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I love to bake and one of my favorite things to make is cupcakes and muffins.  Most weekends you will find a batch of one of them in my oven.  I recently have started using Silicone Baking Cups.  I have always disliked having to peel the paper off of my creations. I recently received these premium silicone baking cups from The Simple Baker. I really think they work great.

They come in six fun colors – pink, orange, yellow, blue and purple – 4 of each color.  They are BPA free and will last a lifetime.  I like that all I have to do is fill them  and put them on a baking tray.  The silicone baking cups hold their shape while backing.  The cups are heat resistant up to 475 degrees, they are non-stick, stain resistant and dishwasher safe. I love that I can use them over and over again.

So far I have made cupcakes in The Simple Baker Silicone Baking Cups but I have plans to do cheesecakes and I think they would be great to make chocolate molds by lining the cup and then freezing.  I think filling the chocolate molds with mousse.  I have lots of ideas that I want to try with these cups.

You can purchase your own Simple Baker Silicone Baking Cups on the link below from Amazon.com.


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I love to cook but I hate to clean up – especially if I make something sticky or burn something.  I was very excited to try a couple new products from COOKINA.  The first one is the COOKINA Cuisine Reusable Cooking Sheet. The COOKINA Cuisine is an innovative product that creates a nonstick, easy-to-clean and healthy cooking & baking experience. Ideal for using as an alternative to aluminum foil, parchment and wax paper, users can place the cooking sheet on a baking tray or pan to bake recipes without having to use oil of needing to clean the tray and oven afterwards.

What I liked most about the COOKINA Cuisine Reusable Cooking Sheet is that you don’t need to use oil or butter ~ so that saves me a few calories. It is also reusable and does not hold food odors or flavors from past items.  I use it on a baking sheet most of the time.  It helps cook food evenly.

The second product was the COOKINA Gard Oven Protector is a toxin-free, easy-to-use product that helps home cooks keep the oven clean with minimal effort. Home cooks need not worry about cleaning the oven after each use with this product. Users can simply place the oven protector on the bottom of the oven to catch every spill and splatter for an easier clean-up, without any odor.

I hate when you are baking and the pie overflows or the cheese from a pizza drip onto the bottom of your over.  I have a self cleaning oven but it smells when I clean it and I still have to wipe it out. With the Gard Oven Protector you just wipe it clean or soak it in soapy water.  It can be cut to fit your gas ovens, electric ovens, and microwaves.  In our oven I just placed it under the element. Once a week I pull it out and wash it.  I love it!

Here is an easy recipe provide from COOKINA to use your COOKINA Cuisine Reusable Cooking Sheet.

Salted Macadamia Nut Brittle courtesy of COOKINA

(Makes 1 lb. of brittle)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light – colored corn syrup
• 1 1/2 cups lightly toasted and crushed Macadamia nuts
• ½ tsp. coarse salt

Directions:

1. Combine the sugar and corn syrup in a heavy bottomed pot. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until the sugar has dissolved. Turn the heat up to high and cook until the bubbles get smaller and the mixture turns a light amber color, about 10 minutes.
2. Stir in the nuts and cook for 1 more minute. Quickly pour the mixture onto a baking pan lined with a COOKINA^® Cuisine sheet and spread it out evenly with a spatula or wooden spoon. Sprinkle salt throughout before mixture cools. Let cool and break into pieces.

If you would like to purchase your own COOKINA products you can find them HERE nation wide at stores like Home Depot or Fred Meyer.

COOKINA wants to give one of my readers a chance to try the COOKINA Gard Oven Protector and the COOKINa Cuisine Reusable Cookie Sheet.  You must be 18 + US.  Enter a comment on what product you think you would find the most useful in your household.  Extra entry for  following COOKINA on Twitter.  Extra entry for each way you follow Kaisy Daisy’s Corner.  Giveaway ends Mar 12, 2015. Enter daily for more chances to win.

Please fill out the form HERE to enter.

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Chasing the Other Tisdale

by Jessica Jefferson

BLURB:

She’s the other sister…

Overshadowed by the beauty of her older sister, Lillian is better known as the other Tisdale; unremarkable and unsure how she will ever deliver on the promise of her family’s name.

He’s a rake in need of reforming…

Will Colton leads a frivolous existence, embracing notoriety instead of managing his family’s fortune. Determined to forget his financial burden and his father’s growing resentment, he maintains a lifestyle dedicated to pleasure and self-indulgence. When Will is invited to the Tisdale estate for an extended holiday, he never expects to become friends with the forgettable Lillian. But when a family secret comes to light, he must choose between leaving London and protecting the honor of one woman or staying and risking the reputation of another.

Upon his return, Will finds the girl he left behind has come out of the shadows and into her own. Lillian’s finally the center of attention, and not all of it good. With his own reputation in tatters, can a reformed rake lure her out of the hands of London’s bachelors and back into his own arms? Can he escape his past and reclaim her heart, or has he lost her forever?

Excerpt:

When Lillian Tisdale dreamt of that magical moment when she would fall in love, she never imagined that it would be so sudden, so complete, or so…

Literal.

Lilly, as she was more commonly known, sat cradled in between a large branch and the massive trunk of the hundred year old willow tree near the pond at Brightly, her family’s ancestral estate. She set her sketch book and charcoal pencil down on the branch and took a moment to appreciate the scenery before her. Brightly was noted for its lush gardens and rolling green hills, and she found it impossible to imagine any other property in England being as lovely.

This was her favorite tree, had been for years, and one of the only places she could disappear to when she felt the need for a respite from her three sisters and older brother. She relished the quiet of her hiding place, the silence disturbed only by the soft wind skimming the pond, the rustling of the leaves in the oak groves, and the occasional coo of a nesting bird.

“You naughty minx!”

Lilly startled, the unexpected sound of a man’s voice coming from out of nowhere. She steadied herself against the branch in front of her, knocking her sketchbook onto the ground in the process. She sighed, doubting the book would survive the fall intact. She’d spent the last of her pin money on that sketchbook and wouldn’t be able to afford a new one for at least a month. Her parents, for all their wealth, were sticklers when it came to their children’s allowances.

“You’re a wicked, wicked man, Mr. Colton!”

This time, the voice was distinctly female and the name she mentioned sounded familiar…

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Jessica Jefferson makes her home in northern Indiana, or as she likes to think of it—almost Chicago. She is heavily inspired by classic sweeping, historical romance novels, but aims to take those key emotional elements and inject a fresh blend of quick dialogue and comedy. She invites you to visit her at jessicajefferson.com and read more of her random romance musings.

Links and social media:

http://www.JessicaJefferson.com and http://www.embracingromance.com

Like me at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Jefferson/545243542195152

Follow me at https://twitter.com/authorJessicaJ/

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7376474.Jessica_Jefferson

Amazon Author Page- http://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Jefferson/e/B00GI20W2K

Chasing the Other Tisdale, Compromising Miss Tisdale and Taming Miss Tisdale from Soul Mate Publishing, available now on Amazon!

Giveaway:

Jessica will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

You can follow the tour and comment; the more they comment, the better their chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here.

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