Debbie DeLancette. Congratulations Debbie!!! I know you will love this vanilla in all of your favorite recipes and new ones too. Remember we have many great give-aways coming up so keep reading the blog for more chances to win great products.
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Spring Is Coming!!!
I can totally feel it! Everyday I hear of birds that are back in town and about the Easter candy being out at Wal-Mart. The temperatures are getting higher and we are supposed to be near 60 on Friday!!! I am planning on walking outside instead of on my treadmill. The other thing that makes me know spring is coming, is we just signed Ethan up for T-ball. We have literally been waiting for years, (I know he is not even 4 yet) but this child was ready pretty much out of the womb. Last night, Jimi took him to a basketball game at the school. Afterward, Ethan was playing, dribbling, and shooting while Jimi was talking to a friend, who also coaches a basketball program for kindergarten and 1st graders. The friend said he has not one 5-7 year old who can handle the ball the way Ethan does. So being able to finally play a sport, is very big here. T-ball is the first and then he will be eligible for soccer in the fall. Anyway, just thinking to warm evenings at the ball field watching the little ones embark on their first season of T-ball can even make a skeptic smell spring in the air. Oh, and I got my latest issue of Martha Stewart Living and the cover stated it was time to start planting. Which reminds me, the last time I was at the store, all the peat pots and seeds were making their debut. Believe me I am just planning my vegetable garden in my head and cannot wait to see how my perennials will look this spring.
What have you seen that tells you spring is near? I would love to hear. Hope everyone is doing well and remember we have our give-away for the Gourmac cookie stamps ending soon so be sure to get yourself in it.
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Gourmac Anytime Cookie Stamp Set Give-Away Rules!!!
Gourmac is providing a set of the Anytime Cookie Stamps for a give-away for my blog readers. To be eligible you must reside in the lower 48 states, since these are being sent direct from Gourmac. You also must subscribe to my blog and like my blog Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mommy-Ramblings/142284565832382. You must also like Gourmac’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gourmac/147370535276337 and post a quick comment on their page of which product you like best. Please also share this contest on your Facebook page. Tell your friends to like our FB fan page (Mommy Ramblings) and give your name. The one with the most referrals will win. Good luck and the contest will end on Friday, February 18th.
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Winner of the “My Little Cupcake Cake Pop Mold” is…
Amanda Hawman!!! Amanda, we want to see the creations you make with this mold, so be sure and submit pictures of your beauties to me. Congratulations!!! We have a new contest starting today for the Gourmac Anytime Cookie Stamps so be sure to check as I will be posting the contest very soon. 
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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!
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My Little Cupcake Pop Mold Review.
Well, I just got done making about 40 cake pops. The “My Little Cupcake Company” sent me a mold and one to giveaway to a reader of my blog. They sent everything out so fast and gave me a nice history of the company and business cards and brochure. The mold was invented by a mother of 3. I love mom-invented products. The mold itself is very sturdy and easy to use. It has a hinge on the bottom which is very handy and makes the mold really easy to operate even with sticky hands. The company will be coming out with at least three more designs in the near future. If you can’t wait to see if you win the giveaway, you can visit their website at http://www.mylittlecupcakepop.com/ You can purchase the mold direct from there or they are available as well on Amazon.com.
The first step is to take your cooled baked cake and put it into a large bowl and break it up into small pieces.
Then I added my cream cheese frosting and mixed it all together.
Then take the mixture and scoop it out with a cookie scoop and put the balls in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
You will have about 40 balls. Then take your “My Little Cupcake Pop Mold”
Open the mold and put one of the balls in.
Close the mold and let the excess squeeze out. Then wipe off the excess and put it into a bowl to re-mold later.
Open the mold and you should have a nicely formed little cupcake.
Repeat with the rest of the cake balls and then put the formed cake balls in the freezer again for at least 30 minutes.
Melt your chocolate, then dip the bottoms of the cake balls into the melted chocolate.
After you dip it in the chocolate, put a pop stick in it and let it dry upside down. When dry, melt the white chocolate and dip the top in white chocolate and sprinkle with decor of your choice.
Stick the pops into Styrofoam and keep going.
Okay so that is it. Now for my review. This was not a lot of work until the end. The dipping of chocolate is messy and tedious. There are also some casualties where the ball falls off the stick. I think that is why some people just make cake balls and not pops. The mold itself worked well. It is just a lot of work and for me I do not know that I would do this again. I mean the end result was okay but nothing that spectacular that I would have to make these again. Maybe it is me. Maybe I am not that creative or this just is not my thing. I do not feel the need to rush and make another batch. Like I said, someone else may have a knack for it, and I do appreciate that the mold was designed by a mom. As I said in a previous post she does recommend using a pack of Oreo cookies and a brick of cream cheese. Maybe that mixture holds better and definitely is less work than making your own cake and frosting. Maybe sometime soon I will give that a try, who knows? It depends how fast I forget. I am giving away one brand new mold. If you want it and you will give this a try then you need to subscribe to my blog and like my Facebook blog fan page. In the next day or so I will post a post about the giveaway and it will have the instructions for the contest. I think I am going to spend a bit of time with my treadmill now. Have a great Saturday night!!!
I will leave you some pics of the little guys eating them. Luke had a problem with it falling off the stick but he solved that by just stuffing the whole thing in his mouth. : )
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