Cox's Honey Giveaway: Round Two

Because I have been so lame with this blog lately (is anyone still looking?) and because it's Friday, a giveaway is in order.  Cox's honey would like to give one lucky winner a case of twelve 20 oz. containers of their creamed honey.  

Here's how to enter:

What is your favorite fall treat to eat with honey?

You have until 11:59 pm on Friday to enter.

{image via cox's honey}

Peanut Butter Bars and a Giveaway

 

Peanut Butter Bars With Chocolate Fudge Frosting

from Brooke at Cheeky Kitchen

Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Bars

1 c. peanut butter

1 egg

1/2 c. butter

1 c. brown sugar

1 c. Coach's Oats

3/4 c. whole wheat flour

1/4 c. white flour

1/2 tsp. soda

In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter, egg, butter and brown sugar until light an whippy. Add remaining ingredients, then press into a small cookies sheet. Bake in an oven preheated to 375 degrees for exactly nine minutes. Don't overcook it! It might look a little soft and gooey, but it will set as it cools. Allow to cool before frosting & cutting into bars.

Whippy Cocoa Fudge Frosting

2 sticks butter, softened

4 c. powdered sugar

1/4 c. milk

1 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

In a microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate chips just until barely melted. Using and electric beater/mixer, beat in the butter, then slowly add the powdered sugar and just enough milk to make the frosting a nice, spreadable consistency. Frost cooled bars. Allow frosting to set up for about 30 minutes before cutting. ENJOY!

Remember when I had Melissa on from Krema and Crazy Richard's Natural Peanut Butter?  Well, when they sent me some of their peanut butter, I got right to work in my kitchen.  This is the Crazy Richard's brand.

This is the Krema brand.  

All N.A.T.U.R.A.L baby!

The ingredients.  I love how there are oats, natural peanut butter and whole wheat flour in these.  That makes them totally healthy, right?

Mix all of the wet ingredients together.  

Next, add the dry ingredients.

Press into a small cookie sheet.  I used my sheet that is half the size of my regular cookie sheets.  Otherwise known as a quarter sheet pan.

Do not overbake.  These are supposed to be moist.  I cooked mine until I could just barely see it browning on the top.

The whippy cocoa fudge frosting ingredients.  

Oh, la, la!

These are easy and fast to put together for an impromptu summer party or picnic outside.

The folks at Krema and Crazy Richard's Natural Peanut Butter would like to do a giveaway for my readers.

Here is the deal:

Go to their blog.  In your comment on my blog, state what your favorite "Sammy of the Week" from their blog would be and why.  There are many to choose from, so good luck.  They want three winners...how can I argue with that?  Each winner will have two jars of natural peanut butter sent to them.  One creamy and one crunchy.  

The giveaway ends Monday night at 11:59 pm.  

Vanilla Bean Paste Giveaway

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Because it's Monday, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm not feeling the best, I broke my waffle iron (I'm hoping my husband can fix it) and I STILL have tons of laundry to do, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Plus, it goes along perfectly with today's post, which was not planned. The awesome people at Nielsen-Massey want to give away one of their Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste's to three lucky readers. I LOVE this stuff. I feel like I am using it daily. They even sent me their cookbook, which is absolutely beautiful and full of fun recipes.

To enter, leave a comment stating what recipe you love to use vanilla in.

Giveaway ends Thursday June 10th at 11:59 pm. 

Good Luck!

{I fixed the first and last pictures on my last post}

Campbell House Scones And A Honey Giveaway

Campbell House Scones

from my cousin Tamara

3 cups flour

1/3 cup sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup firm butter (1 1/2 sticks), cut into small pieces

1 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Lightly grease a baking sheet, or line baking sheet with parchment paper.  In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt until thoroughly blended.  Using a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles course cornmeal.  Make a well in the center of the butter/flour mixture and add the buttermilk all at once.  Stir mixture with a fork until the dough pulls away from sides of bowl.  With your hands, gather the dough into a ball and turn out onto a lightly floured board.  Divide dough into four parts and lightly pat each part into a circle.  Cut each circle into four parts and place the wedges on the prepared baking sheet.  Bake until golden, about 12 minutes.  Serve warm with Cox's honey.

