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We gathered four easy recipes that kids can make with minimal help from an older sibling or grown-up. These are practically no-cook recipes, but they will give the children confidence and allow them to present something lovely to their mama made all by themselves.

Eating good food is one of the best ways to make your superpowers shine through. Let's dig in!

These birthday pancakes are a great way to kick off the next special day in your family. The recipe isn't extraordinary — just basic pancakes — but, by using a squeeze bottle to make notes or drawings in the batter, you can make these pancakes an extra-fun birthday morning surprise.

The extra thickness of these pancakes makes them perfectly suited to being stuffed with goodies. Try them with Dante's peaches and pecans or whatever else you can imagine up. Then, get ready for an incredible day.

Last summer, we brought you a month of fairy foods. Each week, we rounded up different types of favorite delicacies as we considered the tastes of earth fairies, water fairies, fire fairies, and air fairies. Today, we're gathering all those round-ups together into one place so you can easily find them all.

Fire fairies have a special fondness for fruit and its changeable, ripening qualities. These recipes will give you a few ideas for melding fruit and fire together. 

Get to know the water fairies around you by exploring a few treats that are especially suitable for water fairies.

Earth fairies enjoy hearty meals. We've picked out four that I think any earth fairy would love to share with the kids they meet.

If you want to spend some time baking with your kiddos this summer, these pecan sandies are an easy recipe to start with. Studded with sweet pecans, these cookies will delight your family, with maybe enough left over to take some to the neighbors.

Making sweet rolls from scratch for breakfast is not difficult, and the actual hands-on work doesn't take that long. And these rolls are so worth it. They're so much lighter and fluffier than anything you'll find in a can.