EatPastry Cookie dough review and giveaway

It's giveaway time again :)

I recently decided to completely cut dairy out of my diet as my allergies were gradually getting worse. I was in Whole Foods looking for something exciting to buy that was dairy free when I found EatPastry cookie dough :) We are now best friends for life!!

About the cookies:

We use high quality, all natural ingredients from the finest suppliers out there. It has been our priority to make sure all ingredients are 100% Vegan, not having come in contact with any animal ingredients. Our cookie dough contains Organic and Fair Trade Sugar (Evaporated Cane Juice), Select Organic Ingredients *see in ingredient lists below (on website), and Peanut Butter made right here in EatPastry's kitchen. No eggs, no dairy, no preservatives, no processing, no fillers, NO GMOs, no funny business. All flavors created with various moods in mind.

They also do gluten free cookie dough. They have a total of seven flavors:

Chocolate Chip

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip

Chocoholic Chip

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip

Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip

Gluten Free Snickerdoodle

Gluten Free Sugar Momma

I have purchased their cookie dough three times now, each time buying the chocolate chip flavor, as you can see from the photos I was very good and even properly measured out the correct amount of cookie dough (for the photos anyway!).

 

Now I do have a confession to make! Out of all three tubs I have purchased I have probably eaten more raw cookie dough than I have baked cookies! They only take 12-15 mins to bake and are super yummy when done (especially when they are still warm), but the temptation to have a spoonful (or 3) when you open the fridge is just too hard to resist.

I have only purchased their cookie dough in Whole Foods so far but if you check out their site it is available in a few other stores nationwide too. http://www.eatpastry.com/html/where_to_buy

So now it is your chance to try this amazing cookie dough. Using the rafflecopter button below you can enter to win a free tub of cookie dough (this will consist of one $5 Whole Foods gift card and some $1 off coupons).

 All entries must be submitted using rafflecopter, and this giveaway is open to US resident only. Winner will be announced on November 2 2012.




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Family House

As most of you know since moving here in November 2009 I have been unable to work on my visa, so I like to spend my time volunteering at local organizations.

Last year I heard about a place called Family House in San Francisco. 

Founded in 1981, Family House is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization providing temporary housing to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital. 

I met with the volunteer co-coordinator  last month and discussed volunteering and arranged to go in once a month and bake for/with the families.

This week was the first time I volunteered and I went in and baked cookies for the families. I baked a total of 51 cookies whilst I was there and it was a lot of fun, and nice to meet and chat with some of the families who were staying there, and a few of them helped me out decorating the cookies.. I'm looking forward to going back and baking for them again next month.

Family House are always looking for volunteers, so check out their website and if you have a few hours to spare they would love to have you come along and help out. There are lots of different ways you can help out, or even ways you can donate to them.