Make Your Own Kit – GIVEAWAY

We are thrilled to be able to offer a fun giveaway just in time for the holidays from our friends at Glee Gum!

I had the chance to review one of their products a while back (I look so little in the video!) and loved everything about the kit. It was easy to use, fun and the end product tasted great. Here is a link to that post if you want to see a Make Your Own Gummies Kit in action!

Glee Gum makes these Candy Making Kits that are so much fun. There is the Chewing Gum Kit, the Chocolate Kit and the Gummies Kit – so there is something for every candy lover.

The great thing about all of these kits is that the products are made from all natural ingredients and they are easy to make! Kids love them!

Right now, they are running a great special too with a Candy Kit Combo at a great price of $29.30 for all three kits. That is a 30% savings! You can purchase a combo kit here.

So as a kid who cooks – I can say that this is a gift that your little chefs will LOVE!

Glee Gum has generously offered us the chance to giveaway one of these candy making kits to a Cupcake Kid reader! Please read the rules and enter to win. Good Luck!

TO ENTER TO WIN A MAKE YOUR OWN KIT!

1. Follow Glee Gum on Facebook and/or Twitter (only 1 required)

2. Visit Glee Gum

3. Leave a comment on this post with which one of the 3 kits you would love to win, and what you saw on the Glee Gum site that you thought made them a great company!

4. optional – but we would love if you could like Cupcake Kid Cafe on Facebook too!

RULES:

1. (1) entry per person/email address

2. Contest ends 11:59pm on November 28, 2012

3. Entry must include kit you would like and a thought about the Glee Gum product line

4. Only residents of the Continental US are eligible (sorry!)

5. Winner will be chosen at random from all entries received and prize will ship directly from Glee Gum. Winner will be contacted via email for their shipping address.

Thanks for entering and GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

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Thanksgiving Cupcakes To Replace The Dinner

Since I am called the Cupcake Kid, I am going with the idea that all meals should include cupcakes. And I saw this on Make Bake Celebrate and told my mom we had to do this! Hopefully next year I can really start experimenting and coming up with my own great stuff like this, but for now I wanted to share this with my readers since I think it is AWESOME!

You have everything with these cupcakes, you get your turkey, corn, sweet potatoes and even your vegetables! I bet you these vegetables will be eaten with no problems!

The person who created these fantastic Thanksgiving Cupcakes include general directions on her blog at Make Bake Celebrate.

Here are some of the things you will need:

cupcakes
buttercream
fondant
yellow, copper, green, ivory coloring
caramel
marshmallow bits
walnuts
black and white sanding sugars

These are just so fun! If you make them we would love to see them!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving! Rachel

Filed Under: Baking, Featured, Rachels Cafe, Thanksgiving Tagged With: featured

Edible Fruit Turkey

I LOVE this idea! The Fruit Gobbler is a great centerpiece or appetizer for the Thanksgiving Day festivities – it is although healthy! Your kids will want to enjoy this treat – cheese, fruit and all!

The turkey is easy to make and will keep the kids busy while you get ready for the big turkey day celebration.

Get all the ingredients ready, give the kids a picture and let them dig in and have fun creating! (Image Courtesy Family Fun Magazine)

Thanksgiving Appetizer Kids Can Make

Ingredients:

Bosc Pear (head)
Melon (body)
Cheese (beak & tail feathers)
Red pepper (snood,feet,side feathers)
Raisins (eyes)
Grapes (tail feathers)
Bamboo skewers
Toothpicks

Instructions:

1. Cut off a shallow slice of the rind of the melon to create a flat base for more stability. Using a bamboo skewer attach a Bosc pear to the front of the melon to create the turkey head. (Trim skewer if needed)

2) Cut cheese into a triangle for the beak and add a small piece of red pepper for the snood. Use toothpicks to attach these as well as the raisins for the eyes.

3) Cut red pepper as shown to create feet and place them as shown.

4) Cut cheese into cubes and use cheese and grapes alternately on skewers as shown and then place into the melon to create tail feathers.

5) Slice peppers to create side feathers and use toothpicks to attach to the sides of the melon.

Be creative! You can use other things on the tail feathers like pineapple, ham cubes, turkey cubes or whatever your family enjoys.

Have you made one of these with your kids? We would love to hear how they liked it!

Recipe courtesy of Family Fun.

Filed Under: Featured, Mom's Cafe, Thanksgiving

Oreo Turkeys – A Fun Thanksgiving Treat

: Image courtesy of Our Best Bites

I found these and love them! They are adorable turkey desserts made from Oreo cookies. They are easy to make and the kids can do them on their own – or with some help from mom of course! The idea comes from Our Best Bites, and the images are from there too.

These are great to use as desserts for Thanksgiving dinner, for parties and even as place card holders for your dinner table!

Here is what you will need:

Double Stuff Oreo Cookies
Candy Corn
Whoppers
Peanut butter cups
Chocolate frosting
Yellow Frosting
Optional: Red frosting
Optional: black sprinkles for eyes

Steps to make your Turkey:

1) Grab a cookie and put a tiny bit of frosting inside, this will help hold the candy corn a bit better!

2) Insert your candy corn. It seems that 5 candy corns, smaller tips inserted into the cream center works best.

3) Put a dab of frosting on the opposite end of the cookie from where you just inserted the candy corn, and then secure the cookie to the “base” cookie. Placing the cookies against the wall while they dry may help them keep their shape better!

4) While your cookies are drying open a peanut butter cup (have a parent do this part kids!) – and cut a sliver off of one end.

Image courtesy of Our Best Bites

5) Once your cups are ready, flip your cookies over, but still keep them next to the wall in case the frosting is not completely dry yet. Place a dab of frosting on peanut butter cup and place it on the cookie as shown below.

Image courtesy of Our Best Bites

6) For the heads you will put a dab of frosting on a whopper and attach it to the top of the peanut butter cup.

7) Use a dab of frosting and flue on a white tip of a candy corn for a beak, put 2 yellow dots for eyes and if you would like a smaller black dot for the center of the eye. (You can use frosting, a sprinkle, a mini chocolate chip for the black part of the eye).

Image courtesy of Our Best Bites

8) Once the beak stays put and everything seems to be sturdy, you can stand these cute little guys up and draw on some little feet if you would like. You can even add a little thingie under the neck!

To be extra creative and use them as place card holders, create your place card, adhere it to a toothpick and you can insert that into the center of the cookie!

And here is the final product! For more details, visit Our Best Bites!