My son Luke's favorite thing for him and I to make together is Pineapple Upside Down Cake. If your child isn't a big fan of frosting or if you don't want them to have the sugar load of frosting, this is a great option. Luke and I have made Pineapple Upside Down Cake in a 8-inch round cake pan, 12-cavity muffin pan, and a 6-cavity jumbo muffin pan. We've also made them with regular yellow cake mix, gluten-free yellow cake mix, and from scratch. Every time - delicious!

We hope you love all of these Encanto-inspired recipes and ideas from our team here at Itty Bitty Bakers!

May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. At Itty Bitty Bakers, we are passionate about mental health issues in children.This month, we sought the expertise of Jessica Epperson, a Mental Health Counselor, for her guidance.

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd. It’s a day to celebrate our beautiful planet and the perfect time to teach kids about caring for the environment around them. To celebrate the blue planet, we've rounded up three Earth Day Cookie recipes ranging from EASY, to EASIER, to EASIEST. Check them out below!

Here's a list of U-Pick farms near Birmingham, AL and my favorite recipe for Strawberry Buttermilk Cake!

There’s just something about a puppy that gets me every time. Their playfulness, their curiosity, and their all around cuteness can easily melt me into a big, blubbering puddle. Read on as I share with you some puppy treats you can make for them, and some ways you can help the puppies in your local community over spring break.

As parents, you’re either thinking this or someone is asking this - "What’s for dinner?" You know you’ve made good recipes in the past, but your mind is drawing a blank on what they were. Or, you have some go-to favorites but you still need the actual recipe to follow but you can't find it. Is this just me?

Oh what fun we had at the 2021 Kids Christmas Cookie Bake-Off! Thank you to all of our contestants and judges. All of the entries were amazing and completely blew us away. Every single child who baked cookies and presented them to the judges is a winner in our book. We cannot WAIT to start planning the 2022 Kids Christmas Cookie Bake-Off and look forward to seeing your wonderful creations next year!

We have three amazing judges for this year's Kids Christmas Cookie Bake Off. They are so excited to meet the contestants!

Discover all the details about the 2nd Annual Kids Christmas Cookie Bake Off 2021 in Birmingham, AL! Fun and festive bake off event perfect for young bakers.

Autumn has arrived, marking the season for all things pumpkin! In this blog, I’ll discuss how pumpkins offer benefits beyond just being used for front porch decor, pies, and spiced lattes. Pumpkins are a SUPERFOOD that can easily be incorporated into meals and snacks for a boost of nutrition.

Youth sports are in full swing! Whether your child is a part of a sports team or is active at home, knowing how to properly fuel your little athlete can be tricky.

At Itty Bitty Bakers, we believe every recipe is a chance to learn. In this series, you’ll find simple ways to explain the “magic” of baking to your kids—so they can see that every cupcake, cookie, and loaf of bread is a little science experiment in disguise.

Inviting your kids to help you in the kitchen can be daunting. Here are some tips to help you get started along with some easy recipes to try.

Have you ever noticed how math problems always pop up when baking?⁠ From measuring ingredients to adjusting batches, every step in the process can involve some form of math. When you have kids in the kitchen, they get to practice the math they are learning in school, sometimes without even knowing it! So often kids say, "I'll never use this in life!" Baking shows them just how important math skills can be.

There are so many things you can do with sugar cookie dough. For this recipe, I recommend using a cookie dough mix and focus more on having kids shape it into cookie cups. Pressing the dough into mini muffin cups is a great motor skill challenge for little hands. This is the kind of recipe that works well with kids under age 10. For older kids, I think they can try to do it on their own, reaching out to parents, if needed.

When I think about foods that are always a hit with the men in my life, BACON comes to mind. What dad doesn’t love this salty breakfast staple? I came across a recipe for Maple Bacon Cupcakes and I knew my kids and I needed to make them for my husband as a special Father’s Day dessert.

There is something nostalgic about picking berries in the summer. Whenever I take my kids to a blueberry patch, I am transported to my own c

Get ready for summer outdoor celebrations, and let your kids contribute to the festivities! This recipe is a fun activity plus delicious recipe all rolled into one! To get started, first decide how deep into the baking world you want to go.

At Itty Bitty Bakers, we love strawberry season! Here's a recipe from summer camp 2020 that we absolutely love and it calls for fresh strawberries. We chose this recipe so kids could get the chance to use kid-safe knives and chop the strawberries themselves. We also chose it so we could talk during the baking and cooling time about the nutritional benefits of strawberries.

Many parents have children who eat both raw and cooked vegetables with ease. As a Registered Dietitian, I'd like to say I am one of them. But my child has been on the slow train to Veggietown and it has required a lot of time and patience just to get to the outskirts of town. To work on getting my son to eat more vegetables, I decided to let him play with them. I don't mean a free-for-all with them, though I'm sure he'd love to drop-kick a head of lettuce like a soccer bal