by Stacie Billis | Sep 18, 2017 | Tips + Tricks, Party!, Recipes
There are so many incredible, creative pizza toppings that can easily get kids out of the plain cheese rut when you make your own pizza at home. My kids love doing just that — because stretchy dough and messy sauce — and I love it when they make pizza,...
by Caroline Siegrist | Sep 7, 2017 | Tips + Tricks, Recipes
As much as I love baking, I don’t always have time to make a cake and icing from scratch and decorate it extra special. As we all know, a parent’s party prep time is finite. So as a shortcut, I searched for the very cutest cake makeover ideas (cakeovers?)...
by Cool Mom Team | Aug 19, 2017 | Recipes
It’s been quite a week. And not in a good way. Just as we’ve been struggling to handle our emotions about the turmoil, along comes Tina Fey with her Weekend Update sheetcaking segment. Plenty of it made us laugh, just when we needed it. While we’ve...
by Jane Sweeney | Aug 12, 2017 | Shopping Finds
At a recent barbecue, my neighbor introduced me to one of the coolest — and tastiest — kid activities I’ve seen in a long time. Using the YayLabs Ice Cream Ball, a group of kids churned a simple recipe into creamy ice cream with about thirty minutes of...
by Stacie Billis | Aug 1, 2017 | Recipes
Like everyone else, these dog days of summer have me craving cold, creamy ice cream on the daily. Sadly, though, I’d have problems if I indulged everyday (and not just with my bathing suit fit). On top of it, one of my sons is dairy free. So I needed to find a...