Lucky Leaf Valentine's Day Giveaway

There's nothing better on Valentine's Day, than to gift your loved one with some homemade goodies, especially of the baking kind.

From cakes to pies, to delicious cupcakes, whatever you make will be from the heart, and will mean much more than any other gift you could give.

With that in mind, Lucky Leaf has sent me a few Pie Fillings, a beautiful Rachel Ray muffin pan, some recipes and even cute gift bags and tags to use.

My children jumped right on it and asked for the Strawberries and Cream Chocolate Muffins.

LOVE these liners, how beautiful are they?

Strawberries and Cream Chocolate Muffins

nonstick cooking spray
118.25-ounce package devil's food cake mix
121-ounce can LUCKY LEAF® Premium Strawberry Pie Filling
3eggs, lightly beaten
1 ⅓cups dairy sour cream
1egg, lightly beaten (separate mixture)
¼cup sugar
2Tablespoons all purpose flour
1teaspoon vanilla



Preheat oven to 350 °F.

Lightly coat 24 to 30, 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the cake mix, pie filling and 3 eggs until moistened.

Remove 1 cup of the batter and set aside. Divide remaining batter among prepared muffin cups filling each about half full.

In a medium bowl, whisk together sour cream, 1 egg, sugar, flour and vanilla until smooth. Spoon small mounds of reserved batter over sour cream mixture in each cup (batter will not cover sour cream layer).

Bake for 25 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.

Remove and cool in pans on wire racks for 15 minutes. Loosen edges and remove from pans. Cool completely. Chill within 2 hours.

I chose to make mine in the cupcake liners, and I will tell you that they do fall apart, but it's because once you remove that liner you get that moist chocolate cake with the strawberry filling and the sour cream mixture. It is SO good.

Perfect for Valentine's Day. Chocolate AND Strawberries.

Lucky Leaf has put together an assortment of printables to make your day even more special.

It's the perfect way to get the kids involved too, just a few ingredients, some adult supervision, and a delicious home baked goodie for their friends or mom or dad.

GIVEAWAY:

One lucky reader will win a Lucky Leaf baking prize pack that includes: a can of Lucky Leaf pie filling, a recipe card, fun and festive muffin cups and a bakery bag so you can bake it forward to someone you cherish.

RULES:

-- Open to all US residents only. Please make sure that you leave an email on the comment, so that I can contact you if you are drawn as the winner.
-- You will have 48 hours to claim your prize once you receive my email, if I do not hear back from you within that time period, a new winner will be drawn.
-- Let me know if you plan on baking for Valentine's Day and what you are making :)
-- Winner will be drawn through Random.org, on Wednesday 13th, 2013.

Good Luck!!

Lucky Leaf provided me with a baking kit for this review. All opinions are expressly mine.

101 Hearty Recipes: Gooseberry Patch Review and Giveaway!

I don't think I have words to describe how excited I am about this review and giveaway because I'm like the biggest Gooseberry Patch fan ever.    I have been collecting the cookbooks for a while and have quite a few.



I think one of the things that most captivates me about these cookbooks is not only the easy and delicious recipes, but the cute and really helpful ideas that are littered throughout the pages.

When I was contacted by Gooseberry Patch and asked if I would be interested in reviewing one of their cookbooks, I was so excited that I could hardly wait for the book to arrive in the mail.

Oh this book is full of yummy recipes, the minute it arrived I sat down at the kitchen table and started marking which ones I would try and let me just say that I think there may be one or two pages in the whole book that didn't get marked *snort*

Gooseberry Patch's 101 Hearty recipes is chock full of goodness and if you're a fan of cookbooks with pictures for every recipe, then this one is for you.

Main and Side Dishes, Speedy and Satisfying, Casual and Comforting, Desserts and a bunch of recipes that are perfect for gift giving year round.

So here are the first 3 recipes that I tried.......and trust me, I'll be trying many many more.

Cornbread Chicken Pot Pie
Submitted by Roberta Valella, Minot, ND



Brown Sugar Barbecue Sandwiches (SO GOOD)
Submitted by Kathy Majeske, Denver, PA



Bowties and Blush
Submitted by Brooke Sottosanti, Brunswick, OH



They were all very good but I will say that the one that got the biggest thumbs up from the family, were the Brown Sugar Barbecue Sandwiches. Mmmmm those were delicious!

So here's the deal, the wonderful folks at Gooseberry Patch, sent me an extra copy of the Gooseberry Patch's 101 Hearty Recipes to giveaway to a lucky winner on my blog.

Here's How to Enter:

Leave me a comment on this post, please be sure to include your email address so that I have a way of contacting you if you are the winner.

Follow Full Bellies, Happy Kids on Facebook and while you're there, pop on over and follow the Gooseberry Patch page as well, you won't regret it :)

That's it. 

The contest will run until next week Tuesday,   October 11, 2011.  I will then draw a winner using Random.org.   Contest is open to everyone and by that I mean, everywhere in the world.  :)

If you think your friends or family would enjoy the cookbook, be sure to let them know about the giveaway :)

Good Luck!