parties, a bug party, or just for fun!

Make a Black Cat Cake for Halloween

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:51:00 PST

A home made fluffy black cat cake is simple to make by following these step-by-step instructions. From making a cake board to display your classic creation, to frosting and detailing with ease, it's all here
This cake is a bit hit for kids Halloween parties!

Spooky Halloween Recipe Punch Ideas

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:34:00 PST

Try these spooky Halloween Recipe Punch Ideas for your next Halloween party. Choose from Halloween "Ghoul-ade", Bubbling Bat Brew, and Spider Cider. Learn how to add dry ice and balloon lights for eerie effects!

Make a Halloween Pumpkin Cake

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:30:00 PST

Try this pumpkin cake design for your next Halloween party or harvest time get-together. Makes a great presentation at kids classroom parties, too.

Halloween Party Menu

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:19:00 PST

Halloween is normally a sugar fest. Here's some ideas to fill the kids before they go out Trick or Treating so that they'll be too full to eat all the candy.

Easy Autumn Apple Recipes

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:09:00 PST

Easy autumn apple recipes your whole family will enjoy.

Filled Cookies

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:26:00 PST

When I was a kid growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin 40 years ago, cookies with a date filling were my dad's favorite kind. Here is the recipe. 3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened) 3/4 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 5 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt several tablespoons of milk if the dough seems too dry Jam: blackberry, black raspberry, strawberry, red raspberry, plum conserve, apple conserve, or date filling (recipes for plum and apple conserve and date filling are included below.) Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. If the dough is too dry, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk. If the dough seems too wet, add
1/4 or 1/2 cup of flour. Roll out dough. Use either a small round cookie cutter or one large round cutter. Place cookies on an ungreased baking sheet. Put one tea-\spoon of jam (or other filling) in the middle of the smaller ........