Holidays
Valentine’s Day Treats From the Heart
0What would Valentine’s Day be without some treats from the heart!?
There are all different types of chocolates, cakes and candies that are decorated with red and pink hearts this time of year … but have you ever seen a treat with a heart inside it!?
We hadn’t either until we saw this unique recipe from the “Made With Love, By Me” Blog, which teaches you how to bake a heart inside a cupcake!
As you can see by the picture, the inside of the cupcakes feature a bright hidden heart as soon as you cut into them. The recipe, which you can get by clicking the above link, is really easy and doesn’t require anything out of the ordinary with the exception of a heart-shaped cookie cutter.
Once you’ve cut open the cupcakes and revealed the surprise, these are the coolest treats we’ve ever seen! However, we here at A Personal Touch always believe a gift or treat is only as good as its presentation and we’re excited to say that we’ve found the perfect way to decorate these hidden Valentine’s Day treats!
PersonalizationMall.com has two different Valentine’s Day Cupcake Wrapper designs we know you’ll love!
The first of our cute Valentine’s Day wrappers are the Be My Sweet© Personalized Cupcake Wrappers, which are printed in a sweet pink and red design and finished with delightful, scalloped edging and feature any 3-line message you create. Your special lines of personalization will be displayed right under the word rainbow that says, “You’re Sweet As Can Be.”
Once your cupcakes have cooled from the oven, you’ll slide the ends of the personalized wrapper together easily with the tab and then place the cupcakes inside for decorating that is just as easy as it is beautiful! The festive wrappers come in sets of 24 and are sold for just $19.95 per set. Bring a batch into work and impress your coworkers with your baking and one-of-a-kind presentation skills!
If you’re looking for a more colorful Valentine’s Day presentation, the Candy Hearts© Personalized Cupcake Wrappers are right up your alley! This cute design, which features any 1-line of personalization under a “Happy Valentine’s Day” message, comes in 6 different colors! This colorful theme is also sold in a set of 24 wrappers for just $19.95.
The additional color options make these wrappers perfect for decorating cupcakes to bring in to your child’s classroom party.
Personalize the wrappers with their teacher’s name, such as “Miss Johnson’s 5th Grade Valentine’s Day Party” and watch as your son or daughter’s classmates smile and gasp when they find the hidden heart inside your tasty Valentine’s Day treats! When you bring them into the class party you’ll earn some “Cool Mom” bonus points and create a fun and memorable moment that they will remember forever!
Head over to PersonalizationMall.com now to get started with personalizing your own set of cupcake wrappers and while you’re there, check out all our personalized Valentine’s Day Gifts!
Happy Gifting!
How To Add A Personal Touch To Your Valentine’s Day
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A Personal Touch stumbled upon an adorable vintage Valentine’s Day Card in a blog post from FancyHouseRoad.com and we were instantly inspired to share a cute gift idea that, once you add your own personal touch to it, is sure to be one of the most memorable Valentine’s Day gifts ever!
And be sure to keep reading because we love the idea so much, we’re offering a coupon code exclusively for our readers so they can personalize the gift at a discounted price!
Since Thursday, January 19th, 2012 is National Popcorn Day, we knew that today would be a great time to share the cute vintage card (pictured at left) that we came across and the gift ideas we have to go along with it!
The card features a nostalgic drawing of a bowl filled with popcorn and a cute red heart that displays the clever message: “I’m gonna ‘POP’ a ‘CORNY’ question … Will you be my Valentine?”
As soon as we saw this irresistible pun we thought of PersonalizationMall.com’s beautiful and customer-favorite Old-Fashioned Large Popcorn Bowl, which not only fits the popcorn theme, but also has an old-fashioned look just like the vintage card! This unique bowl is crafted from bamboo and can be personalized with any individual or family name or even a short message if you’d like!
The Large Popcorn Bowl is usually priced at $39.95, but if you use this special coupon code: “POPCORN20″, which we created exclusively for our Blog readers, you can personalize the bowl for 20% off!
And what would a popcorn bowl be without the popcorn!? That’s why we’re offering the same code to save 20% off the Amish Country Gourmet Popping Corn, too!
Once you’ve personalized the Large Popcorn bowl, place the bag of popping corn inside with your own home-made version of the vintage card (home-made is always more special because they’ll know you spent the time thinking of them!). Then for an extra personal touch, include either your Valentine’s favorite movie or a movie they’ve been eager to see. Adding the movie will show how well you know or “get” them or if it’s a movie they’ve been wanting to see for awhile, it’ll show that you are a good listener and that you truly care for them!
