by Christina Refford | Dec 12, 2018 | Christmas, Gift Guides, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
Baking Christmas cookies with the kids always sounds like a good idea until you’re elbow deep in cookie batter with too many sticky hands trying to “help” and eat the raw dough. So if you have about as much patience as I do for this type of endeavor,...
by Cool Mom Staff | Dec 11, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
We’ve talked so much about how cooking and baking can really connect us with our past, our traditions, our families, and there’s no time we feel that more than right now, over the holiday season. There’s something about rolling our sleeves up in the...
by Liz Gumbinner | Dec 10, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
I know everyone makes fun of recipes that start with long, drawn-out intros about life and love and cooking and family and the smell of cocoa powder and blah blah blah. But in the case of my dad’s perfect peanut brittle recipe, which he’s been kind enough...
by Jane Sweeney | Dec 10, 2018 | Christmas, Gift Guides, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
My favorite kind of cakes are the ones that beg to be eaten morning, noon and night. The kind of cake that gives equal permission to be enjoyed with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine – and Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake does exactly that. Ultra-moist yet...
by Kate Etue | Dec 3, 2018 | Christmas, Gift Guides, Holiday Cooking, Recipes
One of my favorite holiday desserts is chocolate bark, because OMG it’s so easy. With just some melted chocolate and a cookie sheet, you can prepare enough sweets for a party, or make impressive and tasty homemade holiday food gifts in no time at all. But, if...
by Christina Refford | Nov 26, 2018 | Christmas, Holiday Cooking, Shopping Finds
O avocado toast, O avocado toast, your creamy goodness delights me. I don’t even care that you’ve become a joke among foodies and politicians alike: I will choose you over sugarplums any day of the week. And to bear witness to my love of this delightful pick for...
