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January 28, 2012 · 12:38 am

Cakedy, Minnesota’s Candy Bar Review & Giveaway!!!

Who doesn’t like to try a new sweet treat? No one I know, that’s for sure. I was happy to be asked to review a tasty cake and candy treat called Cakedy. Cakedy (cake-uh-dee) is a unique blend of delicious homemade cake, whipped into a moist nougat and covered in rich candy shell. Cakedy comes in four delicious flavors, Choco Chocatus, Vanocolate, RedHead and Peanutter. Cakedy is also known as Minnesota’s Candy Bar. They come in 2 bar packs, and I received the Vanocolate flavor. Vanocolate is white cake with vanilla frosting nougat covered in a chocolate shell. It was delicious, sort of like a cake pop bar is the closest way I can describe it to you. I cut the bars into pieces and shared with the little kids and hubby. Everyone liked it and when my little Luke saw me posting the pics for the review he told me we needed to get more of that Neeni (his word for candy). You can try these yummy Cakedy bars for yourself by going to Cakedy.com.

Cakedy is sponsoring a giveaway on Mommy Ramblings and one lucky blog reader will win a Cakedy 2 bar pack to try. Thank you Cakedy for the review bars and for sponsoring this sweet giveaway on Mommy Ramblings!!! Open to US residents.

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April 21, 2011 · 10:51 pm

Starting to Stress a Bit!!!

Okay, I am starting to stress a little. I promised myself I would not. Easter is coming, Michael’s surgery, and vacation literally on the heels of that. Suitcases are down and ready to be packed. I washed all the kids summer clothes, even the new stuff and it is ready to be packed. Shopping is done for Easter dinner, eggs still need to be colored, the Easter Bunny has a lot of eggs and baskets to fill. Lists are made and added to daily of everything that must be done. The van is pretty well cleaned, we just have to put in the floormats we took out to clean and do a few little things and we will be good to pack. I have to get together some fabulously interesting DVDs for the kiddies that will make the long drives go by quickly. So, I have moments of panic that set in, thinking if I will get everything done, even though I realize there are stores all along the way if we forget anything. Last night I had a dream, we forgot the kids life preservers, so they could not go swimming. When the panic sets in, I take a deep breath and try to relax. I have told myself from the beginning, that I was not going to put huge expectations on this trip that would have to be met. That is just not something to do when traveling with 2 toddlers. So I am hoping to clean house, prepare some Easter desserts, get some packing done and relax as much as I can before we take off.

How are you before a big trip? Do you stress? Are you a list maker? Do you set high expectations or do your go with the flow? Share your stories here!!!

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February 11, 2011 · 4:52 am

It looks like I will be doing a lot of baking this weekend.

I need to do my review on the set of acrylic cookie stamps I received today from Gourmac. Michael’s birthday is the 13th so that will require a cake and I do have the supplies to try the cake pops again. Last but not least, I wanted to bake some cut-out sugar cookies with Ethan and Luke for Valentine’s Day. All this should make for a very sweet weekend. I will be having another contest for a set of brand new cookie stamps just like the ones that I am reviewing. They will be sent to the winner direct from the company and I will post rules later. We still have the “My Little Cupcake Pop Mold” giveaway going on so be sure to get in on that as it ends on the 14th. I have lots of other reviews and give-aways coming up so stay tuned.

Are you all doing some yummy baking for Valentine’s Day? Do tell. Well, I better rest up for my baking marathon. Have a good night everyone!

Gingerbread Perfection!!!

Today the little boys had such a fun time decorating the gingerbread house. Like I said in my previous post, I did not go into it with any expectations of perfection. I set up the island with various small bowls and containers with different colored candies. I put the assembled gingerbread frame house in the middle. Made some fresh royal icing in the VitaMix and put it into a piping bag. We put the boys high chairs up to the island and they were at a perfect height to get started. I started piping the icing but Ethan soon took over and you know what??? I did not sweat it. It went very well, he loved piping the icing, he had a few of his own techniques but you know, it worked. The roof got the most decorations and that was just fine. He and Luke had a good system. Ethan would put some icing on and tell Luke to stick the candy. Ethan said he was “working” it was very funny and they had a great time and despite the sugar rush they both took a very good nap afterward. When I look at the completed house with all its splendor, that is when it occurs to me, it is definitely perfection!!!

Gingerbread Dreams, Sugarplum Wishes!!!

Well, as I type my fingers are still sticky with royal icing. I just finished assembling the cottage structure of the gingerbread house, so that tomorrow it will be nice and sturdy for little hands to decorate with a multitude of colored, sweet and tangy candies. I am not going in with expectations of a perfectly decorated gingerbread cottage that would grace the pages of “Good Housekeeping.” I am well aware that with having 1 and 3-year-old designers, perfection is not what we are going for. We will be going for perfectly imperfect. I imagine between the sugar rush and their little fingers that the finished product will be lucky to come away with all four walls and the roof still attached. I want to create the memories my children will carry with them as they grow and one day have their own families. I think those things are so much more important than material things. So late at night I fumble with the piping bags of sticky icing and mutter under my breath as it takes me a few tries to get the structure standing. Tomorrow I will be whipping up another batch of the sticky stuff to use as glue for the decorations.

Visions of chubby little hands sneaking tastes of the sticky sweet stuff and thinking that it is the greatest thing in the world to be decorating with the vast array of treats. I am sure they will be in Gum Drop Heaven, with all the colors and textures and tastes. It will be a lot of messy fun and I am looking forward to capturing their little faces on camera. Those are the memories I want to keep long after the cookie house has crumbled away. I love seeing the joy of the season through little eyes just discovering things for the first time. To see the wonder and the amazement of the season in their faces is so incredible. I am so blessed to be able to go through this again as my it just goes by in a blink as I know with my older kids. God was so great to have blessed me with the opportunity to experience it again. I am so very grateful.