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GIFT: Cupcake Of The Month Club

December 11, 2012 at 8:21 am · Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Giftable


What we want for Christmas: Yummy Cupcake’s Cupcake Of The Month Club. Photo by GG Merkel | THE NIBBLE.		   At the top of our favorite cupcakes list are Yummy Cupcakes, a Los Angeles bakery that we‘re lucky hasn’t opened up down the block from us. Otherwise, we’d be creating a new 12-step program: Cupcake Addicts Anonymous.

If you can’t pop in to the L.A. stores, they’ll mail Cupcakes in a Jar—a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week—that are even better than cupcakes in a paper wrapper.

Cupcakes in a Jar are hand-crafted cupcakes in a glass Mason jar, sliced and layered with fresh fillings, whipped frostings, ganache and a selection of scrumptious toppings.

The reusable jars keep the moisture in, and the jar cupcakes, which have much more frosting than convention cupcakes, stay fresh for a week. You can have just a nibble a day, or more.

YUMMY CUPCAKES’ “JAR OF THE MONTH” CLUB

Six- or 12-month memberships are available for $21 to $24 monthly, plus shipping. The lucky giftee will receive a four-flavor assortment, a rotating mix of classic and seasonal specialty flavors.

Order yours at YummyCupcakes.com.
 

  

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TIP OF THE DAY: Flavored Egg Nog

December 11, 2012 at 7:58 am · Filed under Christmas, New Year's Eve, Recipes

Yesterday we provided four ways to make low calorie egg nog.

Today, calories be damned. Here are the real deal, classic egg nog, along with four wonderful flavored egg nog variations.

FULL STRENGTH EGG NOG RECIPES

If you’re not counting calories, take a look at these delicious recipes:

  • Classic Egg Nog
  • Chocolate Egg Nog
  • Coconut Egg Nog
  • Egg Nog White Russian
  • Vanilla Egg Nog

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    Here’s how to make flaming egg nog.

    While it’s quite elegant, you don’t need a punch bowl and handled cups to serve egg nog. Use whatever glasses you have, and pour the nog from a pitcher.

    		 
    Egg nog, always festive, is even more so in chocolate, coconut or other flavors. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.
     

    MORE EGG NOG DELIGHTS

    Egg nog doesn’t need to stay in a glass. Here are options from cookies to truffles:

  • CAKE: Egg Nog Pound Cake
  • COOKIES: Egg Nog Wreath Cookies
  • FUDGE: White Chocolate Egg Nog Fudge
  • TRUFFLES: White Chocolate Egg Nog Truffles

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    THE HISTORY OF EGG NOG

    Who invented egg nog? The facts aren’t clear, but here’s the egg nog history as we know it.

      

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    GIFT: Kitchen Scale

    December 10, 2012 at 8:39 am · Filed under Kitchenware-Tabletop


    A kitchen scale can be a welcome gift.
    Photo courtesy Eat Smart Products.

    		   In tandem with our low calorie egg nog recipes, we’re suggesting what some people might think is not a great gift idea: a kitchen scale to weigh and measure portions.

    While you wouldn’t give one to just anybody, if you have loved ones who are always voicing their need to take off a few pounds, they’ll love you for hearing them and helping them achieve their goal.

    A kitchen scale is not just a “diet scale”: It’s very useful for weighing recipe ingredients, not to mention calculating postage, for those of us who still use snail mail.

    The EatSmart line offers economically priced multifunction home scales, perfect for everyday tasks. They include a Calorie Factors Book making it easy to achieve goals such as portion control and calorie counting.
     

    The EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale shown in the photo comes in black, burgundy chrome, white with a chrome top or all-white.

    Check out the line at EatSmartProducts.com.

      

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