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This year, the Halloween characters are taking over the website and Facebook pages to bring fun messaging and activities and a few special coupon offers.
The winners of the YoCrunch Prizes are:
Grand Prize Halloween Party Pack:
Free Yogurt Multipack:
Please email me at mylitter@mac.com with your snail mail adders to get your prizes!
You might have noticed that YoCrunch “dresses up” their cookie & candy topped YoCrunch Cups and Multipacks to add some fun to the dairy case for holiday’s! With all the candy consumption around Halloween, YoCrunch is a great alternate choice for a sweet treat with all goodness of yogurt and all the excitement of your favorite cookie and candy toppings.
This year, the Halloween characters are taking over the website and Facebook pages to bring fun messaging and activities and a few special coupon offers.
Giveaway:
YoCrunch is giving away 5 Coupons to GET ONE YoCrunch Multipack FREE and a YoCrunch Halloween Party Pack that includes 2 cases of YoCrunch Yogurt (assorted flavors) Halloween Decorations and Halloween Paper goods for MyLitter Readers! 6 winners total!
How to enter:
** YoCrunch is ALSO providing the snack break at the Readers Conference ( tickets still available) plus they are giving you free product coupons!
I’m really excited to help host this giveaway sponsored by GroopDealz! They’re giving away a some spectacular prizes including (1) Nikon d3100 SLR Camera and (3) $50 Target Gift Cards! Four lucky winners will take home one of these prizes!
Groopdealz is a unique shopping site was started in 2010 and features handmade gifts, made by moms! Sign up with Groopdealz by giving them your email address. You’ll then have access to the site and will receive a daily email featuring one of their deals.
I have something really sad/happy to tell you. I fried my computer Friday night. As a blogger who is connected to their boyfriend, I mean, computer 24/7 it was a very traumatic experience! Things started to go bad Wednesday night when it wouldn’t upload any pictures. Long story short I was out of disk space and just about lost my hard drive.
All is well, and the Apple people and my online Apple lifeline Brandon, saved the day. I was without my laptop for the weekend as they did emergency CPR etc. to bring it back, and blogged from the desktop which was humbling 🙂 being spoiled blogging from where ever I wanted for the past few years. Being tied to a desk was miserable. But like a champ I pulled through…. I am totally kidding, but it was a sad weekend.
Which leaves me with about 8 recipes I have to share with you this week! So get ready to start eating some food!!!
Sunday night in honor of going back to school the girls and I made some cookies for them to take to school Monday morning.
They wanted fluffy sugar cookies with pink pig sprinkles ( don’t ask! ) and so that is what we made…. except that we were out of sour cream. Hmmmmm, well, I have Bailey’s Creamer.
IT WAS AWESOME! I have a new FAVORITE recipe!!!
When I rolled these out, I used powered sugar and not flour. I also greased the pan. Roll out 1/2 thick, and use something round to cut them. I had a biscuit cutter that was the perfect size.
4 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
4½ tsp. baking powder
1/3 cup Bailey’s Flavored Creamer (or any other creamer)
¾ tsp. salt
1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature (I used salted because it was all I had, and then used a smidge less salt than called for, tasted great anyway)
1½ cups sugar
3 large eggs (room temperature)
2 tsp. almond extract
For the frosting:
2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
2 1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
3 tbsp. Bailey’s Creamer
2 tsp. Vanilla
First, cream the butter and sugar together. Cream it on high for a good 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the bowl as needed. Blend in the almond and Bailey’s. With the mixer on low speed, add in the dry ingredients, mixing just until incorporated and evenly mixed. Lick the beaters clean. Cover and chill the dough for an hour. CHILLING IS IMPORTANT!
I found that pretty much whatever shape you put them on the cookie sheet, they stayed in that shape. Roll out 1/2 thick, and use something round to cut them. I had a biscuit cutter that was the perfect size. Bake them about 8-10 minutes, taking them out of the oven before they have brown edges. Brown edges=no good. I found with the first batch that if I could just barely touch the top of the cookie and it wasn’t doughy, they were perfect. Less cooked the better!
For the frosting: Start with the powered sugar and add the butter slowly mixing on high, until super smooth. Add the vanilla and creamer. Now this is where you will need to just add more powered sugar if needed, the frosting needs to be stiff or it will just run off the cookies. Add food coloring if you want.
* Want some free Bailey’s Creamer? Leave a comment with your email and tell us what your favorite cookie is. I have 7 free product coupons to mail to 7 winners!
IF you did NOT enter yet today…. Do it NOW! You can enter EACH day!
Today is the LAST day to enter!
