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If I had to pick my favorite desserts, strawberry shortcake would be near the top of the list. There’s just something about homemade shortbread combined with fresh strawberries and whipped cream that has me drooling for days. I’ll be sharing the best strawberry shortcake recipe soon but for now, I thought I’d add to my dessert dips collection with this yummy strawberry dip recipe. It starts with a little cream cheese and sour cream (for the ultimate creamy flavor), and that gets combined with fresh strawberries and strawberry topping for the ultimate strawberry shortcake flavor – that you can dip into!...

Sometimes I make really pretty layered cakes like this gorgeous red velvet cake with sugared cranberries. Or even these darling hot chocolate cupcakes. But most of the time my cakes are more like this pumpkin crunch cake, and this Snickers poke cake, where you get to basically dump the ingredients and they’ll magically look and taste great! This easy cherry cake is an example of the latter – mostly just dumping things on top of each other and magically creating something amazing....

When I first made my Easter bark back in April, people went absolutely crazy about it! I get it, it’s a great recipe and a super fun one too! Since Halloween is known for candy even more than Easter, I thought it’d be fun to make a Halloween bark variation for the spooky season! This Halloween bark recipe combines the flavors of a good old fashioned s’more in bark form, and it’s my absolute favorite bark recipe – way better than just melted chocolate topped with things!...

I remember growing up my mom would on occasion make us a yummy cinnamon coffee cake before school. More often it was cold cereal and milk (or one of these healthy smoothies), but I always loved the special mornings when she made coffee cake instead. There’s just something about coming down the stairs to the smell of fresh coffee cake that actually gets you excited about the morning. This coffee cake is a little different than the one that I had growing up but delicious all the same....

Let me begin by saying just like with molasses cookies, these gingerbread cupcakes are not super sweet – they’re more spicy, as in they have a lot of flavor and spice combinations. If you want something that’s sweeter or better for kids, try these hot chocolate cupcakes – they’re cute and delicious! But if you want something elegant and with a higher flavor profile, these gingerbread cupcakes are for you....

Yesterday I talked about how fun it is to make reindeer food with your kids as a way to think about those magical reindeer that make Santa’s sleigh fly at Christmas time! And all about this yummy reindeer chow that’s reindeer food for people! So today we’re going to continue with the reindeer fun with these adorable chocolate reindeer balls! They’re a fun and festive treat that anyone who likes chocolate will love....

This post was originally sponsored by King’s Hawaiian. All opinions are 100% honest and my own. Easy Spinach Artichoke Dip I can’t pinpoint the first time I ever had spinach artichoke dip. I know it was with my family, and I know it was in high school. Like pizza loaf, it just became one of those things that we ate on a regular basis whether it was ordering it at a restaurant or making it at home....

One of my favorite parties to host during the holiday season is a gift exchange party. White elephant, make your own, bigger or better… you name the type of gift exchange party and I love to host it. Apparently others do as well since these creative gift exchange game ideas is one of my all-time most popular posts. There is an art to hosting a gift exchange. It can either be something that people really enjoy or something else....

It’s that time of year again! Santa will be here before you know it and it’s time to start thinking about the Christmas cookies (I think he’d really enjoy these ginger molasses cookies) and milk to leave out for the big guy. But this year take it one step further and leave some reindeer food as well! You could also do a reindeer hunt, but that’s something else entirely. I started making reindeer food with my kids a couple of years ago at our Christmas morning party....

Once upon a time my husband lived in Argentina for two years and during that time, he became addicted to a little thing known as an empanada. So when we found a little restaurant around the corner from our house that serves authentic Argentine empanadas, we were in trouble. It’s not often that a week goes by that I don’t stop in and pick up a couple of empanadas for breakfast....

I’m a big fan of gift exchange games, especially if you go with something more unique than just the typical white elephant gift exchange. There’s just something that feels so Christmas to me about gift exchanges. I like games where people bring silly gifts, where people bring regular gifts, and even games like this saran wrap game where I just provide all of the gifts! The one type of gift exchange I personally don’t like is the one where everyone just brings gift cards and people basically just swap gift cards of the same value....

What Is A Bucket List? If you’ve never made a bucket list before, they’re so much fun! A lot of people have bucket lists full of items they want to do sometime in their life. Maybe a travel bucket list of places they want to travel or a seasonal bucket list of things they want to do this summer. It’s basically a list of things you want to accomplish within a set amount of time....

Printable Questions for Kids A couple of months ago my son got a pack of brain questions as his toy in a kids meal at our favorite fast food restaurant. The next month when we went back to get more brain questions, they had changed the puzzle and riddle packs to a set of table talk questions – questions to ask around the table to get your kids talking like these ones....

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I’m seeing rainbows pop up all over the place. I’ve known that I wanted to try my hand at rainbow foods for a while now and knew this would be the perfect time for it and not just because I just threw a Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty party! Or because I’ve been dreaming about donut party ideas. While my son was hanging out with grandma all day, I decided to surprise him and make an entire rainbow full of his favorite food – colorful donuts with sprinkles on top....

Last summer I shared some really fun summer party ideas, including one of my favorite tips to provide party favors that people can actually use at parties! These fun DIY confetti poppers are a great example of that! They’re not only something people can take home, they’re something people can use to celebrate at a party! You can either create a bunch to give out to people as favors or set up a table where people can create their own confetti popper!...

I love how fun St. Patrick’s Day is, especially with kids. The entire holiday is full of magic and surprises – leprechaun and rainbows. And being married to a man who is part Irish – yeah we enjoy St. Patrick’s Day around here! There’s nothing better than doing a leprechaun hunt that ends with a bag full of yummy Lucky Charms cookies and chocolate gold coins! I’m always looking for ways to make the holiday even more magical, and I do believe these green velvet cookies will do the trick with my kiddos this year!...

Signature Punch How many times have you been to a party and they’re serving a signature drink? As someone who doesn’t drink alcohol, I always feel a bit slighted when there’s a signature drink but non-alcholic version for the rest of us. Can’t you at least come up with a strawberry mocktail? So I’ve made it my mission to come up with some drink recipes that are both kid-friendly and delicious for adults....

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase via these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. One of the hardest things about having kids, especially a baby, is finding time for date night with my husband. I’m a little weird with leaving the baby with anyone other than family, and I can only ask my family to watch the kiddos so often. So my husband and I have to come up with fun date night ideas that we can do at home....

2022 Super Bowl Commercial Bingo One of my all-time favorite Super Bowl party games to play during the year is Super Bowl commercial bingo. That and Super Bowl Squares. We started doing this six years ago, and it’s been a tradition ever since! It’s bingo with things just from the commercials! And I know it’s been a big hit with readers at Super Bowl parties, so I keep making new printable cards every year....

School Fun While things are still up in the air here about what’s going on with school, I thought it would be fun to share these school bingo cards that you can use whether kids are going to virtual school, in-person school, or even homeschooling. If you send cards out to students, you could even play this over a virtual zoom class call! Bingo is one of my favorite virtual games, second only to this virtual scavenger hunt....