Looking for a holiday cookie recipe that is easy-to-make, healthy and delicious? Look no further! This fabulous almond cranberry cookie recipe is vegan, raw, with no added sugar, fat or anything bad — and it is a cinch to make, since it doesn’t require any baking. All you need is a food processor, some dried fruit, and nuts. Making quickie raw cookies is a fun project to engage in with kids, and these cookies are so healthy, you won’t worry about how many your kids eat (hint: they will eat a lot). With just pure fruit and nuts as ingredients they pack a mean anti-oxidant punch, as well as adding healthful nut oils to your diet. Best of all, they taste delicious and won’t make you feel sick if you eat too many! Read on for the recipe…

As the weather starts to get chilly and pumpkins seem to be congregating on every corner, this vegan pumpkin cupcake recipe will satisfy the heartiest fall sweet tooth. Why should pumpkin pie get all the attention at your Thanksgiving feast? Show your appreciation for pumpkins and all of nature’s bounty with this amazingly delicious and easy-to-make recipe for vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes that will impress all of your friends, vegans and non-vegans alike. This recipe is so simple and easy that even a 3-year-old can do it – as evidenced by the video above. Baking vegan cupcakes makes a great project for the pre-K set – with a little adult supervision of course. Without frosting (my preferred way of enjoying them), these cupcakes might be more aptly described as “muffins,” but they are majorly tasty and so scrumptiously sweet that they really don’t need the additional sugary slather on top. However, if you are a sucker for the sweet stuff, authors Isa Chandra and Terry Hope provide instructions for a cinnamon icing to accompany these cupcakes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (a book I highly recommend as a holiday gift this season).

If you loved any of the original Epic Rap Battles of History, or if you’re a Dr. Seuss fan, you’ll want to check out the latest installment of this hilarious video series from Nice Peter, featuring the Doctor giving William Shakespeare a smack down with the help of the Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2- well worth the two minutes if you’re a Seuss fan!

If you haven’t seen any of the Epic Rap Battles, check out Darth Vader Vs Hitler and Einstein Vs Stephen Hawking (my favorites).

+ Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare, Epic Rap Battles of History #12

via Laughing Squid

A Toronto couple has ignited a media firestorm after deciding to conceal the sex of their baby, Storm Stocker. Inspired by the 1978 book X: A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould, Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have decided to hold off from letting the world know their baby’s gender and have only allowed their two older sons and midwives look beneath Storm’s diaper since the New Year’s Day birth. For the parents, this is an opportunity to explore gender freedom, and allow their child to develop free from the potentially harmful pink and blue stereotypes. Their email announcing the birth stated, “We decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a standup to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime.”