MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEA: Sugar (Order Today For Standard Delivery)

If you want to send a gift to your mother, grandmother, sister, aunt or other favorite mom, today’s the last day you can order with standard five-day delivery. Tomorrow is possible, but it gets iffy to guarantee delivery by Saturday. (Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8th.) We’d like to recommend these exquisite, hand-crafted balls of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rose Petal Recipes For Mother’s Day

Use candied rose petals (shown above) orfreeze-dried rose petals as an easy cake decoration. Photo courtesy ValerieConfections | Los Angeles.   You can bake a stunning Mother’s Day cake without professional cake decorating skills. Do it with flowers! Just use fresh, candied or freeze-dried rose petals to decorate the sides of the cake. It will…
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MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEA: Decorated Shortbread Cookies

Send sweet “Happy Mother’s Day” wishes with this collection of heart and flower cookies from Fancypants Bakery, maker of THE NIBBLE’s favorite decorated cookie gifts. Why are Fancypants cookies different from other decorated cookies? These are top-quality shortbread, not dry sugar cookies. You can taste the buttery goodness in each bite. The cookies are made…
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MOTHER’S DAY: Beautiful Chocolate

Hearts and flowers: Beautiful hand-paintedchocolates from Anna Shea, available atTheNibbleGourmetMarket.com.   Mother’s Day? It isn’t even Easter yet. True, but Mother’s Day falls a scant two weeks after Easter. You need a gift strategy. As far as gourmet chocolate goes, Anna Shea creates chocolate “haute couture”: beautiful, artisan-crafted and hand-decorated chocolate designs. This may be…
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MOTHER’S DAY: Chocolate Shoes

With chocolate shoes, one size fits all. Photo courtesy WoodhouseChocolate.com. OMG, we just discovered these adorable chocolate shoes from Woodhouse Chocolate, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. The solid handmade chocolate shoes are skillfully hand-decorated. Chanel would approve. And at $20/pair, they’re a lot more affordable than her shoes. The shoes are available in…
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