Category: Giftable

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Cake Pops & Cake Balls

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Baby Cakes cake pop maker. Photo courtesy Baby Cakes.   If you’ve never made cake pops but would like to if it were easy, the Babycakes Pop Maker is a fool-proof, inexpensive appliance that make round balls of cake. The original cake pops recipe involves baking a cake, crumbling it into a large pan, adding…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gakwiyo Provisions Jams & Jellies

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Gakwiyo means “good food” in the Cayuga Indian language. A few years ago the Cayuga Nation, headquartered in Seneca Falls, New York, began an initiative to can and preserve the fruits and vegetables that are grown on its ancestral lands. Patti Costello, manager of the initiative, explains that her goal was to make popular foods…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Dear Coco Toffee Chocolate Bars

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Quite a few artisan chocolatiers are also pastry chefs. Rachel Ferneau makes chocolates as Dear Coco, but was previously the proprietor of Eden Cake, a made-to-order kosher pareve bakery serving metro Washington, D.C. While we’ve missed the opportunity to try her desserts, she was kind enough to send us some chocolate. Everything from this artisan…
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PRODUCT: Walkers’s Scottie Dog Shortbread & Mini Scottie Dogs

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Recently Walkers Shortbread unveiled the newest addition to their beloved Scottie Dog collection: Mini Scottie Dog Shortbread cookies. The pure-butter Mini Scottie “puppies” are made from 100% natural ingredients. They’re a treat for kids and adults. The Mini Scottie Dogs are available for purchase online at USWalkersShortbread.com and at select specialty retailers nationwide. For extra…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Boon For Messy Eaters

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Tie one on! say the father and son team behind DressTiez, and we couldn’t agree more. We fall into the category of unintentionally messy eaters. We don’t want to drip pizza, sauce and other runny foods down the front of our shirts and sweaters; but we invariably do. During our teen years, when crisp white…
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