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I have a board on Pinterest titled "Pure Evil Food." It contains the most decadent, nutritionally void recipes I find to separate them from recipes with average or exceptional nutritional value. Whenever I make and share one of these recipes, my friends gush and also tease me about being evil. My 9-year-old daughter is in the running for the Evil title. One night this week when she had no homework and no extracurricular activities, she looked through a cookbook and found a recipe for from-scratch Cupcake Sliders. There's a whole stick of butter in the batter. She made them with only a little help from me. And though she is still learning how to follow directions to the letter, they still turned out just fine. You can fill them with Nutella or another chocolate-hazelnut spread or canned or homemade chocolate frosting. We used Nutella. I apologize for not taking photos of her creative process. I was making pumpkin chili at the same time. CUPCAKE SLIDERS 2 cups ...

If you are looking for a green St. Patrick's Day dessert, try this cake that you can make with children while also sharing this book with them. It is rich and flavorful and you could just as easily omit the food coloring. But the sweetest part is the story. The recipe appears in the back of a children's book, "Micah & The Magic Helmet" by Kat Parrish. Kat's daughter used to wear an angel food cake pan around the house as a helmet that helped her be courageous and strong! Kat and her daughter made up the story together! The book is available for sale on Amazon.com and can be ordered from any bookstore or direct from its publisher, www.headlinekids.com. A note about ingredients: I couldn't find key limes or key lime juice at any of the major grocery stores where I live (not even the ritzy Giant Eagle in Morgantown, WV.) I ordered a bottle of juice from Amazon.com. GREEN DRAGON CAKE Cake 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 2 1/4 cups sugar 3 large eggs (at room...