There’s something magical about baking cookies with kids, and these Fruit Thumbprint Cookies are the perfect recipe for little hands! From rolling the dough into balls to making the thumbprint centers and filling them with colorful jams, every step is fun, simple, and hands-on.

Baking with kids can be a joyful and rewarding experience, especially when the results are as yummy as these mini fruit pies. These small, colorful treats are perfect for little hands to help prepare while also teaching some advanced skills. Plus, mini fruit pies are versatile, allowing you to use a variety of fruits and flavors that your family loves. This guide will walk you through simple recipes and tips to make mini fruit pies with your kids.

Think Cheez-its. Or, think Goldfish. These land somewhere between copycat Cheez-its and copycat Goldfish crackers. They are 1000% delicious - especially warm right out of the oven. A variety of cheese cracker shapes. This recipe requires getting out the food processor, but once you taste these crackers, you won't mind. Plus, kids love being in charge of the "pulsing" button. It's just so fun.

Fruits offers a rainbow of color choices. From the red hues of the ripest strawberries to the bright green of kiwis, the color palate found in fresh fruits will brighten up any plate. Back in 2019, I taught a summer flavors themed baking camp. One of my favorite recipes of the week was Fruit Cookie Pizza. During class, kids made a cookie crust and cream cheese sauce for the pizza. The highlight of the day was watching the kids seeing fruit as an ingredient to incorporate

Today, we’re sharing our recipes for One-Bowl Tuscan Chicken Casserole and Football Brownies that we made at Take & Bake Dinner & Dessert classes recently. Whether you’re looking for a hearty dinner that the whole family will love or a festive treat for game day, these two recipes are sure to be a hit.

If you're from the South, you've likely had Sausage Balls at an event or party. They are SO delicious! Living here in Birmingham, Alabama, you can easily get frozen ones from Ashley Mac's Kitchen or the Tennessee Pride version in the freezer section at Wal-mart. Put them on a baking sheet, pop them in the oven, and everyone is in awe.

Here's a great Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie recipe from Itty Bitty Bakers teacher Sarah Eubanks.

With its rich vanilla flavor and moist texture from sour cream, you'll never miss frosting. The best pound cake flavor ever!

Hate a messy kitchen? Fearful of baking with kids? These Fossil Sugar Cookies are easy and stress-free for moms with anxiety.

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!

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!

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.

Finding ways to incorporate more fruits and veggies into our children’s diets can often feel like an unachievable goal. I often wish my kids still had the voracious appetite for fruits and vegetables that they had when they were babies when they would gorge themselves on sweet potatoes and bananas.

Prepare for an exciting "snacktivity" filled with fun and creativity! This recipe for Heart-Shaped Hand Pies is great to make with kids of all ages. And there are endless possibilities when it comes to variations — try different pie filling flavors and various cookie cutter shapes. Today, my son Luke and I chose blueberry pie filling and heart-shapes.