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I am a fan of gift baskets. Where else can you get lots of yummy food and have it be called a present? It is also pretty nice when everybody in the house can enjoy something from it.  Hickory Farms gift baskets don’t disappoint.  We had one of these to try over Thanksgiving, and everybody loved it!  Besides the excellent cheese and sausage (which we are still munching on a week later), my husband is in love with the cheese cutter that this basket comes with.  How many gift basket come with what you need to cut the contents with?

The basket itself comes with (besides the slicer):

2 – 12 oz. Beef Summer Sausages
- 12 oz. Ham Summer Sausage
- 10 oz. Original Cheese Ball
- 7 oz. Pennsylvania Dutch Edam
- 2 – 6.5 oz. Apple Pie Cheddars
- 10 oz. Sweet Hot Mustard
- 5 oz. Flatbread Crackers

I have to admit that I loved the apple pie cheddar cheese.  It was beyond yummy.  That is a flavor I can readily admit I’ve never had before.  Bill was super excited about the mustard because well, he loves mustard.  My only complaint is that this doesn’t come with enough crackers!  This makes a great gift for a get together or house that is fan of cheese of sausage (which would be mine!).  If anybody wants to know what to get me for Christmas, please send me another! 

“I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Hickory Farms and received a Hickory Farms gift basket to facilitate my review.”

I love when my old favorite games come with a new twist. The new Candy Land: Sweet Celebration Game definitely fits the bill for that.  My biggest complaint before was that sometimes a Candy Land game could take too long for Madison’s attention span.  However, this new Candy Land game solves that problem for me!  Instead of being a traditional board game, you and your kids get to make the board.  You can make it super long or shorten the game (which is what we’ve been doing).  We only have hardwood floors in my house, so we had no problem keeping the board together.  They also have 3D lands that they can land on like Ice Cream Harbor.  For us, it made the game a little more interactive.  The Sweet Celebration Game will remind you of your old stand by favorite but only better!

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I am always a fan of anything covered in chocolate.  However, when you cover pretzels in chocolate, you know they are going to be good.  However, I’ve actually never tasted anything as good as Fretzels.  Bill, my hubby, actually wants me to order more!  That’s how much he loved them!

Fretzels by Jill are hand-dipped designer gourmet chocolate covered pretzels that are drenched in milk, dark, or white chocolate and adorned with a variety of candy toppings.  You can pretty much get whatever you want on your pretzel.  They even have specialty flavors like SugarPlum and Eggnog, and their latest Fretzels pretzel Bark – available in Espresso and Peppermint for the holidays. Each Fretzel is made with the perfect pretzel to chocolate and topping ratio, providing a multi-sensory taste experience with every bite.

Fretzels are a perfect stocking stuffer or gift for Christmas.  By far, these are some of the best pretzels I’ve ever eaten, and I can only highly recommend them!

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If you want to send a great gift and brighten a solder’s day, then you need to use Bake Me A Wish.  Five percent of each cake they sell goes to a program they created called Operation: Birthday Cake, which sends cakes to our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on or close to their birthdays. Every holiday Bake Me a Wish! ships hundreds of cakes to the soldiers to add some sweetness to the holiday and offer a taste from home too.

How do they taste?  Yummy!  We tried the brownie cake and I have to admit it was very rich.  It was like no other brownie I’ve ever tried.  The topping on the brownie made it all the better!  I would definitely order another one of these again!  It will definitely take a couple of days to finish off one of these, but you’ll enjoy every single bite.

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My kids LOVE this. I just can’t say LOVE enough. Capitalizing LOVE doesn’t even describe it. Basically, what the Moo Mixer is a push button mixer.  However, it’s easy enough for both my kids (2 and 5 to use).  They actually fight over who can do their milk first (I also have chocolate milk lovers in my house too).  This is how easy this is:

Add milk:

Add chocolate:

Hit button to stir:

It is that easy! Granted, a spoon is much cheaper, but nowhere near as fun.  We actually hide it from the kids when not in use, because otherwise, all they would do is play with it.  I would recommend the Mr. Twister Moo Mixer for any house who has little ones that like chocolate milk.