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Updated on August 16, 2026August 16, 2026Cookies Baking With Children Recipes

Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies

Chewy Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies – High-Altitude Friendly, Richly Flavored, and Easy Freshly-baked oatmeal butterscotch cookies fill the kitchen with a cozy aroma—sweet oats, caramel notes, …

Updated on August 16, 2026August 16, 2026Baking With Children Breads Breakfast Recipes

Zucchini Bread Recipe

My Favorite Zucchini Bread Recipe. Tried, True, and Always Soft! This zucchini bread recipe is another from my friend Paula Cockwell and her “Paula’s Favorite …

Updated on March 7, 2025June 18, 2024Baking With Children Cookies Desserts Recipes

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

This Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars recipe is super-simple and fun to make with kids, and you most likely have all the ingredients already. You …

Updated on September 8, 2025October 28, 2023Baking With Children Cakes Desserts

Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe – This is my go-to banana bread recipe, as it always produces a lightly sweet, very moist and flavorful loaf. …

Updated on June 2, 2025September 3, 2023Baking With Children Cookies Desserts Recipes

Chocolate Oat Squares

Teaching kids the basics of baking is easy and fun with this time-tested simple recipe for Chocolate Oat Squares. Warm oats and brown sugar, topped …

Hi, I’m Don

Don Herman

Don started baking and cooking at ten years old, when his mom went back to work and left notes on the stove instead of standing over it herself. Those notes turned into a real education in down-home cooking — the kind you learn by doing, not by watching a screen.

These days, Don's a home baker who loves to experiment, especially with what it takes to make a recipe actually work at 6,000 feet in Denver, Colorado. He's also a traveler, and wherever he ends up, he comes home with a new recipe worth figuring out — the more intriguing, the better.