Makes 16 scones.

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{cooks note}

We love honey at our house.  Not just any honey, but Cox's honey.  I grew up on it and have really never had anything else.  My parents always made sure we had a pail of it at college and when we got married.  They make wonderful gifts.  I'm speaking from experience.  I wanted to make a dessert with honey, but didn't want to spend too much time in the kitchen.  These scones were the perfect answer.  They are so good straight out of the oven with Cox's creamed honey smothered all over them.  Try them soon, or just as soon as you can get your hands on some Cox's honey.  I'll try and help you out with that soon. I promise.

 The ingredients.  I used half a cube of unsalted butter and it didn't make a difference.  

 Stir the dry ingredients together.

 Cold butter, cubed.

 Cut into the flour/butter mixture with a pastry blender, or two forks.

 Once the flour/butter mixture is about pea sized, you are ready to make your well for the buttermilk to go in.

 Gently pour the buttermilk into the middle of your well.

 With a fork, stir until the mixture pulls away from sides of bowl.

 Form dough into a large ball with hands.

 On a  lightly floured surface, divide dough into four parts and then shape each part into a somewhat flattened ball.  

 Cut each ball into fours.  I like to use my bench scrapper for that.  They are really cheap. I got mine at Ross for $4.  

 Divided sections of dough.

 Place all of the dough wedges on baking sheets.  Mine are parchment lined.

 Before baking the scones.  I was able to squeeze two more on the pan for a total of 16.

 After being baked.  Mine took closer to 15 minutes.

I put a little package of scones and Cox's honey together for a friend.  Guess what?  They use Cox's honey at their house too.  They had just run out of it, so she was happy to get a little more.  

I like the 5 pound pails.  They have different sizes to choose from on their website.  They also have clover honey. I prefer the creamed over the clover. 

 I just poured some of my honey into an 8 ounce deli container and sent that with the scones.  It really makes the perfect gift.  

 I wasn't kidding when I said it was creamy.  

Fresh hot scones smothered with Cox's creamed honey.  You really can't go wrong.

Did you know that honey, if stored at room temperature, can keep indefinitely?  Yes, yes it can.  You can read all about honey facts at Cox's website.  They give quite a few uses for it.   It's perfect for food storage too. I have five, 5 pound pails left.  That will last us another 6 or 7 months.  My kids eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich with Cox's honey about 5 times a week.  We go through a lot at my house.  Not to mention all of the baking I do with it.  It's great added to salad dressings, glazes for fruit, and of course breads and desserts.  You can find Cox's honey products at most grocery stores throughout Idaho and Utah. To see a list of stores, go here.  If you do not live near one of those locations, like me, you can order through their website, www.coxshoney.com, or through Walton Feed.  The honey is very reasonably priced and such good quality. I highly recommend looking into it. Once you taste it, there is no going back to the other honey you were buying.

Now for the exciting part.  Cox's would like to participate in a giveaway on this little blog of mine. They would like to giveaway one case of twelve 20-ounce containers of their creamed honey to one lucky reader.  That is a $70 value.  They will ship the honey right to your front door.  I think I will enter.  Just kidding. 

Here's how to enter:

Leave a comment sharing what food you like to eat with honey.  

That's easy, right?

Now go comment!

Oh, and you have until 11:59 pm on Thursday to enter.

And the winner is....

BDandFamily!

Hopefully this will brighten your day a bit.

Please email me your address at thecooknextdoor@gmail.com.

A BIG thank you to everyone who participated.  

There is more where this came from...  

Anthropologie Apron Giveaway

Ladies and gentlemen (are there any out there?), I introduce to you my first little giveaway.

THE LOW DOWN:

• Starts NOW January 25, 2010.
• You can enter up to two times. There are three choices for entering. {1} Copy and paste my button on your blog (instructions below), {2}Post a comment telling me what recipe you would like to see in the future (no promises, people) and {3} Make a post about my blog on your blog and then attach a link in the comments section so I know where to find it.
• Ends Thursday night at 11:59 pm.
• Winner announced Friday morning.

UP FOR GRABS:

• Anthropologie Half Apron in the color of Love.

Hand-crocheted trim and pockets.

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