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Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk Bakes Up New Holiday Tradition With “UnCookie Exchange”

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Disclosure: This is not a compensated or sponsored post. I was provided with the product for review purposes only. All opinions expressed here are my own.

 

Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk, a baking staple for over 160 years, is more relevant than ever as home cooks look to celebrate the holidays with ingredients they can trust. With just two simple ingredients, milk and sugar (yes, that’s really it), Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk is the perfect base for hundreds of recipes to suit anyone’s baking ability. Sales for Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk increase an average of 182% during the holiday seasons2.

To help inspire new ideas for all baking needs, from office parties to New Year’s celebrations – and of course the popular cookies exchange parties and into the New Year – Eagle Foods has partnered with eight inspired baking bloggers, including TV personality, cake designer, chef and Cake Boss®: Next Great Baker®3 contestant, Greggy Soriano.

To provide my children the proper introduction to the season, I prepared these peppermint  Cookies and Cream Rocky Road Fudge in participation with Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk’s “Uncookie Exchange.” Holiday baking, while a delicious and necessary component of any Christmas celebration, can often be tiring and complicated. To make things simpler, the Uncookie Exchange campaign has rallied bloggers and bakers to create fuss-free recipes that are sure to make all your days merry and bright.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups mini marshmallows
  • 2 cups cream-filled chocolate cookie pieces (from about 15 cookies) roughly the same size as the mini marshmallows
  • 12 oz white chocolate chips
  • 1 (14oz.) can Eagle Brand® Condensed Sweetened Milk
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • Optional: crushed-up peppermint candies or candy canes for the top

Directions

  1. Push a piece of parchment paper into a 9 x 13-inch baking pan (it’ll probably pop out but that’s ok – just make sure the paper fits into the pan for when the rocky road actually goes in there) and set aside.
  2. Measure out the marshmallows and cookie pieces, and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl combine the white chocolate chips, condensed milk, butter and salt. Microwave in 30-second bursts, stirring after each 30 seconds, until the chocolate chips and butter are completely melted. Once melted, stir in the peppermint extract, then the marshmallows and cookie pieces until evenly combined.
  4. Use a silicone spatula to scrape the mixture into the prepared pan and evenly spread it out. The spatula might not work that well. If that’s the case, go ahead and use your hands. Smooth out the fudge until it’s evenly in the pan and sprinkle with the peppermint candy if desired. Put in the fridge to firm up at least 2 hours. Once set, cut into squares and serve!

I am also planning on making these during Valentine’s Day.

Calphalon Space Saving Cookware Line

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A lot of my friends love to cook and would love to have great cookware. The biggest complaint that I hear is that they have no space to store all of the pots and pans that they want to have. So they end up buying one or two pieces and getting by with that. Well I have some good news to share.

Calphalon has introduced the Calphalon Premier Space Saving line of non-stick and stainless steel cookware, which stacks securely to save space in the kitchen.

The cookware features specially designed handles and flat glass covers, which allows the pots, pans and lids with the same diameter to stack and nest in any order.

The Premier Space Saving non-stick line features a hard anodized construction, allowing for even heating, and a durable three layer non-stick surface. In addition, the stainless steel line is crafted with a heavy-gauge aluminum core to quickly and evenly distribute heat. Both non-stick and stainless steel lines have handles that stay cool while cooking, are dishwasher safe, and come with a full lifetime warranty.

Research has shown that the American home is shrinking, and that many consumers have limited space in their kitchen to store cookware Calphalon Premier Space Saving cookware provides home cooks with 30% more space in their cabinets, helping to declutter their kitchen so they can focus on what matters, creating a great meal for family and friends.

The Calphalon Premier Space Saving cookware starts at a suggested retail price of $99.99 and is available both in-store and online at Bed Bath & Beyond, Williams Sonoma, Crate & Barrel and Macy’s.

I am so excited to try these out this holiday season. If you have it, let me know what you think.

 

HSN-Grillbot Grill Cleaning Robot

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Do you love to cook on the grill. Steaks and burgers cooked inside on the stove just don’t taste the same. The problem is that I hate to clean the grill. All that baked-on goo hardly ever comes off without spending 20 minutes scraping. This is where the Grillbot comes in. It’s a small round robot that’s about the diameter of a gallon paint can, and can scoot about and clean every inch of your cooktop.

Grillbot has an internal rechargeable battery and three replaceable brass bristled brushes on the underside. It’s much larger than I envisioned it being when I was first asked to check one out. If you have a really small grill, you may find Grillbot too large.

After I charged up the Grillbot, I went outside to see if it would clean the baked on goo out of my grill and it did a very good job. The first time I started it up, it did get caught under that warming rack as the Grillbot is a bit too thick to fit under the rack with the lid closed. However, you do have to clean the grill with the lid closed or the Grillbot will tumble out on the floor.

The Grillbot randomly ambles around under the closed lid of your grill cleaning away and when it hits the sides of the closed grill, it turns around and goes another way sort of like those bumper cars you played with as a child. It’s a noisy little beast, so do your neighbors a favor and don’t use this thing at midnight.

It also makes the lid of the grill jump around like it’s about to explode. In fact, I used that noisy, ambling little bot to freak out my daughter by telling her that it sounded like an animal of some sort was on the patio and sending her to check it out. She thought a snake was trapped inside the grill. It was epic.

You can choose three settings for the cleaning time on the bot, one press gives a 10-minute clean, two presses is 20-minutes, and three presses is a 30-minute clean. You get a five second delay to give you time to get it on the grill surface and close the lid. I tried a 20-minute clean on my dirty grill and it finished just as clean as if I had stood there with my normal brush scrubbing away. It’s not like you can’t tell when the cleaning is done based on the lack of noise and motion, but it does have an alarm that beeps as well.

The grillbot, is the world’s first automatic grill cleaning robot! Launched January 13, 2014, Grillbot is here to make your life easier. Our mission is to enrich your life, by simplifying it. We believe by taking the grunt work out of cleaning your grill, it will leave you with more time to enjoy your friends, family, and the party! Simply place the grillbot on your grill, press a button and you’re done! The grillbot does all the grill cleaning for you. No more scrubbing! A grillbot is the easy-to-use and fun to watch — a fully-automated device that makes grill cleaning possible with just the push of a button. This is how to clean a grill — with the world’s first automatic grill cleaning robot. Simply place the GRILLBOT on your grill, press a button and you’re done. It does all the grill cleaning for you — no more scrubbing! Grillbot works on all types of Grills! Whether it’s gas, electric or charcoal, Grillbot’s got you covered! Grillbot offers the perfect grilling gifts! Looking for grilling

If you are looking for the perfect gift for the man in your life. I would recommend this one.