How would you like to win an iPad? Coupons.com is having a iPad-a-Day GIVEAWAY, starting August 3rd and running through August 9th. There will be a total of Seven winners, one for each day. Limit to one entry per person per day, so don’t forget to come back and enter again each day. The winners are chosen during a daily drawing which is done by an external party (ePrize). Winners will be notified via email. Everything for this Sweepstakes is based on Eastern Standard Time.
Do you have an iPad? or as my two year old calls it a “PiePad”. There are some really good games that even the little kids can play, my four year old has actually opened accounts in the Cayman Islands with ours.
** AFTER you sign up, you will get a message that says you will be able to print some coupons. Just click the “X” so you don’t waste any ink. Your vote will still count even if you don’t print coupons.
We had a little quick giveaway the other day! I wanted to make sure the winners saw their names and to email me so I can send you your $25 HEB gift card!
Winners are:
wendylflynn89@
amanda78748@
Please shoot me an email at mylitter@mac.com with your mailing address to claim your prize!
IF you did NOT enter yet today…. Do it NOW!
How would you like to win an iPad? Coupons.com is having a iPad-a-Day GIVEAWAY, starting August 3rd and running through August 9th. There will be a total of Seven winners, one for each day. Limit to one entry per person per day, so don’t forget to come back and enter again each day. The winners are chosen during a daily drawing which is done by an external party (ePrize). Winners will be notified via email. Everything for this Sweepstakes is based on Eastern Standard Time.
Do you have an iPad? or as my two year old calls it a “PiePad”. There are some really good games that even the little kids can play, my four year old has actually opened accounts in the Cayman Islands with ours.
** AFTER you sign up, you will get a message that says you will be able to print some coupons. Just click the “X” so you don’t waste any ink. Your vote will still count even if you don’t print coupons.
IF you did NOT enter yet today…. Do it NOW!
How would you like to win an iPad? Coupons.com is having a iPad-a-Day GIVEAWAY, starting August 3rd and running through August 9th. There will be a total of Seven winners, one for each day. Limit to one entry per person per day, so don’t forget to come back and enter again each day. The winners are chosen during a daily drawing which is done by an external party (ePrize). Winners will be notified via email. Everything for this Sweepstakes is based on Eastern Standard Time.
Do you have an iPad? or as my two year old calls it a “PiePad”. There are some really good games that even the little kids can play, my four year old has actually opened accounts in the Cayman Islands with ours.
** AFTER you sign up, you will get a message that says you will be able to print some coupons. Just click the “X” so you don’t waste any ink. Your vote will still count even if you don’t print coupons.
Who is your FAVORITE HEB Slim Down Challenge contestant?!
H-E-B has named 25 competitors from across Texas in its first-ever Slim Down Showdown Challenge for customers. The 16-week challenge is designed to provide contestants with the education and tools they need to live a healthier lifestyle and the chance to win a $10,000 grand prize or a $5,000 “fan favorite” prize.
This is such a great idea by HEB and awesome way for us to participate in getting healthier along with the contestants! As a family we are working with our kids to make better and smarter food choices trying to teach a pattern that will stay with them for life.
If you are looking for some MOTIVATION, you MUST watch this video!
The Showdown is part of “Healthy at H-E-B,” a comprehensive, long-term commitment to improve the health of Texans and provide them with fresh, healthy food that is affordable and easy to prepare.
HEB wants to give MyLitter readers a jump start eating healthy by giving one reader a $25 gift card! MyLitter ( thats me) is also going to pick a winner to receive another $25 HEB gift card, so there are 2 winners total!
To Enter Giveaway:
Giveaway open to US residents only. HEB sponsored this post and I was given a $25 HEB gift card for my participation. All views are my own.
You can win $250 from Credit Sesame, they want to help you ease the ‘Back to School” stress. Set up a free account with Credit Sesame today and automatically enter to win $250 for Back to School. This is a limited time offer, so get in quick!
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Credit Sesame. Contest ends July 31, 2012. A random winner will be selected by August 01, 2012. Official Rules can be found HERE.
Part comedian, part Dad, part athlete. He will boss around your children while they play ball.
Just as angelic as she looks, this girl could easily raise a Village by herself, and all the children would grow up to be President.
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This mini-Martha Stewart can handle ANY craft you send her way. She isn't all bows and rainbows, she's got karate kid moves!
Not "Pick-Me-Up" like caffeine, she wants you to pick her up! AND NOW!
Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
Practically Perfect in Every Way for now! Nicknamed "The Panda" she is rolly polly and lives by the motto, "the little one, is KING!"
The resident Labradoodle, Miller got his name because Mom won and got to name the baby! Need something chewed up? He'll take care of it. Especially if it's expensive..