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We’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day and Shabbat by making love bug challah rolls. These cuties are extra simple to make too by using frozen bread dough rolls, and their adorable shape comes from baking them in a muffin tin! You’re invited to make them too with your own little love bugs!
Celebrate Tu B’Shevat and Shabbat Shira with freshly baked bird challah. These cuties are so simple to make with frozen bread dough, and they can also be painted with “edible” paint! This is a wonderful way to honor birds on this special Shabbat! So let’s go bake and “paint” bird challah!
It’s almost time for “Challahween!” We’re getting ready by baking the cutest challah ghosts, broomsticks and pumpkins too! These shapes are just so easy to make with frozen bread dough! These are the perfect little challahs for the fall season, and we show you how to make all three!
Celebrate pumpkin season (and Shabbat) with fresh baked pumpkin challah rolls. These cuties are so simple to make with frozen bread dough, and they can also be dressed-up for “challah-ween” with icing, sprinkles and candy eyes. This is a wonderful family activity for fall. So let’s go bake and dress-up pumpkin challah rolls!
We’re “painting” rainbow challah to celebrate the first Shabbat of the New Jewish Year! We made edible paint from natural food colors, and used challah as our canvas. This is such a fun food craft for all the little artists in your life, or anytime you want to add a little extra color and happiness to your Shabbat! So come “paint” some challah with us!
This is the sweetest “baking experience” for littles. We used store bought cream puffs and transformed them into a mini apple dessert for Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot. With just a few ingredients, they’re so simple to make, but oh so cute and fancy! Most importantly, we share 10 thoughtful ways for a little one to help make them! So let’s get “baking!”
Here’s the cutest way to have apples and honey for a sweet new year - with our apple buns stuffed with pie filling! As of of right now this is my most favorite recipe for Rosh Hashanah. They’re so sweet and adorable, come bake some with us!
These adorable unicorn challahs are the perfect summer-pick-me-up! They’re extra fun for Shabbat or even getting through a long day. The shape also reminds us of the round challah we eat on Rosh Hashanah! The prep is super simple with frozen bread rolls (Shhh! It’s a secret! I’ll never tell). So grab a little, and let’s go make some magical fun!
We’ve officially welcomed a new Jewish month - Tammuz, and with it the official start of summer! On the Jewish calendar, the summer season includes the months Tammuz, Av and Elul. Join us in celebrating summer with yummy foods, summer crafts and some special family outings.
It’s the Jewish holiday Passover! It comes during the Hebrew month of Nisan and the season of spring! We can’t wait to bake matzah, make an afikomen bag, get crafty with matzah necklaces, “plant” parsley and celebrate the Passover story with Baby Moses! Discover so many ways to celebrate with your family!
Celebrate Purim with gluten-free orange Hamantaschen - a sweetly delicate orange flavored short-bread cookie with a delicious orange filling. It tastes like a true burst of sunshine and happiness - right from Florida, the Sunshine State.
With so much love in the air this month, we wanted to celebrate the love of family and friends this Shabbat with heart-shaped challah-pops! Little cakes on a stick are just so cute, and they’re so easy too! So let’s go make some Challah Heart-Pops!
“No Bake” Hamantaschen are the star of our Purim themed lunch! Since they’re as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich, we thought it would be fun and festive to pack them in a lunchbox. We included a royal jewelled fruit kabob and Mordechai Munchies! The results were adorable and delicious!
Did you know that sending friends baskets of sweets is a tradition for the Jewish holiday Purim? They’re filled with fruit and cookies - like Hamantaschen - the sweet triangular pastry that we eat on Purim! We also like to fill the baskets with special DIY Purim-themed surprises - especially for families with littles!
It’s the Jewish holiday Purim (the 14th of the Hebrew month Adar)! We can’t wait to dress-up, bake some yummy Hamantaschen and make some joyful noise with groggers! Discover so many ways to celebrate with your family!
One of our favorite Hanukkah traditions is to not only play the dreidel game, but to also make yummy edible dreidels! These sweet treats are extra special because they’re the first food craft I ever did with my girls. You only need four ingredients to make your own. So let’s go make some edible dreidels!
Something I love about their tradition is the recipe was found on the very last page of her daughter’s most-loved Jewish children’s book, The Better-Than-Best Purim, by Naomi Howland.
Have you ever noticed just how many Jewish holiday traditions revolve around food - challah and chicken soup on Shabbat, hamantaschen cookies for Purim, and potato latkes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts) for Hanukkah (just to name a few).
When I was 14 years old, I visited Israel with my parents and younger brother. It extra special because it was at the beginning of Hanukkah and we were visiting my older brother who was living at the time on Kibbutz Tzora in central Israel,
It’s wonderful when children have the opportunity to participate in an act of kindness for someone else. Yesterday, we made mini challahs, and today, we are going to package up them up into little loaves of love for a special challah delivery.
