Hello Kitty *Treats* from Taste of Nature {Review & Giveaway}

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A and little {e} have a little obsession with Hello Kitty and if you add in the word *candy*, you have a magical combination that delights the girls. From the manufacturer of those tasty Cookie Dough Bites, Taste of Nature has created Hello Kitty Treats. Delicious bite-sized fun.

About Taste of Nature

(source: candyasap.com)

Founded in 1992, Taste of Nature, Inc. is a rapidly growing candy and snack food manufacturing company whose fun and innovative products may be found on many store shelves nationally.  

The company manufactures and markets a large variety of licensed and proprietary brands including:

Cookie Dough Bites® Cookies 'N Cream Bites™ Cinnamon Bun Bites™ Cupcake Bites™ Care Bears® Gummi Bears Sqwigglies™ Muddy Bears® Tiny Tarts™

Cotton Candy Swirlz Hot Tamales® Cotton Candy Mike & Ike® Cotton Candy Simpsons® Fruit Snacks Shari Candies ® And a variety of other candies and snacks.

ace and friends thoughts

Hello Kitty Sprinkle Cupcake Treats are bite sized cupcake treats covered in a multi-colored sprinkle frosting. {a} and {e} LOVED how these looked and tasted best. Overall consensus: Adorable and tasty. 

The Hello Kitty bite-sized brownies were chocolate delights covered in milk chocolate. Who doesn't LOVE chocolate covered in more chocolate? Delicious morsels of chocolate heaven.

The Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites are little bits of cookie dough covered in milk chocolate and are highly addicting. These bring back memories of my childhood where my sister and I would wait with anticipation to eat that left over raw cookie dough. Now we can enjoy the raw cookie dough taste without the hassle of actually preparing the dough. The kids absolutely LOVED these!

Did you also know that Taste of Nature also co-developed the FREE Cookie Dough Bites Factory App, (a top ranked game for kids available for the iPhone and iPad)? 

Cookie Dough Bites Factory App is a fun FREE app that my kids absolutely enjoy playing. You get to mix the ingredients to make the dough, spray the bite sized pieces with chocolate, weed out the defective pieces and then box them all up. Fun, easy and calorie-FREE! 

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Buy It

Buy your very own bite-sized treats on Taste of Nature's site HERE.

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Win It

Thanks to Taste of Nature, one LUCKY ace and friends reader

will win a Hello Kitty Treat Prize Pack (including Cookie Dough Bites, Hello Kitty Brownie Treats and Hello Kitty Cotton Candy).

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Coconut Thumbprint Cookies With Salted Caramel - My New Favorite!

The flavor combination of a shortbread rolled in toasted coconut, topped with salted caramel make for the BEST tasting cookies I've had in a LOOOOONG time. They are easy to make, somewhat time consuming, but well worth the effort. These have now become my new FAVE! Try 'em, you will LOVE 'em. 

Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Salted Caramel

source: Martha Stewart Living

• 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1.5 t vanilla extract
• 3.5 c all-purpose flour
• Table salt
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 12 oz. sweetened flaked coconut
• 44 small soft caramel candies (12 oz.), such as Kraft brand
• 6 T heavy cream
• Large, flaky sea salt, such as Maldon

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Set a mixer to medium speed and beat together the sugar and butter until pale and fluffy, then beat in the vanilla.

With the mixer on low, gradually add the flour, a half teaspoon of table salt and beat to combine.  Press the dough together in plastic wrap, then roll into 1 1/4 inch balls. 

Dip each ball into beaten egg and then roll it in the coconut.  Place the balls on parchment lined baking sheets (I used a Silpat), and then press and indentation into each with your thumb.  Bake for 10 minutes and then remove the sheets from the oven and re-press the indentations.  Bake the cookies until golden, about 9 to 10 minutes more.  Let cool on wire racks and repeat with any remaining dough.

Place the caramels and heavy cream into a small saucepan over low heat.  Cook, stirring constantly, until caramels are completely melted, about 6 minutes.  Spoon the melted caramel into the indentation of each cookie.  Sprinkle each cookie with sea salt.  If the caramel hardens up on you, just reheat it for a bit while stirring.  [Store in an airtight container for up to two days.]

That's it. Eat. Enjoy. 

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