Combine all the goodies; add a bow and you’ll all set for a low-key, romantic evening of popcorn and a movie! This Valentine’s Day gift is great for men or women and is a gift that keeps on giving because every time your Valentine sits down to enjoy some popcorn from their personalized bowl, they’ll think of you and the special Valentine’s Day you shared together.
We hope our gift idea helped get the ball rolling for your holiday plans because Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it. Be sure to use the above coupon code before it expires Friday, January 27th and check back here at our blog where we’ll be posting more Valentine’s Day gift ideas for the whole family!
Happy Gifting!
Share your Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe & win!
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It wouldn’t be Christmas without Christmas Cookies! Baking and decorating Christmas cookies with friends and families is one of those fun holiday preparations that help get everyone into the Christmas spirit.
Nowadays more and more people are having Christmas Cookie Exchange parties where everyone brings a set amount of their best batch and everyone can sample, mix and match all the different types of cookies before taking home an assortment of their favorites. Here at PersonalizationMall.com’s gifting blog, A Personal Touch, we love this idea and we also love the idea of making a batch to give out as gifts, too! But we’re looking for a new fresh recipe to try out that is not only tasty, but creative, too!
That’s why we’re launching our newest contest, the “My Favorite Christmas Cookie” Recipe Contest! We want you to share your favorite Christmas cookie recipe for us to try out!
To enter, all you have to do is send an email with the subject line “Christmas Cookie Contest” to social@pmall.com with the following information:
- Your full name and email address for where you’d like to be contacted at if you are the winner. (If you have a picture of your finished cookies we’d love to see that too!)
- The name and recipe for your favorite Christmas Cookies
And that’s it! Just make sure you submit your recipe before the contest ends at midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 28th, 2011. The A Personal Touch staff will select the winner who will win their very own set of Classic Christmas© Personalized Gift Stickers, which they can use to add a personal touch to their special batch at the next Christmas Cookie Exchange they attend!
We will announce the winner and contact them by email within a week of the deadline. We can’t wait to read all your yummy recipes!
We love to hear about the family recipes that have been passed down, or recipes that include unique ingredients you wouldn’t expect to use. The more unique and tasty the better!
Good luck to everyone and Happy Holidays!
“What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” Contest Winner Announced!
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Thank you to everyone who submitted their delicious Thanksgiving Stuffing recipes to PersonalizationMall.com’s “What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” Contest hosted by the A Personal Touch Blog!
After drooling over all the entries, the A Personal Touch staff finally narrowed it down and found our favorite recipe!
The winner of the most original “What’s the Secret to Your Stuffing?” contest recipe is Michele Lange with her Sage Sausage Stuffing!
Here is the winning recipe for your enjoyment:
Sage Sausage Stuffing
Ingredients:
1 lb sage breakfast sausage (Jimmy Dean’s)
5 stalks chopped celery
2 medium onions, chopped
2 medium/large red delicious apples, diced
1 package Pepperidge Farm corn bread dressing crumbs
1 package Pepperidge Farm sage and onion dressing crumbs
2 - 32 oz boxes of chicken broth
1 stick of butter
3 eggs (beaten)
Directions: Fry sage sausage. When medium done, add chopped celery, onion, diced apples (do not peel), and butter. Finish cooking until sausage and cooked through, about 10 more minutes. Add dressing crumbs to sausage mixture and mix thoroughly. Add one box of chicken broth and mix. Add eggs and mix well. Add half to 1 full box until desired wetness. Spray non-stick spray in 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes covered and 10 more minutes uncovered. Serve with your Thanksgiving best!
This stuffing is fabulous because of the secret ingredient…sage sausage. It is also easy to make which is exactly what you want when you are cooking up a storm on Thanksgiving Day.
Thank you!
Michele Lange
We’d like to thank Michele and all of the A Personal Touch readers for sharing their secret ingredients with all of us … we can’t wait for Thanksgiving to come around again so we can try them all ourselves!
We hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving and don’t forget to keep checking in at PersonalizationMall.com for all your Holiday shopping needs. There will be great deals and sales on our beautiful and unique selection of personalized gifts throughout the rest of the Christmas shopping season!
Happy Gifting!













